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From Cath's Desk
Hello Cheapskaters,
Another month has flown by and a brand new Journal is ready for you.
While I was sitting here, thinking of what to share with you this month I realised it is August - our birthday month! That had me looking back at old Journals, reading what I'd written. I was looking at how we've celebrated our birthday in the past and came across this from the August 2012 Journal. Nothing has changed really. We still live the same way and my message is the still the same.
"I had no idea way back in 1995 that our lifestyle would become the Cheapskates Club, a community of like-minded people who love life and really want to live debt free, cashed up and laughing.
These days living the Cheapskates way is a habit, I rarely think about the frugal lifestyle we lead as being frugal.
And a very happy birthday to you all! Yes, it's our birthday month. It's hard to see where the time has gone, not just since last August, but since that day back in 1995 when I was stunned to see a mum, just like me, getting TV time because she was living the way we were. It wasn't so unusual to me by then, we'd been living the Cheapskates way for a few years and it had become the norm.
So to see the host of the show making such a fuss over things like buying in bulk and openly using generic products, happily dressing the children (and herself) in hand-me-downs had me quite taken aback. I had been doing all those things and more to save what little money we had at the time, and to just plain survive.
What it did do, apart from shocking me for a few minutes, was make me realize that we were the odd ones out. It was then that I knew people were desperate for knowledge, especially the knowledge of how to live better on less. And so I started Cheapskates.
Through the Cheapskates Club I aim to show you just how simple it is to live life debt free, that you don't need to be wearing sackcloth and eating just mince and beans, with one 40 watt globe in the light fitting, to save money and actually enjoy your life.
There are adjustments to be made, to attitudes, thinking and habits. But once they are made I know you'll never, ever want to go back to your old lifestyle.
Living life without debt, having the security of an Emergency Fund and a Peace of Mind account, takes away the stresses of modern life.
And doesn't everyone want to live life stress free, debt free, cashed up and laughing?"
Have a wonderful, frugal month everyone, and thank you for making the Cheapskates Club community what it is.
Here's to another year of living the Cheapskates way!
Another month has flown by and a brand new Journal is ready for you.
While I was sitting here, thinking of what to share with you this month I realised it is August - our birthday month! That had me looking back at old Journals, reading what I'd written. I was looking at how we've celebrated our birthday in the past and came across this from the August 2012 Journal. Nothing has changed really. We still live the same way and my message is the still the same.
"I had no idea way back in 1995 that our lifestyle would become the Cheapskates Club, a community of like-minded people who love life and really want to live debt free, cashed up and laughing.
These days living the Cheapskates way is a habit, I rarely think about the frugal lifestyle we lead as being frugal.
And a very happy birthday to you all! Yes, it's our birthday month. It's hard to see where the time has gone, not just since last August, but since that day back in 1995 when I was stunned to see a mum, just like me, getting TV time because she was living the way we were. It wasn't so unusual to me by then, we'd been living the Cheapskates way for a few years and it had become the norm.
So to see the host of the show making such a fuss over things like buying in bulk and openly using generic products, happily dressing the children (and herself) in hand-me-downs had me quite taken aback. I had been doing all those things and more to save what little money we had at the time, and to just plain survive.
What it did do, apart from shocking me for a few minutes, was make me realize that we were the odd ones out. It was then that I knew people were desperate for knowledge, especially the knowledge of how to live better on less. And so I started Cheapskates.
Through the Cheapskates Club I aim to show you just how simple it is to live life debt free, that you don't need to be wearing sackcloth and eating just mince and beans, with one 40 watt globe in the light fitting, to save money and actually enjoy your life.
There are adjustments to be made, to attitudes, thinking and habits. But once they are made I know you'll never, ever want to go back to your old lifestyle.
Living life without debt, having the security of an Emergency Fund and a Peace of Mind account, takes away the stresses of modern life.
And doesn't everyone want to live life stress free, debt free, cashed up and laughing?"
Have a wonderful, frugal month everyone, and thank you for making the Cheapskates Club community what it is.
Here's to another year of living the Cheapskates way!
