The Cheapskates Club
Home & Simple Living
Make home life simpler, calmer and cheaper Cleaning, laundry, energy, organisation, gardening, repairs and everyday household skills that help you live well with what you have.
What are you looking for?
Choose the part of home life you want to make easier, cheaper or more organised.
Cleaning & Laundry
Keep the house and laundry clean without turning either job into an expensive collection of products.
Energy & Household Costs
Reduce the cost of heating, cooling, power and everyday household energy without making home uncomfortable.
Garden & Growing Food
Use the garden to grow useful food, reduce produce costs and add a little more self-sufficiency to home life.
Organisation & Decluttering
Organise what you already own, clear what is no longer useful and stop clutter costing you money and time.
Maintenance, Repairs & DIY
Look after what you own, fix what you can and build practical skills before automatically replacing something.
Family & Simple Living
Create useful routines, enjoy family life and make deliberate choices about what really matters at home.
A good place to begin
Start Here
Back to Basics
Build the everyday skills that make a household cheaper and more capable: cook, bake, grow, sew, preserve, mend and organise.
Start with the basics →Home, Cleaning & Organisation
Browse the full collection of home, laundry, cleaning, decluttering, maintenance and household-efficiency articles.
Browse the articles →Simple Living & Cheapskates Stories
Explore making do, self-sufficiency, Cheapskates habits and the thinking behind living well without unnecessary spending.
Browse simple living →Garden & Growing Food
Find practical ideas for growing vegetables, herbs, citrus and other useful food at home.
Browse garden articles →Useful around the house
Current Home Help
Home, Cleaning & Organisation
Go straight to the complete home collection for cleaning, laundry, decluttering, household organisation and efficiency.
Browse the collection →How to Beat Rising Power Bills
Review the practical ways your household can use less power and get more value from the energy you do use.
Read the article →Living Well Without Feeling Deprived
Simple living works best when it gives you more of what matters rather than making everyday life feel miserable.
Read the article →Garden & Growing Food
Use the garden as another household tool for saving money, producing food and building useful skills.
Browse garden articles →Put the ideas into practice
Programs & Challenges
Back to Basics
Build practical home skills step by step and make the household less dependent on buying every solution.
Open the series →Clear the Clutter Challenge
Work through excess stuff deliberately and make the space you already have easier to use.
Open the challenge →No Spending Month
Use what you already own, pause unnecessary buying and notice which household purchases are really needed.
Open the challenge →All Programs & Challenges
Browse the complete collection of current and archived Cheapskates programs and practical challenges.
View all →The deeper library
Browse the Full Home Collections
Home & Household
Use the larger household collections when you want more than the handful of curated links above.
Home, Cleaning & Organisation → Tip Store → Tip Sheets →Simple Living & Family
Find the wider Cheapskates philosophy, everyday family ideas and real stories about making a simpler life work.
Simple Living & Cheapskates Stories → Family & Everyday Life → Saving Stories →Garden & Practical Skills
Go deeper into growing food and the practical skills that help a household make, mend, grow and do more for itself.
Garden & Growing Food → Back to Basics → Planners & Printables →