Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 01:19
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Delicious Ready to Drink Iced Coffee the Cheapskates Way; Really Cheap Greeting Cards and Free Gift Wrapping; Post-Christmas Wrapping Paper
3. Share Your Tips
4. Some Housekeeping Notices
5. On the Menu - How to Roast a Chicken
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge-
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. Last Week's Question - What to do with unwanted moisturiser
9. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Happy New Year!
The start of a new year is exciting, I always think it's the start of a brand new adventure. I wonder what the year will bring; I wonder what we'll do during this year to improve our lifestyle and to improve our finances. I love to look back of the year just gone and see what can be carried over to the new year to give this adventure a head start.
The start of this year is even more exciting for me, because I am thrilled to tell you that Hannah has officially joined me as a partner in Cheapskates. She's helped out more times than I can count over the years, and has been invaluable when I've been unable to work. She'll be writing blog posts and newsletters (she's done quite a few over the last four years), working on the website and helping with e-courses, videos and podcasts and generally anything and everything I do. So keep an eye out for her gems as they appear, she has some great ideas in the works that everyone will love.
We also have lots and lots of new Cheapskaters, who are starting a new journey and a new year, so please make then welcome when they introduce themselves in the Member's Forum.
There's a lot happening in this week's newsletter, so settle back and enjoy the read.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Delicious Ready to Drink Iced Coffee the Cheapskates Way
Approximate Cost: $2 for 3 litres and lots of kilojoules
Everyone in my family LOVES iced coffee, but it is expensive to buy and my hubby can't tolerate too much milk, so I started making it at home. I get a freshly washed 3 litre milk container and fill with 2 to 2-1/2 litres cold filtered (or spring) water. In a mug I then add about 4 dessertspoons of instant coffee (Nescafe tin at $14.95 on special once a month); about 8 dessertspoons of raw sugar (about $1.20 kilo home brand) and about 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (about $3.60 for a bottle), top up with hot water and stir to dissolve. Let this mix sit a little while to cool then add to the cold water in the milk container and top up with full cream milk. It is about the consistency of a very milky cup of coffee, which saves on the kilojoules as well. You can change the measurements of any of these to make your homemade iced coffee to exactly the way you want it, and it will still save you on the full price of readymade iced coffee, and can be made in a few minutes if you've forgotten to go to the shop. It costs about $2 the way I make it but even if you use all milk, it still only costs about $4 for 3 litres of delicious, ready to drink iced coffee.
Contributed by Denise
Really Cheap Greeting Cards and Free Gift Wrapping
Approximate $ Savings: $200
I have never bought gift wrapping. I always keep any wrapping paper from gifts or flowers, and re-use it for future presents (fold and cut off ripped bits). And if I ever run out, I just use newspaper - which can look quite cool with nice ribbon. I also never buy gift cards. I used to use those free postcards you sometimes find in cafes, but now have found a better way! I invested in a stamp set and bought a pad of nice card paper (50 sheets). This investment of about $30 (you could probably get stamps much cheaper) will last me about 2 years, then all I need to do is re-fill the ink pad and get some more card. The cards look semi-professional too! I worked out if I bought cards for the 50 or so gifts I give a year, I would spend well over $200, so this is a substantial saving. Over my lifetime the saving will be huge!
Contributed by Emma
Post-Christmas Wrapping Paper
Keep In mind Coles and Woolworths, Kmart, Target and Big W all heavily reduce the wrapping paper, left over Christmas stock and decorations like two weeks after Christmas to make room for the main load of back-to-school stock.
My friend and I went into Coles Balaclava on a Thursday night in early January for basic milk and bread essentials, before I drove him home.
We checked out old Christmas stock and couldn't believe our eyes when we saw wrapping paper heavily reduced from $5 and $3 a roll of 5 metres down to 25c a roll and 25c deluxe pack Christmas cards packs. There was heaps still in boxes so we bought 10 rolls each to store up in the top of our wardrobes. A huge saving to last couple years or more.
So keep your eyes out two weeks into the new year for heavily reduced Christmas stock in supermarkets and discount department stores.
Contributed by Trev Wakefield
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tips
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
4. Some Housekeeping Notices
1. Gift Certificates
If you ordered a gift certificate before Christmas, and haven't yet received it, it's because I haven't yet received the final step in the process - the details form. Everyone with an outstanding details form has been emailed at least once requesting the information.
I'd really like to get your gift certificates processed and the memberships activated, so please complete the details form found here, and we'll get the membership created and the certificate to you as quickly as we can.
If you have any questions, please use the Contact Cheapskates form to let me know (this is the only guaranteed way I'll get your message and the only guaranteed way you'll get a reply).
2. 2019 Saving Revolution
If you've asked to be added to the 2019 Saving Revolution Facebook group (exclusively for 2019 Saving Revolutionists), and haven't yet been added, please let me know. There are lots of requests for adds, but unfortunately not all the Facebook profiles match the Saving Revolution profiles. Until we can match them, we can't add you!
Use the Contact Cheapskates form to let me know the name you are using for the Saving Revolution so we can get you added to the group asap.
3. New Cheapskates Club memberships
By request, we've extended the new membership price of $25. This price is for new Cheapskates Club memberships, so if you've always wanted to join, now's the time. Click here to go to the membership application form. You must use this form to get the special price.
4. Cheapskates Chatter Facebook Group
We have a brand new Facebook group just for Cheapskaters! It's the place you can all share your hints, tips, ideas and strategies. You can ask questions and share answers. It's brand new and it's just for you, so hop on over and join the fun!
5. On The Menu
How to Roast a Chicken
I was talking to a friend a while back and the Sunday roast came up. She mentioned that she had never, ever, in 35 years of marriage, cooked a roast chicken. Or roast beef. Or roast lamb. I was stunned, and asked why? Her mother never cooked roasts, so she didn't know how to. Instead she'd by a barbecue chicken and serve it with roast veggies on the rare occasions they had a roast meal.
So that had me thinking, there must be lots of other cooks who never cook a roast because they don't know how. So, over the next couple of weeks, I'll share how I prepare and cook chicken, beef and lamb, and hopefully show just how easy it is.
This week I'll start with chicken, because that's what I'll be roasting on Sunday night.
To roast a chicken, buy either a fresh or frozen whole bird. If you buy a frozen chicken, thaw it in the fridge for 24 - 48 hours before you want to roast it.
Take the chicken out of the packaging. Using a clean cheesecloth or paper towel (I don’t have paper towel, so I use the cheesecloth), pat the outside of the chicken until it's dry.
Then pat the inside cavity to dry it.
If you are going to stuff the chicken, make your stuffing and push it into the cavity. Leave room for the stuffing to expand as it cooks. I like to also put some under the skin. To do this just slide your fingers between the skin and the flesh to create a cavity, and push a small amount of stuffing into the space. Gently press the skin down to close it.
Now get some butter rub it all over the chicken. As Nigella says, now is not the time to be stingy with the butter. Rub it into the drumsticks, wings, breasts - anywhere you can see skin.
Heat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
Place the chicken on a rack in a baking dish and place in the hot oven.
Cook for 20 minutes per 500g plus 20 minutes for the stuffing, or until the juices run clear when you stab the chicken in the thickest part, or until the internal temperature reaches 190 degrees Celsius.
For a 2kg bird with stuffing you'd cook it for 1 hour and 40 minutes approximately. All ovens vary, so use the cooking times as a guide and always test to make sure the chicken is cooked through.
Remove from the oven and let it sit for a few minutes before carving or cutting into serving pieces.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Baked Chicken Enchiladas
Tuesday: Lasagne & salad
Wednesday: Haystacks
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Corn fritters, salad
Saturday: Tacos
In the fruit bowl: Oranges, bananas
In the cake tin: Banana Muffins
There are over 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
One Chicken, Four Meals
I can by whole chickens for $2.99/kg. That makes a No. 20 (2kg) chicken $5.98 and that chicken will give me 12 serves of meat and the bones to make stock or soup. I can get three, usually four, meals from one chicken and trust me, no one goes hungry. You'd hear them complaining if they were hungry!
Here's how I stretch one chicken to feed us for at least four meals.
I prepare and roast the chicken, as above.
When it's cooked, I cut the wings and drumsticks off it - they are one meal for four, and I pull the stuffing out and slice it.
We'll have them with roast veggies (potato, sweet potato, onion, carrot, parsnip) and steamed greens (beans or peas, broccoli or cauliflower) and gravy.
After dinner, I put the leftover stuffing in the fridge - it makes lovey sandwich filling for lunches, and I pull the breasts off it.
One breast is usually shredded to make Curried Chicken or Sweet'n'Sour Chicken. Yes, one chicken breast, shredded with a couple of forks, gives enough meat for six serves of Curried or Sweet'n'Sour Chicken. The other breast is shredded and put in the freezer. It will be used to make the chicken filling for pancakes or enchiladas or pie. I make a white sauce, add a little diced onion, some sliced mushrooms (re-hydrated from the bulk lot I dried in January) and a little cheese and the chicken and it's delicious.
Then I pull the rest of the meat off the bones and put it in the freezer.
I'll use this meat for Chicken Fried Rice or Chicken Salad Sandwich Filling - whichever we'll need first.
Lastly, I put the bones into the slow cooker with water, some celery tops, a carrot, and a large onion and let it cook overnight to make stock.
I use stock to cook rice, it gives it a really lovely flavour. I also use it to make gravy - again it gives the gravy a much richer flavour.
Or I'll use the stock to make Grandma's Chicken Soup. I won't have the whole chicken the recipe lists for this, obviously, as I've used it for other meals, but it will still be flavourful and healthy and the bones will give up the rest of the chicken meat. I do the soup in the slow cooker and it makes around 4 litres (roughly eight serves of soup).
Nothing is wasted, the leftovers from the stock are added to the bokashi bucket to compost down.
So, that $5.98 chicken makes at least 20 serves, bringing the cost down to just 30 cents a serve, or $1.20 a meal for a family of four.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
7 Ways to Save Big with a Simple Savings Jar
Every Little Bit of Savings Adds Up
Paying Off Debt in the New Year
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
A New Year, a New Food Challenge
A Question About Envelope Budgeting System
Back To School Hints and Tips
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
A New Year, A New Diary
Goals for 2019
Just Do It
8. Last Week's Question
Wendy wrote
"Help! Hubby gave me a huge tub of body shop body butter for Christmas and I find it too much for my skin. Are there other uses for it? Cleaning etc?"
Marcia Harris answered
"If you have been given a gift of expensive facial or body cream that is too strong for your skin, buy a jar of Vitamin E cream from the chemist and add a small amount of the gifted cream to the Vitamin E cream and blend well, then do a spot check on your face or inner arm to judge whether or not you like the result."
9. Ask A Question
We have lots of resources to help you as you live the Cheapskates way but if you didn't find the answer to your question in our extensive archives please just drop me a note with your question.
I read and answer all questions, either in an email to you, in my weekly newsletter, the monthly Journal or by creating blog posts and other resources to help you (and other Cheapskaters).
Ask Your Question
10. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $25 a year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
11. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name at the top of the page to go straight to your profile page where you can update your details, change your password and find your subscription details.
Not a Cheapskates Club member? Then please use the Changing Details form found here to update your email address.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
Memberships are active for one year from the date of joining. You will be sent a renewal reminder before your subscription is due to renew. You can also find your membership expiry date on your profile page.
When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name to go straight to your profile page where you can will find your join date and your expiry date.
What will you do with my email address?
We never rent, trade or sell our email list to anyone for any reason whatsoever. You'll never get an unsolicited email from a stranger as a result of joining this list.
How did I get on this list?
The only way you can get onto our newsletter mailing list is to subscribe yourself. You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member.
12. Contact Cheapskates
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
Contact Cheapskates
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Delicious Ready to Drink Iced Coffee the Cheapskates Way; Really Cheap Greeting Cards and Free Gift Wrapping; Post-Christmas Wrapping Paper
3. Share Your Tips
4. Some Housekeeping Notices
5. On the Menu - How to Roast a Chicken
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge-
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. Last Week's Question - What to do with unwanted moisturiser
9. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Happy New Year!
The start of a new year is exciting, I always think it's the start of a brand new adventure. I wonder what the year will bring; I wonder what we'll do during this year to improve our lifestyle and to improve our finances. I love to look back of the year just gone and see what can be carried over to the new year to give this adventure a head start.
The start of this year is even more exciting for me, because I am thrilled to tell you that Hannah has officially joined me as a partner in Cheapskates. She's helped out more times than I can count over the years, and has been invaluable when I've been unable to work. She'll be writing blog posts and newsletters (she's done quite a few over the last four years), working on the website and helping with e-courses, videos and podcasts and generally anything and everything I do. So keep an eye out for her gems as they appear, she has some great ideas in the works that everyone will love.
We also have lots and lots of new Cheapskaters, who are starting a new journey and a new year, so please make then welcome when they introduce themselves in the Member's Forum.
There's a lot happening in this week's newsletter, so settle back and enjoy the read.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Delicious Ready to Drink Iced Coffee the Cheapskates Way
Approximate Cost: $2 for 3 litres and lots of kilojoules
Everyone in my family LOVES iced coffee, but it is expensive to buy and my hubby can't tolerate too much milk, so I started making it at home. I get a freshly washed 3 litre milk container and fill with 2 to 2-1/2 litres cold filtered (or spring) water. In a mug I then add about 4 dessertspoons of instant coffee (Nescafe tin at $14.95 on special once a month); about 8 dessertspoons of raw sugar (about $1.20 kilo home brand) and about 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (about $3.60 for a bottle), top up with hot water and stir to dissolve. Let this mix sit a little while to cool then add to the cold water in the milk container and top up with full cream milk. It is about the consistency of a very milky cup of coffee, which saves on the kilojoules as well. You can change the measurements of any of these to make your homemade iced coffee to exactly the way you want it, and it will still save you on the full price of readymade iced coffee, and can be made in a few minutes if you've forgotten to go to the shop. It costs about $2 the way I make it but even if you use all milk, it still only costs about $4 for 3 litres of delicious, ready to drink iced coffee.
Contributed by Denise
Really Cheap Greeting Cards and Free Gift Wrapping
Approximate $ Savings: $200
I have never bought gift wrapping. I always keep any wrapping paper from gifts or flowers, and re-use it for future presents (fold and cut off ripped bits). And if I ever run out, I just use newspaper - which can look quite cool with nice ribbon. I also never buy gift cards. I used to use those free postcards you sometimes find in cafes, but now have found a better way! I invested in a stamp set and bought a pad of nice card paper (50 sheets). This investment of about $30 (you could probably get stamps much cheaper) will last me about 2 years, then all I need to do is re-fill the ink pad and get some more card. The cards look semi-professional too! I worked out if I bought cards for the 50 or so gifts I give a year, I would spend well over $200, so this is a substantial saving. Over my lifetime the saving will be huge!
Contributed by Emma
Post-Christmas Wrapping Paper
Keep In mind Coles and Woolworths, Kmart, Target and Big W all heavily reduce the wrapping paper, left over Christmas stock and decorations like two weeks after Christmas to make room for the main load of back-to-school stock.
My friend and I went into Coles Balaclava on a Thursday night in early January for basic milk and bread essentials, before I drove him home.
We checked out old Christmas stock and couldn't believe our eyes when we saw wrapping paper heavily reduced from $5 and $3 a roll of 5 metres down to 25c a roll and 25c deluxe pack Christmas cards packs. There was heaps still in boxes so we bought 10 rolls each to store up in the top of our wardrobes. A huge saving to last couple years or more.
So keep your eyes out two weeks into the new year for heavily reduced Christmas stock in supermarkets and discount department stores.
Contributed by Trev Wakefield
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tips
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
4. Some Housekeeping Notices
1. Gift Certificates
If you ordered a gift certificate before Christmas, and haven't yet received it, it's because I haven't yet received the final step in the process - the details form. Everyone with an outstanding details form has been emailed at least once requesting the information.
I'd really like to get your gift certificates processed and the memberships activated, so please complete the details form found here, and we'll get the membership created and the certificate to you as quickly as we can.
If you have any questions, please use the Contact Cheapskates form to let me know (this is the only guaranteed way I'll get your message and the only guaranteed way you'll get a reply).
2. 2019 Saving Revolution
If you've asked to be added to the 2019 Saving Revolution Facebook group (exclusively for 2019 Saving Revolutionists), and haven't yet been added, please let me know. There are lots of requests for adds, but unfortunately not all the Facebook profiles match the Saving Revolution profiles. Until we can match them, we can't add you!
Use the Contact Cheapskates form to let me know the name you are using for the Saving Revolution so we can get you added to the group asap.
3. New Cheapskates Club memberships
By request, we've extended the new membership price of $25. This price is for new Cheapskates Club memberships, so if you've always wanted to join, now's the time. Click here to go to the membership application form. You must use this form to get the special price.
4. Cheapskates Chatter Facebook Group
We have a brand new Facebook group just for Cheapskaters! It's the place you can all share your hints, tips, ideas and strategies. You can ask questions and share answers. It's brand new and it's just for you, so hop on over and join the fun!
5. On The Menu
How to Roast a Chicken
I was talking to a friend a while back and the Sunday roast came up. She mentioned that she had never, ever, in 35 years of marriage, cooked a roast chicken. Or roast beef. Or roast lamb. I was stunned, and asked why? Her mother never cooked roasts, so she didn't know how to. Instead she'd by a barbecue chicken and serve it with roast veggies on the rare occasions they had a roast meal.
So that had me thinking, there must be lots of other cooks who never cook a roast because they don't know how. So, over the next couple of weeks, I'll share how I prepare and cook chicken, beef and lamb, and hopefully show just how easy it is.
This week I'll start with chicken, because that's what I'll be roasting on Sunday night.
To roast a chicken, buy either a fresh or frozen whole bird. If you buy a frozen chicken, thaw it in the fridge for 24 - 48 hours before you want to roast it.
Take the chicken out of the packaging. Using a clean cheesecloth or paper towel (I don’t have paper towel, so I use the cheesecloth), pat the outside of the chicken until it's dry.
Then pat the inside cavity to dry it.
If you are going to stuff the chicken, make your stuffing and push it into the cavity. Leave room for the stuffing to expand as it cooks. I like to also put some under the skin. To do this just slide your fingers between the skin and the flesh to create a cavity, and push a small amount of stuffing into the space. Gently press the skin down to close it.
Now get some butter rub it all over the chicken. As Nigella says, now is not the time to be stingy with the butter. Rub it into the drumsticks, wings, breasts - anywhere you can see skin.
Heat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
Place the chicken on a rack in a baking dish and place in the hot oven.
Cook for 20 minutes per 500g plus 20 minutes for the stuffing, or until the juices run clear when you stab the chicken in the thickest part, or until the internal temperature reaches 190 degrees Celsius.
For a 2kg bird with stuffing you'd cook it for 1 hour and 40 minutes approximately. All ovens vary, so use the cooking times as a guide and always test to make sure the chicken is cooked through.
Remove from the oven and let it sit for a few minutes before carving or cutting into serving pieces.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Baked Chicken Enchiladas
Tuesday: Lasagne & salad
Wednesday: Haystacks
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Corn fritters, salad
Saturday: Tacos
In the fruit bowl: Oranges, bananas
In the cake tin: Banana Muffins
There are over 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
One Chicken, Four Meals
I can by whole chickens for $2.99/kg. That makes a No. 20 (2kg) chicken $5.98 and that chicken will give me 12 serves of meat and the bones to make stock or soup. I can get three, usually four, meals from one chicken and trust me, no one goes hungry. You'd hear them complaining if they were hungry!
Here's how I stretch one chicken to feed us for at least four meals.
I prepare and roast the chicken, as above.
When it's cooked, I cut the wings and drumsticks off it - they are one meal for four, and I pull the stuffing out and slice it.
We'll have them with roast veggies (potato, sweet potato, onion, carrot, parsnip) and steamed greens (beans or peas, broccoli or cauliflower) and gravy.
After dinner, I put the leftover stuffing in the fridge - it makes lovey sandwich filling for lunches, and I pull the breasts off it.
One breast is usually shredded to make Curried Chicken or Sweet'n'Sour Chicken. Yes, one chicken breast, shredded with a couple of forks, gives enough meat for six serves of Curried or Sweet'n'Sour Chicken. The other breast is shredded and put in the freezer. It will be used to make the chicken filling for pancakes or enchiladas or pie. I make a white sauce, add a little diced onion, some sliced mushrooms (re-hydrated from the bulk lot I dried in January) and a little cheese and the chicken and it's delicious.
Then I pull the rest of the meat off the bones and put it in the freezer.
I'll use this meat for Chicken Fried Rice or Chicken Salad Sandwich Filling - whichever we'll need first.
Lastly, I put the bones into the slow cooker with water, some celery tops, a carrot, and a large onion and let it cook overnight to make stock.
I use stock to cook rice, it gives it a really lovely flavour. I also use it to make gravy - again it gives the gravy a much richer flavour.
Or I'll use the stock to make Grandma's Chicken Soup. I won't have the whole chicken the recipe lists for this, obviously, as I've used it for other meals, but it will still be flavourful and healthy and the bones will give up the rest of the chicken meat. I do the soup in the slow cooker and it makes around 4 litres (roughly eight serves of soup).
Nothing is wasted, the leftovers from the stock are added to the bokashi bucket to compost down.
So, that $5.98 chicken makes at least 20 serves, bringing the cost down to just 30 cents a serve, or $1.20 a meal for a family of four.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
7 Ways to Save Big with a Simple Savings Jar
Every Little Bit of Savings Adds Up
Paying Off Debt in the New Year
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
A New Year, a New Food Challenge
A Question About Envelope Budgeting System
Back To School Hints and Tips
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
A New Year, A New Diary
Goals for 2019
Just Do It
8. Last Week's Question
Wendy wrote
"Help! Hubby gave me a huge tub of body shop body butter for Christmas and I find it too much for my skin. Are there other uses for it? Cleaning etc?"
Marcia Harris answered
"If you have been given a gift of expensive facial or body cream that is too strong for your skin, buy a jar of Vitamin E cream from the chemist and add a small amount of the gifted cream to the Vitamin E cream and blend well, then do a spot check on your face or inner arm to judge whether or not you like the result."
9. Ask A Question
We have lots of resources to help you as you live the Cheapskates way but if you didn't find the answer to your question in our extensive archives please just drop me a note with your question.
I read and answer all questions, either in an email to you, in my weekly newsletter, the monthly Journal or by creating blog posts and other resources to help you (and other Cheapskaters).
Ask Your Question
10. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $25 a year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
11. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name at the top of the page to go straight to your profile page where you can update your details, change your password and find your subscription details.
Not a Cheapskates Club member? Then please use the Changing Details form found here to update your email address.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
Memberships are active for one year from the date of joining. You will be sent a renewal reminder before your subscription is due to renew. You can also find your membership expiry date on your profile page.
When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name to go straight to your profile page where you can will find your join date and your expiry date.
What will you do with my email address?
We never rent, trade or sell our email list to anyone for any reason whatsoever. You'll never get an unsolicited email from a stranger as a result of joining this list.
How did I get on this list?
The only way you can get onto our newsletter mailing list is to subscribe yourself. You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member.
12. Contact Cheapskates
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
Contact Cheapskates