Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 02:19
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Cut the Cost of Pet Care; Two Simple Rules Keep Gift Giving to Budget; Easy Clean, Reusable Bird Cage Liner Sheets
3. This Week's Winning Tip - Extra Special Personalised Wrapping Paper
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Quick Alfredo Sauce
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Getting the Most from the Roast
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. This Week's Question - Getting started
9. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Things are picking up again, as the holidays are slowly winding down. Life is getting busier and days seem to be flying by. I even noticed that traffic was heavier again this week while I was out and about.
The weather is up and down, at least here in Melbourne, even the garden is up and down.I've been picking lettuce, and watching beans and cucumbers form. The lime tree is full of very cute little limes, and there are some tiny oranges that appeared this week. We woke up on Sunday morning to a front yard covered in apples! Between the cockies, the fruit bats and the possums, it looked like the apple tree had been decimated. How do they know the exact time the fruit is ripe?
I have been picking a few apples each day, as soon as I see a hint of red on them, to beat the birds and possums. This year the tree is loaded with more fruit that we've ever seen so I don't mind sharing - I just wish they'd eat the whole apple, not just pick at it and drop it on the ground!
So far I've been stewing them as I pick them, and then freezing the fruit for winter. Remember those jars I picked up a few weeks back for 50c each? Well two of them are being used to make apple cider vinegar to use up some of the cores and peelings. In six weeks or so I'll have apple cider vinegar to use in cooking (it's great in sweet'n'sour sauce) and it won't have cost a cent.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Cut the Cost of Pet CareAll large organisations have an obligation to make sure their first aid kits are well stocked every year and all the items are in date. In your area you may be able to approach the organisation itself or St.Johns or whichever service re-stocks the kits and obtain items that are very good but unfortunately will be thrown out because they are out of date. These items can be used for treating injuries on your pets. With horses that can be often :) Things such as antiseptic creams, saline washes, bandages and gauzes are great things to stockpile in a sealed plastic box and have handy in your tack shed. The often expensive bandages you purchase specifically for vet use are the same material and as our furry friends are prone to chew, play and destroy their bandages the cost mounts up very fast.
Contributed by Fiona
Two Simple Rules Keep Gift Giving to BudgetApproximate $ Savings: $200
I would like to share a Christmas idea that gave me one of the most enjoyable Christmases I can remember. I am not a big fan of exchanging presents (except for giving to children in the family). When you have a large extended family with some having ample free cash and others not, it can cause embarrassing situations.
The best ever Christmas was one where we had two rules for giving presents:
1. it had to cost less than $5 or
2. it had to be handmade.
We had a great time thinking, planning and making things. I hunted at markets, and charity stores and found things like silk scarves and pretty trinket boxes. My sister-in-law made fabric totes out of old fabric. They were brilliant! Those who could cook made cookies and treats for those of us without kitchen skills. It was exciting and a Christmas to remember.
Contributed by Mimi
Easy Clean, Reusable Bird Cage Liner Sheets
We have a pet budgie and I did not want to use newspaper as a cage liner as I read that the newsprint can be toxic to pet birds. I was also horrified at the cost of shop bought grit and sand sheets for lining the bottom of the bird cage (about a $1 a sheet). I wondered what I could use that would be 1. safe for the bird 2. environmentally friendly and 3. easy on my purse. I bought a pack of 3 flexible coloured plastic chopping mats ($3 for a pack of 3 at The Reject Shop). Our bird's cage is large so I use 2 of these mats (slightly overlapped) on the base of the cage. They are food grade (so no toxins) and can be washed and re-used over and over again saving me $100's each year and without any harm to our bird.
Contributed by Nadine
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Moira Scott. Moira has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
I love this take on personalising wrapping paper. Imagine what you could do for Mother's Day or Father's Day, or to wrap a special anniversary gift, or a gift for a new baby - you could write wishes for the future.
So many ways you can take Moira's idea and make it your own!
Extra Special Personalised Wrapping Paper
"For a special gift wrap for someone you know well you can easily make wrapping that is individual and shows your value them. Use a piece of plain paper - or one that has a subtle pattern - that is big enough to wrap the gift.
You will also need a good pen, or coloured pens, that will write clearly on the paper. The thickness of the writing will depend on how many accolades you have to write in the space available.
Separately write a list of all the person's achievements over the recent period, great and small, and all the things you admire or value about them. "Translate" each accomplishments or characteristic into an accolade - so if they tell good jokes it could be 'Comedian', if they did well at school it might be 'Distinguished Scholar'.
When you have sufficient accolades, you can write them randomly on the paper. The writing can be various sizes and various orientations, so they have to turn the parcel around to read them all.
I have used this for friends who 'needed' to be reminded of how good a friend they are as and how much they have."
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. 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
5. On The Menu
Quick Alfredo SauceThis is one of Hannah's specialty dishes. She makes it in bulk, pours it over cooked spaghetti and freezes it in single portions for her work lunches.
It makes enough to cover 500g of spaghetti, cooked. I always serve it with a big side salad and every plate is always clean.
Ingredients:
60g butter
1 cup cream
1 clove garlic, crushed
1-1/2 cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley
Method:
Melt butter in a medium sized saucepan over low heat. Add the cream and simmer for 5 minutes, then add garlic and parmesan and whisk quickly until cheese has melted, heating through. Stir in parsley and serve.
Cost: $2.60
Cost including pasta $3.85
Cost per serving including pasta: 96 cents
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Schnitzels, potato bake, green salad
Tuesday: Pasta Alfredo, salad
Wednesday: BBQ Sausages, salad
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Chicken fried rice
Saturday: Hamburgers
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
Getting the Most from the RoastLast week's post about stretching a roast chicken certainly caused an uproar.
For the record:
1.We are not starving
2.We are not malmourished
3.We do not ever go hungry
4.Wayne and the kids are very healthy; any health issue I have are NOT diet related at all.
Now I've cleared that up, let's get to this week's stretcher - roast beef!
This is part two of my series on stretching meat. It's getting so expensive, even chuck or casserole steak as it's called nowadays, is over $10/kilo! Seriously, when I was growing up this was used for dog food. If your Mum was making stews and casseroles and pies using chuck steak, you were poor! Not any more though, you need to be wealthy to include it on your meal plan.
And then there is roasting beef. I shudder every time I price it. The cheapest I was able to get it in 2018 was $6.99/kg and believe me when I say I almost filled the freezer. Last week when I was at the butcher it was $12.99/kg.
We like roast beef a lot, so when we have it I need to make sure we get plenty of free meals from it.
If you follow my meal plan, you'll see that I alternate between chicken/beef/chicken/lamb/chicken/beef/chicken/lamb and repeat for Sunday dinners.
When we have roast lamb or beef I make sure I cut the meat so that we get at least two dinners from the one roast. I serve one for dinner that night and put the extra meat into a Tupperware container, cover it with gravy and freeze. It is then ready for the next time that particular roast is on the menu.
This saves money and makes roast lamb or beef affordable. It keeps the electricity bill or gas for the barbecue bill down as the meal just has to be thawed and then warmed in the microwave, again making the meal cheaper. And if there are bones then those bones are used to make stock for soup or gravy, or to cook rice or pasta - making the meal cheaper still.
Here are some of the ways I get more meals from one piece of roasting beef:
*Cut the piece of meat in half. One half is our roast dinner. Then I cut the other half in half again. Depending on the season, on piece can be diced and used to make a slow cooker beef curry or thinly sliced and marinated for stir fry. The other piece is cooked in the slow cooker with stock and shredded to make beef pie, or to use in enchiladas or cottage pie or minced to be used in pasta sauce or lasagne filling.
*Cut the slices thinly - this is easier if you let the roast sit for about 10 minutes before carving.
*Make sure all the meat is off the bone, even the tiniest shreds.
*Portion control - the boys get three slices of lamb or beef, Hannah and I have two. I do spread them around the plate so they can be seen. It isn't mean folks, it's common sense - we don't need kilos of meat with every meal. 180g per person is the recommended, that's what I aim for.
*Cook the meat in an oven bag. This helps with shrinking, keeps the meat moist and contains the juices that I use to make gravy. I use Coles brand oven bags, they're really, really big so it's easy to get the meat into the bag and there's plenty of room to tie it shut. And they're cheap!
Meat is expensive. I aim to keep it at $5 per meal, even with the rising cost of meat. To do this I need to have cheaper cuts and stretch them, add some meatless meals into our meal plan and keep an eye out for the cheapest possible prices - then go crazy and fill the freezers.
Any little scraps of meat are diced (if they're big enough) and then added to mashed potato with an onion, some garlic and rosemary. I bind it all with a beaten egg, then press it into a casserole dish, dot the top with butter and bake it until it's warmed through. I serve this with steamed veggies and gravy.
Or I might add the scraps to some gravy and make a pie. The pie maker is fantastic for this, it only takes 8 minutes to make four beautiful, fresh pies and the cost under 70 cents each to make.
In winter I'll hold back a slice, dice it and add it to beef or lamb stock with soup mix and veggies to make lamb or beef and vegetable soup. We have this with toasted crumpets for a truly frugal dinner - about 85 cents a serve if I have to buy veggies, even less if I use veggies from the garden.
Swings and roundabouts; as long as my average cost for the meat component of each meal is between $4 - $6 (rising prices are affecting my budget) I am happy, we eat well and most importantly my family is happy.
What do you do to stretch meat? Or do you wear the cost and cut somewhere else in your budget?
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Does the $300 a Month Shopping Plan Still Work?
Household Budgeting Basics
Quark
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Buying a Dishwasher
2019 Decluttering Tally Challenge
Single Use Kitchen Appliances
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
Just Do It!
Baked Chicken Salad
Start Living Below Your Means
8. This Week's Question
Pauline writes
"I'm new to this fantastic website and I'm trying to get my head around all the great budgeting advice that is available. I'm a little overwhelmed and don't quite know where to start. Just interested to know how other members adapted to living the Cheapskates way. What did you do first to get started?"
Do you have some advice to help Pauline start living the Cheapskates way?
If you have a suggestion or idea for Pauline, let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send Your Answer
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!
PO Box 5077 Studfield Vic 3152
Contact Cheapskates
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Cut the Cost of Pet Care; Two Simple Rules Keep Gift Giving to Budget; Easy Clean, Reusable Bird Cage Liner Sheets
3. This Week's Winning Tip - Extra Special Personalised Wrapping Paper
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Quick Alfredo Sauce
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Getting the Most from the Roast
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. This Week's Question - Getting started
9. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Things are picking up again, as the holidays are slowly winding down. Life is getting busier and days seem to be flying by. I even noticed that traffic was heavier again this week while I was out and about.
The weather is up and down, at least here in Melbourne, even the garden is up and down.I've been picking lettuce, and watching beans and cucumbers form. The lime tree is full of very cute little limes, and there are some tiny oranges that appeared this week. We woke up on Sunday morning to a front yard covered in apples! Between the cockies, the fruit bats and the possums, it looked like the apple tree had been decimated. How do they know the exact time the fruit is ripe?
I have been picking a few apples each day, as soon as I see a hint of red on them, to beat the birds and possums. This year the tree is loaded with more fruit that we've ever seen so I don't mind sharing - I just wish they'd eat the whole apple, not just pick at it and drop it on the ground!
So far I've been stewing them as I pick them, and then freezing the fruit for winter. Remember those jars I picked up a few weeks back for 50c each? Well two of them are being used to make apple cider vinegar to use up some of the cores and peelings. In six weeks or so I'll have apple cider vinegar to use in cooking (it's great in sweet'n'sour sauce) and it won't have cost a cent.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Cut the Cost of Pet CareAll large organisations have an obligation to make sure their first aid kits are well stocked every year and all the items are in date. In your area you may be able to approach the organisation itself or St.Johns or whichever service re-stocks the kits and obtain items that are very good but unfortunately will be thrown out because they are out of date. These items can be used for treating injuries on your pets. With horses that can be often :) Things such as antiseptic creams, saline washes, bandages and gauzes are great things to stockpile in a sealed plastic box and have handy in your tack shed. The often expensive bandages you purchase specifically for vet use are the same material and as our furry friends are prone to chew, play and destroy their bandages the cost mounts up very fast.
Contributed by Fiona
Two Simple Rules Keep Gift Giving to BudgetApproximate $ Savings: $200
I would like to share a Christmas idea that gave me one of the most enjoyable Christmases I can remember. I am not a big fan of exchanging presents (except for giving to children in the family). When you have a large extended family with some having ample free cash and others not, it can cause embarrassing situations.
The best ever Christmas was one where we had two rules for giving presents:
1. it had to cost less than $5 or
2. it had to be handmade.
We had a great time thinking, planning and making things. I hunted at markets, and charity stores and found things like silk scarves and pretty trinket boxes. My sister-in-law made fabric totes out of old fabric. They were brilliant! Those who could cook made cookies and treats for those of us without kitchen skills. It was exciting and a Christmas to remember.
Contributed by Mimi
Easy Clean, Reusable Bird Cage Liner Sheets
We have a pet budgie and I did not want to use newspaper as a cage liner as I read that the newsprint can be toxic to pet birds. I was also horrified at the cost of shop bought grit and sand sheets for lining the bottom of the bird cage (about a $1 a sheet). I wondered what I could use that would be 1. safe for the bird 2. environmentally friendly and 3. easy on my purse. I bought a pack of 3 flexible coloured plastic chopping mats ($3 for a pack of 3 at The Reject Shop). Our bird's cage is large so I use 2 of these mats (slightly overlapped) on the base of the cage. They are food grade (so no toxins) and can be washed and re-used over and over again saving me $100's each year and without any harm to our bird.
Contributed by Nadine
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Moira Scott. Moira has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
I love this take on personalising wrapping paper. Imagine what you could do for Mother's Day or Father's Day, or to wrap a special anniversary gift, or a gift for a new baby - you could write wishes for the future.
So many ways you can take Moira's idea and make it your own!
Extra Special Personalised Wrapping Paper
"For a special gift wrap for someone you know well you can easily make wrapping that is individual and shows your value them. Use a piece of plain paper - or one that has a subtle pattern - that is big enough to wrap the gift.
You will also need a good pen, or coloured pens, that will write clearly on the paper. The thickness of the writing will depend on how many accolades you have to write in the space available.
Separately write a list of all the person's achievements over the recent period, great and small, and all the things you admire or value about them. "Translate" each accomplishments or characteristic into an accolade - so if they tell good jokes it could be 'Comedian', if they did well at school it might be 'Distinguished Scholar'.
When you have sufficient accolades, you can write them randomly on the paper. The writing can be various sizes and various orientations, so they have to turn the parcel around to read them all.
I have used this for friends who 'needed' to be reminded of how good a friend they are as and how much they have."
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. 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
5. On The Menu
Quick Alfredo SauceThis is one of Hannah's specialty dishes. She makes it in bulk, pours it over cooked spaghetti and freezes it in single portions for her work lunches.
It makes enough to cover 500g of spaghetti, cooked. I always serve it with a big side salad and every plate is always clean.
Ingredients:
60g butter
1 cup cream
1 clove garlic, crushed
1-1/2 cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley
Method:
Melt butter in a medium sized saucepan over low heat. Add the cream and simmer for 5 minutes, then add garlic and parmesan and whisk quickly until cheese has melted, heating through. Stir in parsley and serve.
Cost: $2.60
Cost including pasta $3.85
Cost per serving including pasta: 96 cents
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Schnitzels, potato bake, green salad
Tuesday: Pasta Alfredo, salad
Wednesday: BBQ Sausages, salad
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Chicken fried rice
Saturday: Hamburgers
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
Getting the Most from the RoastLast week's post about stretching a roast chicken certainly caused an uproar.
For the record:
1.We are not starving
2.We are not malmourished
3.We do not ever go hungry
4.Wayne and the kids are very healthy; any health issue I have are NOT diet related at all.
Now I've cleared that up, let's get to this week's stretcher - roast beef!
This is part two of my series on stretching meat. It's getting so expensive, even chuck or casserole steak as it's called nowadays, is over $10/kilo! Seriously, when I was growing up this was used for dog food. If your Mum was making stews and casseroles and pies using chuck steak, you were poor! Not any more though, you need to be wealthy to include it on your meal plan.
And then there is roasting beef. I shudder every time I price it. The cheapest I was able to get it in 2018 was $6.99/kg and believe me when I say I almost filled the freezer. Last week when I was at the butcher it was $12.99/kg.
We like roast beef a lot, so when we have it I need to make sure we get plenty of free meals from it.
If you follow my meal plan, you'll see that I alternate between chicken/beef/chicken/lamb/chicken/beef/chicken/lamb and repeat for Sunday dinners.
When we have roast lamb or beef I make sure I cut the meat so that we get at least two dinners from the one roast. I serve one for dinner that night and put the extra meat into a Tupperware container, cover it with gravy and freeze. It is then ready for the next time that particular roast is on the menu.
This saves money and makes roast lamb or beef affordable. It keeps the electricity bill or gas for the barbecue bill down as the meal just has to be thawed and then warmed in the microwave, again making the meal cheaper. And if there are bones then those bones are used to make stock for soup or gravy, or to cook rice or pasta - making the meal cheaper still.
Here are some of the ways I get more meals from one piece of roasting beef:
*Cut the piece of meat in half. One half is our roast dinner. Then I cut the other half in half again. Depending on the season, on piece can be diced and used to make a slow cooker beef curry or thinly sliced and marinated for stir fry. The other piece is cooked in the slow cooker with stock and shredded to make beef pie, or to use in enchiladas or cottage pie or minced to be used in pasta sauce or lasagne filling.
*Cut the slices thinly - this is easier if you let the roast sit for about 10 minutes before carving.
*Make sure all the meat is off the bone, even the tiniest shreds.
*Portion control - the boys get three slices of lamb or beef, Hannah and I have two. I do spread them around the plate so they can be seen. It isn't mean folks, it's common sense - we don't need kilos of meat with every meal. 180g per person is the recommended, that's what I aim for.
*Cook the meat in an oven bag. This helps with shrinking, keeps the meat moist and contains the juices that I use to make gravy. I use Coles brand oven bags, they're really, really big so it's easy to get the meat into the bag and there's plenty of room to tie it shut. And they're cheap!
Meat is expensive. I aim to keep it at $5 per meal, even with the rising cost of meat. To do this I need to have cheaper cuts and stretch them, add some meatless meals into our meal plan and keep an eye out for the cheapest possible prices - then go crazy and fill the freezers.
Any little scraps of meat are diced (if they're big enough) and then added to mashed potato with an onion, some garlic and rosemary. I bind it all with a beaten egg, then press it into a casserole dish, dot the top with butter and bake it until it's warmed through. I serve this with steamed veggies and gravy.
Or I might add the scraps to some gravy and make a pie. The pie maker is fantastic for this, it only takes 8 minutes to make four beautiful, fresh pies and the cost under 70 cents each to make.
In winter I'll hold back a slice, dice it and add it to beef or lamb stock with soup mix and veggies to make lamb or beef and vegetable soup. We have this with toasted crumpets for a truly frugal dinner - about 85 cents a serve if I have to buy veggies, even less if I use veggies from the garden.
Swings and roundabouts; as long as my average cost for the meat component of each meal is between $4 - $6 (rising prices are affecting my budget) I am happy, we eat well and most importantly my family is happy.
What do you do to stretch meat? Or do you wear the cost and cut somewhere else in your budget?
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Does the $300 a Month Shopping Plan Still Work?
Household Budgeting Basics
Quark
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Buying a Dishwasher
2019 Decluttering Tally Challenge
Single Use Kitchen Appliances
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
Just Do It!
Baked Chicken Salad
Start Living Below Your Means
8. This Week's Question
Pauline writes
"I'm new to this fantastic website and I'm trying to get my head around all the great budgeting advice that is available. I'm a little overwhelmed and don't quite know where to start. Just interested to know how other members adapted to living the Cheapskates way. What did you do first to get started?"
Do you have some advice to help Pauline start living the Cheapskates way?
If you have a suggestion or idea for Pauline, let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send Your Answer
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!
PO Box 5077 Studfield Vic 3152
Contact Cheapskates