Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 11:21
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Easy Way to Clean Your Recycling; Prepping Fruit and Veg Saves Money, Time and Energy; Try a Powdered Milk Swap and Save, Save, Save
3. Tip of the Week - Don't Wait til Disaster Strikes
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Poor Man's Lasagne
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Sad Veggies
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge - Hot Cross Buns
10. 2021 Saving Revolution -
11. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
12. Join the Cheapskates Club
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Here where we live, it is typical autumn weather. Cool nights that make sleeping easy, foggy mornings and then beautiful, bright sunshine. This really is my favourite time of year. Right now I'm in winter garden plotting and planning mode; with the price of fresh produce (any by default then the price of frozen) estimated to go up by 30% whatever we can grow is going to really help.
I made hot cross buns this week. They were delicious, of course, and not just because I MOOed them, but because we waited until now to enjoy them. We only have hot cross buns during the Easter season, and for us Easter doesn't start on Boxing Day, so we only have them for a short time each year. And that's what makes them so special and so delicious - they are a long awaited treat, we don't have them all year round to become bored and blasé about them.
The sun is shining and it is just a gorgeous day, so as soon as I've finished this newsletter I'm off out to the garden - there are seeds to plant and seedlings to transplant.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Easy Way to Clean Your Recycling
Whether you hand wash or use a dishwasher throw in your items that want to go into the recycling bin in the dish wash of your choice.
This makes it quick and easy to clean the items you want to recycle if you can't reuse or upcycle them.
I also rinse out my milk cartons with a little bit of water at the end of the carton and usually get a little more to go into my cup. This rinses it for the recycling bin too.
Therefore all items that go in the bin are clean and ready for the recyclers to do their bit.
Contributed by Tammy Newell
Prepping Fruit and Veg Saves Money, Time and Energy
When I get home from shopping. I fill the sink with cold water, add about half a cup of vinegar and pop in my fruit, then let them drain. Then add the veggies, let them drain and cut everything up and pop into containers, then they are ready to go when needed.
Contributed by Irene Wilkinson
You might also like: How I Buy Fruit and Vegetables Once a Month and They Last
Try a Powdered Milk Swap and Save, Save, Save
I have taken to mixing up my own milk from powder. I really only use it in my coffee and tea and I can't taste the difference. Saving: way less plastic in the recycling bin (big plus for me, remembering that plastic cannot be recycled forever), never run out and have to duck down the shops during no spend February, way cheaper than $1.30/litre. So that is less waste, less time, less money, less fuel. Oh and I don't have to store litres and litres in my fridge (cost of energy to keep it cool). Oh and (last one) I don't have to carry heavy bottles home (factor in extra weight on fuel costs too). Save, save, save.
Contributed by Jan Naylor
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Delaney Avenel. Delaney has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Don't Wait til Disaster Strikes
Don't wait til disaster strikes to cut your spending, modify your menu or change habits.
Practice NOW. Whether for a week or a month, it's well worth the effort to practice living on a bare bones budget regularly so the changes aren't such a shock especially if you have family accustomed to their creature comforts.
Having some practice at cooking with simpler ingredients from scratch will help smooth the transition if you need to really tighten your belt at some stage.
There are many international programs throughout the year that encourage us to live for a time on $2 a day or without power for a while etc. You could tie in with these to help get kids and partners on board.
If disaster does strike, you'll have enough to think about without needing to be imaginative with food, entertainment and so on.
I practice about once every six months. I have a super tight month and then reward myself at the end. Usually with a new fruit tree or similar paid for by the savings I've made.
Setting a goal with your family may also encourage everyone to knuckle down. Who knows, you may find some simple meals becoming permanent fixtures on your menu plan.
Congratulations Delaney I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
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
Poor Man's Lasagne
I don't know why this recipe has this name, there is absolutely nothing poor about it. It is quick, easy, delicious, and well yes, it's cheap.
Ingredients:
3 rashers of bacon, diced
250g uncooked spaghetti
3 tomatoes, sliced
1 large onion, sliced
1 tin of condensed tomato soup
11/2 tins of water
1 cup grated cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
Grease a lasagne dish. Layer spaghetti, tomato, onion and bacon pieces seasoning after each layer. Finish with a spaghetti layer . Mix soup and water and pour over layered ingredients. Sprinkle cheese over top. Cover and cook at 180 degrees Celsius for about 40 minutes until pasta is cooked.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Marinated Chicken & Salad
Tuesday: Poor Man's Lasagne
Wednesday: Curried Beef & Rice
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Fish, potato gems, coleslaw
Saturday: Meatballs Subs
In the fruit bowl: mandarins, bananas
In the cake tin: ANZAC Slice, Easter Hedgehog Slice
There are over 1,700 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
Sad Veggies
Even the most organised of us occasionally finds a sad veggie or two lurking in the crisper drawer. I found some beans, an eggplant and a half a capsicum at the bottom of the crisper drawer this week. Usually "bits" are written on the whiteboard on the fridge so they're not forgotten. I guess with being away, the kids forgot. Now when I say these veggies were sad, they were a day away from becoming compost. I hate food waste, especially food we've paid for, and even food we've grown, so I try to use the sad, lonely veggies up a couple of times a week.
Usually on a Tuesday and Friday I'll check the crisper and get out what I find and then the fun begins. How to use whatever up? Sometimes I'll make a veggie paste up. These are great to use up onion, zucchini, egg plant, pumpkin, sweet potato, mushrooms, tomatoes. Whatever is in the fridge gets chopped up and then slowly cooked down in a little olive oil with a couple of cloves of garlic. It takes a while to cook down to a paste, about 45 minutes over a medium low heat, but it's worth it. This veggie paste is amazing spread on bread rolls then topped with a slice of cheese and toasted. It's also good to spread on the pastry before adding the sausage mixture for sausage rolls - they're really, really good. If there's more than can be used for one meal, the excess is frozen.
Sometimes the sad veggies go into a soup or casserole. Sometimes I'll chop them all together and dehydrate the mix for long-term, shelf-stable storage. Once they're dehydrated I have a few months to use them up. Sometimes I'll grind the dehydrated mix to a powder (that coffee grinder my brother gave us comes in handy for this) and use it as a stock powder to flavour other recipes.
Grated veggies can be added to pasta sauce to bulk it out, add extra flavour and nutrition and of course use them up.
When I see the figures for food waste, in kilos (actually tonnes) and in dollars, each year in Australia I just cringe. Australians put so much money in the bin via food waste, especially sad veggies they buy, often at top price, and then leave in the fridge to just go mouldy and be binned.
If you're not in the habit of checking your fridge, make it a habit starting today. If you need to write yourself a note to check the veggie crispers at least once a week, do it. And challenge yourself to not let your fridge hold any sad veggies.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
MOO Tomato Soup
MOO Pastry Mats
Good Gravy
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
What is Your Easter Plan?
Do You Trolley Peek?
Cooking for Money...
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join us live on YouTube every Tuesday and see how we are living debt free, cashed up and laughing - and find out how you can too!
SHOW SCHEDULE
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
LATEST SHOWS
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Easy Way to Clean Your Recycling; Prepping Fruit and Veg Saves Money, Time and Energy; Try a Powdered Milk Swap and Save, Save, Save
3. Tip of the Week - Don't Wait til Disaster Strikes
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Poor Man's Lasagne
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Sad Veggies
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge - Hot Cross Buns
10. 2021 Saving Revolution -
11. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
12. Join the Cheapskates Club
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Here where we live, it is typical autumn weather. Cool nights that make sleeping easy, foggy mornings and then beautiful, bright sunshine. This really is my favourite time of year. Right now I'm in winter garden plotting and planning mode; with the price of fresh produce (any by default then the price of frozen) estimated to go up by 30% whatever we can grow is going to really help.
I made hot cross buns this week. They were delicious, of course, and not just because I MOOed them, but because we waited until now to enjoy them. We only have hot cross buns during the Easter season, and for us Easter doesn't start on Boxing Day, so we only have them for a short time each year. And that's what makes them so special and so delicious - they are a long awaited treat, we don't have them all year round to become bored and blasé about them.
The sun is shining and it is just a gorgeous day, so as soon as I've finished this newsletter I'm off out to the garden - there are seeds to plant and seedlings to transplant.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Easy Way to Clean Your Recycling
Whether you hand wash or use a dishwasher throw in your items that want to go into the recycling bin in the dish wash of your choice.
This makes it quick and easy to clean the items you want to recycle if you can't reuse or upcycle them.
I also rinse out my milk cartons with a little bit of water at the end of the carton and usually get a little more to go into my cup. This rinses it for the recycling bin too.
Therefore all items that go in the bin are clean and ready for the recyclers to do their bit.
Contributed by Tammy Newell
Prepping Fruit and Veg Saves Money, Time and Energy
When I get home from shopping. I fill the sink with cold water, add about half a cup of vinegar and pop in my fruit, then let them drain. Then add the veggies, let them drain and cut everything up and pop into containers, then they are ready to go when needed.
Contributed by Irene Wilkinson
You might also like: How I Buy Fruit and Vegetables Once a Month and They Last
Try a Powdered Milk Swap and Save, Save, Save
I have taken to mixing up my own milk from powder. I really only use it in my coffee and tea and I can't taste the difference. Saving: way less plastic in the recycling bin (big plus for me, remembering that plastic cannot be recycled forever), never run out and have to duck down the shops during no spend February, way cheaper than $1.30/litre. So that is less waste, less time, less money, less fuel. Oh and I don't have to store litres and litres in my fridge (cost of energy to keep it cool). Oh and (last one) I don't have to carry heavy bottles home (factor in extra weight on fuel costs too). Save, save, save.
Contributed by Jan Naylor
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Delaney Avenel. Delaney has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Don't Wait til Disaster Strikes
Don't wait til disaster strikes to cut your spending, modify your menu or change habits.
Practice NOW. Whether for a week or a month, it's well worth the effort to practice living on a bare bones budget regularly so the changes aren't such a shock especially if you have family accustomed to their creature comforts.
Having some practice at cooking with simpler ingredients from scratch will help smooth the transition if you need to really tighten your belt at some stage.
There are many international programs throughout the year that encourage us to live for a time on $2 a day or without power for a while etc. You could tie in with these to help get kids and partners on board.
If disaster does strike, you'll have enough to think about without needing to be imaginative with food, entertainment and so on.
I practice about once every six months. I have a super tight month and then reward myself at the end. Usually with a new fruit tree or similar paid for by the savings I've made.
Setting a goal with your family may also encourage everyone to knuckle down. Who knows, you may find some simple meals becoming permanent fixtures on your menu plan.
Congratulations Delaney I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
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
Poor Man's Lasagne
I don't know why this recipe has this name, there is absolutely nothing poor about it. It is quick, easy, delicious, and well yes, it's cheap.
Ingredients:
3 rashers of bacon, diced
250g uncooked spaghetti
3 tomatoes, sliced
1 large onion, sliced
1 tin of condensed tomato soup
11/2 tins of water
1 cup grated cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
Grease a lasagne dish. Layer spaghetti, tomato, onion and bacon pieces seasoning after each layer. Finish with a spaghetti layer . Mix soup and water and pour over layered ingredients. Sprinkle cheese over top. Cover and cook at 180 degrees Celsius for about 40 minutes until pasta is cooked.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Marinated Chicken & Salad
Tuesday: Poor Man's Lasagne
Wednesday: Curried Beef & Rice
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Fish, potato gems, coleslaw
Saturday: Meatballs Subs
In the fruit bowl: mandarins, bananas
In the cake tin: ANZAC Slice, Easter Hedgehog Slice
There are over 1,700 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
Sad Veggies
Even the most organised of us occasionally finds a sad veggie or two lurking in the crisper drawer. I found some beans, an eggplant and a half a capsicum at the bottom of the crisper drawer this week. Usually "bits" are written on the whiteboard on the fridge so they're not forgotten. I guess with being away, the kids forgot. Now when I say these veggies were sad, they were a day away from becoming compost. I hate food waste, especially food we've paid for, and even food we've grown, so I try to use the sad, lonely veggies up a couple of times a week.
Usually on a Tuesday and Friday I'll check the crisper and get out what I find and then the fun begins. How to use whatever up? Sometimes I'll make a veggie paste up. These are great to use up onion, zucchini, egg plant, pumpkin, sweet potato, mushrooms, tomatoes. Whatever is in the fridge gets chopped up and then slowly cooked down in a little olive oil with a couple of cloves of garlic. It takes a while to cook down to a paste, about 45 minutes over a medium low heat, but it's worth it. This veggie paste is amazing spread on bread rolls then topped with a slice of cheese and toasted. It's also good to spread on the pastry before adding the sausage mixture for sausage rolls - they're really, really good. If there's more than can be used for one meal, the excess is frozen.
Sometimes the sad veggies go into a soup or casserole. Sometimes I'll chop them all together and dehydrate the mix for long-term, shelf-stable storage. Once they're dehydrated I have a few months to use them up. Sometimes I'll grind the dehydrated mix to a powder (that coffee grinder my brother gave us comes in handy for this) and use it as a stock powder to flavour other recipes.
Grated veggies can be added to pasta sauce to bulk it out, add extra flavour and nutrition and of course use them up.
When I see the figures for food waste, in kilos (actually tonnes) and in dollars, each year in Australia I just cringe. Australians put so much money in the bin via food waste, especially sad veggies they buy, often at top price, and then leave in the fridge to just go mouldy and be binned.
If you're not in the habit of checking your fridge, make it a habit starting today. If you need to write yourself a note to check the veggie crispers at least once a week, do it. And challenge yourself to not let your fridge hold any sad veggies.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
MOO Tomato Soup
MOO Pastry Mats
Good Gravy
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
What is Your Easter Plan?
Do You Trolley Peek?
Cooking for Money...
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join us live on YouTube every Tuesday and see how we are living debt free, cashed up and laughing - and find out how you can too!
SHOW SCHEDULE
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
LATEST SHOWS
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge
Hot Cross Buns
!It's finally time to start baking and enjoying hot cross buns. I love them, but I flatly refuse to even think about making them before the start of Lent, any earlier is just plain ridiculous and takes away the "treat" of having them for Easter.
They're not hard to make. Honestly. If I can make hot cross buns, so can you. They're really just fruit buns, with a plain dough cross on the top, so if you already have a great fruit bun recipe use it, then make a simple dough for the cross or do like I do, and just cut a cross in the top before you put them in the oven.
This is the recipe I use every year. When the kids were younger they'd help. I've even made them with my niece when she has been here. Good hot cross buns, packed with fruit and spices, are way over-priced. You can easily MOO them and instead of $1 each, they're around 15 cents - 20 cents each (depends on where you buy your fruit and spices). That's a big difference in price, so price alone makes MOOing them logical.
But taste and texture and enjoying a truly fresh, straight from the oven, hot cross bun is the real reason I like to MOO them.
Hot Cross Buns
Ingredients:
2 1/2 tsp dry yeast
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup warm water
4 cups plain or bread flour
2 cups mixed fruit (or sultanas - your choice)
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tbsp grapeseed oil (this gives a very light, sweet dough)
1 cup warm water
Method:
Dissolve the yeast and the sugar in the 1/4 cup warm water and let it sit until it becomes frothy, about 10 minutes.
Add the flour, mixed fruit, mixed spice, oil and water to the bowl of your bread maker. Add the yeast mixture. Set to the dough setting.
To make the rolls, gently divide the dough into 12 pieces. Gently roll each piece into a ball. Place on an oiled baking sheet, with each roll just touching the next. Cut a cross into the top of each bun. Sit in a warm spot to allow the rolls to rise until double in size, about 30 minutes. Bake in a 175 degree oven for 20 - 25 minutes until they sound hollow when tapped. Glaze while hot.
To make the glaze:
Combine half a cup of white sugar and half a cup of water in a small saucepan. Stir over low heat until sugar dissolves. Turn heat up and bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Brush the top and sides of each bun when they are cooked.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
10. 2021 Saving Revolution - Lesson 11
It seems there was a bit of a hiccup with last week's lesson, and not everyone received it. I resent it on Tuesday morning, and if the report is correct, it landed in everyone's inbox.
Lesson 11 was all about finding the hidden opportunities to make more money. The things you tend to overlook because well they're boring or "not a real job" or unusual. Or perhaps because they require a little extra effort on your part.
If you have a skill it can be turned into a money making opportunity. When I had a newborn, I started teaching creative tapestry in our kitchen one morning a week to bring in a little extra money, but before that, before I'd even left school, and was officially too young to get a job, I took in ironing by the basket to earn extra money. Three baskets a week, around three hours ironing, gave me $15, a good wage for a 13 year old way back then.
There are plenty of opportunities to earn a little extra money if you keep your eyes and ears open. If you play an instrument, give music lessons. Or perhaps if you're great at math or english or have a second language, you can tutor a student or two. If you like gardening, find someone who doesn't and have them pay you to do what you love in their garden. If you knit or crochet, do some research to see what's trending, make some and sell them.
There are so many ways to earn a little extra cash so put your thinking cap on and if you need or want a little more, find the opportunity that's waiting for you.
If you've joined the Saving Revolution, Lesson 12 will be in your inbox tomorrow!
Log into the 2021 Saving Revolution forum and join the discussions too. They're fun, keep you accountable, and over the course of the year will be an amazing source of valuable hints and tips for you too.
11. 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
12. 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!
13. 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.
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What will you do with my email address?
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Hot Cross Buns
!It's finally time to start baking and enjoying hot cross buns. I love them, but I flatly refuse to even think about making them before the start of Lent, any earlier is just plain ridiculous and takes away the "treat" of having them for Easter.
They're not hard to make. Honestly. If I can make hot cross buns, so can you. They're really just fruit buns, with a plain dough cross on the top, so if you already have a great fruit bun recipe use it, then make a simple dough for the cross or do like I do, and just cut a cross in the top before you put them in the oven.
This is the recipe I use every year. When the kids were younger they'd help. I've even made them with my niece when she has been here. Good hot cross buns, packed with fruit and spices, are way over-priced. You can easily MOO them and instead of $1 each, they're around 15 cents - 20 cents each (depends on where you buy your fruit and spices). That's a big difference in price, so price alone makes MOOing them logical.
But taste and texture and enjoying a truly fresh, straight from the oven, hot cross bun is the real reason I like to MOO them.
Hot Cross Buns
Ingredients:
2 1/2 tsp dry yeast
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup warm water
4 cups plain or bread flour
2 cups mixed fruit (or sultanas - your choice)
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tbsp grapeseed oil (this gives a very light, sweet dough)
1 cup warm water
Method:
Dissolve the yeast and the sugar in the 1/4 cup warm water and let it sit until it becomes frothy, about 10 minutes.
Add the flour, mixed fruit, mixed spice, oil and water to the bowl of your bread maker. Add the yeast mixture. Set to the dough setting.
To make the rolls, gently divide the dough into 12 pieces. Gently roll each piece into a ball. Place on an oiled baking sheet, with each roll just touching the next. Cut a cross into the top of each bun. Sit in a warm spot to allow the rolls to rise until double in size, about 30 minutes. Bake in a 175 degree oven for 20 - 25 minutes until they sound hollow when tapped. Glaze while hot.
To make the glaze:
Combine half a cup of white sugar and half a cup of water in a small saucepan. Stir over low heat until sugar dissolves. Turn heat up and bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Brush the top and sides of each bun when they are cooked.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
10. 2021 Saving Revolution - Lesson 11
It seems there was a bit of a hiccup with last week's lesson, and not everyone received it. I resent it on Tuesday morning, and if the report is correct, it landed in everyone's inbox.
Lesson 11 was all about finding the hidden opportunities to make more money. The things you tend to overlook because well they're boring or "not a real job" or unusual. Or perhaps because they require a little extra effort on your part.
If you have a skill it can be turned into a money making opportunity. When I had a newborn, I started teaching creative tapestry in our kitchen one morning a week to bring in a little extra money, but before that, before I'd even left school, and was officially too young to get a job, I took in ironing by the basket to earn extra money. Three baskets a week, around three hours ironing, gave me $15, a good wage for a 13 year old way back then.
There are plenty of opportunities to earn a little extra money if you keep your eyes and ears open. If you play an instrument, give music lessons. Or perhaps if you're great at math or english or have a second language, you can tutor a student or two. If you like gardening, find someone who doesn't and have them pay you to do what you love in their garden. If you knit or crochet, do some research to see what's trending, make some and sell them.
There are so many ways to earn a little extra cash so put your thinking cap on and if you need or want a little more, find the opportunity that's waiting for you.
If you've joined the Saving Revolution, Lesson 12 will be in your inbox tomorrow!
Log into the 2021 Saving Revolution forum and join the discussions too. They're fun, keep you accountable, and over the course of the year will be an amazing source of valuable hints and tips for you too.
11. 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
12. 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!
13. 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?
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