Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 12:22
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
21. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Making Jam with Tart Fruit; An Accurate Grocery Budget for the Year; Making the Most of Homegrown Produce
3. Tip of the Week - Shop Savings at the Deli Counter
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Muffin Surprise
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - The Freezer
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge - MOO Month continues
8. Cheapskates Buzz
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. Last Week's Question - Beating the Stockpile Fairies
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,
I just love this time of year. Autumn is my absolute favourite season. Not too hot, not too cold, a bit of rain, a little breeze and lots of lovely sunshine. It's the transition of seasons that seems to be the most gentle here.
The days are busy and very satisfying. There is still plenty of produce to be preserved. I have been letting some of the zucchini get really big. They're horrible to eat like that, but perfect for dehydrating and turning into powder or zucchini flour.
The capsicums have finally taken off. We use a lot of capsicum, all year round, so a few have been dehydrated, and another 12 have been chopped and vac sealed and put into the freezer for winter.
And the eggplant. Well I was sure they were going to be a fizzer this year, but finally they have started to grow. I use them to make focaccia filling for winter lunches, and Vegetable Moussaka. Chopped or sliced, portioned and frozen, we will have enough to last us through the winter.
The seeds that were planted a couple of weeks ago have come up. Peas, parsnips, turnips and beetroot are all popping up in the garden. The potatoes that were sprouting in the pantry and that were planted a few weeks ago have taken off. They look so good, better than any I've ever grown from seed potatoes, I can't wait to see what comes from them. Free food! That's such a good thing.
The pantry is being filled, bit by bit, and it makes me smile to see it. If you think it's not worth the time or your energy to grow a few veggies or preserve a few foods, trust me when I say it is, and it doesn't need to be hard work.
Do a little every day. Just 15 minutes will get you started, and before long you'll see the pantry shelves filling up, without your grocery budget going up. And these days, if you can fill the pantry without spending more, well, that's another good thing.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
Making Jam with Tart Fruit
Fix acidic or under ripe fruit by adding a tiny bit of bicarb soda to the cooked fruit. Do it before adding the sugar to neutralise the acid. Go light on the bicarb soda: 1/2-1 teaspoon to 1- 1.5kg of fruit should be plenty. Add a bit at a time because too much has an aftertaste. I recently did this to home-grown blackberries that were really tart even though they were ripe. Added the usual amount of sugar and it worked out fine. Save $ and don't toss that tart fruit out!
Contributed by Valeria
An Accurate Grocery Budget for the Year
Sometimes working out a grocery budget is overwhelming and finding out how much you spend can be worse! In 2017 I devised a plan to simplify all of this. You need a small diary and a notebook, you should be able to pick these up for $1 each. The notebook must go with you when shopping. This book contains your prices for specials (found it invaluable at Costco and SPC). When you arrive home after putting groceries away, sit down with dockets and the two books. Update specials in the notebook. Write down where and total spend in the diary. Total up each month. This gives you the year in review. You know your total spend, how often you shop, even those little ones. It is a handy reference.
Contributed by Michelle
Editor's note: This is exactly how I started my first price book, all those years ago, and how I created my monthly shopping lists. In an old notebook I listed everything I bought over a month - all groceries, meat, fruit and veg, pharmacy items, even stamps and newspapers and magazines. Then I ruled up a page with columns: Item, Quantity, Brand,Size, Price Last Month, Price This Month, Total. I still use this method to write a shopping list and track specials. Cath
Making the Most of Homegrown Produce
I just had to share. I have had an abundance of tomatoes, nectarines, eggplants , lemons etc and even though I have been a cheapskate member off and on for years I never really put anything into practice until about six months ago. I make the Miracle Spray and Cheapskates Washing Powder, but this year have surprised myself and have made lemon butter, nectarine jams, moussaka and other things with the eggplants and have now just finished making the yummiest tomato relish. I just Google anything I don't know. How to steralise jars, tomato chutney recipes etc. and how to seal jars. I cannot believe how easy it has been. It keeps me occupied and using up all our produce. Definitely recommend it. I am an extremely busy working person but did this with little effort. Proud of myself!
Contributed by Brenda
There are more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Theresa. Theresa has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Shop Savings at the Deli CounterWe all know about the roast chook markdowns at the supermarket deli counter. Did you know that you can also snag ‘managers specials’? These are items that are significantly marked down because the manager wants to clear them for new stock. Today I got Blue Grenadier fillets for $9.50/kg, Marinara Mix for $6/kg plus a kilo of diced chicken breast for $9. All were much less expensive than the pre packaged equivalent in the meat section. Shopping these Manager Specials and rethinking this weeks menu saved me $13.50 today. Over a year, doing this can easily save you $1,000.
Congratulations Theresa, 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.Add a Tip4. 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
Muffin Surprise
This was a dish my mother created when we were teenagers. She was amazing at coming up with simple meal ideas that didn't cost a fortune and tasted great. This was one of them. The name? Well it was a spur of the moment thing when she was asked what was for tea. She had no idea, but she knew she had muffins to use up so Muffin Surprise it became.
When our kids were small, they would say the surprise is that Muffin Surprise is always slightly different, you never know exactly what will be on it.
Muffin SurpriseToast one or two English muffins per person. Top with any combination of the following, depending on what you have in the pantry, fridge and freezer.
Sliced cheese, sliced tomato, mushrooms, baked beans, tinned spaghetti, left over spag bol, egg (boiled, poached, fried or scrambled), ham, bacon, sliced deli meats - whatever takes your fancy.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Rissoles & Salad
Tuesday: Spaghetti & Meatballs
Wednesday: Fish Cakes & Salad
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Cream Cheese Patties
Saturday: Muffin Surprise
There are over 1,800 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
The Freezer
How did you go with the fridge challenge last week? It's pretty easy to keep the fridge (and the pantry) clean and organised if you do it regularly - bin night, or the night before shopping day are good times to sort, clean and tidy.
But what about the freezer? Good thing it's still warm because this week we're going to tackle the freezer. This is one job I prefer to tackle when it's warm!
I love my freezers. The big one is a 550 litre chest freezer, large enough to hide a body or two as I was once told. The medium one is a 200 litre chest freezer and the little one is the one over the fridge. What I don't like is having to defrost and rearrange them. That chore is up there with ironing on my "jobs to avoid if at all possible" list.
The two chest freezers hide a few bodies - of beef, lamb and chicken. This freezer is my main frozen food storage so it holds the roasts, steaks, diced meat, chicken fillets, whole chickens, chicken pieces, chicken wings, corned beef, legs of lamb, lamb chops, sausages, mince, packets of frozen vegetables, frozen stewed fruits, frozen berries (for jam), tomatoes (for sauces), diced onions, diced celery, diced and sliced carrots, sliced beans, pizza dough, pureed sweet potato, whizzed oranges for Whole Orange Cake, packets of rice, lentils, dried beans, flours, leftovers, heat'n'eat meals - all the things that won't fit in the freezer over the fridge.
The little freezer over the fridge holds bread, muffins, crumpets, pastry, spices, butter, nuts, coffee beans, lemon and orange zest, biscuit balls and cakes.
The small freezer is frost-free and easy to keep clean. Keeping it tidy and organised though is another matter. My family love to go digging for treats so there were times when it was a jumbled mess. If you are not very careful a messy freezer means wasted food and wasted food means wasted money - the complete opposite of what we hope to achieve living the Cheapskates way.
The problem was solved easily. The top shelf is for bread, rolls, crumpets and English muffins. The bottom shelf holds everything else in ziplock bags, labelled with a sharpie. It's easy and efficient and keeps us all happy.
I've mentioned before about how I organise the chest freezer using "green" bags:
Red - red meat
Green - vegetables
Yellow - chicken
Black - roasts/silverside
Pink - fruit
Blue - sweets and pastry
Each bag has a label attached to the handles so I can see at a glance what it holds, especially as there are at least two of each colour.
I printed the labels and laminated them, then cut them out, punched a hole in the top and tied them to the bags.
The freezers are clean, frost free and tidy. I can see straight away how much I have of each thing and what needs topping up, which is a good thing because I'm short and falling into the freezer is not my idea of fun!
This week's challenge is to defrost, clean, sort and organise your freezer so you know what you need and what to stock up on when there is a great sale, and so you can stick to your grocery budget.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge
It's MOO Month! Here are the latest MOOs.
Day 17: Irish Soda Bread
Day 18: Pear Butter
Day 19: Smokey Taco Seasoning
Day 20: All Purpose Seasoning
Day 21: Fingerless MIttens
Day 22: Potato Fudge
Day 23: MOO One Pan Dinner Mix
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
8. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Budget Your Eating Expenses
My $$$ Saving Tips on Weekly Shopping
Portion Control and Free Meals
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Saving for 3 months of Living Expenses Emergency Funds
Veg in Pots
Clean and Organise the Pantry Challenge
9. 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!
Latest Shows
1. Cath's Corner
21. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Making Jam with Tart Fruit; An Accurate Grocery Budget for the Year; Making the Most of Homegrown Produce
3. Tip of the Week - Shop Savings at the Deli Counter
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Muffin Surprise
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - The Freezer
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge - MOO Month continues
8. Cheapskates Buzz
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. Last Week's Question - Beating the Stockpile Fairies
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,
I just love this time of year. Autumn is my absolute favourite season. Not too hot, not too cold, a bit of rain, a little breeze and lots of lovely sunshine. It's the transition of seasons that seems to be the most gentle here.
The days are busy and very satisfying. There is still plenty of produce to be preserved. I have been letting some of the zucchini get really big. They're horrible to eat like that, but perfect for dehydrating and turning into powder or zucchini flour.
The capsicums have finally taken off. We use a lot of capsicum, all year round, so a few have been dehydrated, and another 12 have been chopped and vac sealed and put into the freezer for winter.
And the eggplant. Well I was sure they were going to be a fizzer this year, but finally they have started to grow. I use them to make focaccia filling for winter lunches, and Vegetable Moussaka. Chopped or sliced, portioned and frozen, we will have enough to last us through the winter.
The seeds that were planted a couple of weeks ago have come up. Peas, parsnips, turnips and beetroot are all popping up in the garden. The potatoes that were sprouting in the pantry and that were planted a few weeks ago have taken off. They look so good, better than any I've ever grown from seed potatoes, I can't wait to see what comes from them. Free food! That's such a good thing.
The pantry is being filled, bit by bit, and it makes me smile to see it. If you think it's not worth the time or your energy to grow a few veggies or preserve a few foods, trust me when I say it is, and it doesn't need to be hard work.
Do a little every day. Just 15 minutes will get you started, and before long you'll see the pantry shelves filling up, without your grocery budget going up. And these days, if you can fill the pantry without spending more, well, that's another good thing.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
Making Jam with Tart Fruit
Fix acidic or under ripe fruit by adding a tiny bit of bicarb soda to the cooked fruit. Do it before adding the sugar to neutralise the acid. Go light on the bicarb soda: 1/2-1 teaspoon to 1- 1.5kg of fruit should be plenty. Add a bit at a time because too much has an aftertaste. I recently did this to home-grown blackberries that were really tart even though they were ripe. Added the usual amount of sugar and it worked out fine. Save $ and don't toss that tart fruit out!
Contributed by Valeria
An Accurate Grocery Budget for the Year
Sometimes working out a grocery budget is overwhelming and finding out how much you spend can be worse! In 2017 I devised a plan to simplify all of this. You need a small diary and a notebook, you should be able to pick these up for $1 each. The notebook must go with you when shopping. This book contains your prices for specials (found it invaluable at Costco and SPC). When you arrive home after putting groceries away, sit down with dockets and the two books. Update specials in the notebook. Write down where and total spend in the diary. Total up each month. This gives you the year in review. You know your total spend, how often you shop, even those little ones. It is a handy reference.
Contributed by Michelle
Editor's note: This is exactly how I started my first price book, all those years ago, and how I created my monthly shopping lists. In an old notebook I listed everything I bought over a month - all groceries, meat, fruit and veg, pharmacy items, even stamps and newspapers and magazines. Then I ruled up a page with columns: Item, Quantity, Brand,Size, Price Last Month, Price This Month, Total. I still use this method to write a shopping list and track specials. Cath
Making the Most of Homegrown Produce
I just had to share. I have had an abundance of tomatoes, nectarines, eggplants , lemons etc and even though I have been a cheapskate member off and on for years I never really put anything into practice until about six months ago. I make the Miracle Spray and Cheapskates Washing Powder, but this year have surprised myself and have made lemon butter, nectarine jams, moussaka and other things with the eggplants and have now just finished making the yummiest tomato relish. I just Google anything I don't know. How to steralise jars, tomato chutney recipes etc. and how to seal jars. I cannot believe how easy it has been. It keeps me occupied and using up all our produce. Definitely recommend it. I am an extremely busy working person but did this with little effort. Proud of myself!
Contributed by Brenda
There are more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Theresa. Theresa has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Shop Savings at the Deli CounterWe all know about the roast chook markdowns at the supermarket deli counter. Did you know that you can also snag ‘managers specials’? These are items that are significantly marked down because the manager wants to clear them for new stock. Today I got Blue Grenadier fillets for $9.50/kg, Marinara Mix for $6/kg plus a kilo of diced chicken breast for $9. All were much less expensive than the pre packaged equivalent in the meat section. Shopping these Manager Specials and rethinking this weeks menu saved me $13.50 today. Over a year, doing this can easily save you $1,000.
Congratulations Theresa, 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.Add a Tip4. 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
Muffin Surprise
This was a dish my mother created when we were teenagers. She was amazing at coming up with simple meal ideas that didn't cost a fortune and tasted great. This was one of them. The name? Well it was a spur of the moment thing when she was asked what was for tea. She had no idea, but she knew she had muffins to use up so Muffin Surprise it became.
When our kids were small, they would say the surprise is that Muffin Surprise is always slightly different, you never know exactly what will be on it.
Muffin SurpriseToast one or two English muffins per person. Top with any combination of the following, depending on what you have in the pantry, fridge and freezer.
Sliced cheese, sliced tomato, mushrooms, baked beans, tinned spaghetti, left over spag bol, egg (boiled, poached, fried or scrambled), ham, bacon, sliced deli meats - whatever takes your fancy.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Rissoles & Salad
Tuesday: Spaghetti & Meatballs
Wednesday: Fish Cakes & Salad
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Cream Cheese Patties
Saturday: Muffin Surprise
There are over 1,800 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
The Freezer
How did you go with the fridge challenge last week? It's pretty easy to keep the fridge (and the pantry) clean and organised if you do it regularly - bin night, or the night before shopping day are good times to sort, clean and tidy.
But what about the freezer? Good thing it's still warm because this week we're going to tackle the freezer. This is one job I prefer to tackle when it's warm!
I love my freezers. The big one is a 550 litre chest freezer, large enough to hide a body or two as I was once told. The medium one is a 200 litre chest freezer and the little one is the one over the fridge. What I don't like is having to defrost and rearrange them. That chore is up there with ironing on my "jobs to avoid if at all possible" list.
The two chest freezers hide a few bodies - of beef, lamb and chicken. This freezer is my main frozen food storage so it holds the roasts, steaks, diced meat, chicken fillets, whole chickens, chicken pieces, chicken wings, corned beef, legs of lamb, lamb chops, sausages, mince, packets of frozen vegetables, frozen stewed fruits, frozen berries (for jam), tomatoes (for sauces), diced onions, diced celery, diced and sliced carrots, sliced beans, pizza dough, pureed sweet potato, whizzed oranges for Whole Orange Cake, packets of rice, lentils, dried beans, flours, leftovers, heat'n'eat meals - all the things that won't fit in the freezer over the fridge.
The little freezer over the fridge holds bread, muffins, crumpets, pastry, spices, butter, nuts, coffee beans, lemon and orange zest, biscuit balls and cakes.
The small freezer is frost-free and easy to keep clean. Keeping it tidy and organised though is another matter. My family love to go digging for treats so there were times when it was a jumbled mess. If you are not very careful a messy freezer means wasted food and wasted food means wasted money - the complete opposite of what we hope to achieve living the Cheapskates way.
The problem was solved easily. The top shelf is for bread, rolls, crumpets and English muffins. The bottom shelf holds everything else in ziplock bags, labelled with a sharpie. It's easy and efficient and keeps us all happy.
I've mentioned before about how I organise the chest freezer using "green" bags:
Red - red meat
Green - vegetables
Yellow - chicken
Black - roasts/silverside
Pink - fruit
Blue - sweets and pastry
Each bag has a label attached to the handles so I can see at a glance what it holds, especially as there are at least two of each colour.
I printed the labels and laminated them, then cut them out, punched a hole in the top and tied them to the bags.
The freezers are clean, frost free and tidy. I can see straight away how much I have of each thing and what needs topping up, which is a good thing because I'm short and falling into the freezer is not my idea of fun!
This week's challenge is to defrost, clean, sort and organise your freezer so you know what you need and what to stock up on when there is a great sale, and so you can stick to your grocery budget.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge
It's MOO Month! Here are the latest MOOs.
Day 17: Irish Soda Bread
Day 18: Pear Butter
Day 19: Smokey Taco Seasoning
Day 20: All Purpose Seasoning
Day 21: Fingerless MIttens
Day 22: Potato Fudge
Day 23: MOO One Pan Dinner Mix
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
8. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Budget Your Eating Expenses
My $$$ Saving Tips on Weekly Shopping
Portion Control and Free Meals
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Saving for 3 months of Living Expenses Emergency Funds
Veg in Pots
Clean and Organise the Pantry Challenge
9. 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!
Latest Shows
10. Last Week's Question
Last week's question was from Denise, asking for ideas to hide her stockpile from her son. The answers have rolled in, and we have some very creative Cheapskaters with some truly inventive ways to hide their stockpiles. Here are a few, the others have been put into the Tip Store.Frances de Andrade answeredHide hid Up and Goes under his bed!
Sue Richardson answered
Try having some in the fridge for day to day use and freeze the bulk of them. If they are frozen solid he can’t just drink them when he wants to. Also good frozen for lunch box as they melt and still nice and cool to drink.
Carol Woolcock answered
This may seem counterintuitive to many. We know that most people are motivated by rewards rather than punishment. teenagers are often $ poor so may be motivated by cash. I don't know how many Up and Go are in a slab or how much they cost but let's say 20 and that you shop for them fortnightly. At the end of the fortnight there should be 6 left. You could offer a $ amount, say 20 or 50 cents for every one left. Of course if you have a few slabs you may have to ask a kind neighbour to be the custodian!
Leanne Coward answered
Put them in either a box or suitcase seal or lock with a sign on the top or side clearly stating
Tax Papers Receipts
2018
2019
2020
2021
Believe me nobody will be interested in looking.
My stash is in a suitcase under my bed.
Send Your Answer
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 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 for a full year.
That's unlimited 24/7 access to EVERYTHING in the Member's Centre!
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?
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 either signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member.
14. 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
Last week's question was from Denise, asking for ideas to hide her stockpile from her son. The answers have rolled in, and we have some very creative Cheapskaters with some truly inventive ways to hide their stockpiles. Here are a few, the others have been put into the Tip Store.Frances de Andrade answeredHide hid Up and Goes under his bed!
Sue Richardson answered
Try having some in the fridge for day to day use and freeze the bulk of them. If they are frozen solid he can’t just drink them when he wants to. Also good frozen for lunch box as they melt and still nice and cool to drink.
Carol Woolcock answered
This may seem counterintuitive to many. We know that most people are motivated by rewards rather than punishment. teenagers are often $ poor so may be motivated by cash. I don't know how many Up and Go are in a slab or how much they cost but let's say 20 and that you shop for them fortnightly. At the end of the fortnight there should be 6 left. You could offer a $ amount, say 20 or 50 cents for every one left. Of course if you have a few slabs you may have to ask a kind neighbour to be the custodian!
Leanne Coward answered
Put them in either a box or suitcase seal or lock with a sign on the top or side clearly stating
Tax Papers Receipts
2018
2019
2020
2021
Believe me nobody will be interested in looking.
My stash is in a suitcase under my bed.
Send Your Answer
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 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 for a full year.
That's unlimited 24/7 access to EVERYTHING in the Member's Centre!
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?
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 either signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member.
14. 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