Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 13:21
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Going Gluten Free; Chia Breakfast Puddings; Have a Meal Out for a Treat
3. Share Your Tips
4. On the Menu - Tuna Surprise
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Meat on the $300 a Month Food Challenge
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. The Cheapskates Club Show
8. The Weekly MOO Challenge - MOO Chocolate
9. 2021 Saving Revolution - Banking
10. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Wow, the year is slipping away. Summer is almost officially over, well for us anyway. We hang onto summer as long as we can, until the end of daylight saving, and that is this coming weekend. I always feel as though the days are instantly short and outdoor chores and fun change significantly.
It also signals time to plant garlic. For years I've planted the garlic the weekend daylight saving ends. Usually the weather is still mild and the ground warm enough to get the cloves established and it seems to work. Last year the garlic crop was amazing, and I'm hoping for the same this year.
MOO month is also officially over. That doesn't mean stop MOOing though! Keep making what you can, when you can, with what you can. Learning new skills and recipes is always a good thing.
Welcome too, to all our new Cheapskates Club members, and to the new members of Cheapskates Chatter, it's wonderful to have you join us. I've noticed a few requests to join Cheapskates Chatter that haven't been approved; there are two questions you need to answer and once they are answered correctly, you'll be approved and able to join the fun on our Facebook group. So, if you're waiting to be approved, make sure you've answered both questions!
Tomorrow is Good Friday, the start of the Easter long weekend. From our home to yours, we wish you a happy and blessed Easter and if you are travelling, please take it easy and stay safe.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Going Gluten Free
I have been gluten free for over 25 years.
Many want or need to go gluten free and here's what I tell them now.
1. Look at what you already eat gluten free and keep eating that. Fruit and veg, meat, rice, rice cakes, etc. are all gluten free and cost no more than for anyone else.
2. Substitute rice for pasta.
3. Always check the ingredients. I have seen bottled sauce marked as gluten free with the third ingredient being wheat flour!
4. Make what you can. Gluten free flour mixes are pretty good today and you can substitute one for one in recipes. You do have to cook at a slightly lower temperature (10 degrees lower) and for a little longer (probably 10 minutes more).
5. You don't have to buy the special stuff, look at what you have that is gluten free and find recipes that work with those things. For example many salad dressings are gluten free (think balsamic vinegar), so you don't need to buy special food.
6. Go back to basics and eat as close to nature as possible. Remember good old meat and three veg? That's gluten free, except maybe for the gravy!
7. Join an Australian gluten free group on Facebook - they provide lots of great information. Even after all this time, I learn things from others.
Contributed by Karen Lane
Chia Breakfast Puddings
Ingredients:
1/2 cup chia seeds
2 cups almond milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp maple syrup (optional)
Method:
Mix ingredients together in large bowl. Stir well. Stir again occasionally over next couple hours. Cover with plastic.
Refrigerate overnight. In morning decant puddings in 4 bowls. Cover with plastic and breakfast is sorted for 4 days.
Add few blueberries in mornings.
Contributed by Cheryl Hawkey
Have a Meal Out for a Treat
I know Cheapskates promotes healthy MOO eating, but occasionally you may want to go out to eat. Don't pay full price! Use different promotions to get a discount like THEFORK.com.au which lets you book and get up to 50% off your food bill, you can also pre-buy a meal using SCOOPON.com.au, GROUPON.com.au, CUDO.com.au or Shopadocket.com.au (or back of your dockets). Our family has had some amazing meals and tried different cuisines using this method. You save almost 50%.
Contributed by Vaz Deacs
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tips
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.
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
4. On The Menu
Tuna Surprise
Tuna Surprise is a recipe I invented when we were first married, to make a small tin of tuna stretch and to make it more appealing to someone who shall remain nameless who for some strange reason didn’t like tuna!
We all love it now, and it features on the meal plan fairly often because it's quick, easy, cheap, tasty, freezes and reheats and get better after a couple of days in the fridge.
Ingredients:
1 large tin tuna in brine
½ cup peas
1 diced onion
500g macaroni cooked in boiling, salted water and drained
1 tin cream chicken soup
1 cup grated cheese, crushed weetbix or potato chips
Method:
Flake the tuna into a casserole dish, add the other ingredients and mix well. Top with a sprinkling of grated cheese, crushed weetbix or potato chips and bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven until warmed through and topping is golden. Serve with a salad and bread.
Over the years I've changed the recipe a bit. I'll often substitute peas/corn/carrots for the peas, and use dried onion instead of fresh. I also use whatever noodles are in the pantry - twists, shells, macaroni - it doesn't really matter. And these days I use MOO Cream of Chicken Soup instead of tinned (cheaper, easier, tastier and I know exactly what is in it). If I have celery I'll slice some and add to the mixture too.
I guess that's where the "surprise" part of the name comes from - it's a surprise every time I make it because it's never the same.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Lamb (from the freezer)
Monday: Tuna Surprise
Tuesday: Pasta Bake
Wednesday: Sweet Lamb Curry, rice
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Honey soy drumsticks
Saturday: Toasted Sandwiches
In the fruit bowl: oranges, bananas
In the cake tin: Easter Brownie Cup Cakes
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
5. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Prices are going up, but with meat, they seem to be racing up and up and up and up! I can still occasionally get chicken fillets for $6.99/kg, but the other meats we eat have just skyrocketed in price.
Mince that not so long ago was $5.99/kg and on sale for $3.99/kg is now $11.99/kg! Doubled in price and mince was a staple red meat in our diet, not so much now. Lamb is way beyond our budget, and where I would buy six legs of lamb a year, I haven't bought lamb in almost two years, it is just a ridiculous price. Even boring old sausages are ridiculously priced, and sausage mince - well it's gone up 150% in two years. Sausage rolls are a rare treat in our house now.
We still eat meat though. I keep an eye on all the supermarkets and local butchers and compare prices, and when something comes on sale at a price I'm prepared to pay I will buy as much as I can and that depends on how much is in the slush fund.
The skill is to stretch it without it looking and tasting like it's being stretched.
Two chicken fillets gives me five schnitzels, or enough for a curry or tacos or enchiladas or apricot chicken. One chicken fillet will make a chicken casserole or a pressure cooker full of chicken soup.
Five hundred grams of mince will make tacos, spag bol, lasagne sauce, meatballs, rissoles, meatloaf and pie filling when I stretch it with TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein - in the health food aisle).
Portion control is the other skill. It's really easy to see a piece of meat and think of it as one serve, but often I can get three or four serves from one large piece of steak. Coles sell cryovac packed steaks for $5 each. They're great, but they are bigger than the recommended portion, so I cut them in half. It's not being mean folks! It's being conscious of the amount we eat and our grocery budget. I buy these for very special occasions when I find them marked down - that's when the per kilo price is within my meat budget. I know steak, who'd have thought that sometimes steak is the cheapest option!
That leads me to the other way we can afford to eat meat. Markdowns. Find out when your butcher or supermarket marks down meat and shop then. You'll need to be flexible because what you have on your list may not be marked down, but buying mark downs will save you money - just remember to check the unit price to make sure it really is a bargain. My favourite way to shop markdowns is to wait until what I want is on sale, and then shop the marked down specials, making them even better for the budget.
Filling plates with veggies rather than meat, treating the meat portion of the meal as an accompaniment instead of the main feature and learning how to stretch with rice, cereals, oats, TVP and grated veggies will all help to keep the cost down and let you eat meat too.
How do you keep meat on your meal plan and still stick to your grocery budget?
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
6. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Crochet a Simple Shower Puff
Do You Really Need That Extended Warranty?
Minimising Your Laundry Costs
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Restocking Pantries
How do I Compare Elec/Gas Prices?
House Insurance
7. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
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 - Going Gluten Free; Chia Breakfast Puddings; Have a Meal Out for a Treat
3. Share Your Tips
4. On the Menu - Tuna Surprise
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Meat on the $300 a Month Food Challenge
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. The Cheapskates Club Show
8. The Weekly MOO Challenge - MOO Chocolate
9. 2021 Saving Revolution - Banking
10. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Wow, the year is slipping away. Summer is almost officially over, well for us anyway. We hang onto summer as long as we can, until the end of daylight saving, and that is this coming weekend. I always feel as though the days are instantly short and outdoor chores and fun change significantly.
It also signals time to plant garlic. For years I've planted the garlic the weekend daylight saving ends. Usually the weather is still mild and the ground warm enough to get the cloves established and it seems to work. Last year the garlic crop was amazing, and I'm hoping for the same this year.
MOO month is also officially over. That doesn't mean stop MOOing though! Keep making what you can, when you can, with what you can. Learning new skills and recipes is always a good thing.
Welcome too, to all our new Cheapskates Club members, and to the new members of Cheapskates Chatter, it's wonderful to have you join us. I've noticed a few requests to join Cheapskates Chatter that haven't been approved; there are two questions you need to answer and once they are answered correctly, you'll be approved and able to join the fun on our Facebook group. So, if you're waiting to be approved, make sure you've answered both questions!
Tomorrow is Good Friday, the start of the Easter long weekend. From our home to yours, we wish you a happy and blessed Easter and if you are travelling, please take it easy and stay safe.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Going Gluten Free
I have been gluten free for over 25 years.
Many want or need to go gluten free and here's what I tell them now.
1. Look at what you already eat gluten free and keep eating that. Fruit and veg, meat, rice, rice cakes, etc. are all gluten free and cost no more than for anyone else.
2. Substitute rice for pasta.
3. Always check the ingredients. I have seen bottled sauce marked as gluten free with the third ingredient being wheat flour!
4. Make what you can. Gluten free flour mixes are pretty good today and you can substitute one for one in recipes. You do have to cook at a slightly lower temperature (10 degrees lower) and for a little longer (probably 10 minutes more).
5. You don't have to buy the special stuff, look at what you have that is gluten free and find recipes that work with those things. For example many salad dressings are gluten free (think balsamic vinegar), so you don't need to buy special food.
6. Go back to basics and eat as close to nature as possible. Remember good old meat and three veg? That's gluten free, except maybe for the gravy!
7. Join an Australian gluten free group on Facebook - they provide lots of great information. Even after all this time, I learn things from others.
Contributed by Karen Lane
Chia Breakfast Puddings
Ingredients:
1/2 cup chia seeds
2 cups almond milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp maple syrup (optional)
Method:
Mix ingredients together in large bowl. Stir well. Stir again occasionally over next couple hours. Cover with plastic.
Refrigerate overnight. In morning decant puddings in 4 bowls. Cover with plastic and breakfast is sorted for 4 days.
Add few blueberries in mornings.
Contributed by Cheryl Hawkey
Have a Meal Out for a Treat
I know Cheapskates promotes healthy MOO eating, but occasionally you may want to go out to eat. Don't pay full price! Use different promotions to get a discount like THEFORK.com.au which lets you book and get up to 50% off your food bill, you can also pre-buy a meal using SCOOPON.com.au, GROUPON.com.au, CUDO.com.au or Shopadocket.com.au (or back of your dockets). Our family has had some amazing meals and tried different cuisines using this method. You save almost 50%.
Contributed by Vaz Deacs
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tips
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.
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
4. On The Menu
Tuna Surprise
Tuna Surprise is a recipe I invented when we were first married, to make a small tin of tuna stretch and to make it more appealing to someone who shall remain nameless who for some strange reason didn’t like tuna!
We all love it now, and it features on the meal plan fairly often because it's quick, easy, cheap, tasty, freezes and reheats and get better after a couple of days in the fridge.
Ingredients:
1 large tin tuna in brine
½ cup peas
1 diced onion
500g macaroni cooked in boiling, salted water and drained
1 tin cream chicken soup
1 cup grated cheese, crushed weetbix or potato chips
Method:
Flake the tuna into a casserole dish, add the other ingredients and mix well. Top with a sprinkling of grated cheese, crushed weetbix or potato chips and bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven until warmed through and topping is golden. Serve with a salad and bread.
Over the years I've changed the recipe a bit. I'll often substitute peas/corn/carrots for the peas, and use dried onion instead of fresh. I also use whatever noodles are in the pantry - twists, shells, macaroni - it doesn't really matter. And these days I use MOO Cream of Chicken Soup instead of tinned (cheaper, easier, tastier and I know exactly what is in it). If I have celery I'll slice some and add to the mixture too.
I guess that's where the "surprise" part of the name comes from - it's a surprise every time I make it because it's never the same.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Lamb (from the freezer)
Monday: Tuna Surprise
Tuesday: Pasta Bake
Wednesday: Sweet Lamb Curry, rice
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Honey soy drumsticks
Saturday: Toasted Sandwiches
In the fruit bowl: oranges, bananas
In the cake tin: Easter Brownie Cup Cakes
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
5. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Prices are going up, but with meat, they seem to be racing up and up and up and up! I can still occasionally get chicken fillets for $6.99/kg, but the other meats we eat have just skyrocketed in price.
Mince that not so long ago was $5.99/kg and on sale for $3.99/kg is now $11.99/kg! Doubled in price and mince was a staple red meat in our diet, not so much now. Lamb is way beyond our budget, and where I would buy six legs of lamb a year, I haven't bought lamb in almost two years, it is just a ridiculous price. Even boring old sausages are ridiculously priced, and sausage mince - well it's gone up 150% in two years. Sausage rolls are a rare treat in our house now.
We still eat meat though. I keep an eye on all the supermarkets and local butchers and compare prices, and when something comes on sale at a price I'm prepared to pay I will buy as much as I can and that depends on how much is in the slush fund.
The skill is to stretch it without it looking and tasting like it's being stretched.
Two chicken fillets gives me five schnitzels, or enough for a curry or tacos or enchiladas or apricot chicken. One chicken fillet will make a chicken casserole or a pressure cooker full of chicken soup.
Five hundred grams of mince will make tacos, spag bol, lasagne sauce, meatballs, rissoles, meatloaf and pie filling when I stretch it with TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein - in the health food aisle).
Portion control is the other skill. It's really easy to see a piece of meat and think of it as one serve, but often I can get three or four serves from one large piece of steak. Coles sell cryovac packed steaks for $5 each. They're great, but they are bigger than the recommended portion, so I cut them in half. It's not being mean folks! It's being conscious of the amount we eat and our grocery budget. I buy these for very special occasions when I find them marked down - that's when the per kilo price is within my meat budget. I know steak, who'd have thought that sometimes steak is the cheapest option!
That leads me to the other way we can afford to eat meat. Markdowns. Find out when your butcher or supermarket marks down meat and shop then. You'll need to be flexible because what you have on your list may not be marked down, but buying mark downs will save you money - just remember to check the unit price to make sure it really is a bargain. My favourite way to shop markdowns is to wait until what I want is on sale, and then shop the marked down specials, making them even better for the budget.
Filling plates with veggies rather than meat, treating the meat portion of the meal as an accompaniment instead of the main feature and learning how to stretch with rice, cereals, oats, TVP and grated veggies will all help to keep the cost down and let you eat meat too.
How do you keep meat on your meal plan and still stick to your grocery budget?
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
6. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Crochet a Simple Shower Puff
Do You Really Need That Extended Warranty?
Minimising Your Laundry Costs
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Restocking Pantries
How do I Compare Elec/Gas Prices?
House Insurance
7. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
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
8. The Weekly MOO Challenge
MOO Chocolate
As it's Easter, and in our house that means chocolate, I thought this week the MOO challenge should be to MOO chocolate.
This chocolate is meant to be a cooking chocolate, but really, it's too good to use just for cooking. It's great right out of the fridge, a rich, smooth, slightly bitter dark chocolate.
MOO Chocolate
Ingredients:
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
4 tablespoons coconut oil (melted)
1/4 cup agave syrup
Method:
Combine the cocoa, coconut oil and agave syrup in a bowl. Stir to combine then whisk until the mixture is smooth and shiny and starts to thicken. Pour into a mould or moulds (if you are making individual chocolates).
MOO Chocolate
As it's Easter, and in our house that means chocolate, I thought this week the MOO challenge should be to MOO chocolate.
This chocolate is meant to be a cooking chocolate, but really, it's too good to use just for cooking. It's great right out of the fridge, a rich, smooth, slightly bitter dark chocolate.
MOO Chocolate
Ingredients:
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
4 tablespoons coconut oil (melted)
1/4 cup agave syrup
Method:
Combine the cocoa, coconut oil and agave syrup in a bowl. Stir to combine then whisk until the mixture is smooth and shiny and starts to thicken. Pour into a mould or moulds (if you are making individual chocolates).
To make block chocolate I use a silicone loaf pan lined with baking paper. The silicone pan is easy to remove from the block of chocolate and the baking paper ensures the chocolate is smooth.
To make individual chocolates I use chocolate moulds - the moulds in the photo are from Aldi. You can get chocolate moulds at craft shops, discount department stores and some $2 style shops, you can even re-use the moulds from Advent calendars, boxed chocolates and Easter eggs if you wish to.
This is a rich, dark, slightly bitter dark chocolate. If you like a sweeter chocolate add one additional tablespoon of agave syrup.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
9. 2021 Saving Revolution
Lesson 13 was about banking. Banking has changed so much in just a short years, so finding a bank you trust, that is affordable (because yes, it can cost you to have your money in the bank, and cost you to use it), that has an account or accounts that work for you takes time. But it can be done.
One thing I didn't cover in the lesson is that you don't need to stick with just one bank. If you find an account at another bank that works with your finances, that isn't offered by your bank, that's OK, use it.
Online banking and mobile banking are good things. They're also bad things. Just be aware that easy access to your money via credit/debit cards, tap'n'go, applepay or whatever also makes it easy to overspend, and that overspending is painless when it happens.
There is no one banking product that will suit everyone. Think about your banking needs and take the time to do some research. Seriously, take the time! Give up Netflix for a couple of hours or skip the coffee and cake at the local café with friends or whatever and get your banking sorted out.
And remember: banks are tools; whether they work for you or not depends on how you use them.
There will be a new lesson in your inbox tomorrow morning, around 11am.
There will be a new lesson in your inbox tomorrow morning, around 11am.
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.
10. 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
11. 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!
12. 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.
13. 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
To make individual chocolates I use chocolate moulds - the moulds in the photo are from Aldi. You can get chocolate moulds at craft shops, discount department stores and some $2 style shops, you can even re-use the moulds from Advent calendars, boxed chocolates and Easter eggs if you wish to.
This is a rich, dark, slightly bitter dark chocolate. If you like a sweeter chocolate add one additional tablespoon of agave syrup.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
9. 2021 Saving Revolution
Lesson 13 was about banking. Banking has changed so much in just a short years, so finding a bank you trust, that is affordable (because yes, it can cost you to have your money in the bank, and cost you to use it), that has an account or accounts that work for you takes time. But it can be done.
One thing I didn't cover in the lesson is that you don't need to stick with just one bank. If you find an account at another bank that works with your finances, that isn't offered by your bank, that's OK, use it.
Online banking and mobile banking are good things. They're also bad things. Just be aware that easy access to your money via credit/debit cards, tap'n'go, applepay or whatever also makes it easy to overspend, and that overspending is painless when it happens.
There is no one banking product that will suit everyone. Think about your banking needs and take the time to do some research. Seriously, take the time! Give up Netflix for a couple of hours or skip the coffee and cake at the local café with friends or whatever and get your banking sorted out.
And remember: banks are tools; whether they work for you or not depends on how you use them.
There will be a new lesson in your inbox tomorrow morning, around 11am.
There will be a new lesson in your inbox tomorrow morning, around 11am.
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.
10. 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
11. 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!
12. 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.
13. 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