Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 13:23
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Super Easy, Super Cute Easter Baskets; Chocolate Easter Egg Nests; Recycle Yoghurt Containers for Easter Baskets
3. March is MOO Month
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Roast Chicken Tostadas
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Hot Cross Buns
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge - Butter Chicken
8. Cheapskates Buzz
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. Handmade Christmas Challenge
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
A short newsletter this week, that bus just keeps on running me down.
The Stone Age Challenge is off and oh boy! The first step is going to prove a real challenge, we are going to be fighting hard to accomplish this and stick to it. Things are changing even faster than I thought! But we can do it - we can accept the challenge and beat inflation and stay debt free. You'll need to watch the video (the link is below) and then log in and catch up with the first part.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
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2. From The Tip Store
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Super Easy, Super Cute Easter Baskets; Chocolate Easter Egg Nests; Recycle Yoghurt Containers for Easter Baskets
3. March is MOO Month
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Roast Chicken Tostadas
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Hot Cross Buns
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge - Butter Chicken
8. Cheapskates Buzz
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. Handmade Christmas Challenge
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
A short newsletter this week, that bus just keeps on running me down.
The Stone Age Challenge is off and oh boy! The first step is going to prove a real challenge, we are going to be fighting hard to accomplish this and stick to it. Things are changing even faster than I thought! But we can do it - we can accept the challenge and beat inflation and stay debt free. You'll need to watch the video (the link is below) and then log in and catch up with the first part.
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
Super Easy, Super Cute Easter Baskets
Use them for Easter, for birthday parties, to hold small gifts - these very cute, super easy little baskets are quick and inexpensive and a great way to use up that stash of paper or cardstock you have.
Make them larger, from 30cm cardstock, line them with a paper doyley and they're perfect for delivering a gift of home baked muffins or biscuits too.
You will need:
18cm square of heavy paper or cardstock
1 x 30cm strip of paper or cardstock 2.5cm wide (handle)
2 brads
Fancy scissors (optional, but they give a pretty edge to the baskets)
Step 1. Score your paper into three columns 6cm wide. Then score three rows 6cm wide. You'll have a grid of nine squares on your paper.
Note: You can make these baskets any size, as long as your square can be divided into nine equal sections.
Step 2. Cut the decorative edge along the edges parallel to the red lines (see the template).
Step 3. Cut on the red lines.
Step 4. Fold the paper on all score lines, with the decorative side to the outside.
Step 5. Punch a hole in the centre of each end of the basket handle about 2.5cm from the edge. Punch a hole in the centre of each end of the strip of paper for the handle about 2.5cm from the edge.
Step 6. Fold the two corner squares so they overlap each other and the centre square on one side of the basket. The centre square should be on the inside of the corner squares.
Step 7. Punch a hole in the centre, through all three layers, about 2.5cm down. Put one end of the handle between the two corner squares and the centre square, and attach a brad through all the layers. Repeat for the other side.
Chocolate Easter Egg Nests
Ingredients:
200g milk chocolate
200g dark chocolate
100g shredded coconut
40 mini chocolate Easter eggs - solid chocolate or filled or candy eggs, whatever you like
Method:
Break up all the chocolate and place it in a bowl over a pan of simmering water (don’t let the bowl touch the water) until the chocolate has melted. Set aside to cool slightly. Add the coconut and stir to combine.
On a large sheet of baking paper drop spoonsful of the mixture about 7cm in diameter. Use the back of a metal spoon to make a small dent in the centre of each nest, where the eggs will sit. Cool completely, then refrigerate for 30 minutes or until firm. Just before serving, fill the nests with eggs.
Recycle Yoghurt Containers for Easter Baskets
In preparation for Easter, I collect and clean empty yoghurt containers (200 gram size) until I have enough to hold all of the eggs. I then print out drawings of bunnies or chickens from the Internet, cut them out and glue them to the outside of the containers. The drawings can be printed in black and white to save money on colour printing, and coloured with pens, crayons or coloured pencils. Glitter pens and acrylic paint can also be used to decorate the containers. Then, shred cellophane or coloured paper as filler for the containers (brightly coloured pages from old magazines work just as well). I buy small eggs from Crazy Clarks or similar cheap shops (children don't seem to notice that it's not expensive chocolate) and fill the containers to overflowing with the eggs. I then wrap the filled containers in clear cellophane and tie with curling ribbon bought from Crazy Clarks or other cheap shops - they're much cheaper than other stores.
Contributed by Kaye
There are more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
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3. March is MOO Month
This month I am challenging you to MOO - yoghurt, washing powder, moisturiser, pancakes, pizza, liquid hand soap, dishwasher powder, pasta sauce, compost, glue, icy poles, lemonade, biscuits, cakes, cordial, apple pie, dishcloths, veggie bags, window cleaner - absolutely anything you can think of.
When we make our own we have the advantage of knowing exactly what goes into it. We can monitor the ingredients and materials and adjust them to suit our family, our home, our lifestyle and our budget.
The article "31 Days of MOO" explains the challenge and is chock full of things you can MOO.
Share what you MOO, how you make it and how it saves you money, time and energy.
One lucky MOOer will win a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club and a $25 Coles Myer gift card, just for sharing their MOO. Use this form to share your MOO and enter the MOOing competition.
There's only two days left in MOO month so don't wait to share your favourite MOO!
Good luck and happy MOOing!
4. 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
5. On The Menu
Roast Chicken Tostadas
This is a tasty way to stretch a roast chicken without appearing to be serving leftovers. It's a great way to use up avocados, especially as they are cheap at the moment. It makes a substantial lunch or turn it into a hearty dinner by serving with Mexican Rice.
Ingredients:
2 cups cooked chicken (leftover from a roast)
2 tbsp paprika (we like smoked, but use what you have)
4 avocadoes
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/2 cup coriander leaves, cleaned and chopped
1 lime, juiced
1/2 cup Feta cheese, crumbled
2 chillies, seeded and diced
Salt and pepper to taste
12 corn tostadas
Method:
To make the salsa, mix the mango, tomato, red onion, jalapeno, coriander and lime juice in a medium bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
To make the guacamole halve the avocadoes and remove seeds. Scoop out avocadoes with a spoon and into a mixing bowl. Add crushed garlic and squeeze lime juice from 1 lime over the avocadoes. Mash the avocadoes using a fork, being careful not to over-mash. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir gently. Add more lime juice to taste. Fold in coriander and chili. Cover with plastic wrap, making sure to press the wrap directly onto the surface of the guacamole to help prevent browning.
Toss the shredded chicken with the paprika.
Spoon some of the meat onto each tostada and serve with the cheese, coriander leaves, guacamole and salsa.
Note: If you can’t find tostadas, you can use taco shells instead or bake pita bread until crisp.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Burrito Pie
Tuesday: Lasagne & salad, garlic bread
Wednesday: Curried Sausages, rice
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Corn Fritters, salad
Saturday: Honey Mustard Roast Beef Toasted Sandwiches
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
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6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
Hot Cross Buns
Have you seen the price of these delicious, doughy, fruity, spicy chunks of bread? Even the supermarket hot cross buns are expensive - $4 for six, or 67 cents each, and if you're gluten free you'll pay a premium - $4 for three! That's $1.33 each!
They are easy to MOO. Really they are. And when you MOO them, you get to put in as much fruit or spice or choc chips as you like, or you can leave them all out. You control your hot cross buns and make them the way you like them. And they won't cost 67 cents each!
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, or choc chips - your choice)
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tbsp grapeseed oil (this gives a very light, sweet dough but if you don't have grapeseed oil, use vegetable oil)
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 Celsius 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.
Cost: $3.65 for 12, or 30 cents each
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge
MOO Butter Chicken
This recipe is so good it earned "more pleases" from all four taste testers, and that's saying something because Hannah doesn't like spicy food at all.
It came about because we decided on butter chicken for dinner but didn't have a jar of sauce. No problem, I set AJ the task of finding a recipe that was easy and used ingredients we already had. He came up with three, the problem being we didn't have all the ingredients to make just one.
We did some adjusting and came up with this.
Unfortunately it's gone from being a cheap meal to a more expensive meal with the price of chicken doubling in 12 months. It's still budget friendly though and still delicious.
MOO Butter Chicken
Ingredients:
500g chicken fillets (breast or thigh, whatever is cheapest), skin off and cut into 1cm dice
1 tbsp tandoori seasoning
1/2 cup water
1 tin tomato soup
1 onion, diced
1 tbsp oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground turmeric
300ml cream
Method:
Mix the tandoori seasoning with the water. Pour over the diced chicken and let marinate 10 minutes. Heat the oil in a heavy based frying pan or wok. Add the chicken and brown all over. Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside. Add the onion, garlic, coriander, cumin and turmeric and cook for 3 minutes until onion is soft. Add marinated chicken and cook for 2 minutes. Add soup and cream. Bring to the boil, reduced heat and cook for 15 minutes, until chicken is cooked. Serve with steamed rice. Serves 6.
Notes:
The tandoori seasoning I use is in powder form and is GFresh brand, I buy it from the greengrocer or the butcher, wherever I am when I need it. Cost last time I bought it was $2.60.
Substitute evaporated milk or sour cream or plain yoghurt for the cream if you don't have it.
Cost: $7.80 or $1.30 per serve.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
8. Cheapskates BuzzFrom The Article Archive
How to Use Canned Potatoes
The No Power Challenge
Budget Your Eating Expenses
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
What is your Easter Plan?
Advice From Camping Gurus Please!
Why Are You a Cheapskate?
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Latest Shows
Use them for Easter, for birthday parties, to hold small gifts - these very cute, super easy little baskets are quick and inexpensive and a great way to use up that stash of paper or cardstock you have.
Make them larger, from 30cm cardstock, line them with a paper doyley and they're perfect for delivering a gift of home baked muffins or biscuits too.
You will need:
18cm square of heavy paper or cardstock
1 x 30cm strip of paper or cardstock 2.5cm wide (handle)
2 brads
Fancy scissors (optional, but they give a pretty edge to the baskets)
Step 1. Score your paper into three columns 6cm wide. Then score three rows 6cm wide. You'll have a grid of nine squares on your paper.
Note: You can make these baskets any size, as long as your square can be divided into nine equal sections.
Step 2. Cut the decorative edge along the edges parallel to the red lines (see the template).
Step 3. Cut on the red lines.
Step 4. Fold the paper on all score lines, with the decorative side to the outside.
Step 5. Punch a hole in the centre of each end of the basket handle about 2.5cm from the edge. Punch a hole in the centre of each end of the strip of paper for the handle about 2.5cm from the edge.
Step 6. Fold the two corner squares so they overlap each other and the centre square on one side of the basket. The centre square should be on the inside of the corner squares.
Step 7. Punch a hole in the centre, through all three layers, about 2.5cm down. Put one end of the handle between the two corner squares and the centre square, and attach a brad through all the layers. Repeat for the other side.
Chocolate Easter Egg Nests
Ingredients:
200g milk chocolate
200g dark chocolate
100g shredded coconut
40 mini chocolate Easter eggs - solid chocolate or filled or candy eggs, whatever you like
Method:
Break up all the chocolate and place it in a bowl over a pan of simmering water (don’t let the bowl touch the water) until the chocolate has melted. Set aside to cool slightly. Add the coconut and stir to combine.
On a large sheet of baking paper drop spoonsful of the mixture about 7cm in diameter. Use the back of a metal spoon to make a small dent in the centre of each nest, where the eggs will sit. Cool completely, then refrigerate for 30 minutes or until firm. Just before serving, fill the nests with eggs.
Recycle Yoghurt Containers for Easter Baskets
In preparation for Easter, I collect and clean empty yoghurt containers (200 gram size) until I have enough to hold all of the eggs. I then print out drawings of bunnies or chickens from the Internet, cut them out and glue them to the outside of the containers. The drawings can be printed in black and white to save money on colour printing, and coloured with pens, crayons or coloured pencils. Glitter pens and acrylic paint can also be used to decorate the containers. Then, shred cellophane or coloured paper as filler for the containers (brightly coloured pages from old magazines work just as well). I buy small eggs from Crazy Clarks or similar cheap shops (children don't seem to notice that it's not expensive chocolate) and fill the containers to overflowing with the eggs. I then wrap the filled containers in clear cellophane and tie with curling ribbon bought from Crazy Clarks or other cheap shops - they're much cheaper than other stores.
Contributed by Kaye
There are more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
Add a Tip
3. March is MOO Month
This month I am challenging you to MOO - yoghurt, washing powder, moisturiser, pancakes, pizza, liquid hand soap, dishwasher powder, pasta sauce, compost, glue, icy poles, lemonade, biscuits, cakes, cordial, apple pie, dishcloths, veggie bags, window cleaner - absolutely anything you can think of.
When we make our own we have the advantage of knowing exactly what goes into it. We can monitor the ingredients and materials and adjust them to suit our family, our home, our lifestyle and our budget.
The article "31 Days of MOO" explains the challenge and is chock full of things you can MOO.
Share what you MOO, how you make it and how it saves you money, time and energy.
One lucky MOOer will win a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club and a $25 Coles Myer gift card, just for sharing their MOO. Use this form to share your MOO and enter the MOOing competition.
There's only two days left in MOO month so don't wait to share your favourite MOO!
Good luck and happy MOOing!
4. 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
5. On The Menu
Roast Chicken Tostadas
This is a tasty way to stretch a roast chicken without appearing to be serving leftovers. It's a great way to use up avocados, especially as they are cheap at the moment. It makes a substantial lunch or turn it into a hearty dinner by serving with Mexican Rice.
Ingredients:
2 cups cooked chicken (leftover from a roast)
2 tbsp paprika (we like smoked, but use what you have)
4 avocadoes
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/2 cup coriander leaves, cleaned and chopped
1 lime, juiced
1/2 cup Feta cheese, crumbled
2 chillies, seeded and diced
Salt and pepper to taste
12 corn tostadas
Method:
To make the salsa, mix the mango, tomato, red onion, jalapeno, coriander and lime juice in a medium bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
To make the guacamole halve the avocadoes and remove seeds. Scoop out avocadoes with a spoon and into a mixing bowl. Add crushed garlic and squeeze lime juice from 1 lime over the avocadoes. Mash the avocadoes using a fork, being careful not to over-mash. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir gently. Add more lime juice to taste. Fold in coriander and chili. Cover with plastic wrap, making sure to press the wrap directly onto the surface of the guacamole to help prevent browning.
Toss the shredded chicken with the paprika.
Spoon some of the meat onto each tostada and serve with the cheese, coriander leaves, guacamole and salsa.
Note: If you can’t find tostadas, you can use taco shells instead or bake pita bread until crisp.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Burrito Pie
Tuesday: Lasagne & salad, garlic bread
Wednesday: Curried Sausages, rice
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Corn Fritters, salad
Saturday: Honey Mustard Roast Beef Toasted Sandwiches
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
Hot Cross Buns
Have you seen the price of these delicious, doughy, fruity, spicy chunks of bread? Even the supermarket hot cross buns are expensive - $4 for six, or 67 cents each, and if you're gluten free you'll pay a premium - $4 for three! That's $1.33 each!
They are easy to MOO. Really they are. And when you MOO them, you get to put in as much fruit or spice or choc chips as you like, or you can leave them all out. You control your hot cross buns and make them the way you like them. And they won't cost 67 cents each!
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, or choc chips - your choice)
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tbsp grapeseed oil (this gives a very light, sweet dough but if you don't have grapeseed oil, use vegetable oil)
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 Celsius 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.
Cost: $3.65 for 12, or 30 cents each
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge
MOO Butter Chicken
This recipe is so good it earned "more pleases" from all four taste testers, and that's saying something because Hannah doesn't like spicy food at all.
It came about because we decided on butter chicken for dinner but didn't have a jar of sauce. No problem, I set AJ the task of finding a recipe that was easy and used ingredients we already had. He came up with three, the problem being we didn't have all the ingredients to make just one.
We did some adjusting and came up with this.
Unfortunately it's gone from being a cheap meal to a more expensive meal with the price of chicken doubling in 12 months. It's still budget friendly though and still delicious.
MOO Butter Chicken
Ingredients:
500g chicken fillets (breast or thigh, whatever is cheapest), skin off and cut into 1cm dice
1 tbsp tandoori seasoning
1/2 cup water
1 tin tomato soup
1 onion, diced
1 tbsp oil
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground turmeric
300ml cream
Method:
Mix the tandoori seasoning with the water. Pour over the diced chicken and let marinate 10 minutes. Heat the oil in a heavy based frying pan or wok. Add the chicken and brown all over. Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside. Add the onion, garlic, coriander, cumin and turmeric and cook for 3 minutes until onion is soft. Add marinated chicken and cook for 2 minutes. Add soup and cream. Bring to the boil, reduced heat and cook for 15 minutes, until chicken is cooked. Serve with steamed rice. Serves 6.
Notes:
The tandoori seasoning I use is in powder form and is GFresh brand, I buy it from the greengrocer or the butcher, wherever I am when I need it. Cost last time I bought it was $2.60.
Substitute evaporated milk or sour cream or plain yoghurt for the cream if you don't have it.
Cost: $7.80 or $1.30 per serve.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
8. Cheapskates BuzzFrom The Article Archive
How to Use Canned Potatoes
The No Power Challenge
Budget Your Eating Expenses
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
What is your Easter Plan?
Advice From Camping Gurus Please!
Why Are You a Cheapskate?
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Latest Shows
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10. Handmade Christmas Challenge
Week 13, Time for a List Check
The idea of a handmade Christmas is exciting and fun and well it can be overwhelming if we let our ideas get out of control.
We're a quarter of the way through the year, and if you've been working on your Christmas gift list every week, you are probably a good way through it, and may even have some of your gifts completed.
So it's time to revisit what's left. I checked my list this week. I wanted to make sure that the things left of the list are doable, but more importantly, I wanted to make sure the things on my list were affordable and used supplies I already have.
Because part of my reason for a handmade Christmas is to use up the yarn and fabric and the flowers and the timber and the paper that I have. To turn those materials into gifts made especially for each recipient. I'm trying really hard to not spend any money, and that's not being mean, it's being smart with what I have.
I have the fabric to make the kitchen sets on the list, and the yarn to trim them. No extra cost there.
And I have the cotton to knit the dishcloths and crochet the scrubbies to go with those sets. No extra cost there.
I've been collecting jars to put the sugar scrubs in; they'll need labels so I've been looking for free downloads to use. Graphics Fairy is a favourite, https://thegraphicsfairy.com Shabby Art Boutique https://www.shabbyartboutique.com/ is another for free printables and they both suit my style.
And I've asked my son to save some of the smaller boxes he gets deliveries in so I can cover them with wrapping paper, bought in bulk a couple of years ago, to hold the hampers. No extra cost there.
I'm glad I took the time to do a check, and make sure I was on track, with getting things done and the budget.
How are you tracking? Don't forget to check in for our Make It Monday show and tell over at Cheapskates Chatter, we'd love to see what you've made.
2023 Handmade Christmas
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10. Handmade Christmas Challenge
Week 13, Time for a List Check
The idea of a handmade Christmas is exciting and fun and well it can be overwhelming if we let our ideas get out of control.
We're a quarter of the way through the year, and if you've been working on your Christmas gift list every week, you are probably a good way through it, and may even have some of your gifts completed.
So it's time to revisit what's left. I checked my list this week. I wanted to make sure that the things left of the list are doable, but more importantly, I wanted to make sure the things on my list were affordable and used supplies I already have.
Because part of my reason for a handmade Christmas is to use up the yarn and fabric and the flowers and the timber and the paper that I have. To turn those materials into gifts made especially for each recipient. I'm trying really hard to not spend any money, and that's not being mean, it's being smart with what I have.
I have the fabric to make the kitchen sets on the list, and the yarn to trim them. No extra cost there.
And I have the cotton to knit the dishcloths and crochet the scrubbies to go with those sets. No extra cost there.
I've been collecting jars to put the sugar scrubs in; they'll need labels so I've been looking for free downloads to use. Graphics Fairy is a favourite, https://thegraphicsfairy.com Shabby Art Boutique https://www.shabbyartboutique.com/ is another for free printables and they both suit my style.
And I've asked my son to save some of the smaller boxes he gets deliveries in so I can cover them with wrapping paper, bought in bulk a couple of years ago, to hold the hampers. No extra cost there.
I'm glad I took the time to do a check, and make sure I was on track, with getting things done and the budget.
How are you tracking? Don't forget to check in for our Make It Monday show and tell over at Cheapskates Chatter, we'd love to see what you've made.
2023 Handmade Christmas
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11. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $20 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!
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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 either signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member.
13. Contact Cheapskates
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Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
PO Box 5077 Studfield Vic 3152
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