Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 14:21
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Homemade Playdough; Make Flubber; Old Fashioned Games
3. Tip of the Week - Tizzying Up Girls Pyjamas
4. Share Your Tips - We want your best winter gardening tips!
5. On the Menu - Rissoles and Onion Gravy
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Don't Make This Mistake
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge - Cough Drops
10. 2021 Saving Revolution - 10 Reasons You're Broke
11. Ask a Question
12. Join the Cheapskates Club
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
I do hope you all had a wonderful Easter. Our plans had to change at the last minute, much to my disappointment. Not to worry, a quiet weekend at home worked for us too. Now I'm back, feeling rested and full of beans.
I mean really full of beans, our garden has produced the most beans ever this summer! I've been freezing them whole and sliced, and even tried bottling a few. My mother always bottled beans and I remember liking them better than bottled peas, so I thought I'd try a few jars with the excess this year. I'll let you know what the final verdict is once we've tried them a few times.
The other surprise this past week has been the tomatoes. I've been picking them, slowly, for a couple of months, and had decided they had to come out, they just weren't producing enough to warrant keeping them going. Low and behold, this week they've really picked up and I've been getting at least a colander full of lovely, red, ripe tomatoes all week. Until I have time to make sauce, they're in the freezer. It's been a weird year for the summer garden, I'm hoping the winter veg will be better.
And it's the winter garden that is on my list this week. Getting beds turned over and composted; planting seeds; working on a planting schedule to work in with when we're way; weeding and of course just generally getting the rest of the garden ready for winter. Oh, and starting some new lavender plants so they'll be ready to plant out in the spring.
That's more than enough to keep me out of mischief.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
This week's tips are all about old fashioned, budget friendly, kid friendly fun! Simple things you can all do together that won't cost a fortune or require any particular materials. Best of all they'll get the kids off the screens for a while, and even outdoors. Oh, and big kids like these ideas too!
Homemade Playdough
My kids loved this homemade playdough. It's much cheaper than the bought stuff and it lasts a long time, even if they leave it out. Mix two cups plain flour, one cup salt and two tablespoons of cream of tartar. Add two tablespoons oil, two cups water and a few drops of food colouring. Stir together then dump into a large fry pan and cook like scrambled eggs. Keep stirring until it s no longer "wet". It only takes a few minutes. When it looks like playdough, dump it onto the bench and knead for a few minutes. That’s it! Then challenge the kids to create the best playdough animal or building or car or statue or flower or tower of shapes or whatever and let their creativity run wild.
Make Flubber
This is great fun to make and even more fun to play with. In a container, put some PVA glue and add a small amount of cold water. Mix it well to thin down the PVA. Add some food colouring. Now, carefully add boiling water, mixing well, a little at a time, until it is thick and resembles playdough. Turn it out and knead it well. Then go have some fun with your flubber!
Old Fashioned Games
These are great for a really cold day, when kids can't play outside, or on those really long and boring wet holiday days. Teach the kids to play dominoes, old maid, snap, draughts or charades - they'll love acting out the answers to this one. Drag out Twister or Scrabble or even Monopoly and just have fun.
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Jenni Winslow. Jenni has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Tizzying Up Girls Pyjamas
My daughter-in-law had suggested winter pyjamas as a birthday gift for my 6 year old granddaughter. She is a girly girl and loves pretty things. I looked on line and at a local store, lovely pj’s but all in the $30 plus price range. Kmart had some flowery pink and white flannelette pj’s for $7 so I bought those and looked in my stash at home for sewing notions....and was able to change the buttons to pretty sparkly ones, add lace under the collar and embroider her name on some matching pink fabric and sewed it on the front. So one much prettier, tizzied up pair of Pj’s and a robe to match (bought from Kmart) for total cost of $17. I also found some cute fabric in my stash to make her one more pair of pj’s - the only pattern I have is a couple of sizes too big but by using the bought pj’s as a guide I can copy the pattern and cut it down to fit. Win, win.
Congratulations Jenni, I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
4. Share Your Tips
This week I'm looking for tips to help prepare the garden for winter. What is your best winter gardening tip? Do you use compost? Do you make your own compost? What about worms - do you have a worm farm that you use to create fertiliser and worm tea? What's your favourite worm tea recipe? When do you start your seeds? Do you start them indoors - how? what do you use? where do you start them? Do you rest your garden over the winter?
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy in the garden 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
Rissoles!Coming into comfort food weather, already the evenings are cooler, thoughts turn to meals that are a little heartier and well, comforting, but that don't take long to prepare. Rissoles fit the bill! This is my go to rissole recipe, although I have to confess it isn't really a recipe, but more the way I make them for my family, and they love them, especially with onion gravy.
These days, in the interest of ecomony, I stretch the recipe with the addition of 2 cups of TVP, reconstituted in 2 cups of stock (or water, but the stock gives a nice flavour - TVP is pretty much flavourless on it's own). This almost doubles the number of rissoles I can get from the recipe.
Rissoles
Ingredients:
500g mince
500g sausage mince
1 brown onion (finely chopped)
1 green capsicum (finely chopped )
1 egg
Salt & pepper
1 decent squirt of tomato sauce, soy sauce & Worcester sauce
1 grated carrot can also be added.
Method:
Mix all together in a bowl. Set oven to 180-200 degrees Celsius. Combine all ingredients and mix until everything is evenly distributed. To cook rissoles, shape the mixture. Heat a frying pan over a moderate heat and add rissoles to the pan. Cook in batches so they don't sweat. Turn after 3 -4 minutes and continue to fry until cooked through. Alternatively, brown rissoles, remove from pan and place on oven tray. Bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for 20 minutes or until cooked through.
Onion Gravy
Ingredients:
2 tbsp gravy mix (MOO or bought)
1-1/c cups cold water
1 small onion, thinly sliced
Dash Worcestershire sauce
Method:
Remove the rissoles from the frying pan. Add the sliced onion and cook, stirring frequently, until the onion is clear and just starting to brown. Combine the gravy mix and water, making sure there are no lumps. Add the Worcestershire sauce. Pour the liquid into the frying pan and stir briskly. It will begin to thicken and bubble immediately - don't stop stirring. Cook for 2 minutes. If the mixture is too thick, add COLD water a little at a time, stirring continuously until the gravy is the desired thickness. Serve immediately over the hot rissoles.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Rissoles, onion gravy
Tuesday: Spinach Ricotta Canelloni
Wednesday: Tuna Surprise
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Kransky, potato bake
Saturday: Sausage Rolls
In the fruit bowl: bananas, oranges, limes
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
Don’t Make This Mistake!This is mostly for those of you who are new to the $300 a Month Food Challenge, but also for those of you who find it hard to get that grocery bill down.
Changing your shopping habits and building a stockpile is exciting and fun, but don't make the mistake of going in all gung-ho and slashing your grocery budget by half (or more!) straight away.
That simply won't work because you are starting this challenge from scratch. You haven't developed all your Super Shopper skills yet and you won't have a Cheapskates style stockpile of your staples to fall back on.
Keep buying the groceries you need right now and start building your stockpile with items you can buy on sale, ready to use for future meals.
Take a look at your shopping list and cross off the things that aren't essential, that's a great place to start to free up some money in the grocery budget - and that gives you more to spend on those half price ingredients.
Then go back and look at your meal plan and your pantry (and fridge and freezer) and see what else is on the list that really isn't necessary.
Don't be surprised if the first month you actually see your grocery bill go up, that's normal. You will be buying for now and the future. Start to incorporate your stockpile items into your meal plan and keep just buying on sale and that bill will start to not just drop but plummet. You'll be able to feed your family and stock-up on your staples and stay within your budget.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Beating the Can't Be Bothered Dinnertime Blues
Best Before or Use By?
Cashed Up Habits
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
How to make a Quillow
Autumn to Winter April Activities
Need Help with Gluten Free Party Food
8. 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 - Homemade Playdough; Make Flubber; Old Fashioned Games
3. Tip of the Week - Tizzying Up Girls Pyjamas
4. Share Your Tips - We want your best winter gardening tips!
5. On the Menu - Rissoles and Onion Gravy
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Don't Make This Mistake
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge - Cough Drops
10. 2021 Saving Revolution - 10 Reasons You're Broke
11. Ask a Question
12. Join the Cheapskates Club
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
I do hope you all had a wonderful Easter. Our plans had to change at the last minute, much to my disappointment. Not to worry, a quiet weekend at home worked for us too. Now I'm back, feeling rested and full of beans.
I mean really full of beans, our garden has produced the most beans ever this summer! I've been freezing them whole and sliced, and even tried bottling a few. My mother always bottled beans and I remember liking them better than bottled peas, so I thought I'd try a few jars with the excess this year. I'll let you know what the final verdict is once we've tried them a few times.
The other surprise this past week has been the tomatoes. I've been picking them, slowly, for a couple of months, and had decided they had to come out, they just weren't producing enough to warrant keeping them going. Low and behold, this week they've really picked up and I've been getting at least a colander full of lovely, red, ripe tomatoes all week. Until I have time to make sauce, they're in the freezer. It's been a weird year for the summer garden, I'm hoping the winter veg will be better.
And it's the winter garden that is on my list this week. Getting beds turned over and composted; planting seeds; working on a planting schedule to work in with when we're way; weeding and of course just generally getting the rest of the garden ready for winter. Oh, and starting some new lavender plants so they'll be ready to plant out in the spring.
That's more than enough to keep me out of mischief.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
This week's tips are all about old fashioned, budget friendly, kid friendly fun! Simple things you can all do together that won't cost a fortune or require any particular materials. Best of all they'll get the kids off the screens for a while, and even outdoors. Oh, and big kids like these ideas too!
Homemade Playdough
My kids loved this homemade playdough. It's much cheaper than the bought stuff and it lasts a long time, even if they leave it out. Mix two cups plain flour, one cup salt and two tablespoons of cream of tartar. Add two tablespoons oil, two cups water and a few drops of food colouring. Stir together then dump into a large fry pan and cook like scrambled eggs. Keep stirring until it s no longer "wet". It only takes a few minutes. When it looks like playdough, dump it onto the bench and knead for a few minutes. That’s it! Then challenge the kids to create the best playdough animal or building or car or statue or flower or tower of shapes or whatever and let their creativity run wild.
Make Flubber
This is great fun to make and even more fun to play with. In a container, put some PVA glue and add a small amount of cold water. Mix it well to thin down the PVA. Add some food colouring. Now, carefully add boiling water, mixing well, a little at a time, until it is thick and resembles playdough. Turn it out and knead it well. Then go have some fun with your flubber!
Old Fashioned Games
These are great for a really cold day, when kids can't play outside, or on those really long and boring wet holiday days. Teach the kids to play dominoes, old maid, snap, draughts or charades - they'll love acting out the answers to this one. Drag out Twister or Scrabble or even Monopoly and just have fun.
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Jenni Winslow. Jenni has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Tizzying Up Girls Pyjamas
My daughter-in-law had suggested winter pyjamas as a birthday gift for my 6 year old granddaughter. She is a girly girl and loves pretty things. I looked on line and at a local store, lovely pj’s but all in the $30 plus price range. Kmart had some flowery pink and white flannelette pj’s for $7 so I bought those and looked in my stash at home for sewing notions....and was able to change the buttons to pretty sparkly ones, add lace under the collar and embroider her name on some matching pink fabric and sewed it on the front. So one much prettier, tizzied up pair of Pj’s and a robe to match (bought from Kmart) for total cost of $17. I also found some cute fabric in my stash to make her one more pair of pj’s - the only pattern I have is a couple of sizes too big but by using the bought pj’s as a guide I can copy the pattern and cut it down to fit. Win, win.
Congratulations Jenni, I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
4. Share Your Tips
This week I'm looking for tips to help prepare the garden for winter. What is your best winter gardening tip? Do you use compost? Do you make your own compost? What about worms - do you have a worm farm that you use to create fertiliser and worm tea? What's your favourite worm tea recipe? When do you start your seeds? Do you start them indoors - how? what do you use? where do you start them? Do you rest your garden over the winter?
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy in the garden 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
Rissoles!Coming into comfort food weather, already the evenings are cooler, thoughts turn to meals that are a little heartier and well, comforting, but that don't take long to prepare. Rissoles fit the bill! This is my go to rissole recipe, although I have to confess it isn't really a recipe, but more the way I make them for my family, and they love them, especially with onion gravy.
These days, in the interest of ecomony, I stretch the recipe with the addition of 2 cups of TVP, reconstituted in 2 cups of stock (or water, but the stock gives a nice flavour - TVP is pretty much flavourless on it's own). This almost doubles the number of rissoles I can get from the recipe.
Rissoles
Ingredients:
500g mince
500g sausage mince
1 brown onion (finely chopped)
1 green capsicum (finely chopped )
1 egg
Salt & pepper
1 decent squirt of tomato sauce, soy sauce & Worcester sauce
1 grated carrot can also be added.
Method:
Mix all together in a bowl. Set oven to 180-200 degrees Celsius. Combine all ingredients and mix until everything is evenly distributed. To cook rissoles, shape the mixture. Heat a frying pan over a moderate heat and add rissoles to the pan. Cook in batches so they don't sweat. Turn after 3 -4 minutes and continue to fry until cooked through. Alternatively, brown rissoles, remove from pan and place on oven tray. Bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for 20 minutes or until cooked through.
Onion Gravy
Ingredients:
2 tbsp gravy mix (MOO or bought)
1-1/c cups cold water
1 small onion, thinly sliced
Dash Worcestershire sauce
Method:
Remove the rissoles from the frying pan. Add the sliced onion and cook, stirring frequently, until the onion is clear and just starting to brown. Combine the gravy mix and water, making sure there are no lumps. Add the Worcestershire sauce. Pour the liquid into the frying pan and stir briskly. It will begin to thicken and bubble immediately - don't stop stirring. Cook for 2 minutes. If the mixture is too thick, add COLD water a little at a time, stirring continuously until the gravy is the desired thickness. Serve immediately over the hot rissoles.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Rissoles, onion gravy
Tuesday: Spinach Ricotta Canelloni
Wednesday: Tuna Surprise
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Kransky, potato bake
Saturday: Sausage Rolls
In the fruit bowl: bananas, oranges, limes
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
Don’t Make This Mistake!This is mostly for those of you who are new to the $300 a Month Food Challenge, but also for those of you who find it hard to get that grocery bill down.
Changing your shopping habits and building a stockpile is exciting and fun, but don't make the mistake of going in all gung-ho and slashing your grocery budget by half (or more!) straight away.
That simply won't work because you are starting this challenge from scratch. You haven't developed all your Super Shopper skills yet and you won't have a Cheapskates style stockpile of your staples to fall back on.
Keep buying the groceries you need right now and start building your stockpile with items you can buy on sale, ready to use for future meals.
Take a look at your shopping list and cross off the things that aren't essential, that's a great place to start to free up some money in the grocery budget - and that gives you more to spend on those half price ingredients.
Then go back and look at your meal plan and your pantry (and fridge and freezer) and see what else is on the list that really isn't necessary.
Don't be surprised if the first month you actually see your grocery bill go up, that's normal. You will be buying for now and the future. Start to incorporate your stockpile items into your meal plan and keep just buying on sale and that bill will start to not just drop but plummet. You'll be able to feed your family and stock-up on your staples and stay within your budget.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
Beating the Can't Be Bothered Dinnertime Blues
Best Before or Use By?
Cashed Up Habits
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
How to make a Quillow
Autumn to Winter April Activities
Need Help with Gluten Free Party Food
8. 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
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge
The MOO challenge this week is simple - cough drops!
This week my allergies have been really annoying, I suppose because I've been pulling weeds and plants in the garden, and I even mowed the lawn (one of my favourite things to do, but I don't get to do it very often). The humid weather hasn't helped. Nor has the "autumn" cleaning I've been doing. As a result my eyes have been streaming and my throat has been irritated, causing me to cough (no I don't have any virus, I have allergies). I'm not a fan of antihistamines, so I upped the vitamin C intake and made a batch of peppermint cough drops.
The cough drops work really well and it only take a couple of minutes to make a tray. Best of all they are full of good germ fighting things. Coconut oil and Manuka honey are both anti-viral and antibacterial as well as being anti-fungal (talk about versatile). They taste fine, and are safe for children and adults to have.
Ingredients:
1/3 cup coconut oil
1/3 cup Manuka honey (or raw honey - I use Manuka)
2 - 3 drops pure peppermint essential oil
Instructions:
Stir the honey and peppermint oil into the coconut oil. Don't be tempted to melt the coconut oil, the honey will sink to the bottom and it won't blend. Just stir it in.
Press into a small, baking paper lined dish, or use a silicone cake pan.
Mark into 1cm squares with a knife and refrigerate until firm.
Store in the fridge in an air-tight container.
Have one or two every 20 - 30 minutes to ease coughing.
It is important to use pure peppermint essential oil, you will be eating these cough drops! Yes, pure essential oils cost more, but you use a lot less and so they go further. It's worth the extra expense, especially for things you'll be eating or wearing or that could be absorbed through your skin (lotions, soaps etc.). In this case, the cheapest isn't always the best option.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
10. 2021 Saving Revolution
Lesson 14 (sent last Friday) was all about reasons you're broke and listed the ten main reasons Australians are broke and in debt today.
Broke isn't just a word, for many families it is a way of life. But it doesn’t have to be. Getting out of brokedom will take effort, and yes, perhaps some sacrifice. But it's not forever, just until you aren't broke anymore, and have debt under control and an emergency fund to fall back on.
The Saving Revolution won't work if you don't work it. If you are broke, you need to go back to this lesson and understand why you are broke. Then work the plan to get out of debt, and yes it is there, in the lessons sent to you each week.
This week's lesson will be in your inbox tomorrow, 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.
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 for the first year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
13. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name at the top of the page to go straight to your profile page where you can update your details, change your password and find your subscription details.
Not a Cheapskates Club member? Then please use the Changing Details form found here to update your email address.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
Memberships are active for one year from the date of joining. You will be sent a renewal reminder before your subscription is due to renew. You can also find your membership expiry date on your profile page.
When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name to go straight to your profile page where you can will find your join date and your expiry date.
What will you do with my email address?
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?
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The MOO challenge this week is simple - cough drops!
This week my allergies have been really annoying, I suppose because I've been pulling weeds and plants in the garden, and I even mowed the lawn (one of my favourite things to do, but I don't get to do it very often). The humid weather hasn't helped. Nor has the "autumn" cleaning I've been doing. As a result my eyes have been streaming and my throat has been irritated, causing me to cough (no I don't have any virus, I have allergies). I'm not a fan of antihistamines, so I upped the vitamin C intake and made a batch of peppermint cough drops.
The cough drops work really well and it only take a couple of minutes to make a tray. Best of all they are full of good germ fighting things. Coconut oil and Manuka honey are both anti-viral and antibacterial as well as being anti-fungal (talk about versatile). They taste fine, and are safe for children and adults to have.
Ingredients:
1/3 cup coconut oil
1/3 cup Manuka honey (or raw honey - I use Manuka)
2 - 3 drops pure peppermint essential oil
Instructions:
Stir the honey and peppermint oil into the coconut oil. Don't be tempted to melt the coconut oil, the honey will sink to the bottom and it won't blend. Just stir it in.
Press into a small, baking paper lined dish, or use a silicone cake pan.
Mark into 1cm squares with a knife and refrigerate until firm.
Store in the fridge in an air-tight container.
Have one or two every 20 - 30 minutes to ease coughing.
It is important to use pure peppermint essential oil, you will be eating these cough drops! Yes, pure essential oils cost more, but you use a lot less and so they go further. It's worth the extra expense, especially for things you'll be eating or wearing or that could be absorbed through your skin (lotions, soaps etc.). In this case, the cheapest isn't always the best option.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
10. 2021 Saving Revolution
Lesson 14 (sent last Friday) was all about reasons you're broke and listed the ten main reasons Australians are broke and in debt today.
Broke isn't just a word, for many families it is a way of life. But it doesn’t have to be. Getting out of brokedom will take effort, and yes, perhaps some sacrifice. But it's not forever, just until you aren't broke anymore, and have debt under control and an emergency fund to fall back on.
The Saving Revolution won't work if you don't work it. If you are broke, you need to go back to this lesson and understand why you are broke. Then work the plan to get out of debt, and yes it is there, in the lessons sent to you each week.
This week's lesson will be in your inbox tomorrow, 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.
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 for the first year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
13. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name at the top of the page to go straight to your profile page where you can update your details, change your password and find your subscription details.
Not a Cheapskates Club member? Then please use the Changing Details form found here to update your email address.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
Memberships are active for one year from the date of joining. You will be sent a renewal reminder before your subscription is due to renew. You can also find your membership expiry date on your profile page.
When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name to go straight to your profile page where you can will find your join date and your expiry date.
What will you do with my email address?
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