Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 26:23
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store -
3. Tip of the Week -
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu -
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge -
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge -
8. Cheapskates Buzz
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. The Handmade Christmas Challenge
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Welcome to our new members! I'm so glad you've joined us at the Cheapskates Club. We're a really friendly bunch so if you haven't yet, please drop into the Member's Forum and introduce yourself. It's just one of the resources available to you and it's chock full of frugal wisdom your fellow Cheapskaters are more than happy to share with you.
This newsletter is coming to you from somewhere on the way to somewhere in outback New South Wales! Yes, we are travelling again and thoroughly enjoying our adventure, wind, rain and cold are just adding to the experience.
I don't want you getting bored or forgetting how to live the Cheapskates way while I'm away, and it's been a while since we've had a challenge so here it is: for the next week you are going to live on what food you have in the house; we will be living off what we have brought with us; where we are there are no supermarkets or grocery shops or corner stores or anywhere really to buy anything; we will be joining you on this challenge, using just what we have with us for breakfast, lunch, tea and snacks.
Go through your pantry, fridge and freezer and make a list. Then work out what meals you need and what recipes you can make or create with the food you have. Make up a shopping list of only the groceries you absolutely must have. Don't put things you want or "might" need on the list this week, you are challenged to spend as little as possible on food for the next 7 days. If you need ideas, download the Bare Bones Groceries e-book. It has some basic meal ideas and recipes to get you started.
Don't forget to have a look through the Recipe File - there are some really tasty meal ideas in the $2 Dinners and Easy Meals files. https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/recipe-file-index.html
Good luck, happy saving and enjoy your newsletter, it's another big one.
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 StoreS
o Many Ways to Use Cabbage
Look out for cabbage on special at the supermarket - you might pick it up for $2 or $3 and it lasts for at least four weeks in the fridge.
It can be cut up or shredded and added to stews, rissoles and almost any dish you cook. (Even family who don't like cabbage don't know its included)
It can be steamed and used instead of rice or pasta with Bolognese etc. also cutting carbohydrates in your diet for those watching their waistline.
Slice it finely and add other veggies in the fridge, grated carrot, zucchini, finely cut capsicum and onion and then made into coleslaw to have with fish, chicken or in a wrap.
I haven't found any other vegetable which is so versatile and value for money - try it out and see how many uses you can find for a good old fashioned cabbage.
Contributed by Denise
Don't Bin it, Stick it
Use a spring onion, stick the bottom inch in the garden or the whole bunch if left too long in the fridge. Onion, ginger, sweet potato shooting, bottom of lettuce, left over carrots, celery, over ripe tomato plant it. Bunch of spinach or coriander, herbs too big for quick use - put it in the ground, you can use it later or if going to seed collect them and use later in the year. It will not replace all your vegetables, but it often fills in when running out, saving that quick trip to the shop where you will spend more than intended. Being on my own, I have halved my vegetable bill and stopped wasting any.
Contributed by Con
Making Exfoliation Gloves Last
My daughter and I love using exfoliation gloves that you can pick up from either supermarkets, $2 shops or discount chemists and they all vary in price. It doesn't seem to matter whether we buy the more expensive ones for about $5 or the cheaper ones, about $3, we still had the same problem with them. Firstly, they seemed to be treated with some chemical that makes them very waxy to begin with. Then after a few uses I noticed that they would quickly become water and soap logged. Beforehand when I was too busy, and not watching my dollars, I would simply throw them out and buy new ones, but after I calculated that between myself and my daughter we were going through 4 -6 pairs a year each I figured I could do better than this. When I bought the next pair, which were the cheaper ones, before using them, I soaked them in a solution of bi carb, vinegar and warm water. Left them for about 30 minutes and then rinsed them and hung them out to dry. My first use of them was so different it was like night and day. No waxy residue and they were able to be rinsed clean with much more ease. A few weeks later, when I noticed they were starting to feel clogged again, I did the same rinse treatment again and Voila! good as new. I can see now that one pair of gloves will probably last us each at least 6 months. A saving of approximately $24 - $50 a year!
Contributed by Kerry
There are more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
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
Sometimes we just need a sweet something to have with a cup of tea or coffee, or to enjoy as a dessert. These muffins are delicious, and only take three ingredients that you most likely already have in your food storage. If you don't have crushed pineapple in your food storage (and I often don't) blitz pineapple rings or pieces in the juice until it is "crushed". 3 Ingredient Pineapple MuffinsIngredients:
2 cups SR flour
1 cup sugar
820g can crushed pineapple
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Line a muffin pan with 12 muffin liners.
Combine the flour, sugar and pineapple with all the juice. Mix well.
Fill muffin papers 2/3 full.
Bake for 20 minutes until cooked in the centre and golden.
Cost: $5.30 for 12 regular muffins or 44 cents each (cost will come down if you use generic pineapple to 32 cents each).
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Rissoles, mash, gravy
Tuesday: Lasagne, salad
Wednesday: Singapore Noodles
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Soup & crumpets
Saturday: Muffin Surprise
There are over 1,800 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
The Reason and How to Stockpile
The basic reason to stockpile is to save money in the long run by buying more when your favourite groceries are on a big sale. Other reasons are for security in hard times (it's nice to know you can still feed the family), if you live in a remote area and shopping trips are few and far between, if you live in a cyclone or flood prone area it's nice to have enough groceries on hand to see you through a weather event. Some people build a stockpile as a security against political upheaval.
Whatever your reason, stockpiling is a wise thing to do and something we should all be doing right now.
Stockpiling is planning your pantry and building it in a consistent and rational manner. True stockpilers never panic-buy, they have a pantry building plan and work it.
Let's say you use four boxes of "Good Morning" breakfast cereal in one month. If you buy whenever you run out without paying attention to the price, you will pay more because some of those times it won't be on sale.
Week 1: Buying when you need it: First box $7.00 (not on sale)
Week 2: Second box $6.30 (ten percent off sale)
Week 3: Third box $3.50 (fifty percent off sale)
Week 4: Fourth box $7.00 (not on sale)
Total cost for the month: $23.80
Stockpiling: Buy eight boxes at $3.50 when on a half-price sale. You'll spend $28.00, you'll save $28 and have four boxes of cereal to add to your stockpile - effectively getting four boxes of cereal, for the next month's breakfasts, free. You were going to pay the $7 a box, buying double on half price is the same as a buy one, get one free (of course you don't need to be that savvy, you can just buy one box at half price and go back to paying full price next week).
Start by stockpiling things you use regularly and watch the sale cycles. The aim of a stockpile is to never, ever pay full price for anything you need, use or want.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
6. The Weekly MOO Challenge
Make Our Own Tim Tams!
Nothing can beat a real Tim Tam but honestly they are expensive, especially when we all love them and one packet doesn't last a single afternoon tea. And that of course had me searching for a MOO for what is undoubtedly Australia's favourite biscuit.
Much to the family's delight I tried around a dozen different recipes in my quest to find at least a reasonable MOO of these delightful chocolate morsels (they love it when I test recipes).
What I came up with is not a genuine Tim Tam, but for a homemade version, it is pretty close and very, very good. Best of all I always have the ingredients in the pantry so when the mood strikes I can make a batch, then sit back with a glass of icy cold milk and dunk away to my heart's content.
MOO Tim TamsBiscuit:
225g SR flour
25g cocoa powder
1 tbsp malted milk drink powder*
215g butter
125g caster sugar
2 tbsp golden syrup
Filling:
125g unsalted butter, softened
1-⅔ cups icing sugar
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp milk
Topping:
200g block milk chocolate
Method:
Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
Sift together the cocoa, flour and malted milk powder. In a separate bowl cream together butter and sugar. When light and fluffy and sugar has dissolved, add the syrup. Sift in the flour, cocoa and malted milk powder. Beat until the dough comes together in a ball.
Take two layers of baking paper. Place the ball of dough between the sheets of parchment and roll into a rectangle about 6mm ¼ inch. Trim the edges.
Using a clean ruler and a sharp knife, cut the rectangle into smaller fingers - your biscuits. I make them about 5cm x 3cm.
Carefully lift the biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 15 - 17 minutes until cooked. Remove from the oven and let the biscuits cool on the baking sheet. Once they are cooled move them to a cake rack to cool completely.
To make the filling
Beat together the ingredients for the filling until very smooth.
Take half the biscuits and turn them bottom side up. Spread a thin layer of filling on each biscuit. Top with the remaining biscuits, bottom side down.
Topping:
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over barely simmering water. Remove the bowl from the pan. Dip the biscuit sandwiches into the chocolate until completely covered. Shake off excess chocolate. Place on a rack to cool and harden.
Sample one, then hide the others somewhere only you can find them. Or share them with your family if you're feeling generous :)
Notes:
Malted milk powder is available at the supermarket. If you don't want to buy the malted milk powder (it really is good in milkshakes) then use Milo, but the genuine thing is better.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
7. Cheapskates BuzzFrom The Article Archive
Pamper Mum with this Beautiful Body Scrub
Stove Top Potpourri
How to Make Beard Oil
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Gentlest Effective Body Wash
Oh Dear!! Beauty Neglected
Winter Bugs
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Latest Shows
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store -
3. Tip of the Week -
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu -
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge -
7. The Weekly MOO Challenge -
8. Cheapskates Buzz
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. The Handmade Christmas Challenge
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Welcome to our new members! I'm so glad you've joined us at the Cheapskates Club. We're a really friendly bunch so if you haven't yet, please drop into the Member's Forum and introduce yourself. It's just one of the resources available to you and it's chock full of frugal wisdom your fellow Cheapskaters are more than happy to share with you.
This newsletter is coming to you from somewhere on the way to somewhere in outback New South Wales! Yes, we are travelling again and thoroughly enjoying our adventure, wind, rain and cold are just adding to the experience.
I don't want you getting bored or forgetting how to live the Cheapskates way while I'm away, and it's been a while since we've had a challenge so here it is: for the next week you are going to live on what food you have in the house; we will be living off what we have brought with us; where we are there are no supermarkets or grocery shops or corner stores or anywhere really to buy anything; we will be joining you on this challenge, using just what we have with us for breakfast, lunch, tea and snacks.
Go through your pantry, fridge and freezer and make a list. Then work out what meals you need and what recipes you can make or create with the food you have. Make up a shopping list of only the groceries you absolutely must have. Don't put things you want or "might" need on the list this week, you are challenged to spend as little as possible on food for the next 7 days. If you need ideas, download the Bare Bones Groceries e-book. It has some basic meal ideas and recipes to get you started.
Don't forget to have a look through the Recipe File - there are some really tasty meal ideas in the $2 Dinners and Easy Meals files. https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/recipe-file-index.html
Good luck, happy saving and enjoy your newsletter, it's another big one.
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 StoreS
o Many Ways to Use Cabbage
Look out for cabbage on special at the supermarket - you might pick it up for $2 or $3 and it lasts for at least four weeks in the fridge.
It can be cut up or shredded and added to stews, rissoles and almost any dish you cook. (Even family who don't like cabbage don't know its included)
It can be steamed and used instead of rice or pasta with Bolognese etc. also cutting carbohydrates in your diet for those watching their waistline.
Slice it finely and add other veggies in the fridge, grated carrot, zucchini, finely cut capsicum and onion and then made into coleslaw to have with fish, chicken or in a wrap.
I haven't found any other vegetable which is so versatile and value for money - try it out and see how many uses you can find for a good old fashioned cabbage.
Contributed by Denise
Don't Bin it, Stick it
Use a spring onion, stick the bottom inch in the garden or the whole bunch if left too long in the fridge. Onion, ginger, sweet potato shooting, bottom of lettuce, left over carrots, celery, over ripe tomato plant it. Bunch of spinach or coriander, herbs too big for quick use - put it in the ground, you can use it later or if going to seed collect them and use later in the year. It will not replace all your vegetables, but it often fills in when running out, saving that quick trip to the shop where you will spend more than intended. Being on my own, I have halved my vegetable bill and stopped wasting any.
Contributed by Con
Making Exfoliation Gloves Last
My daughter and I love using exfoliation gloves that you can pick up from either supermarkets, $2 shops or discount chemists and they all vary in price. It doesn't seem to matter whether we buy the more expensive ones for about $5 or the cheaper ones, about $3, we still had the same problem with them. Firstly, they seemed to be treated with some chemical that makes them very waxy to begin with. Then after a few uses I noticed that they would quickly become water and soap logged. Beforehand when I was too busy, and not watching my dollars, I would simply throw them out and buy new ones, but after I calculated that between myself and my daughter we were going through 4 -6 pairs a year each I figured I could do better than this. When I bought the next pair, which were the cheaper ones, before using them, I soaked them in a solution of bi carb, vinegar and warm water. Left them for about 30 minutes and then rinsed them and hung them out to dry. My first use of them was so different it was like night and day. No waxy residue and they were able to be rinsed clean with much more ease. A few weeks later, when I noticed they were starting to feel clogged again, I did the same rinse treatment again and Voila! good as new. I can see now that one pair of gloves will probably last us each at least 6 months. A saving of approximately $24 - $50 a year!
Contributed by Kerry
There are more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
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
Sometimes we just need a sweet something to have with a cup of tea or coffee, or to enjoy as a dessert. These muffins are delicious, and only take three ingredients that you most likely already have in your food storage. If you don't have crushed pineapple in your food storage (and I often don't) blitz pineapple rings or pieces in the juice until it is "crushed". 3 Ingredient Pineapple MuffinsIngredients:
2 cups SR flour
1 cup sugar
820g can crushed pineapple
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Line a muffin pan with 12 muffin liners.
Combine the flour, sugar and pineapple with all the juice. Mix well.
Fill muffin papers 2/3 full.
Bake for 20 minutes until cooked in the centre and golden.
Cost: $5.30 for 12 regular muffins or 44 cents each (cost will come down if you use generic pineapple to 32 cents each).
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Rissoles, mash, gravy
Tuesday: Lasagne, salad
Wednesday: Singapore Noodles
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Soup & crumpets
Saturday: Muffin Surprise
There are over 1,800 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
The Reason and How to Stockpile
The basic reason to stockpile is to save money in the long run by buying more when your favourite groceries are on a big sale. Other reasons are for security in hard times (it's nice to know you can still feed the family), if you live in a remote area and shopping trips are few and far between, if you live in a cyclone or flood prone area it's nice to have enough groceries on hand to see you through a weather event. Some people build a stockpile as a security against political upheaval.
Whatever your reason, stockpiling is a wise thing to do and something we should all be doing right now.
Stockpiling is planning your pantry and building it in a consistent and rational manner. True stockpilers never panic-buy, they have a pantry building plan and work it.
Let's say you use four boxes of "Good Morning" breakfast cereal in one month. If you buy whenever you run out without paying attention to the price, you will pay more because some of those times it won't be on sale.
Week 1: Buying when you need it: First box $7.00 (not on sale)
Week 2: Second box $6.30 (ten percent off sale)
Week 3: Third box $3.50 (fifty percent off sale)
Week 4: Fourth box $7.00 (not on sale)
Total cost for the month: $23.80
Stockpiling: Buy eight boxes at $3.50 when on a half-price sale. You'll spend $28.00, you'll save $28 and have four boxes of cereal to add to your stockpile - effectively getting four boxes of cereal, for the next month's breakfasts, free. You were going to pay the $7 a box, buying double on half price is the same as a buy one, get one free (of course you don't need to be that savvy, you can just buy one box at half price and go back to paying full price next week).
Start by stockpiling things you use regularly and watch the sale cycles. The aim of a stockpile is to never, ever pay full price for anything you need, use or want.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
6. The Weekly MOO Challenge
Make Our Own Tim Tams!
Nothing can beat a real Tim Tam but honestly they are expensive, especially when we all love them and one packet doesn't last a single afternoon tea. And that of course had me searching for a MOO for what is undoubtedly Australia's favourite biscuit.
Much to the family's delight I tried around a dozen different recipes in my quest to find at least a reasonable MOO of these delightful chocolate morsels (they love it when I test recipes).
What I came up with is not a genuine Tim Tam, but for a homemade version, it is pretty close and very, very good. Best of all I always have the ingredients in the pantry so when the mood strikes I can make a batch, then sit back with a glass of icy cold milk and dunk away to my heart's content.
MOO Tim TamsBiscuit:
225g SR flour
25g cocoa powder
1 tbsp malted milk drink powder*
215g butter
125g caster sugar
2 tbsp golden syrup
Filling:
125g unsalted butter, softened
1-⅔ cups icing sugar
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp milk
Topping:
200g block milk chocolate
Method:
Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
Sift together the cocoa, flour and malted milk powder. In a separate bowl cream together butter and sugar. When light and fluffy and sugar has dissolved, add the syrup. Sift in the flour, cocoa and malted milk powder. Beat until the dough comes together in a ball.
Take two layers of baking paper. Place the ball of dough between the sheets of parchment and roll into a rectangle about 6mm ¼ inch. Trim the edges.
Using a clean ruler and a sharp knife, cut the rectangle into smaller fingers - your biscuits. I make them about 5cm x 3cm.
Carefully lift the biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 15 - 17 minutes until cooked. Remove from the oven and let the biscuits cool on the baking sheet. Once they are cooled move them to a cake rack to cool completely.
To make the filling
Beat together the ingredients for the filling until very smooth.
Take half the biscuits and turn them bottom side up. Spread a thin layer of filling on each biscuit. Top with the remaining biscuits, bottom side down.
Topping:
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over barely simmering water. Remove the bowl from the pan. Dip the biscuit sandwiches into the chocolate until completely covered. Shake off excess chocolate. Place on a rack to cool and harden.
Sample one, then hide the others somewhere only you can find them. Or share them with your family if you're feeling generous :)
Notes:
Malted milk powder is available at the supermarket. If you don't want to buy the malted milk powder (it really is good in milkshakes) then use Milo, but the genuine thing is better.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
7. Cheapskates BuzzFrom The Article Archive
Pamper Mum with this Beautiful Body Scrub
Stove Top Potpourri
How to Make Beard Oil
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Gentlest Effective Body Wash
Oh Dear!! Beauty Neglected
Winter Bugs
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Latest Shows
Subscribe to our You Tube channel and never miss a show.
9. Handmade Christmas Challenge
This week before we left on our trip, I managed to get some time at the sewing machine, and made sets of bowl cosies. I've been wanting to do this for ages, and with the cold and wet outside work was out, perfect! It gave me time to sit and focus on sewing and get through that pile.
They are not nearly as difficult as you may think and if you work in an assembly line fashion then you can get through quite a few in an hour.
The fabric was gifted to me, isn't it pretty? And perfect for bowl cosies I thought, being pumpkin themed. I used Wrap'n'Zap because that's what I had on hand, but any good 100% cotton batting would work.
Some have gone into the present box, and three have found there way into our camper, for us to use while we are away.
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.
Handmade Christmas Central
The Handmade Christmas Forum
10. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $30 you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun for a full year.
That's unlimited 24/7 access to EVERYTHING in the Member's Centre!
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
11. 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.
12. 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
9. Handmade Christmas Challenge
This week before we left on our trip, I managed to get some time at the sewing machine, and made sets of bowl cosies. I've been wanting to do this for ages, and with the cold and wet outside work was out, perfect! It gave me time to sit and focus on sewing and get through that pile.
They are not nearly as difficult as you may think and if you work in an assembly line fashion then you can get through quite a few in an hour.
The fabric was gifted to me, isn't it pretty? And perfect for bowl cosies I thought, being pumpkin themed. I used Wrap'n'Zap because that's what I had on hand, but any good 100% cotton batting would work.
Some have gone into the present box, and three have found there way into our camper, for us to use while we are away.
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.
Handmade Christmas Central
The Handmade Christmas Forum
10. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $30 you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun for a full year.
That's unlimited 24/7 access to EVERYTHING in the Member's Centre!
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
11. 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.
12. 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