Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 27:19
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Always Fresh Biscuits; Getting Rid of Pantry Moths; MOO Fire Lighters
3. Share Your Tips -
4. On the Menu - Spaghetti & Meatballs
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Free Meals From The Freezer
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. The Cheapskates Club Show - Live Tuesday & Thursday
8. Christmas In July
9. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Can you believe we're on the downhill side of 2019 already! And we're a third of the way through winter! It's the start of a brand new (financial) year! The school year is half over! And Christmas in under six months away! Yikes!
As Cheapskaters, all these occurrences are welcome. We are prepared. We know that winter comes every year and build the cost of heating our homes into our budget so the bills aren't a shock. OK, they may still be a shock, but we know we have planned and saved, so they can be paid. We plan for school holidays and all related expenses. We plan for the then of school excursions and incursions and parties and graduation dinners and photos and everything else because we know they come around every year.
And we plan for Christmas, because, unlike our spendthrift friends, we remember that Christmas fall in December every. single. year. And we wonder why they're always surprised and caught short - of money, time and energy.
Part of our preparation begins now, in July, with our annual Christmas in July celebration and planning sessions. It started on Monday, there are already four great ideas to help you get Christmas 2019 under control (and maybe budget too!). And a new idea will be posted every day this month. You can find them here on our website, where they'll be archived so you can go back to them if you need to. And they're posted on Cheapskates Chatter every day too, as a gentle reminder.
Now, it's almost time for the July Journal to be posted, and the June Journal will be archived. If you haven't logged in and caught up yet, you'll find it here, but only until the 14th - then the new Journal will be up.
Have a lovely week every one.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Always Fresh Biscuits
To keep biscuits fresh, after opening I pop them in the freezer as they are in their packets, to use on another day. It works for all kinds of biscuits, perfect for cookies and cream biscuits and they defrost in no time. We sometime eat them straight out of the freezer and they're crunchy and fresh. I’ve been doing this for quite some time and haven’t thrown out a stale biscuit since!
Contributed by Donna Muter
Getting Rid of Pantry Moths
With this unpredictable weather it seems pantry moths are in abundance. To keep them under control, I usually buy the triangular box with sticky inside however they cost $10 - $15 a packet. Although having one in the pantry it's not working. I've been manually wiping a cloth over the moths to kill them when I see one. My pantry is a triangular shape making it hard to reach into corners. The other day while I was in Woolworths I saw a set of 2 fly swatters for $2. I thought I would give it a go. It's great. I hit the moth straight away and the fly swats are long enough to reach into the corners. All for $2.
Contributed by Connie Kell
MOO Fire Lighters
Save money on buying fire lighters by making your own. Every time you have a cup of tea, instead of throwing out the tea bag, save them. Let them dry out and then store them in a tin (old baby formula tin or instant coffee tin works well). When the tin is full. Pour in a bottle of kerosene and put the lid on the tin. Turn the tin upside down to allow the kerosene soak into all the tea bags. Continually turn the tin over every few days to allow the tea bags to be evenly soaked. Use 3 or 4 when starting your fire. For around $4 for a bottle of kerosene you should be able to make enough fire lighters to last all winter. Start saving those tea bags!!
Contributed by Debbie Lowden
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tip
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
Spaghetti & MeatballsThis is real winter comfort food, with a Cheapskates style twist. Quick and easy to make, the plates are always cleaned up when I serve this meal. To round it out, I make a green salad using whatever salad veg are in the garden and fridge (lettuce, spinach, silverbeet all shredded, cucumber, zucchini, sliced onion) to serve on the side.
Spaghetti & Meatballs
Ingredients:
500g mince
1 cup TVP
1 cup hot water
3 slices fresh bread, whizzed into crumb or torn into very small pieces
1 large onion, grated
1 tsp mixed herbs
1 tbsp tomato sauce
1 egg
1 tin crushed tomatoes
1 tin tomato soup
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 onion, finely chopped
1/2 tsp sweet basil
1/2 tsp dried oregano
250g spaghetti
Method:
Pour the hot water over the TVP and let it sit 5 minutes. Mix together the mince, TVP, breadcrumbs, grated onion, mixed herbs, tomato sauce and egg using your hands. Make sure everything is well combined. Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray. With wet hands roll teaspoonsful into small balls and place them in rows on the cookie sheet. Bake in a moderate oven (180 degrees) for 25 - 30 minutes. Check them after 15 minutes and shake them around to brown evenly. Makes 42 meatballs. While the meatballs are cooking, cook the spaghetti and make the sauce. Cook the Spaghetti according to the directions on the packet. For the sauce gently cook the chopped onion in a non-stick pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray until transparent. Add the garlic and cook 1 minute. Add the chopped tomatoes, tomato soup, basil and oregano. Stir to mix. Cook over a low heat until mixture thickens. To serve: place spaghetti on plate, top with meatballs and pour sauce over. Top with grated cheese or sprinkle with grated parmesan if you prefer.
Serves 6, costs $1.04 per serve.
From the Pasta Recipe File https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/recipe-file-index.html
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Meatballs, mash, cream sauce
Tuesday: Gnocchi & garlic bread
Wednesday: Aunty Mary's Beef Casserole, mash
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Sausage rolls, party pies
Saturday: Hot Dogs
In the fruit bowl: mandarins, limes
In the cake tin: Cranberry Hootycreek slice, fruit cake, chocolate muffins
There are over 1,700 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
5. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Free Meals From The FreezerEven a small stash of freezer meals can reduce the grocery budget. Single serves of spag bol, chicken soup, lasagne, fried rice, curry, pasta bake and moussaka are all in my small freezer, waiting to be used.
Freezer meals, put together from leftovers, are free food - it's already paid for. I love freezer meals, and not just because they're free food, but because they give me a night off from cooking, or save buying takeaway when my day gets beyond crazy and dinner is the last thing on my mind. I love them because they can be self-serve too. The meals are already cooked, they just need to be thawed and heated and that can be done in the microwave in just a few minutes.
You may be wondering how you build a stash of freezer meals so that they are free. It's simple really - portion control. We're a family of five, so most of my recipes make at least six serves. I dish up five when the meal is cooked, and as I'm dishing up I put the extra serve straight into a container and put it into the fridge to cool. Then after tea I put the lid on it and pop it into the freezer. I leave the container lid on the bread board so I don't forget to put it in the freezer before I go to bed, otherwise the fridge fairies may strike overnight! And I have one free meal added to the freezer meal stash. If the recipe makes more than six serves, I have more than one free meal to put into the freezer.
Hint: Use some masking tape and a marker to label the containers. Strangely enough chicken soup looks a lot like vegetable soup when it's frozen, as does bolognaise sauce and vegetable pasta sauce. Labelling the containers also stops everyone from pulling them all out, opening them to see what's in them then putting them back in the freezer.
Sometimes there are no leftovers or extra serves. That's OK. But when there are I take full advantage of them. I think it's far better to put a single serve into the freezer for a freezer meal than stash it at the back of the fridge until garbage night then toss it out - that really is just putting money in the bin.
Take a look at your recipes. Are there any you could perhaps stretch to an extra serve or two? If so, those extra serves could become freezer meals. I have a couple of recipes that serve four. I add a few extra ingredients (grated veggies or rolled oats or rice or even water or stock) to stretch them to make six serves. Then they feed us all and give me at least one freezer meal.
There are a couple of tricks to using free meals from the freezer though:
1. you must pay for them and
2. you must use them.
I budget $5 a dinner. When we have freezer meals I take $5 from my grocery budget and put it straight into the grocery slush fund (you could add it to your Emergency Fund or pay it off a bill or similar) because the meal is already paid for. That $5 is a lot easier to find than the $30+ that takeaway costs too - think about freezer meals next time you're tempted to dial for pizza!
Not everything freezes so plan your freezer meals around dinners that will freeze. Things that freeze well are pasta dishes, rissoles, stews, casseroles, soups, pies, pasties, sausage rolls, fried rice, cooked sausages (great for a quick curry) and quiche.
Then write "freezer meals" into your meal plan at least once a month. We usually have them on a Saturday night. I always plan a meal for Saturday night, just in case we don't have any freezer meals, but usually it's a GYO night. Sometimes we're all home for tea, sometimes there is only Wayne and I, sometimes it's just me.
It doesn't matter, if there are freezer meals then Saturday night in our house is simple - go to the freezer, choose a dinner and enjoy it because who doesn't enjoy a free meal.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
6. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
7 Freezer Meals in One Hour for under $30
Freeze-Ahead Meals and Sauces
Oh How I Love Freeze-Ahead Meals
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Rising Costs
Celery Salt Made with the Leaves
MOO Lasagne Sheets
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
Same Ingredients, Different Dishes
Please, Please, Please Don't Let Marketing Dumb You Down!
Everyone Should be Baking - Even on a Budget!
7. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AETShow 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.
Thursday: Cheapskates in the Kitchen - want to know how to cook delicious, healthy and cheap meals? Watch Cath and Hannah as they create cheapskates style cuisine and share their favourite recipes.
Latest Shows
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Always Fresh Biscuits; Getting Rid of Pantry Moths; MOO Fire Lighters
3. Share Your Tips -
4. On the Menu - Spaghetti & Meatballs
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Free Meals From The Freezer
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. The Cheapskates Club Show - Live Tuesday & Thursday
8. Christmas In July
9. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Can you believe we're on the downhill side of 2019 already! And we're a third of the way through winter! It's the start of a brand new (financial) year! The school year is half over! And Christmas in under six months away! Yikes!
As Cheapskaters, all these occurrences are welcome. We are prepared. We know that winter comes every year and build the cost of heating our homes into our budget so the bills aren't a shock. OK, they may still be a shock, but we know we have planned and saved, so they can be paid. We plan for school holidays and all related expenses. We plan for the then of school excursions and incursions and parties and graduation dinners and photos and everything else because we know they come around every year.
And we plan for Christmas, because, unlike our spendthrift friends, we remember that Christmas fall in December every. single. year. And we wonder why they're always surprised and caught short - of money, time and energy.
Part of our preparation begins now, in July, with our annual Christmas in July celebration and planning sessions. It started on Monday, there are already four great ideas to help you get Christmas 2019 under control (and maybe budget too!). And a new idea will be posted every day this month. You can find them here on our website, where they'll be archived so you can go back to them if you need to. And they're posted on Cheapskates Chatter every day too, as a gentle reminder.
Now, it's almost time for the July Journal to be posted, and the June Journal will be archived. If you haven't logged in and caught up yet, you'll find it here, but only until the 14th - then the new Journal will be up.
Have a lovely week every one.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Always Fresh Biscuits
To keep biscuits fresh, after opening I pop them in the freezer as they are in their packets, to use on another day. It works for all kinds of biscuits, perfect for cookies and cream biscuits and they defrost in no time. We sometime eat them straight out of the freezer and they're crunchy and fresh. I’ve been doing this for quite some time and haven’t thrown out a stale biscuit since!
Contributed by Donna Muter
Getting Rid of Pantry Moths
With this unpredictable weather it seems pantry moths are in abundance. To keep them under control, I usually buy the triangular box with sticky inside however they cost $10 - $15 a packet. Although having one in the pantry it's not working. I've been manually wiping a cloth over the moths to kill them when I see one. My pantry is a triangular shape making it hard to reach into corners. The other day while I was in Woolworths I saw a set of 2 fly swatters for $2. I thought I would give it a go. It's great. I hit the moth straight away and the fly swats are long enough to reach into the corners. All for $2.
Contributed by Connie Kell
MOO Fire Lighters
Save money on buying fire lighters by making your own. Every time you have a cup of tea, instead of throwing out the tea bag, save them. Let them dry out and then store them in a tin (old baby formula tin or instant coffee tin works well). When the tin is full. Pour in a bottle of kerosene and put the lid on the tin. Turn the tin upside down to allow the kerosene soak into all the tea bags. Continually turn the tin over every few days to allow the tea bags to be evenly soaked. Use 3 or 4 when starting your fire. For around $4 for a bottle of kerosene you should be able to make enough fire lighters to last all winter. Start saving those tea bags!!
Contributed by Debbie Lowden
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tip
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
Spaghetti & MeatballsThis is real winter comfort food, with a Cheapskates style twist. Quick and easy to make, the plates are always cleaned up when I serve this meal. To round it out, I make a green salad using whatever salad veg are in the garden and fridge (lettuce, spinach, silverbeet all shredded, cucumber, zucchini, sliced onion) to serve on the side.
Spaghetti & Meatballs
Ingredients:
500g mince
1 cup TVP
1 cup hot water
3 slices fresh bread, whizzed into crumb or torn into very small pieces
1 large onion, grated
1 tsp mixed herbs
1 tbsp tomato sauce
1 egg
1 tin crushed tomatoes
1 tin tomato soup
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 onion, finely chopped
1/2 tsp sweet basil
1/2 tsp dried oregano
250g spaghetti
Method:
Pour the hot water over the TVP and let it sit 5 minutes. Mix together the mince, TVP, breadcrumbs, grated onion, mixed herbs, tomato sauce and egg using your hands. Make sure everything is well combined. Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray. With wet hands roll teaspoonsful into small balls and place them in rows on the cookie sheet. Bake in a moderate oven (180 degrees) for 25 - 30 minutes. Check them after 15 minutes and shake them around to brown evenly. Makes 42 meatballs. While the meatballs are cooking, cook the spaghetti and make the sauce. Cook the Spaghetti according to the directions on the packet. For the sauce gently cook the chopped onion in a non-stick pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray until transparent. Add the garlic and cook 1 minute. Add the chopped tomatoes, tomato soup, basil and oregano. Stir to mix. Cook over a low heat until mixture thickens. To serve: place spaghetti on plate, top with meatballs and pour sauce over. Top with grated cheese or sprinkle with grated parmesan if you prefer.
Serves 6, costs $1.04 per serve.
From the Pasta Recipe File https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/recipe-file-index.html
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Meatballs, mash, cream sauce
Tuesday: Gnocchi & garlic bread
Wednesday: Aunty Mary's Beef Casserole, mash
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Sausage rolls, party pies
Saturday: Hot Dogs
In the fruit bowl: mandarins, limes
In the cake tin: Cranberry Hootycreek slice, fruit cake, chocolate muffins
There are over 1,700 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
5. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Free Meals From The FreezerEven a small stash of freezer meals can reduce the grocery budget. Single serves of spag bol, chicken soup, lasagne, fried rice, curry, pasta bake and moussaka are all in my small freezer, waiting to be used.
Freezer meals, put together from leftovers, are free food - it's already paid for. I love freezer meals, and not just because they're free food, but because they give me a night off from cooking, or save buying takeaway when my day gets beyond crazy and dinner is the last thing on my mind. I love them because they can be self-serve too. The meals are already cooked, they just need to be thawed and heated and that can be done in the microwave in just a few minutes.
You may be wondering how you build a stash of freezer meals so that they are free. It's simple really - portion control. We're a family of five, so most of my recipes make at least six serves. I dish up five when the meal is cooked, and as I'm dishing up I put the extra serve straight into a container and put it into the fridge to cool. Then after tea I put the lid on it and pop it into the freezer. I leave the container lid on the bread board so I don't forget to put it in the freezer before I go to bed, otherwise the fridge fairies may strike overnight! And I have one free meal added to the freezer meal stash. If the recipe makes more than six serves, I have more than one free meal to put into the freezer.
Hint: Use some masking tape and a marker to label the containers. Strangely enough chicken soup looks a lot like vegetable soup when it's frozen, as does bolognaise sauce and vegetable pasta sauce. Labelling the containers also stops everyone from pulling them all out, opening them to see what's in them then putting them back in the freezer.
Sometimes there are no leftovers or extra serves. That's OK. But when there are I take full advantage of them. I think it's far better to put a single serve into the freezer for a freezer meal than stash it at the back of the fridge until garbage night then toss it out - that really is just putting money in the bin.
Take a look at your recipes. Are there any you could perhaps stretch to an extra serve or two? If so, those extra serves could become freezer meals. I have a couple of recipes that serve four. I add a few extra ingredients (grated veggies or rolled oats or rice or even water or stock) to stretch them to make six serves. Then they feed us all and give me at least one freezer meal.
There are a couple of tricks to using free meals from the freezer though:
1. you must pay for them and
2. you must use them.
I budget $5 a dinner. When we have freezer meals I take $5 from my grocery budget and put it straight into the grocery slush fund (you could add it to your Emergency Fund or pay it off a bill or similar) because the meal is already paid for. That $5 is a lot easier to find than the $30+ that takeaway costs too - think about freezer meals next time you're tempted to dial for pizza!
Not everything freezes so plan your freezer meals around dinners that will freeze. Things that freeze well are pasta dishes, rissoles, stews, casseroles, soups, pies, pasties, sausage rolls, fried rice, cooked sausages (great for a quick curry) and quiche.
Then write "freezer meals" into your meal plan at least once a month. We usually have them on a Saturday night. I always plan a meal for Saturday night, just in case we don't have any freezer meals, but usually it's a GYO night. Sometimes we're all home for tea, sometimes there is only Wayne and I, sometimes it's just me.
It doesn't matter, if there are freezer meals then Saturday night in our house is simple - go to the freezer, choose a dinner and enjoy it because who doesn't enjoy a free meal.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
6. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
7 Freezer Meals in One Hour for under $30
Freeze-Ahead Meals and Sauces
Oh How I Love Freeze-Ahead Meals
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Rising Costs
Celery Salt Made with the Leaves
MOO Lasagne Sheets
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
Same Ingredients, Different Dishes
Please, Please, Please Don't Let Marketing Dumb You Down!
Everyone Should be Baking - Even on a Budget!
7. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AETShow 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.
Thursday: Cheapskates in the Kitchen - want to know how to cook delicious, healthy and cheap meals? Watch Cath and Hannah as they create cheapskates style cuisine and share their favourite recipes.
Latest Shows
8. Christmas In July
July signals the Cheapskates Club's annual Christmas in July celebration.
Actually, when you think about it, celebrating a traditional Christmas in July makes sense for Australians. It's easy to enjoy a hot roast and heavy pudding in mid-winter, when the wind is howling and temperatures are in the low teens.
But that's not what our Christmas in July is about. Instead, we take the opportunity to use July to prepare for the coming silly season, so that when December does roll around (and it will), we can relax and enjoy the spirit of the season.
As Cheapskates, we like to have a cash Christmas. It's much nicer to own it when it happens, rather than in three years and four months when you've paid off the credit card! So, whether you're one of the born organized or one of the perpetually chaotic, now is a good time to start your Christmas prep.
Each day this month a new tip to help you get Christmas under control will be posted on our website and on Cheapskates Chatter.
It's Time For Christmas In July - Day 1
Christmas in July Day 2: Create a No-fail Homemade Gift Giving Plan
Christmas in July Day 3: A Christmas Stocktake
Christmas In July Day 4: Stockpiling Christmas Supplies
9. 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
10. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $36.50 a year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
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 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
July signals the Cheapskates Club's annual Christmas in July celebration.
Actually, when you think about it, celebrating a traditional Christmas in July makes sense for Australians. It's easy to enjoy a hot roast and heavy pudding in mid-winter, when the wind is howling and temperatures are in the low teens.
But that's not what our Christmas in July is about. Instead, we take the opportunity to use July to prepare for the coming silly season, so that when December does roll around (and it will), we can relax and enjoy the spirit of the season.
As Cheapskates, we like to have a cash Christmas. It's much nicer to own it when it happens, rather than in three years and four months when you've paid off the credit card! So, whether you're one of the born organized or one of the perpetually chaotic, now is a good time to start your Christmas prep.
Each day this month a new tip to help you get Christmas under control will be posted on our website and on Cheapskates Chatter.
It's Time For Christmas In July - Day 1
Christmas in July Day 2: Create a No-fail Homemade Gift Giving Plan
Christmas in July Day 3: A Christmas Stocktake
Christmas In July Day 4: Stockpiling Christmas Supplies
9. 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
10. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $36.50 a year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
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 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