Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 28:15
In this Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Write it Down, Make Use of Marketing Magnets, Just Keep on Peeling
3. Cheapskates Workshops - We're coming to Adelaide!
4. Submit Your Tip
5. On the Menu with Anne - Crockpot Bean Soup
6 The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy - Grocery Budgeting in an Emergency
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. Member's Featured Blog - Stepping it up! by School
9. This Week's Question - How can I clean a white vinyl ceiling?
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Gift Memberships
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
We're coming to Adelaide! How excited am I to be sharing The Art of Living the Cheapskates Way in Adelaide on 15th August? So excited that when everything finally fell into place I did a happy dance right here in the loungeroom and AJ came out to see what all the "thudding" was about! And I'll be joined by Wendy and Annabel. We are all just bursting to show you how you can live life debt free, cashed up and laughing. Want to know more? You can find out all the details and reserve your place here, and I hope to see you there!
This week (yes, we've been home week) I've focussed on our home. I've cleaned every room. Not that the kids didn't clean up while we were away but they cleaned like young people, not a cranky old mother. Now our house is sparkly from top to bottom. I've also caught up with a lot of laundry. I love doing the washing, sorting, treating stains, hanging it out, getting it dry, folding and putting away (I deliberately left out ironing, I don't really like it).
I spent a couple of hours over the weekend processing and packing vegetable packs for the freezer. I now have enough packs of veggies for the next month. I'll just need to add sweet potato, potato, couscous or rice to round out the veggie component of each meal. I have soup packs, casserole packs, roast packs and just general veggie packs. They have onion, celery, carrot, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini and egg plant in them. Best of all the whole lot cost $15.78 - gotta love a fruit market that has great specials!
And I have really enjoyed cooking for my family. After five weeks of camp cooking, my little kitchen feels like a gourmet kitchen, with a four burner cooktop and an oven and a microwave and an electric toaster and an electric kettle and hot running water. I didn't realise just how well equipped my kitchen is until I was trying to prepare meals with a single gas burner and a camp oven.
But the thing I've started, that will have the biggest impact on our home (and our budget) is put myself (and anyone else who wants to join in) on a month long freezer challenge. It's only been one day but so far I've only taken from the freezer, not added to it. Going a whole month without adding to my freezer stocks is going to be so hard, so wish me luck. Better yet jump over to the blog or Facebook and join me; I need all the motivation I can get.
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!
PPS: You can read this newsletter and past copies on the website in the Newsletter Archive.
2. From The Tip Store
Write it Down
Approximate $ Savings: Half Price!
We are in the throes of moving, a big job because we are downsizing. Like everyone else I have got caught up in technology but with the move so much to remember dates, times, cancel this, book in that it is endless. My memory isn't as good as it used to be so I had notes scribbled all over the place. Then I suddenly remembered I always when working used a good old diary, never forgot a thing. So off to the shops and bought a very glam diary for HALF PRICE but even better I have so enjoyed making notes on the pages, seeing my handwriting and testing my spelling skills again. I haven't wasted the first half of the year instead using up the pages with various notes about the move, good tradesmen tips etc. I have enjoyed it so much that I have suggested to my hubby he makes that my annual birthday present - it's in January (he never knows what to buy me) and I shall continue to keep note of things I need to remember by simply turning a page. Who knows, once it is written I may simply just remember. And technology can go on the back burner that day.
Contributed by Heather Ogier
Make Use of Marketing Magnets
Collect a few of the larger calendar magnets pollies love to give out, some glue or double sided tape, and a favourite recipe or two printed to fit the magnet. Then simply glue or tape the recipe/item to the magnet and leave it on the fridge.
Contributed by Rosemarie Wheeler
Editor's note: These would make a lovely stocking stuffer or gift for a young person moving out on their own. Use favourite family recipes and you could create a set of magnetic recipes. Cath
Just Keep on Peeling
If I am peeling potatoes for a meal I often peel a couple extra doesn't make much difference but comes in handy for making fish patties the next day.
Contributed by Lisa Johnston
Editor's note: I often do this, especially if I know I am going to be flat chat the following day. Potatoes, sweet potato, pumpkin, parsnip and onion all keep well in a dish of water in the fridge for 24 hours. I also do this when we are camping, vacuum packing the peeled veggies in meal lots. They keep for around 7 days in the fridge if they are vacuumed packed, saving a lot of time, water and mess. Cath
There are currently more than 11,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Cheapskates Workshops
We're coming to Adelaide!
Come along and join us for a day of fun, frivolity, food and frugality as we refine the Art of Living the Cheapskates Way.
During the day we'll discuss the art of living the Cheapskates way and share favourite Cheapskating tips and tricks for saving money, time and energy on your journey to living life debt free, cashed up and laughing.
The programme includes workshops (yes, you will be put to work, but you get to take your efforts home!), demonstrations, Q&A sessions and special guest speaker Wendy (moderator, $300 a Month Food Challenge).
Sessions include:
*The Art of Living the Cheapskates Way
*Creating a $300 a Month Meal Plan and the Shopping List to Go With It
*Frugal Pampering
*Let's All MOO!
Cost includes:
*Guest speakers Wendy and Annabel
*Demonstrations
*Samples
*Light refreshments
***Places are strictly limited for this hands on workshop, please book early to avoid disappointment.
When: Saturday 15th August 2015
Where: Cliftons Adelaide, Level 1, 80 King William St, Adelaide
What time: 9.00am - 4.00pm
Cost: $155 per person
Click here to book your spot now!
4. Submit Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. 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. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
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!
Submit your tip
5. On the Menu with Anne
It's cold, and the forecast is for colder and wetter by the weekend, perfect soup weather. This soup is ideal for the slow cooker. I put it on early in the morning and by lunchtime it's ready and the house smells delicious. I serve it with cheesy bread stick and it is always a hit.
Crock Pot Bean Soup
Ingredients:
8 cups water
2 cups diced lean cooked ham
1 onion, finely chopped
1 tsp. salt
250g dried Navy beans
1 cup finely chopped celery
2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
1/4 tsp pepper
Method:
In a large pot, bring water to a boil. Add beans (picked through), and boil gently 2 minutes. Turn off heat and let stand covered 1 hour. Pour all including water, into a slow cooker. Add remaining ingredients. Cover and cook on high 6-7 hours until beans are very soft.
This week we will be eating:
Friday: Apricot chicken, mashed potato, peas/corn/carrots
Saturday: Baked beans on toast
Sunday: Roast chicken, baked vegetables, cauliflower with cheese sauce, peas
Monday: Irish stew, sweet potato mash
Tuesday: Fish, salad
Wednesday: Lemon chicken, fried rice
Thursday: Sausages, mash, corn, beans, cauliflower
In the fruit bowl: bananas, apples, oranges
In the cake tin: Choc Chip Biscuits, 3 Ingredient Tea Cake
Do you have a meal planning question? Click here to ask your question, you may see your answer in next week's newsletter.
There are over 1,500 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy
Grocery Budgeting in an Emergency
Hi all and welcome to a new week of budgeting.
Some chatter on the forum lately has been about emergency stores/stocking up your pantry for an emergency. Many countries around the world are about to go bankrupt or are already there. There has been talk about global food shortages.
Now, I'm not sure of what the future holds but I like to be prepared for any emergency - real or not, family, local or global. We had our own family emergency two weeks ago when I was in hospital for two days and recovering for the next five days. I only had to send DH out to get milk, fruit and veg.
You see, my pantry and freezer are always full. Always have been and always will be. It's just the way I work. I don't like being low on anything including petrol for the car and toilet paper. My thought is “what if something happens?”
My pantry is always choc a block. My containers are always full with spare packets to refill them. I always have an assortment of tinned soup. I probably have about 50 tons of soup at the moment. I've been stocking up on the chunky ones lately as they have been $2 each. They make a great meal when you add a couple of handfuls of pasta to them. I use some soups in casseroles too. I've stocked up now because they'll cost too much in spring and summer.
I also stock up on tinned tomatoes, spaghetti, baked beans and tinned fruit and vegies. Everything is stacked in neat rows with labels to the front and stock is rotated when I buy more. I can see just about everything at a glance and writing my shopping list is easy.
I have a good supply of baking ingredients. Nothing fancy, just the basics but I can make many items from what I have. Same with ingredients for meals. If anyone popped in at meal time, I can produce a meal without any stress.
My freezer is full of mince, chicken, roasts, silverside, sausages, some fish, chops, diced beef, frozen vegies ( supermarket bought and home grown ) and zucchini slice. All these things are frozen in meal sizes for convenience.
Our vegies garden always has something growing in it, especially in summer.
Our family could easily eat from our stocks for the next 4 - 6 months without a trip to the supermarket.
My question to you is - how prepared are you for any emergency? If the supermarkets closed down tomorrow, how long would you last with what you have? If you had a money crisis (loss of job etc.) would you cope food wise?
A full pantry does put your mind at ease and boy, does it make you feel rich!!!!!!
It really is “FOOD FOR THOUGHT".
Be encouraged!!!!!
Click here to go to this week's $300 a Month Food Challenge
Click here to read the post that started it all
7. Cheapskates Buzz
Most popular forum posts this week
How to Tie Bows and Knots
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2939-How-to-tie-bows-and-knots
Homemade Gifts
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?1719-Homemade-Gifts
Can I use Roasted Meat Bones to Make Soup
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2947-Can-I-use-roasted-meat-bones-to-make-soup
Most popular blog posts this week
Stay Out of the Shops and Keep Your Money
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/05/stay-out-of-shops-and-keep-your-money.html
Freeze the Beasties
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2010/07/freeze-beasties.html
You don't Need Mr. Muscle
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2010/03/you-dont-need-mr-muscle.html
8. Members Featured Blog
Platinum Cheapskates Club members have their very own Cheapskating blogs, and they are wonderful and inspirational and encouraging and even funny. This week's featured blog is written by School.
Stepping it up!
Well, the best part of my one month grocery challenge is that with a little bit of extra effort we stretched it out to almost 5 weeks before hubby started to complain there was no food in the house.
It went so well that hubby and I went ahead and invested in a deep freezer for the shed. When we went to do our next month's shop it was so good not having to squash everything to within an inch of its life to fit it in. I was able to stock up on things like bread too because we can fit so much more in.
When I did the shop last week I felt a lot more confident and felt I did it a bit quicker and easier than the first month. It was funny at Aldi, my groceries took up the whole conveyor belt (and Aldi's are very long!) so everyone was taking one look at it and heading to the other checkout. One man was brave enough to line up behind and his little girl said "Wow, that's a lot of food". The man was kind enough to keep fixing up my tumbling groceries on the conveyor belt as I was madly chucking them back in my trolley at the register. It was very humorous for everyone.
Another great thing today, I changed my insurance over today and will now be saving $60 month!
Hopefully that will help cover the ever increasing costs of some of our other bills.
Login to read more Cheapskates Club Member blogs
8. This week's Question
Gay writes
"I live aboard a sailboat with a white vinyl lining on the 'ceiling'. It has brown stains from cooking and also from a husband who smokes. What can I clean it with? Have tried vinegar, soda, bleach, peroxide and more."
Do you have the answer?
If you have a suggestion or idea for Gay let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send your answer
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
For just 10 cents a day 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. Gift Memberships
Your family and friends will thank you for a whole year when you give them a Platinum Cheapskates Club membership as a gift.
It's so simple: just select the number of gift memberships required, click the Buy Now button and complete the Gift Membership order form (you must use this form to order gift memberships) and we'll get in touch with you to confirm the gift subscriptions.
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13. Contact Details
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debt free, cashed up and laughing!
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1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Write it Down, Make Use of Marketing Magnets, Just Keep on Peeling
3. Cheapskates Workshops - We're coming to Adelaide!
4. Submit Your Tip
5. On the Menu with Anne - Crockpot Bean Soup
6 The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy - Grocery Budgeting in an Emergency
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. Member's Featured Blog - Stepping it up! by School
9. This Week's Question - How can I clean a white vinyl ceiling?
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Gift Memberships
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
We're coming to Adelaide! How excited am I to be sharing The Art of Living the Cheapskates Way in Adelaide on 15th August? So excited that when everything finally fell into place I did a happy dance right here in the loungeroom and AJ came out to see what all the "thudding" was about! And I'll be joined by Wendy and Annabel. We are all just bursting to show you how you can live life debt free, cashed up and laughing. Want to know more? You can find out all the details and reserve your place here, and I hope to see you there!
This week (yes, we've been home week) I've focussed on our home. I've cleaned every room. Not that the kids didn't clean up while we were away but they cleaned like young people, not a cranky old mother. Now our house is sparkly from top to bottom. I've also caught up with a lot of laundry. I love doing the washing, sorting, treating stains, hanging it out, getting it dry, folding and putting away (I deliberately left out ironing, I don't really like it).
I spent a couple of hours over the weekend processing and packing vegetable packs for the freezer. I now have enough packs of veggies for the next month. I'll just need to add sweet potato, potato, couscous or rice to round out the veggie component of each meal. I have soup packs, casserole packs, roast packs and just general veggie packs. They have onion, celery, carrot, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini and egg plant in them. Best of all the whole lot cost $15.78 - gotta love a fruit market that has great specials!
And I have really enjoyed cooking for my family. After five weeks of camp cooking, my little kitchen feels like a gourmet kitchen, with a four burner cooktop and an oven and a microwave and an electric toaster and an electric kettle and hot running water. I didn't realise just how well equipped my kitchen is until I was trying to prepare meals with a single gas burner and a camp oven.
But the thing I've started, that will have the biggest impact on our home (and our budget) is put myself (and anyone else who wants to join in) on a month long freezer challenge. It's only been one day but so far I've only taken from the freezer, not added to it. Going a whole month without adding to my freezer stocks is going to be so hard, so wish me luck. Better yet jump over to the blog or Facebook and join me; I need all the motivation I can get.
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!
PPS: You can read this newsletter and past copies on the website in the Newsletter Archive.
2. From The Tip Store
Write it Down
Approximate $ Savings: Half Price!
We are in the throes of moving, a big job because we are downsizing. Like everyone else I have got caught up in technology but with the move so much to remember dates, times, cancel this, book in that it is endless. My memory isn't as good as it used to be so I had notes scribbled all over the place. Then I suddenly remembered I always when working used a good old diary, never forgot a thing. So off to the shops and bought a very glam diary for HALF PRICE but even better I have so enjoyed making notes on the pages, seeing my handwriting and testing my spelling skills again. I haven't wasted the first half of the year instead using up the pages with various notes about the move, good tradesmen tips etc. I have enjoyed it so much that I have suggested to my hubby he makes that my annual birthday present - it's in January (he never knows what to buy me) and I shall continue to keep note of things I need to remember by simply turning a page. Who knows, once it is written I may simply just remember. And technology can go on the back burner that day.
Contributed by Heather Ogier
Make Use of Marketing Magnets
Collect a few of the larger calendar magnets pollies love to give out, some glue or double sided tape, and a favourite recipe or two printed to fit the magnet. Then simply glue or tape the recipe/item to the magnet and leave it on the fridge.
Contributed by Rosemarie Wheeler
Editor's note: These would make a lovely stocking stuffer or gift for a young person moving out on their own. Use favourite family recipes and you could create a set of magnetic recipes. Cath
Just Keep on Peeling
If I am peeling potatoes for a meal I often peel a couple extra doesn't make much difference but comes in handy for making fish patties the next day.
Contributed by Lisa Johnston
Editor's note: I often do this, especially if I know I am going to be flat chat the following day. Potatoes, sweet potato, pumpkin, parsnip and onion all keep well in a dish of water in the fridge for 24 hours. I also do this when we are camping, vacuum packing the peeled veggies in meal lots. They keep for around 7 days in the fridge if they are vacuumed packed, saving a lot of time, water and mess. Cath
There are currently more than 11,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Cheapskates Workshops
We're coming to Adelaide!
Come along and join us for a day of fun, frivolity, food and frugality as we refine the Art of Living the Cheapskates Way.
During the day we'll discuss the art of living the Cheapskates way and share favourite Cheapskating tips and tricks for saving money, time and energy on your journey to living life debt free, cashed up and laughing.
The programme includes workshops (yes, you will be put to work, but you get to take your efforts home!), demonstrations, Q&A sessions and special guest speaker Wendy (moderator, $300 a Month Food Challenge).
Sessions include:
*The Art of Living the Cheapskates Way
*Creating a $300 a Month Meal Plan and the Shopping List to Go With It
*Frugal Pampering
*Let's All MOO!
Cost includes:
*Guest speakers Wendy and Annabel
*Demonstrations
*Samples
*Light refreshments
***Places are strictly limited for this hands on workshop, please book early to avoid disappointment.
When: Saturday 15th August 2015
Where: Cliftons Adelaide, Level 1, 80 King William St, Adelaide
What time: 9.00am - 4.00pm
Cost: $155 per person
Click here to book your spot now!
4. Submit Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. 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. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
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!
Submit your tip
5. On the Menu with Anne
It's cold, and the forecast is for colder and wetter by the weekend, perfect soup weather. This soup is ideal for the slow cooker. I put it on early in the morning and by lunchtime it's ready and the house smells delicious. I serve it with cheesy bread stick and it is always a hit.
Crock Pot Bean Soup
Ingredients:
8 cups water
2 cups diced lean cooked ham
1 onion, finely chopped
1 tsp. salt
250g dried Navy beans
1 cup finely chopped celery
2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
1/4 tsp pepper
Method:
In a large pot, bring water to a boil. Add beans (picked through), and boil gently 2 minutes. Turn off heat and let stand covered 1 hour. Pour all including water, into a slow cooker. Add remaining ingredients. Cover and cook on high 6-7 hours until beans are very soft.
This week we will be eating:
Friday: Apricot chicken, mashed potato, peas/corn/carrots
Saturday: Baked beans on toast
Sunday: Roast chicken, baked vegetables, cauliflower with cheese sauce, peas
Monday: Irish stew, sweet potato mash
Tuesday: Fish, salad
Wednesday: Lemon chicken, fried rice
Thursday: Sausages, mash, corn, beans, cauliflower
In the fruit bowl: bananas, apples, oranges
In the cake tin: Choc Chip Biscuits, 3 Ingredient Tea Cake
Do you have a meal planning question? Click here to ask your question, you may see your answer in next week's newsletter.
There are over 1,500 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy
Grocery Budgeting in an Emergency
Hi all and welcome to a new week of budgeting.
Some chatter on the forum lately has been about emergency stores/stocking up your pantry for an emergency. Many countries around the world are about to go bankrupt or are already there. There has been talk about global food shortages.
Now, I'm not sure of what the future holds but I like to be prepared for any emergency - real or not, family, local or global. We had our own family emergency two weeks ago when I was in hospital for two days and recovering for the next five days. I only had to send DH out to get milk, fruit and veg.
You see, my pantry and freezer are always full. Always have been and always will be. It's just the way I work. I don't like being low on anything including petrol for the car and toilet paper. My thought is “what if something happens?”
My pantry is always choc a block. My containers are always full with spare packets to refill them. I always have an assortment of tinned soup. I probably have about 50 tons of soup at the moment. I've been stocking up on the chunky ones lately as they have been $2 each. They make a great meal when you add a couple of handfuls of pasta to them. I use some soups in casseroles too. I've stocked up now because they'll cost too much in spring and summer.
I also stock up on tinned tomatoes, spaghetti, baked beans and tinned fruit and vegies. Everything is stacked in neat rows with labels to the front and stock is rotated when I buy more. I can see just about everything at a glance and writing my shopping list is easy.
I have a good supply of baking ingredients. Nothing fancy, just the basics but I can make many items from what I have. Same with ingredients for meals. If anyone popped in at meal time, I can produce a meal without any stress.
My freezer is full of mince, chicken, roasts, silverside, sausages, some fish, chops, diced beef, frozen vegies ( supermarket bought and home grown ) and zucchini slice. All these things are frozen in meal sizes for convenience.
Our vegies garden always has something growing in it, especially in summer.
Our family could easily eat from our stocks for the next 4 - 6 months without a trip to the supermarket.
My question to you is - how prepared are you for any emergency? If the supermarkets closed down tomorrow, how long would you last with what you have? If you had a money crisis (loss of job etc.) would you cope food wise?
A full pantry does put your mind at ease and boy, does it make you feel rich!!!!!!
It really is “FOOD FOR THOUGHT".
Be encouraged!!!!!
Click here to go to this week's $300 a Month Food Challenge
Click here to read the post that started it all
7. Cheapskates Buzz
Most popular forum posts this week
How to Tie Bows and Knots
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2939-How-to-tie-bows-and-knots
Homemade Gifts
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?1719-Homemade-Gifts
Can I use Roasted Meat Bones to Make Soup
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2947-Can-I-use-roasted-meat-bones-to-make-soup
Most popular blog posts this week
Stay Out of the Shops and Keep Your Money
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/05/stay-out-of-shops-and-keep-your-money.html
Freeze the Beasties
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2010/07/freeze-beasties.html
You don't Need Mr. Muscle
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2010/03/you-dont-need-mr-muscle.html
8. Members Featured Blog
Platinum Cheapskates Club members have their very own Cheapskating blogs, and they are wonderful and inspirational and encouraging and even funny. This week's featured blog is written by School.
Stepping it up!
Well, the best part of my one month grocery challenge is that with a little bit of extra effort we stretched it out to almost 5 weeks before hubby started to complain there was no food in the house.
It went so well that hubby and I went ahead and invested in a deep freezer for the shed. When we went to do our next month's shop it was so good not having to squash everything to within an inch of its life to fit it in. I was able to stock up on things like bread too because we can fit so much more in.
When I did the shop last week I felt a lot more confident and felt I did it a bit quicker and easier than the first month. It was funny at Aldi, my groceries took up the whole conveyor belt (and Aldi's are very long!) so everyone was taking one look at it and heading to the other checkout. One man was brave enough to line up behind and his little girl said "Wow, that's a lot of food". The man was kind enough to keep fixing up my tumbling groceries on the conveyor belt as I was madly chucking them back in my trolley at the register. It was very humorous for everyone.
Another great thing today, I changed my insurance over today and will now be saving $60 month!
Hopefully that will help cover the ever increasing costs of some of our other bills.
Login to read more Cheapskates Club Member blogs
8. This week's Question
Gay writes
"I live aboard a sailboat with a white vinyl lining on the 'ceiling'. It has brown stains from cooking and also from a husband who smokes. What can I clean it with? Have tried vinegar, soda, bleach, peroxide and more."
Do you have the answer?
If you have a suggestion or idea for Gay let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send your answer
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
For just 10 cents a day 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. Gift Memberships
Your family and friends will thank you for a whole year when you give them a Platinum Cheapskates Club membership as a gift.
It's so simple: just select the number of gift memberships required, click the Buy Now button and complete the Gift Membership order form (you must use this form to order gift memberships) and we'll get in touch with you to confirm the gift subscriptions.
Click here to order a gift membership right now!
12. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
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.
Read our privacy policy
How Did You Get on Our List?
You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member
13. Contact Details
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
PO Box 5077 Studfield Vic 3152