Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter:32:14 Bright ideas to save you money
1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Create Your Own Perpetual Garden, MOOing Non-slip Socks, Easy to Find Loyalty Cards
3. Submit Your Tip - Share your favourite tip for a chance to win
4. Living Green in 2014 - Ways to Teach Your Kids about Recycling
5. On the Menu with Anne - No More Menu Madness
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy - MOO Honey Mustard Chicken
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. Member's Featured Blog - A Cheapskates Wedding by Coates776
9. Last Week's Question - A question about frozen yoghurt, help required
10. This Week's Question - Cleaning up spilt nail polish
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Gift Memberships
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
I am so proud I have been jumping with joy for days. Who am I proud of? Our very own Wendy of course! Wendy featured in an A Current Affair segment on Monday night and I know many of you watched it (I've been reading your comments) and are just as proud of her as I am. She did a brilliant job of showing just how easy it is to live the Cheapskates way.
Someone once said (and I've tried to find the attribution but can't, it could be paraphrased from a Theodore Roosevelt quote) that "nothing in this life worth having comes easy" and if you are new to Cheapskating it may seem like it's nothing but hard work.
And then one day you'll realise a debt has been repaid in full. Then another and another. You'll have your spending under control. Before too long that emergency fund you thought was a pipe dream will start to grow. The bills will be paid on time. The money worries you carried as a burden will be gone.
And all because you made a simple decision: to live the Cheapskates way. To ditch the stuff that's not important to you so you can have the cash to enjoy the things that are. You can do it. I know it and you know it so what's holding you back?
To continue our birthday month celebrations this week when you buy any book bundle (1, 2, 3, or 4) you will also receive a one-year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership totally free! That's a bonus of $36.50! And you can use the membership for yourself or if you already have a Cheapskates Club membership you can gift it to someone else! This offer is available until 8pm next Wednesday, 13th August 2014. Click here to order your book bundle and claim your free membership now.
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
Create Your Own Perpetual Garden
Save money buying new herbs and veggies by layering. I've done it successfully with basil, thyme and rosemary. Simply place a flexible stem of the existing plant on the soil and cover with more soil and some rocks to keep it in place. After a while, the section that is buried will sprout roots. It can then be cut from the main plant and will thrive as a stand alone specimen. Tomato plants can also be cloned slightly different, by cutting the growth that sprouts from the main stem, where a lateral stem branches out. Place the cutting in a glass and after a few weeks, roots will sprout. You can then pot it in soil. I always pot it in the shade first, then gradually move it into the sun.
Contributed by Sharima Atkinson
MOOing Non-slip Socks
I bought a tube of puff paint from the craft store (approximately $4) and 'painted' dots and squiggles on the bottom of my son's socks. Make sure they're in the key areas e.g. heel, balls of feet (my son was a tippy toe walker!). Follow the directions on the tube to 'puff' the paint. If I remember rightly I used the steam shot from the iron (held away from sock). I did about 10 pairs of socks and have oodles left in the tube.
Contributed by Tracey Watson
Easy to Find Loyalty Cards
I, like a lot of other people, have collected a lot of loyalty cards but when I wanted one I had to sort through two folders to find the one I needed holding up checkout queues. I took a 1 hole paper punch and a chain bracelet from a bead shop and put a hole in the top corner of each card (turn the card up the other way if the bar code is in the way). Then I simple threaded the chain through the holes on the cards. Now they are all together in one spot and easy and quick to find.
Contributed by Marj O'Donoghue
There are more than 11,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. 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
4. Living Green in 2014
Ways to Teach Your Kids about Recycling
Children are more likely to participate in recycling now and in the future if they understand its implications, and if it is part of their daily life. Learning how to reuse is a valuable life skill, one that has been lost over the last 50 years or so, and opens the door for a lifetime of reduced waste and innovation. It also helps to make it fun!
Here are some ideas you can implement to teach your children about recycling - how to do it, why it's important, and how they can help.
1. Make it a game
Small children will enjoy tossing recyclables into the bins in your home. Try mounting your bins to the wall, or line them up where their tops are open. Have children toss in unbreakable recyclables such as cardboard or plastic from progressively farther away. Or you can lay out all the recycling and see who can sort and put the items in the right bin first.
2. Arts, crafts, and other projects
Not all children enjoy crafts, but there is something for everyone in recycling creations. If your child is artistic and likes crafts, use recyclables to make artistic creations and gifts. Paint a glass or plastic bottle and use it as a vase; glue beads and other decorations to glass or plastic containers to make pencil holders, coasters (think plastic lids) or other items. Stiff paper and thin cardboard can be cut into squares and folded into little boxes.
If your child prefers engineering or machines, you can make gears by cutting up corrugated cardboard and mounting them to cardboard boxes with pins that allow the gears to turn.
3. Visit a landfill, dump or tip
This can be rather unappetizing, but visuals really teach. Show your children the garbage, noting how high it is piled up and how much it smells. Explain that as it rots, it emits carbon dioxide into the air and that this is not good for us to breathe. Keep it simple, but be frank and realistic.
You can read more about the benefits of composting on my blog.
5. On the Menu with Anne
No More Menu Madness
When it comes time to make up a shopping list, having a plan of what you are going to eat for the next week, fortnight or month makes life so much easier. Knowing beforehand what you need to buy to keep the family fed and happy gives you the opportunity to shop for specific markdowns and specials, saving you money at the checkout.
Another benefit of a meal plan is that takes a lot of the load of preparing daily meals off your shoulders. It's easy to check the menu each morning so you know what to prepare for dinner. No more takeaway and no more having to think of what to cook after a long days work either. The decision has been made and the ingredients bought. All you need to do is put it together (or better yet get the family involved) and serve.
To make menu planning (and sticking to it easier) try these little tricks:
• Get the family involved. Let them decide what you are going to be eating.
• Have a good selection of easy meals and family favourites.
• Make sure you have easy meals (crockpot, from the freezer, things that can be prepared in a hurry) down for busy nights.
• Try to use ingredients that you have on hand or would normally use. This keeps the expense down and almost guarantees everyone will eat what's put in front of them.
• Add in a new recipe occasionally, but only for nights where you'll have time to concentrate on it. A new recipe is not a good thing to try when you are pushed for time.
• Encourage the whole family to help with meal preparation. Let each child have a night where they prepare dinner, even if it's just cheese on toast (and even a five-year-old can do this).
• Try to plan for bulk cooking. Double up casseroles, pasta dishes etc. and freeze for the next week.
• Keep a supply of frozen meals on hand for nights when the menu just isn't going to work (and we all have these). Knowing you can pull a meal out of the freezer and pop it in the oven or the microwave will stop you going through the drive through on the way home.
• Plan for leftovers and freeze them for quick lunches or dinners in a hurry.
• Keep food preferences in mind when planning meals. There's no point in preparing tripe and onions if no-one is going to eat it. You've wasted your money and your time and food and everyone will be miserable.
Remember: your meals need to fit your lifestyle, and a meal plan, however simple will help this to happen.
This week we will be eating:
Friday: MOO Hamburgers
Saturday: Cheesy scrambled eggs on toast
Sunday: Roast beef with baked vegetables, cauliflower and cheese sauce, gravy
Monday: Corned beef, mash, carrots, corn, cabbage, mustard sauce
Tuesday: Fish cakes, wedges and salad
Wednesday: Kai Si Min
Thursday: Grilled chops, scalloped potato, carrots, beans, cauliflower
In the fruit bowl: bananas and mandarins
In the cake tin: Choc chip biscuits, Lemon Ginger Slice, Fruity Tea Cake
There are over 1,300 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy
Welcome to a new week for the $300 a month food challenge.
As you probably know, I was away for a few days last week filming a new story for A Current Affair. I left my very capable family in charge of getting their tea ready each night. They didn't want a menu plan to stick to as they'd decided to take it in turns to cook.
My 17 year old daughter Jessica can cook a few meals by herself. Eggs are her specialty. She can cook them at least five different ways. But eggs were not going to fill everyone up. So she chose Honey Mustard Chicken which everyone loves and something she's confident to cook without supervision. I did write down all the ingredients to make it easier for her. From what I heard from DH and DD2, the meal was a great success.
Here's the recipe -
2 small chicken breasts, diced and cooked
2/3 cup of cream
Good drizzle of honey
1 heaped dessert spoon of Dijon mustard
1 heaped dessert spoon of whole grain mustard
1 cup of beans, cooked
1 large sliced carrot, cooked
Mix cream, honey, mustards and seasoning in a medium fry pan and heat.
Add cooked diced chicken, cooked sliced carrot and beans.
Mix well and serve with rice.
This serves four people. Silverbeet or spinach can be shredded finely and added.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?24-Take-up-the-challenge-!!!!
The Post that Started it All
http://www.cheapskates.com.au/pages/default.cfm?page_id=44265
7. Cheapskates Buzz
This week's hot forum topics
Please watch A Current Affair on Monday 23rd June 2014
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2517-Please-watch-A-Current-Affair-on-Monday-23rd-June-2014
How do you flavour Tomato Paste to make a Pizza tomato base?
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2558-How-do-you-flavour-Tomato-Paste-to-make-a-Pizza-tomato-base
Wendy's on ACA on Monday night and you won't want to miss it!
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2574-Wendy-s-on-ACA-on-Monday-night-and-you-won-t-want-to-miss-it!
Most popular blog posts this week
Would You Just Put $500 in the Rubbish Bin?
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2013/08/would-you-just-put-500-in-rubbish-bin.html
Miracle Spray
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2012/05/miracle-spray.html
Beyond Baked Potatoes - 5 Nifty Uses for Spuds
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2014/02/beyond-baked-potatoes-5-nifty-uses-for.html
8. Member's 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 coates776.
A Cheapskates Wedding
Well DS and FDIL have decided that it is a good idea to get married.
I was quite surprised at their frugal approach.
They picked a fancy venue in Sorrento which usually is $140 a head for venue and cocktails and fancy finger food. They want a nice wedding but are trying to save for a house and baby as well.
What they did was do a deal on a Monday wedding for $90 a head. Thought this was quite well done.
They also showed me where they get their wedding dress made in China. You send over your measurements and you get a $3,000 dress for $300. My daughter did this; l was skeptical at first but the dress that arrived was magnificent. From memory the bridesmaids dresses were $80 dollars.
FDIL to be is a hair dresser and has booked her friends who have started a new business and for $1,000 they get wedding makeup, hair and photography.
The have also booked the $60 cake with the local lady here that we use for all our special events.
Yesterday she showed me the invites that are ordered on line, very fancy and all printed from China for $40.
I will have to start my own outfit shopping. I am not going to make the same mistake l made at my daughter's wedding; l bought a dress that l hated and the hairdresser made what looked like a bird nest on the top of my head.
Anyway, lots of excitement there.
Happy Cheapskating!
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9. Last Week's Question
Last week's question was from Leith who wrote
"Recently I bought a 2 litre ice-cream machine for the purpose of making healthier frozen yoghurt, big favourite in my household. I wanted to store in freezer and have small deserts. I am disappointed to find that while the taste is great the texture is not - very icy, requiring defrosting for an hour and then not the best texture. Any tips please?"
Anne answered
Sounds like you are using low fat yoghurt. Low fat yoghurt doesn't freeze well at all. For the best frozen yoghurt use full fat, preferably Greek style, so it's nice and thick and creamy. Yoghurt freezes rock solid and does need to sit on the bench for a few minutes before serving to soften to that creamy semi solid texture.
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10. This Week's Question
Sandy writes
"While joyfully painting my little granddaughter's finger nails the other day I knocked the nail polish bottle and spilt nail polish, not on my vinyl flooring, oh no! but my lovely lounge room carpet. And just to make it more frustrating, I only have myself to blame! So...does anyone have a hint in regard to removing this red (yes of course, red!) nail polish splash from my carpet? I have tried nail polish remover and also my eucalyptus miracle cleaner."
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2. In the Tip Store - Create Your Own Perpetual Garden, MOOing Non-slip Socks, Easy to Find Loyalty Cards
3. Submit Your Tip - Share your favourite tip for a chance to win
4. Living Green in 2014 - Ways to Teach Your Kids about Recycling
5. On the Menu with Anne - No More Menu Madness
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy - MOO Honey Mustard Chicken
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. Member's Featured Blog - A Cheapskates Wedding by Coates776
9. Last Week's Question - A question about frozen yoghurt, help required
10. This Week's Question - Cleaning up spilt nail polish
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Gift Memberships
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
I am so proud I have been jumping with joy for days. Who am I proud of? Our very own Wendy of course! Wendy featured in an A Current Affair segment on Monday night and I know many of you watched it (I've been reading your comments) and are just as proud of her as I am. She did a brilliant job of showing just how easy it is to live the Cheapskates way.
Someone once said (and I've tried to find the attribution but can't, it could be paraphrased from a Theodore Roosevelt quote) that "nothing in this life worth having comes easy" and if you are new to Cheapskating it may seem like it's nothing but hard work.
And then one day you'll realise a debt has been repaid in full. Then another and another. You'll have your spending under control. Before too long that emergency fund you thought was a pipe dream will start to grow. The bills will be paid on time. The money worries you carried as a burden will be gone.
And all because you made a simple decision: to live the Cheapskates way. To ditch the stuff that's not important to you so you can have the cash to enjoy the things that are. You can do it. I know it and you know it so what's holding you back?
To continue our birthday month celebrations this week when you buy any book bundle (1, 2, 3, or 4) you will also receive a one-year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership totally free! That's a bonus of $36.50! And you can use the membership for yourself or if you already have a Cheapskates Club membership you can gift it to someone else! This offer is available until 8pm next Wednesday, 13th August 2014. Click here to order your book bundle and claim your free membership now.
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
Create Your Own Perpetual Garden
Save money buying new herbs and veggies by layering. I've done it successfully with basil, thyme and rosemary. Simply place a flexible stem of the existing plant on the soil and cover with more soil and some rocks to keep it in place. After a while, the section that is buried will sprout roots. It can then be cut from the main plant and will thrive as a stand alone specimen. Tomato plants can also be cloned slightly different, by cutting the growth that sprouts from the main stem, where a lateral stem branches out. Place the cutting in a glass and after a few weeks, roots will sprout. You can then pot it in soil. I always pot it in the shade first, then gradually move it into the sun.
Contributed by Sharima Atkinson
MOOing Non-slip Socks
I bought a tube of puff paint from the craft store (approximately $4) and 'painted' dots and squiggles on the bottom of my son's socks. Make sure they're in the key areas e.g. heel, balls of feet (my son was a tippy toe walker!). Follow the directions on the tube to 'puff' the paint. If I remember rightly I used the steam shot from the iron (held away from sock). I did about 10 pairs of socks and have oodles left in the tube.
Contributed by Tracey Watson
Easy to Find Loyalty Cards
I, like a lot of other people, have collected a lot of loyalty cards but when I wanted one I had to sort through two folders to find the one I needed holding up checkout queues. I took a 1 hole paper punch and a chain bracelet from a bead shop and put a hole in the top corner of each card (turn the card up the other way if the bar code is in the way). Then I simple threaded the chain through the holes on the cards. Now they are all together in one spot and easy and quick to find.
Contributed by Marj O'Donoghue
There are more than 11,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. 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
4. Living Green in 2014
Ways to Teach Your Kids about Recycling
Children are more likely to participate in recycling now and in the future if they understand its implications, and if it is part of their daily life. Learning how to reuse is a valuable life skill, one that has been lost over the last 50 years or so, and opens the door for a lifetime of reduced waste and innovation. It also helps to make it fun!
Here are some ideas you can implement to teach your children about recycling - how to do it, why it's important, and how they can help.
1. Make it a game
Small children will enjoy tossing recyclables into the bins in your home. Try mounting your bins to the wall, or line them up where their tops are open. Have children toss in unbreakable recyclables such as cardboard or plastic from progressively farther away. Or you can lay out all the recycling and see who can sort and put the items in the right bin first.
2. Arts, crafts, and other projects
Not all children enjoy crafts, but there is something for everyone in recycling creations. If your child is artistic and likes crafts, use recyclables to make artistic creations and gifts. Paint a glass or plastic bottle and use it as a vase; glue beads and other decorations to glass or plastic containers to make pencil holders, coasters (think plastic lids) or other items. Stiff paper and thin cardboard can be cut into squares and folded into little boxes.
If your child prefers engineering or machines, you can make gears by cutting up corrugated cardboard and mounting them to cardboard boxes with pins that allow the gears to turn.
3. Visit a landfill, dump or tip
This can be rather unappetizing, but visuals really teach. Show your children the garbage, noting how high it is piled up and how much it smells. Explain that as it rots, it emits carbon dioxide into the air and that this is not good for us to breathe. Keep it simple, but be frank and realistic.
You can read more about the benefits of composting on my blog.
5. On the Menu with Anne
No More Menu Madness
When it comes time to make up a shopping list, having a plan of what you are going to eat for the next week, fortnight or month makes life so much easier. Knowing beforehand what you need to buy to keep the family fed and happy gives you the opportunity to shop for specific markdowns and specials, saving you money at the checkout.
Another benefit of a meal plan is that takes a lot of the load of preparing daily meals off your shoulders. It's easy to check the menu each morning so you know what to prepare for dinner. No more takeaway and no more having to think of what to cook after a long days work either. The decision has been made and the ingredients bought. All you need to do is put it together (or better yet get the family involved) and serve.
To make menu planning (and sticking to it easier) try these little tricks:
• Get the family involved. Let them decide what you are going to be eating.
• Have a good selection of easy meals and family favourites.
• Make sure you have easy meals (crockpot, from the freezer, things that can be prepared in a hurry) down for busy nights.
• Try to use ingredients that you have on hand or would normally use. This keeps the expense down and almost guarantees everyone will eat what's put in front of them.
• Add in a new recipe occasionally, but only for nights where you'll have time to concentrate on it. A new recipe is not a good thing to try when you are pushed for time.
• Encourage the whole family to help with meal preparation. Let each child have a night where they prepare dinner, even if it's just cheese on toast (and even a five-year-old can do this).
• Try to plan for bulk cooking. Double up casseroles, pasta dishes etc. and freeze for the next week.
• Keep a supply of frozen meals on hand for nights when the menu just isn't going to work (and we all have these). Knowing you can pull a meal out of the freezer and pop it in the oven or the microwave will stop you going through the drive through on the way home.
• Plan for leftovers and freeze them for quick lunches or dinners in a hurry.
• Keep food preferences in mind when planning meals. There's no point in preparing tripe and onions if no-one is going to eat it. You've wasted your money and your time and food and everyone will be miserable.
Remember: your meals need to fit your lifestyle, and a meal plan, however simple will help this to happen.
This week we will be eating:
Friday: MOO Hamburgers
Saturday: Cheesy scrambled eggs on toast
Sunday: Roast beef with baked vegetables, cauliflower and cheese sauce, gravy
Monday: Corned beef, mash, carrots, corn, cabbage, mustard sauce
Tuesday: Fish cakes, wedges and salad
Wednesday: Kai Si Min
Thursday: Grilled chops, scalloped potato, carrots, beans, cauliflower
In the fruit bowl: bananas and mandarins
In the cake tin: Choc chip biscuits, Lemon Ginger Slice, Fruity Tea Cake
There are over 1,300 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy
Welcome to a new week for the $300 a month food challenge.
As you probably know, I was away for a few days last week filming a new story for A Current Affair. I left my very capable family in charge of getting their tea ready each night. They didn't want a menu plan to stick to as they'd decided to take it in turns to cook.
My 17 year old daughter Jessica can cook a few meals by herself. Eggs are her specialty. She can cook them at least five different ways. But eggs were not going to fill everyone up. So she chose Honey Mustard Chicken which everyone loves and something she's confident to cook without supervision. I did write down all the ingredients to make it easier for her. From what I heard from DH and DD2, the meal was a great success.
Here's the recipe -
2 small chicken breasts, diced and cooked
2/3 cup of cream
Good drizzle of honey
1 heaped dessert spoon of Dijon mustard
1 heaped dessert spoon of whole grain mustard
1 cup of beans, cooked
1 large sliced carrot, cooked
Mix cream, honey, mustards and seasoning in a medium fry pan and heat.
Add cooked diced chicken, cooked sliced carrot and beans.
Mix well and serve with rice.
This serves four people. Silverbeet or spinach can be shredded finely and added.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?24-Take-up-the-challenge-!!!!
The Post that Started it All
http://www.cheapskates.com.au/pages/default.cfm?page_id=44265
7. Cheapskates Buzz
This week's hot forum topics
Please watch A Current Affair on Monday 23rd June 2014
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2517-Please-watch-A-Current-Affair-on-Monday-23rd-June-2014
How do you flavour Tomato Paste to make a Pizza tomato base?
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2558-How-do-you-flavour-Tomato-Paste-to-make-a-Pizza-tomato-base
Wendy's on ACA on Monday night and you won't want to miss it!
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2574-Wendy-s-on-ACA-on-Monday-night-and-you-won-t-want-to-miss-it!
Most popular blog posts this week
Would You Just Put $500 in the Rubbish Bin?
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2013/08/would-you-just-put-500-in-rubbish-bin.html
Miracle Spray
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2012/05/miracle-spray.html
Beyond Baked Potatoes - 5 Nifty Uses for Spuds
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2014/02/beyond-baked-potatoes-5-nifty-uses-for.html
8. Member's 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 coates776.
A Cheapskates Wedding
Well DS and FDIL have decided that it is a good idea to get married.
I was quite surprised at their frugal approach.
They picked a fancy venue in Sorrento which usually is $140 a head for venue and cocktails and fancy finger food. They want a nice wedding but are trying to save for a house and baby as well.
What they did was do a deal on a Monday wedding for $90 a head. Thought this was quite well done.
They also showed me where they get their wedding dress made in China. You send over your measurements and you get a $3,000 dress for $300. My daughter did this; l was skeptical at first but the dress that arrived was magnificent. From memory the bridesmaids dresses were $80 dollars.
FDIL to be is a hair dresser and has booked her friends who have started a new business and for $1,000 they get wedding makeup, hair and photography.
The have also booked the $60 cake with the local lady here that we use for all our special events.
Yesterday she showed me the invites that are ordered on line, very fancy and all printed from China for $40.
I will have to start my own outfit shopping. I am not going to make the same mistake l made at my daughter's wedding; l bought a dress that l hated and the hairdresser made what looked like a bird nest on the top of my head.
Anyway, lots of excitement there.
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"Recently I bought a 2 litre ice-cream machine for the purpose of making healthier frozen yoghurt, big favourite in my household. I wanted to store in freezer and have small deserts. I am disappointed to find that while the taste is great the texture is not - very icy, requiring defrosting for an hour and then not the best texture. Any tips please?"
Anne answered
Sounds like you are using low fat yoghurt. Low fat yoghurt doesn't freeze well at all. For the best frozen yoghurt use full fat, preferably Greek style, so it's nice and thick and creamy. Yoghurt freezes rock solid and does need to sit on the bench for a few minutes before serving to soften to that creamy semi solid texture.
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