YOUR CHEAPSKATES CLUB NEWSLETTER 32:20
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Label Maker Saver, Turning a Turntable Into A Lazy Susan; Clothing For Teens;
3. Tip of the Week - Not Elastic For Face Masks
4. Share Your Tips and Win!
5. On the Menu - Soup & Crumpets
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Preparing for the Lean Times
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
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,
Well hasn't the world gone crazy. Well it has if you live in Victoria. Right now I can only leave the house for 1 hour a day, to do essential shopping, and it must be done within 5km of home. Good thing I'm a homebody.
I can imagine you shaking your head and mentally telling me that everything is going up, and up, and up in price. That staying on budget, let alone under it, is impossible, even though you've cut back on all the fun things in life - the manicures, the treats, the delicious coffees and everything else you enjoy.
So, I've been thinking. Just because we are in the middle of a crisis, and a lot of us can't leave our homes, and money is tight for just about everyone, doesn't mean we can't have what I've called frugal extravagances. I know, you'd think frugal and extravagance are complete opposites, but they don't need to be, especially if you're a Cheapskate.
Here's one of my favourite frugal extravagances. It costs under $2 to make a big jar of brown sugar scrub and it is amazing. During winter, heating and air-conditioning dry out skin, especially on elbows and knees and feet that are covered almost all the time. A gentle exfoliation with Brown Sugar Scrub softly removes dry, rough skin and leaves those rough spots smooth and soft. And it costs almost nothing! And you most likely have the ingredients in the house already. Oh, and if you're worrying about Christmas already, it makes a lovely gift in a repurposed jar with a recycled ribbon or lace and a gorgeous handmade tag. Body scrubs cost anywhere from $9 to $49+ for a 250ml container. Brown Sugar Body Scrub costs under $2, depending on where you source the ingredients, for the same amount. And that will keep you scrubbed and exfoliated for a long, long time (a little goes a long way). Even on a tight budget you can treat yourself.
So what are your favourite extravagances, Cheapskates style? I'd love to know how you treat yourself on a budget. You can share them here and I'll add them to the newsletter next week.
Stay warm everyone, stay dry and most importantly stay home unless you absolutely must go out so you can stay safe and healthy.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Label Maker Saver
use label makers at work and I find the gap between the writing and the cut off point to be quite big and I waste nearly 2 inches of label maker tape, and the tapes aren't cheap! What I have come across is rather than printing and cutting each thing, type up everything you want at once with one space between them. Then just cut each piece. There is a lot less waste at the end.
Contributed by Chloe Matthews
Turning A Turntable Into A Lazy Susan
I was recently throwing out an old microwave and decided to keep the glass plate and round plastic bits from underneath only to discover that it makes a perfect lazy susan that holds all the essentials in my pantry and rotates perfectly!
Contributed by Jane Edwards
Clothing For TeensWe had a saying in our house, still use it for grandkids, "we supply the need - you buy the greed". What it meant was we would provide all essential items of clothing and toiletries, i.e. school uniforms, out of school clothing and underwear, but if they wanted designer clothes we would look at the price of a similar item say, jeans, (KMart) $20, give them that money and if they wanted $80 jeans they had to use their pocket money or birthday money to pay the rest. Surprisingly they often decided that chain-store items were acceptable.
Contributed by Colleen Dransfield
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Carol Ryan. Carol has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her timely and very clever winning tip.
Not Elastic For Face Masks
Can't buy normal elastic for love not money. Searching around a large store that sells fabric etc. and I came across the handmade jewellery supplies. I bought, without being able to see how much give was in this item, a very thin, what had to stretch for bracelets I was thinking, tiny roll of stretch thread. It works well. You need 3 lengths to hold the knot and need to double knot when tying off, but compared to bias and the like it is very comfortable and the 3 threads with double knots held within the mask. So far 10/10.
Congratulations Carol, I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
4. Share Your Tips
I want your tips!
We are rebuilding the Tip Store, removing all the old tips that are no longer relevant to living the Cheapskates way, and deleting double-ups. This means you'll see changes in the Tip Store, with one being the total number of tips will go down. And that means there will be room for new tips!
So, I want you to share your best money, time and energy saving ideas, there will be a weekly prize of a one year Cheapskates Club membership and a monthly prize of a one-year Cheapskates Club membership and $50. T
Prizes will be announced in the newsletter each week, with the prize for the tip of the month announced in the first newsletter of the next month.
It's easy and the rules are simple:
The tip must be cheap a genuine money, time or energy saver.
The tip must be of a practical nature.
The tip can be for anything home, garden, car, budget, children etc.
Please be specific in your tip i.e. "use vinegar and bi-carb for cleaning" won't win you a prize.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
5. On The Menu
Soup & Crumpets
It's cold here. So cold it snowed! And we are back in a lockdown, with only four reasons to leave the house, and then only for one hour a day. So comfort food is needed. The best thing about comfort food is that it is usually cheap. And tasty. And of course, delicious. This soup recipe is my friend Debbie's and it's yummy. The crumpet recipe is from my personal recipe book, and they're pretty good too. But together - oh boy! A combination that is perfect for a cold, wet, locked down winter's night. Enjoy!
Debbie's Pumpkin Soup
Ingredients:
1kg medium pumpkin, peeled and chopped
2 large potatoes, peeled and diced
1 onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 litre chicken stock
1 tsp nutmeg
300ml cream
Pepper
Sour cream for serving
Method:
Place pumpkin, potato, onion, garlic in a large saucepan and barely cover with stock. Boil until soft. Blend in a food processor until smooth. Return to saucepan. Add nutmeg and cream. Add pepper to taste. If desired, drizzle cream on top of the soup once in the bowls. Serve with fresh crusty bread or fresh, toasted crumpets.MOO CrumpetsI love crumpets at any time of year, but at over $2 a packet they have been crossed off my shopping list. I don't need to buy them anyway, they can be made using the ingredients I have in the pantry - and they are really easy!
Oh, and you will not believe just how good freshly made crumpets are - you'll never eat the bought ones again.
Ingredients:
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons dried yeast
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon sugar
500ml warm water
150ml warm milk
½ teaspoon bicarb soda
Butter for greasing
Method:
Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl, make a well in the centre and add water slowly, mixing well until a thick batter has formed.
Knead well until thick and smooth . Cover and leave in a warm spot for an hour to rise.
Add the bicarb soda to the warm milk. Stir milk mixture into the dough, beating well so there are no lumps. The batter should look like thick pancake mix.
Grease a frying pan and egg rings or crumpet rings and heat to a moderate temperature. Place 1 tablespoonful of mixture in each egg ring or 2 tablespoonfuls in each crumpet ring. Cook over moderate heat until bubbles rise, leave a little longer so the bubbles set slightly then turn crumpets and brown the tops.
After turning crumpets, remove the rings and re-grease. Then start the next batch cooking. This recipe makes about 45 egg ring- or 20 crumpet ring-sized crumpets.
Toast to serve. These crumpets freeze well.
Note: You can buy special crumpet rings from cookware shops for around $3 each. A cheaper option is to use 425g tuna cans that have had both ends removed.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Lamb
Monday: Schnitzels, veg, tomato gravy
Tuesday: Ravioli in Tomato Sauce
Wednesday: Lamb kebabs
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Swedish Meatballs, noodles, white sauce
Saturday: Soup & Crumpets
In the fruit bowl: oranges
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
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Preparing For Lean Times
The last six months have been dreadful, for the whole world. A pandemic has caused unheard of suffering, the likes of which the modern world has never seen or experienced.
Right here in Australia, suddenly people were out of work; people who thought they had job security found themselves lining up for hours outside Centrelink offices. And now, in Victoria, it's even worse, with a Stage 4 lockdown in place for the next six weeks.
Supermarkets have run out of basics, even though we've been assured that there are no supply problems, but we might not be able to get what we want when we want it but we'll still be able to get something (double-dutch much?). During the first round, toilet paper became almost as valuable as gold. Now it's fabric and elastic to make face masks.
If you find yourself running out of things during this crisis, you might like to think about what you would need to survive without shopping for a week, a fortnight, a month, three months, six months even a year.
Then look at your pantry. What do you have? How long will it last you? Where are the holes? If the shops were to close overnight (they did here), what would you need?
Start now to fill the gaps. I've suggested before that every household should have at least enough in the pantry, to last one pay period without shopping. So, if you are paid weekly, aim for a pantry with enough for a week; fortnightly aim for a pantry to last two weeks etc. Right now, I'd suggest aim for a month's worth of groceries and work towards getting your pantry built up.
Even in lockdown, you can build your pantry. There aren't many specials around at the moment, although there are still bargains to be had. Spend some of that spare time you have now to get online and work out where the best deals are, then plan your shopping around them. When you head out to the supermarket or greengrocer or butcher make it worth the effort. Take your list. Know what you need and what you'd like to get. Don’t forget to social distancing rules and mask, and shop with a purpose: in, get the list done, get out. Don't hang around and browse.
As you get the additions to your pantry, don't forget to cross them off your list.
Remember, you don't need to get everything at once. Little by little, item by item, $5 by $5, you can build your pantry. Even having just one spare of whatever is open is a start that you can build on.
Because being prepared is wise. It does save you money. It does save you time. It does give you options when it comes to cooking and baking. And it means that in an emergency, whatever it may be, you don't need to worry about shopping.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
7 Ways To Save Big With A Simple Savings Jar
10 Financial Skills That Will Carry You Through Challenging Times
The Bare Bones Grocery Challenge
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Learning To Live & Survive Now
MOO Pesto
A Really Basic MOO
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Join us live on YouTube every Tuesday and Thursday and see how we are living debt free, cashed up and laughing - and find out how you can too!
Show ScheduleTuesday: 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.
Popular Shows
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Label Maker Saver, Turning a Turntable Into A Lazy Susan; Clothing For Teens;
3. Tip of the Week - Not Elastic For Face Masks
4. Share Your Tips and Win!
5. On the Menu - Soup & Crumpets
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Preparing for the Lean Times
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
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,
Well hasn't the world gone crazy. Well it has if you live in Victoria. Right now I can only leave the house for 1 hour a day, to do essential shopping, and it must be done within 5km of home. Good thing I'm a homebody.
I can imagine you shaking your head and mentally telling me that everything is going up, and up, and up in price. That staying on budget, let alone under it, is impossible, even though you've cut back on all the fun things in life - the manicures, the treats, the delicious coffees and everything else you enjoy.
So, I've been thinking. Just because we are in the middle of a crisis, and a lot of us can't leave our homes, and money is tight for just about everyone, doesn't mean we can't have what I've called frugal extravagances. I know, you'd think frugal and extravagance are complete opposites, but they don't need to be, especially if you're a Cheapskate.
Here's one of my favourite frugal extravagances. It costs under $2 to make a big jar of brown sugar scrub and it is amazing. During winter, heating and air-conditioning dry out skin, especially on elbows and knees and feet that are covered almost all the time. A gentle exfoliation with Brown Sugar Scrub softly removes dry, rough skin and leaves those rough spots smooth and soft. And it costs almost nothing! And you most likely have the ingredients in the house already. Oh, and if you're worrying about Christmas already, it makes a lovely gift in a repurposed jar with a recycled ribbon or lace and a gorgeous handmade tag. Body scrubs cost anywhere from $9 to $49+ for a 250ml container. Brown Sugar Body Scrub costs under $2, depending on where you source the ingredients, for the same amount. And that will keep you scrubbed and exfoliated for a long, long time (a little goes a long way). Even on a tight budget you can treat yourself.
So what are your favourite extravagances, Cheapskates style? I'd love to know how you treat yourself on a budget. You can share them here and I'll add them to the newsletter next week.
Stay warm everyone, stay dry and most importantly stay home unless you absolutely must go out so you can stay safe and healthy.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Label Maker Saver
use label makers at work and I find the gap between the writing and the cut off point to be quite big and I waste nearly 2 inches of label maker tape, and the tapes aren't cheap! What I have come across is rather than printing and cutting each thing, type up everything you want at once with one space between them. Then just cut each piece. There is a lot less waste at the end.
Contributed by Chloe Matthews
Turning A Turntable Into A Lazy Susan
I was recently throwing out an old microwave and decided to keep the glass plate and round plastic bits from underneath only to discover that it makes a perfect lazy susan that holds all the essentials in my pantry and rotates perfectly!
Contributed by Jane Edwards
Clothing For TeensWe had a saying in our house, still use it for grandkids, "we supply the need - you buy the greed". What it meant was we would provide all essential items of clothing and toiletries, i.e. school uniforms, out of school clothing and underwear, but if they wanted designer clothes we would look at the price of a similar item say, jeans, (KMart) $20, give them that money and if they wanted $80 jeans they had to use their pocket money or birthday money to pay the rest. Surprisingly they often decided that chain-store items were acceptable.
Contributed by Colleen Dransfield
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Carol Ryan. Carol has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her timely and very clever winning tip.
Not Elastic For Face Masks
Can't buy normal elastic for love not money. Searching around a large store that sells fabric etc. and I came across the handmade jewellery supplies. I bought, without being able to see how much give was in this item, a very thin, what had to stretch for bracelets I was thinking, tiny roll of stretch thread. It works well. You need 3 lengths to hold the knot and need to double knot when tying off, but compared to bias and the like it is very comfortable and the 3 threads with double knots held within the mask. So far 10/10.
Congratulations Carol, I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
4. Share Your Tips
I want your tips!
We are rebuilding the Tip Store, removing all the old tips that are no longer relevant to living the Cheapskates way, and deleting double-ups. This means you'll see changes in the Tip Store, with one being the total number of tips will go down. And that means there will be room for new tips!
So, I want you to share your best money, time and energy saving ideas, there will be a weekly prize of a one year Cheapskates Club membership and a monthly prize of a one-year Cheapskates Club membership and $50. T
Prizes will be announced in the newsletter each week, with the prize for the tip of the month announced in the first newsletter of the next month.
It's easy and the rules are simple:
The tip must be cheap a genuine money, time or energy saver.
The tip must be of a practical nature.
The tip can be for anything home, garden, car, budget, children etc.
Please be specific in your tip i.e. "use vinegar and bi-carb for cleaning" won't win you a prize.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
5. On The Menu
Soup & Crumpets
It's cold here. So cold it snowed! And we are back in a lockdown, with only four reasons to leave the house, and then only for one hour a day. So comfort food is needed. The best thing about comfort food is that it is usually cheap. And tasty. And of course, delicious. This soup recipe is my friend Debbie's and it's yummy. The crumpet recipe is from my personal recipe book, and they're pretty good too. But together - oh boy! A combination that is perfect for a cold, wet, locked down winter's night. Enjoy!
Debbie's Pumpkin Soup
Ingredients:
1kg medium pumpkin, peeled and chopped
2 large potatoes, peeled and diced
1 onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 litre chicken stock
1 tsp nutmeg
300ml cream
Pepper
Sour cream for serving
Method:
Place pumpkin, potato, onion, garlic in a large saucepan and barely cover with stock. Boil until soft. Blend in a food processor until smooth. Return to saucepan. Add nutmeg and cream. Add pepper to taste. If desired, drizzle cream on top of the soup once in the bowls. Serve with fresh crusty bread or fresh, toasted crumpets.MOO CrumpetsI love crumpets at any time of year, but at over $2 a packet they have been crossed off my shopping list. I don't need to buy them anyway, they can be made using the ingredients I have in the pantry - and they are really easy!
Oh, and you will not believe just how good freshly made crumpets are - you'll never eat the bought ones again.
Ingredients:
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons dried yeast
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon sugar
500ml warm water
150ml warm milk
½ teaspoon bicarb soda
Butter for greasing
Method:
Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl, make a well in the centre and add water slowly, mixing well until a thick batter has formed.
Knead well until thick and smooth . Cover and leave in a warm spot for an hour to rise.
Add the bicarb soda to the warm milk. Stir milk mixture into the dough, beating well so there are no lumps. The batter should look like thick pancake mix.
Grease a frying pan and egg rings or crumpet rings and heat to a moderate temperature. Place 1 tablespoonful of mixture in each egg ring or 2 tablespoonfuls in each crumpet ring. Cook over moderate heat until bubbles rise, leave a little longer so the bubbles set slightly then turn crumpets and brown the tops.
After turning crumpets, remove the rings and re-grease. Then start the next batch cooking. This recipe makes about 45 egg ring- or 20 crumpet ring-sized crumpets.
Toast to serve. These crumpets freeze well.
Note: You can buy special crumpet rings from cookware shops for around $3 each. A cheaper option is to use 425g tuna cans that have had both ends removed.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Lamb
Monday: Schnitzels, veg, tomato gravy
Tuesday: Ravioli in Tomato Sauce
Wednesday: Lamb kebabs
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Swedish Meatballs, noodles, white sauce
Saturday: Soup & Crumpets
In the fruit bowl: oranges
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
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Preparing For Lean Times
The last six months have been dreadful, for the whole world. A pandemic has caused unheard of suffering, the likes of which the modern world has never seen or experienced.
Right here in Australia, suddenly people were out of work; people who thought they had job security found themselves lining up for hours outside Centrelink offices. And now, in Victoria, it's even worse, with a Stage 4 lockdown in place for the next six weeks.
Supermarkets have run out of basics, even though we've been assured that there are no supply problems, but we might not be able to get what we want when we want it but we'll still be able to get something (double-dutch much?). During the first round, toilet paper became almost as valuable as gold. Now it's fabric and elastic to make face masks.
If you find yourself running out of things during this crisis, you might like to think about what you would need to survive without shopping for a week, a fortnight, a month, three months, six months even a year.
Then look at your pantry. What do you have? How long will it last you? Where are the holes? If the shops were to close overnight (they did here), what would you need?
Start now to fill the gaps. I've suggested before that every household should have at least enough in the pantry, to last one pay period without shopping. So, if you are paid weekly, aim for a pantry with enough for a week; fortnightly aim for a pantry to last two weeks etc. Right now, I'd suggest aim for a month's worth of groceries and work towards getting your pantry built up.
Even in lockdown, you can build your pantry. There aren't many specials around at the moment, although there are still bargains to be had. Spend some of that spare time you have now to get online and work out where the best deals are, then plan your shopping around them. When you head out to the supermarket or greengrocer or butcher make it worth the effort. Take your list. Know what you need and what you'd like to get. Don’t forget to social distancing rules and mask, and shop with a purpose: in, get the list done, get out. Don't hang around and browse.
As you get the additions to your pantry, don't forget to cross them off your list.
Remember, you don't need to get everything at once. Little by little, item by item, $5 by $5, you can build your pantry. Even having just one spare of whatever is open is a start that you can build on.
Because being prepared is wise. It does save you money. It does save you time. It does give you options when it comes to cooking and baking. And it means that in an emergency, whatever it may be, you don't need to worry about shopping.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
7 Ways To Save Big With A Simple Savings Jar
10 Financial Skills That Will Carry You Through Challenging Times
The Bare Bones Grocery Challenge
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Learning To Live & Survive Now
MOO Pesto
A Really Basic MOO
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Join us live on YouTube every Tuesday and Thursday and see how we are living debt free, cashed up and laughing - and find out how you can too!
Show ScheduleTuesday: 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.
Popular Shows
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 $25 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
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 $25 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