Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 38:21
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Lights in an Emergency; Keep an Emergency Travel Kit in the Car; A Simple Binder Keeps Our Home Organised
3.Share Your Tips
4. TEOTWAWKI Pantry Challenge
5. On the Menu - Crunchy Coconut Cookies
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge -Mixed Dried Fruit Price Comparison
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge - MOO Celery Salt!
10. 2021 Saving Revolution - Lesson 38 Clear the Clutter
11. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
12. Join the Cheapskates Club
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Well this has been an exciting week!
Yesterday we had an earthquake that shook our home (and me!). We are so grateful there is no damage to our home, that we could find. I know many were not so fortunate.
It was a bit comical, looking back. AJ was talking to me before he started work (we are still on work at home orders) and my first thought was the wind was picking up, then next thought was an earthquake. I couldn’t decide whether to save my mother's antique mirror, the tea set in my china cabinet or the canned food in the pantry! They were all rattling, and I was a bit like a pup chasing it's tail, trying to pick something to hang onto.
Thankfully all the canned food is fine. I did go over it and test all the seals just to be sure. And no damage to the mirror (it came to me from my mother, and it came to her from my great-grandmother, so it's very old and rather precious to me) or the tea set (a gift over the years from my mother, and another precious thing I'd hate to lose).
And all the while I had the canner on the stove, with eight pints of ugly chicken in it; the canner never moved. I let it finish processing and when the jars came out they were perfect. No siphoning, no cracks or chips, and they all sealed. I think God meant us to have that chicken in the pantry!
Then to make our week even better, Wayne was notified that he had been at a Tier 1 exposure site on Monday, and had to get tested and isolate. And because we all live in the same house, we all had to isolate. Now that made me laugh, I wondered what we had been doing for the last 19 months, give or take a couple of weekends? Anyway we are waiting on the results; once we have those we'll know whether or not to put our C-emergency isolation plan into place.
I hope you all survived this week with wind and rain and earthquakes as well as we have; being preparedness month, an earthquake sure made me glad we do prepare for emergencies of all kinds as par for the course.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
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2. From The Tip Store
Lights in an Emergency
During the recent fires here in the Adelaide Hills, we had to evacuate. I have a granny flat attached to my daughter's house. My son-in-law stayed and saved the house, the water tanks, the storage shed and his 15 sheep. Lots of trees, fences and pasture was burned. As the electricity went off on the Saturday morning he needed light for at night. I use a small string 20 bulb LED Christmas lights as a nightlight, mostly for my dog. We live on a property, so no streetlights around. I have these lights all over the house for when we have a power failure. So at night he had about 20 strings all over the house and that was fantastic. Not strong enough to read by but very safe. The power was off from Saturday morning until Wednesday night. These little strings of lights last a couple of years on just 2AA batteries so very cheap to run and much safer than candles.
Contributed by Joanne Kegel
Keep an Emergency Travel Kit in the Car
We travel by car a lot to school, day care, football, to visit grandparents and cousins and every now and then something goes pear shaped. To help calm upset children (and parents) when things go wrong I keep a small emergency travel kit in the car. It's just a large ziplock bag. In it I have some large freezer bags (they're great for "sick" bags - they can be tied up and disposed of easily), a small packet of wet wipes and a small bottle of antibacterial waterless hand wash for clean-ups, some paper serviettes (to wipe fingers or hold snacks) and a sleeve of paracetamol tablets. These few items have saved us from disaster so many times I can't imagine not having them in the car. I check the bag before every long trip (for us more than 2 hours in the car with our children) and refill it if necessary.
Contributed by Moira Longford
A Simple Binder Keeps Our Home Organised
I keep my calendar/diary in an A5 2 ring binder. In the back I keep a list of where to find important things in case of emergency as well as menu and grocery master list, emergency contacts, phone numbers and addresses and opening times for doctors, vetand hospital. I also have my daily, weekly and monthly routines laminated so I can cross tasks off as they're done and see what needs doing the next month when it rolls around. My mother loves these lists, because she knows that if there's an emergency while she's here (and I am not) she can call the school, our friends, and find our GP or vet.
Contributed by Dawn Lewis
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tips
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
4. TEOTWAWKI Pantry Challenge
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Lights in an Emergency; Keep an Emergency Travel Kit in the Car; A Simple Binder Keeps Our Home Organised
3.Share Your Tips
4. TEOTWAWKI Pantry Challenge
5. On the Menu - Crunchy Coconut Cookies
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge -Mixed Dried Fruit Price Comparison
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge - MOO Celery Salt!
10. 2021 Saving Revolution - Lesson 38 Clear the Clutter
11. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
12. Join the Cheapskates Club
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Well this has been an exciting week!
Yesterday we had an earthquake that shook our home (and me!). We are so grateful there is no damage to our home, that we could find. I know many were not so fortunate.
It was a bit comical, looking back. AJ was talking to me before he started work (we are still on work at home orders) and my first thought was the wind was picking up, then next thought was an earthquake. I couldn’t decide whether to save my mother's antique mirror, the tea set in my china cabinet or the canned food in the pantry! They were all rattling, and I was a bit like a pup chasing it's tail, trying to pick something to hang onto.
Thankfully all the canned food is fine. I did go over it and test all the seals just to be sure. And no damage to the mirror (it came to me from my mother, and it came to her from my great-grandmother, so it's very old and rather precious to me) or the tea set (a gift over the years from my mother, and another precious thing I'd hate to lose).
And all the while I had the canner on the stove, with eight pints of ugly chicken in it; the canner never moved. I let it finish processing and when the jars came out they were perfect. No siphoning, no cracks or chips, and they all sealed. I think God meant us to have that chicken in the pantry!
Then to make our week even better, Wayne was notified that he had been at a Tier 1 exposure site on Monday, and had to get tested and isolate. And because we all live in the same house, we all had to isolate. Now that made me laugh, I wondered what we had been doing for the last 19 months, give or take a couple of weekends? Anyway we are waiting on the results; once we have those we'll know whether or not to put our C-emergency isolation plan into place.
I hope you all survived this week with wind and rain and earthquakes as well as we have; being preparedness month, an earthquake sure made me glad we do prepare for emergencies of all kinds as par for the course.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
Lights in an Emergency
During the recent fires here in the Adelaide Hills, we had to evacuate. I have a granny flat attached to my daughter's house. My son-in-law stayed and saved the house, the water tanks, the storage shed and his 15 sheep. Lots of trees, fences and pasture was burned. As the electricity went off on the Saturday morning he needed light for at night. I use a small string 20 bulb LED Christmas lights as a nightlight, mostly for my dog. We live on a property, so no streetlights around. I have these lights all over the house for when we have a power failure. So at night he had about 20 strings all over the house and that was fantastic. Not strong enough to read by but very safe. The power was off from Saturday morning until Wednesday night. These little strings of lights last a couple of years on just 2AA batteries so very cheap to run and much safer than candles.
Contributed by Joanne Kegel
Keep an Emergency Travel Kit in the Car
We travel by car a lot to school, day care, football, to visit grandparents and cousins and every now and then something goes pear shaped. To help calm upset children (and parents) when things go wrong I keep a small emergency travel kit in the car. It's just a large ziplock bag. In it I have some large freezer bags (they're great for "sick" bags - they can be tied up and disposed of easily), a small packet of wet wipes and a small bottle of antibacterial waterless hand wash for clean-ups, some paper serviettes (to wipe fingers or hold snacks) and a sleeve of paracetamol tablets. These few items have saved us from disaster so many times I can't imagine not having them in the car. I check the bag before every long trip (for us more than 2 hours in the car with our children) and refill it if necessary.
Contributed by Moira Longford
A Simple Binder Keeps Our Home Organised
I keep my calendar/diary in an A5 2 ring binder. In the back I keep a list of where to find important things in case of emergency as well as menu and grocery master list, emergency contacts, phone numbers and addresses and opening times for doctors, vetand hospital. I also have my daily, weekly and monthly routines laminated so I can cross tasks off as they're done and see what needs doing the next month when it rolls around. My mother loves these lists, because she knows that if there's an emergency while she's here (and I am not) she can call the school, our friends, and find our GP or vet.
Contributed by Dawn Lewis
Add a Tip
3. Share Your Tips
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
4. TEOTWAWKI Pantry Challenge
We are into the second week of this amazing challenge and it has been so much fun.
How are you going? I've found only one gap so far, the honey that I mentioned last week. So far the pantry is doing what I want it to - feed us, and keep us and the house clean.
I haven't bought anything that we have used since Monday 13th, not even milk. The longlife milk is doing just fine for baking and we've saved the fresh milk for tea and coffee. Mashed potatoes done with a tablespoon of milk powder and a little of the water from steaming or boiling the spuds is delicious too and has helped to save the fresh milk.
How are you going? Have you found many gaps? Have there been complaints (Cheapskater Cathy reported that her older kids objected to powdered milk so they bought their own - great learning experience for them I think) and Glenys mentioned that her husband will be enjoying tinned fruit instead of fresh soon, but he won't grumble.
If you've run out of something, did you have something you could use as a substitute? There is a great list of simple substitutes you can download (I have mine taped to the inside of the spice cupboard door). Click here to download Simple Substitutes.
5. On The Menu
Crunchy Coconut Cookies
This is the first in a series of budget morning/afternoon tea and supper recipes I'll include in the newsletter over the next few weeks. I was watching a YouTube video last week and it was all about budget lunchbox treats. The recipes sounded delicious, but there is no way they would fit in my grocery budget on the $300 a Month Food Challenge. Just one cake used 5 eggs!
First up is Crunchy Coconut Cookies. I used to make these every week for the lunchboxes. Even I, who finds making cookies and biscuits a drag, don't mind whipping up a batch of these little morsels.
These are so delicious and easy to make. And they are cheap too. Just $1.60 for three dozen cookies! I've used the prices from my price book for the costing. Depending on where you shop you may make them for less or a little more. If you have your own hens, they'll be even cheaper!
Ingredients:
1 cup desiccated coconut
1 cup self raising flour
1 cup sugar
125g butter or margarine, melted
1 egg
Method:
Mix the dry ingredients together, add the egg and then the melted butter. Take teaspoonfuls (not too much or they spread too big!) and roll into roughly walnut sized balls. Place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake in a moderate oven for 10 minutes. Watch them carefully, they burn very quickly. Ten minutes is ideal for crunch biscuits. Eight minutes will give you more of a macaroon type of biscuit. Let them cool a few minutes on the tray, then onto a wire rack to cool completely. These biscuits freeze well, too.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Swedish Meatballs, noodles, white sauce
Tuesday: Pasta Bake
Wednesday: Chicken Stir-fry, noodles
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Quiche, chips, salad
Saturday: Hamburgers
In the fruit bowl: Oranges, mandarins
There are over 1,800 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Mixed Dried Fruit Price Comparison
I've redone my price comparison between Aldi, Coles and Woolworths for the fruit for the Christmas cakes. I've also included Hindustan Imports for the cherries because that's where I have been buying them from, two kilos at a time (they freeze so they won't crystallise in the pantry); at the moment Aldi is cheaper though so they'll be getting my glace cherry business.
Mixed Dried Fruit*
Aldi: $4.95/kg
Woolworths: Sunbeam $9.60/kg
Coles: Sunbeam $9.60/kg
Hindustan: N/A
Glace cherries - red**
Hindustan: $3.45/250g; $12.75/kg
Aldi: $2.49/200g; $12.45/kg
Woolworths: Winn Glace Cherries $4.50/200g; $22.50/kg
Coles: Winn Glace Cherries $4.50/200g; $22.50/kg
*I've compared branded fruit with the Aldi fruit because it is closer to the quality of the branded product than the generic. I've tried both Coles and Woolworths brand dried mixed fruits and found them lacking.
**Aldi wins on the per kilo price, coming in at $12.45/kg. If you don't use glace cherries often, then buying them from Aldi will be better value for you. I used to buy them in 2kg lots from Hindustan, portion them into 500g packs and freeze them until they need to go to the pantry. I use glace cherries a lot through the year, not just at Christmas time. Now, as Aldi is still cheaper, I'll be buying 10 packets and freezing them.
The 2021 Mixed Dried Fruit Comparison
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
An Essential Guide to Safe Online Shopping
Filling in a Hole (or How to Darn a Sock)
How to Save $1, $10, $100 a Week
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Is It Really Worth Cooking and Eating at Home?
Bottled Plum Puddings
Stuffed Chicken Drumsticks
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
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 Schedule
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
Popular Shows
How are you going? I've found only one gap so far, the honey that I mentioned last week. So far the pantry is doing what I want it to - feed us, and keep us and the house clean.
I haven't bought anything that we have used since Monday 13th, not even milk. The longlife milk is doing just fine for baking and we've saved the fresh milk for tea and coffee. Mashed potatoes done with a tablespoon of milk powder and a little of the water from steaming or boiling the spuds is delicious too and has helped to save the fresh milk.
How are you going? Have you found many gaps? Have there been complaints (Cheapskater Cathy reported that her older kids objected to powdered milk so they bought their own - great learning experience for them I think) and Glenys mentioned that her husband will be enjoying tinned fruit instead of fresh soon, but he won't grumble.
If you've run out of something, did you have something you could use as a substitute? There is a great list of simple substitutes you can download (I have mine taped to the inside of the spice cupboard door). Click here to download Simple Substitutes.
5. On The Menu
Crunchy Coconut Cookies
This is the first in a series of budget morning/afternoon tea and supper recipes I'll include in the newsletter over the next few weeks. I was watching a YouTube video last week and it was all about budget lunchbox treats. The recipes sounded delicious, but there is no way they would fit in my grocery budget on the $300 a Month Food Challenge. Just one cake used 5 eggs!
First up is Crunchy Coconut Cookies. I used to make these every week for the lunchboxes. Even I, who finds making cookies and biscuits a drag, don't mind whipping up a batch of these little morsels.
These are so delicious and easy to make. And they are cheap too. Just $1.60 for three dozen cookies! I've used the prices from my price book for the costing. Depending on where you shop you may make them for less or a little more. If you have your own hens, they'll be even cheaper!
Ingredients:
1 cup desiccated coconut
1 cup self raising flour
1 cup sugar
125g butter or margarine, melted
1 egg
Method:
Mix the dry ingredients together, add the egg and then the melted butter. Take teaspoonfuls (not too much or they spread too big!) and roll into roughly walnut sized balls. Place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake in a moderate oven for 10 minutes. Watch them carefully, they burn very quickly. Ten minutes is ideal for crunch biscuits. Eight minutes will give you more of a macaroon type of biscuit. Let them cool a few minutes on the tray, then onto a wire rack to cool completely. These biscuits freeze well, too.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Swedish Meatballs, noodles, white sauce
Tuesday: Pasta Bake
Wednesday: Chicken Stir-fry, noodles
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Quiche, chips, salad
Saturday: Hamburgers
In the fruit bowl: Oranges, mandarins
There are over 1,800 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Mixed Dried Fruit Price Comparison
I've redone my price comparison between Aldi, Coles and Woolworths for the fruit for the Christmas cakes. I've also included Hindustan Imports for the cherries because that's where I have been buying them from, two kilos at a time (they freeze so they won't crystallise in the pantry); at the moment Aldi is cheaper though so they'll be getting my glace cherry business.
Mixed Dried Fruit*
Aldi: $4.95/kg
Woolworths: Sunbeam $9.60/kg
Coles: Sunbeam $9.60/kg
Hindustan: N/A
Glace cherries - red**
Hindustan: $3.45/250g; $12.75/kg
Aldi: $2.49/200g; $12.45/kg
Woolworths: Winn Glace Cherries $4.50/200g; $22.50/kg
Coles: Winn Glace Cherries $4.50/200g; $22.50/kg
*I've compared branded fruit with the Aldi fruit because it is closer to the quality of the branded product than the generic. I've tried both Coles and Woolworths brand dried mixed fruits and found them lacking.
**Aldi wins on the per kilo price, coming in at $12.45/kg. If you don't use glace cherries often, then buying them from Aldi will be better value for you. I used to buy them in 2kg lots from Hindustan, portion them into 500g packs and freeze them until they need to go to the pantry. I use glace cherries a lot through the year, not just at Christmas time. Now, as Aldi is still cheaper, I'll be buying 10 packets and freezing them.
The 2021 Mixed Dried Fruit Comparison
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
An Essential Guide to Safe Online Shopping
Filling in a Hole (or How to Darn a Sock)
How to Save $1, $10, $100 a Week
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Is It Really Worth Cooking and Eating at Home?
Bottled Plum Puddings
Stuffed Chicken Drumsticks
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
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 Schedule
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
Popular Shows
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge
MOO Celery Salt!
Use those Celery Leaves! I love celery salt and use it a lot; it is a very handy seasoning for rissoles, meatloaf, soups, casseroles, dips and pasta sauces and celery has been quite cheap the last couple of weeks, so a few bunches have been added to the pantry.
Instead of composting the leaves or feeding them to the chickens dehydrate them. You can put them into a dehydrator, or simply place them onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in a gentle oven for a few minutes until the leaves are dry and crumbly. When cool mix thoroughly into a small pot of salt. You can use a mortar and pestle or a small grinder to grind down the salt and leaves so they are like grains of sand.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
10. 2021 Saving Revolution
Lesson 38: Clear the Clutter
We all have clutter! And clutter creates debt. It does, trust me. When you are surrounded by clutter it costs you big time.
Most Australians have been living and working at home for almost 20 months now, and in that time a lot of clutter has been created. It's not necessarily rubbish or junk, just clutter. Stuff. Things that have been brought out to use for work or school or entertainment and not been put away properly, or even at all.
How often have you needed something and not been able to find it? You know you have it but it's lost in the clutter, so you buy another "something". What a waste of money (and time spent searching and shopping).
This week you are going to pretend you are a real estate agent, inspecting your home prior to putting it up for sale. You are going to walk in your front door, financial notebook in hand, and look at your home with new eyes, the eyes of a stranger.
Then get right into this lesson and clear the clutter and save some cash.
Log into the 2021 Saving Revolution forum and join the discussions too. They're fun, keep you accountable, and over the course of the year will be an amazing source of valuable hints and tips for you too.
11. 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
12. 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!
13. 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.
14. 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
MOO Celery Salt!
Use those Celery Leaves! I love celery salt and use it a lot; it is a very handy seasoning for rissoles, meatloaf, soups, casseroles, dips and pasta sauces and celery has been quite cheap the last couple of weeks, so a few bunches have been added to the pantry.
Instead of composting the leaves or feeding them to the chickens dehydrate them. You can put them into a dehydrator, or simply place them onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in a gentle oven for a few minutes until the leaves are dry and crumbly. When cool mix thoroughly into a small pot of salt. You can use a mortar and pestle or a small grinder to grind down the salt and leaves so they are like grains of sand.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
10. 2021 Saving Revolution
Lesson 38: Clear the Clutter
We all have clutter! And clutter creates debt. It does, trust me. When you are surrounded by clutter it costs you big time.
Most Australians have been living and working at home for almost 20 months now, and in that time a lot of clutter has been created. It's not necessarily rubbish or junk, just clutter. Stuff. Things that have been brought out to use for work or school or entertainment and not been put away properly, or even at all.
How often have you needed something and not been able to find it? You know you have it but it's lost in the clutter, so you buy another "something". What a waste of money (and time spent searching and shopping).
This week you are going to pretend you are a real estate agent, inspecting your home prior to putting it up for sale. You are going to walk in your front door, financial notebook in hand, and look at your home with new eyes, the eyes of a stranger.
Then get right into this lesson and clear the clutter and save some cash.
Log into the 2021 Saving Revolution forum and join the discussions too. They're fun, keep you accountable, and over the course of the year will be an amazing source of valuable hints and tips for you too.
11. 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
12. 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!
13. 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.
14. 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