Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 43:19
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Air Conditioning Saving Using the Dry Mode; 4 Ingredient Date Loaf; Succulents at a Fraction of the Cost
3. Share Your Tips
4. Own Your Christmas Challenge -
5. The Living the Cheapskates Way Budget & Lifestyle Planner 2020
6. On the Menu - Fruit Mince Tarts
7. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Inventorying the Sauce Stockpile
8. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10.This Week's Question - How can I shift bees without hurting them?
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,
First things first, are you having a wonderful week? Things are getting busy in the Armstrong household as we very quickly it seems reach the end of the year. We're busy in the garden, getting the plants established to feed us through summer, into autumn and through winter next year. And we're pottering around doing the little household maintenance chores that were neglected over winter. Most exciting is of course planning for our annual November trip. I can't wait to get away, it feels like forever since we've had a holiday.
Secondly, we have decided to go ahead and print a third lot of planners. The last 200 sold out before we could blink, and ever since I've had messages and emails asking if there were more. Now, before you order, take note: they will not be delivered to us until 9th December, so there is a chance you won't get yours before Christmas (remember, once we get them we need to wrap, label and post them) and Australia Post is saying to allow 3 - 6 business days for delivery.
Thirdly, how are you going with the Own Your Christmas Challenge? I love this challenge. Or, perhaps it's just that I like that feeling I have on 1st December when I know Christmas and New Year are done, and I can relax. The gifts are wrapped, labelled and paid for. The meals and treats have been planned and paid for. The decorations are up and paid for. I can relax because I know that there won't be any unbudgeted bills coming in during January.
And lastly, have you seen the size of this newsletter! So much in it this week. I printed it out - 9 pages! I suggest you get a cuppa and something nice to nibble, and sit back to enjoy the read.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Air Conditioning Saving Using the Dry Mode
I was told by an architect friend to use the ‘dry’ mode on the air conditioner. It saves energy and to me gives a pleasant feel in the room. I only use the AC on very hot days. The mode doesn’t allow a temperature adjustment, there is just the ‘drop’ symbol. It works by drying the air out and the room, it is also quieter. My electricity bills for the summers have been less since I started using this mode.
Contributed by Stine Baska.
4 Ingredient Date Loaf
This is super easy to make and suitable for diabetics. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
375 g dates
1 mug of boiling water with 1 generous tablespoon of instant coffee
1 cup of SR flour
Almond flakes
Method:
Soak dates in coffee mixture for 2 to 3 hours.
Mix in SR flour.
Spread into greased loaf pan and top with almond flakes.
Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 40 minutes.
Contributed by Diana Tannhauser.
Succulents at a Fraction of the Cost
I recently went to a succulent/cactus display and sale. I was surprised at the cost of each small pot for $5 - $15. It is worth asking on your BUY NOTHING Facebook group or community group for cuttings of succulents and cactus (and even empty garden pots). People are more than willing to give you bits of their plants and in a dry sunny spot, these thrive. You can display them in an old rusty wheelbarrow (off the verge collection) or displayed together on a pallet shelf and they look stunning. All for no cost. You can also walk down during green verge collection and pickup plants for propagation when they are being discarded. Win-win for you and the environment.
Contributed by Nancy Deacon
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. Own Your Christmas Challenge
Week 4 sees you writing out the fourth lot of cards and addressing the envelopes. Card writing is a job you can do in small bursts, you don't need to sit down and write the whole lot at once. You can write cards in front of the TV, or in the car while you're waiting for kids to come out of school or play sport. You can even write cards while dinner is cooking or the washing is, well, washing.
The idea with the weekly tasks is to get them completed by the end of the week. You don't need large blocks of time, you can work on the tasks as you have a few minutes here and there.
This week is also party planning week, or rather hospitality planning week. If you're hosting the family Christmas dinner this year or throwing your annual Christmas party or New Years barbecue use the Christmas Hospitality Planning Sheet to keep it all under control and all the details in the one place.
This week's tasks:
Task 1: Write up this week's Christmas Cards.
Task 2: Buy, wrap and label the second lot of gifts.
Task 3: Continue working on handmade gifts, wrapping and labelling as you finish them.
Task 4: Plan your Christmas parties and dinners. Send invitations now.
Print the Christmas Hospitality Planner.
Task 5: Plan your holiday menu.
The tasks are outlined here in greater detail
You can get the Own Your Christmas planners here too.
If you'd like the weekly tasks and round-up, you can join the Own Your Christmas challenge here
5. The Living The Cheapskates Way Budget & Lifestyle Planner 2020
Last week we had 20 planners left, from our second run of 200, and they sold out within minutes of the newsletter going out at 11am. Since then I've had dozens of emails and messages asking if there are any available.
So, after consulting with the printer, we are doing another run of 100. BUT they won't be delivered to us until 9th December. They then need to be wrapped and posted. All this means that if you order planners from this run, you may not get them before Christmas. If you're thinking of them for Christmas gifts, please be aware of this before you order.
Click here to find out more and order your 2020 Living the Cheapskates Way Budget and Lifestyle Planner.
6. On The Menu
Fruit Mince Tarts
Now you've made your fruit mince, it's time to turn them into delicious little morsels to enjoy with coffee, fruit mince tarts. Start baking them now so you can eat your fill until Christmas, because they just don't taste the same after the big day.
Ingredients:
1 quantity Elaine's Easy Pastry (the recipe is below)
1-1/2 cups fruit mince
1/4 cup white sugar for sprinkling
1/4 cup water for brushing
Icing sugar for dusting
Method:
Make your pastry and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes. Pre-heat oven to 190 degrees Celsius. Lightly grease a 12 cup patty cake pan with butter. Roll the pastry out to desired thickness - I prefer the bases to be about 6mm thick so they are crisp and not soggy. Cut 12 bases (to fit your patty pan tin). Gently press them into the patty pans. Drop 1 tablespoon fruit mince into each pastry base. Cut tops from the remaining pastry. They can be round or stars if you have star shaped cookie cutter. Gently press them on top of the fruit mince. Brush with water and sprinkle tops with the sugar. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes until pastry is golden brown and cooked. Remove from tin immediately and let cool on a cake rack.
Elaine's Easy Pastry Ingredients:
1 cup SR flour
1 cup plain flour
½ tsp salt
2/3 cup margarine or lard
½ cup hot water
Method:
Cream margarine or lard. Keep beating and add hot water gradually, beating until creamy. Sift dry ingredients together and add to margarine mixture. Mix with a knife until pastry leaves the sides of the bowl. Turn onto a lightly floured board and roll thinly. This is an excellent recipe and can be rolled to amazing thinness, ideal for pies and quiches.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Stuffed Potatoes
Tuesday: Gnocchi & garlic bread
Wednesday: Rissoles, gravy, mash, greens
Thursday: Pizza
Friday: Fish, wedges, salad
Saturday: Muffin Surprise
In the fruit bowl: bananas
In the cake tin: Fruit cake
There are over 1,600 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
7. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Inventorying the Sauce Stockpile
I bet you have a sauce stockpile. Most of us do, even if we don't realise it. Think about the sauces, dressings and condiments lurking in your fridge and pantry. Do you really need all those sauces and mustards and dressings and pickles and chutneys that are lurking in your fridge? We have quite a few in our fridge, because we all like different condiments with our meals and different dressings on our salads.
We have:
Wholegrain mustard
Mustard sauce
Sweet chilli sauce
Barbecue sauce
Coleslaw dressing
Tartare sauce
Egg mayo
Tomato sauce
Zucchini pickle
Tomato chutney
Mint sauce
Balsamic dressing
On a shelf in the door AJ and Hannah have their favourites:
Nandos sauces - currently he has four on the go
Sweet Chilli Mayo
Kebab sauce
Garlic Aioli
The kids buy their sauces and dressings, I don't have room in my grocery budget for them. Most of the others I make.
In the pantry I have worcestershire, kecap manis, tomato sauce and barbecue sauce, and I make them all. Sometimes one of the kids will buy a bottle of tomato sauce just for a change.
Looking at the list the only condiment I buy is the wholegrain mustard. The others are all homemade. And that leaves a bucket load of money in the grocery budget, sauces and dressing aren't cheap. If you add just one or two to your shopping each time, you can easily spend $5 or more to the bill depending on what you are buying.
They are easy to MOO. And the Sauces and Gravies Recipe File is full of really tasty sauce, dressing, pickle and chutney recipes.
So how many sauces and dressings are in your fridge? Do you use them all? Or are they just taking up valuable shelf space? This week do a sauce and dressing stocktake. Write the ones that need to be used up into your meal plan (they can be added to yoghurt or sour cream to make a dip, or added to gravy for extra flavour or combined with a little oil to make a marinade). If you have some that are a bit past it, rinse out the bottles and then add them to the recycling. If you have some you don't like, but are still good do you have a friend or relative who might be happy to use them up? And lastly, do you have sauces or dressings on your shopping list? If so, do you really need them? If you don't, cross them off right now and forget about them until you've used up all you have.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
8. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
A $75 a Week Meal Plan
Do-It-Yourself Pest Control
The High Cost of Clutter
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Stockpiles
2019 Decluttering Tally Challenge
Playing the Half Price Game to Win
9. 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 Schedule
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
Thursday: Cheapskates in the Kitchen - want to know how to cook delicious, healthy and cheap meals? Watch Cath and Hannah as they create cheapskates style cuisine and share their favourite recipes.
Latest Shows
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Air Conditioning Saving Using the Dry Mode; 4 Ingredient Date Loaf; Succulents at a Fraction of the Cost
3. Share Your Tips
4. Own Your Christmas Challenge -
5. The Living the Cheapskates Way Budget & Lifestyle Planner 2020
6. On the Menu - Fruit Mince Tarts
7. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Inventorying the Sauce Stockpile
8. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10.This Week's Question - How can I shift bees without hurting them?
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,
First things first, are you having a wonderful week? Things are getting busy in the Armstrong household as we very quickly it seems reach the end of the year. We're busy in the garden, getting the plants established to feed us through summer, into autumn and through winter next year. And we're pottering around doing the little household maintenance chores that were neglected over winter. Most exciting is of course planning for our annual November trip. I can't wait to get away, it feels like forever since we've had a holiday.
Secondly, we have decided to go ahead and print a third lot of planners. The last 200 sold out before we could blink, and ever since I've had messages and emails asking if there were more. Now, before you order, take note: they will not be delivered to us until 9th December, so there is a chance you won't get yours before Christmas (remember, once we get them we need to wrap, label and post them) and Australia Post is saying to allow 3 - 6 business days for delivery.
Thirdly, how are you going with the Own Your Christmas Challenge? I love this challenge. Or, perhaps it's just that I like that feeling I have on 1st December when I know Christmas and New Year are done, and I can relax. The gifts are wrapped, labelled and paid for. The meals and treats have been planned and paid for. The decorations are up and paid for. I can relax because I know that there won't be any unbudgeted bills coming in during January.
And lastly, have you seen the size of this newsletter! So much in it this week. I printed it out - 9 pages! I suggest you get a cuppa and something nice to nibble, and sit back to enjoy the read.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Air Conditioning Saving Using the Dry Mode
I was told by an architect friend to use the ‘dry’ mode on the air conditioner. It saves energy and to me gives a pleasant feel in the room. I only use the AC on very hot days. The mode doesn’t allow a temperature adjustment, there is just the ‘drop’ symbol. It works by drying the air out and the room, it is also quieter. My electricity bills for the summers have been less since I started using this mode.
Contributed by Stine Baska.
4 Ingredient Date Loaf
This is super easy to make and suitable for diabetics. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
375 g dates
1 mug of boiling water with 1 generous tablespoon of instant coffee
1 cup of SR flour
Almond flakes
Method:
Soak dates in coffee mixture for 2 to 3 hours.
Mix in SR flour.
Spread into greased loaf pan and top with almond flakes.
Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 40 minutes.
Contributed by Diana Tannhauser.
Succulents at a Fraction of the Cost
I recently went to a succulent/cactus display and sale. I was surprised at the cost of each small pot for $5 - $15. It is worth asking on your BUY NOTHING Facebook group or community group for cuttings of succulents and cactus (and even empty garden pots). People are more than willing to give you bits of their plants and in a dry sunny spot, these thrive. You can display them in an old rusty wheelbarrow (off the verge collection) or displayed together on a pallet shelf and they look stunning. All for no cost. You can also walk down during green verge collection and pickup plants for propagation when they are being discarded. Win-win for you and the environment.
Contributed by Nancy Deacon
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. Own Your Christmas Challenge
Week 4 sees you writing out the fourth lot of cards and addressing the envelopes. Card writing is a job you can do in small bursts, you don't need to sit down and write the whole lot at once. You can write cards in front of the TV, or in the car while you're waiting for kids to come out of school or play sport. You can even write cards while dinner is cooking or the washing is, well, washing.
The idea with the weekly tasks is to get them completed by the end of the week. You don't need large blocks of time, you can work on the tasks as you have a few minutes here and there.
This week is also party planning week, or rather hospitality planning week. If you're hosting the family Christmas dinner this year or throwing your annual Christmas party or New Years barbecue use the Christmas Hospitality Planning Sheet to keep it all under control and all the details in the one place.
This week's tasks:
Task 1: Write up this week's Christmas Cards.
Task 2: Buy, wrap and label the second lot of gifts.
Task 3: Continue working on handmade gifts, wrapping and labelling as you finish them.
Task 4: Plan your Christmas parties and dinners. Send invitations now.
Print the Christmas Hospitality Planner.
Task 5: Plan your holiday menu.
The tasks are outlined here in greater detail
You can get the Own Your Christmas planners here too.
If you'd like the weekly tasks and round-up, you can join the Own Your Christmas challenge here
5. The Living The Cheapskates Way Budget & Lifestyle Planner 2020
Last week we had 20 planners left, from our second run of 200, and they sold out within minutes of the newsletter going out at 11am. Since then I've had dozens of emails and messages asking if there are any available.
So, after consulting with the printer, we are doing another run of 100. BUT they won't be delivered to us until 9th December. They then need to be wrapped and posted. All this means that if you order planners from this run, you may not get them before Christmas. If you're thinking of them for Christmas gifts, please be aware of this before you order.
Click here to find out more and order your 2020 Living the Cheapskates Way Budget and Lifestyle Planner.
6. On The Menu
Fruit Mince Tarts
Now you've made your fruit mince, it's time to turn them into delicious little morsels to enjoy with coffee, fruit mince tarts. Start baking them now so you can eat your fill until Christmas, because they just don't taste the same after the big day.
Ingredients:
1 quantity Elaine's Easy Pastry (the recipe is below)
1-1/2 cups fruit mince
1/4 cup white sugar for sprinkling
1/4 cup water for brushing
Icing sugar for dusting
Method:
Make your pastry and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes. Pre-heat oven to 190 degrees Celsius. Lightly grease a 12 cup patty cake pan with butter. Roll the pastry out to desired thickness - I prefer the bases to be about 6mm thick so they are crisp and not soggy. Cut 12 bases (to fit your patty pan tin). Gently press them into the patty pans. Drop 1 tablespoon fruit mince into each pastry base. Cut tops from the remaining pastry. They can be round or stars if you have star shaped cookie cutter. Gently press them on top of the fruit mince. Brush with water and sprinkle tops with the sugar. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes until pastry is golden brown and cooked. Remove from tin immediately and let cool on a cake rack.
Elaine's Easy Pastry Ingredients:
1 cup SR flour
1 cup plain flour
½ tsp salt
2/3 cup margarine or lard
½ cup hot water
Method:
Cream margarine or lard. Keep beating and add hot water gradually, beating until creamy. Sift dry ingredients together and add to margarine mixture. Mix with a knife until pastry leaves the sides of the bowl. Turn onto a lightly floured board and roll thinly. This is an excellent recipe and can be rolled to amazing thinness, ideal for pies and quiches.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Stuffed Potatoes
Tuesday: Gnocchi & garlic bread
Wednesday: Rissoles, gravy, mash, greens
Thursday: Pizza
Friday: Fish, wedges, salad
Saturday: Muffin Surprise
In the fruit bowl: bananas
In the cake tin: Fruit cake
There are over 1,600 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
7. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Inventorying the Sauce Stockpile
I bet you have a sauce stockpile. Most of us do, even if we don't realise it. Think about the sauces, dressings and condiments lurking in your fridge and pantry. Do you really need all those sauces and mustards and dressings and pickles and chutneys that are lurking in your fridge? We have quite a few in our fridge, because we all like different condiments with our meals and different dressings on our salads.
We have:
Wholegrain mustard
Mustard sauce
Sweet chilli sauce
Barbecue sauce
Coleslaw dressing
Tartare sauce
Egg mayo
Tomato sauce
Zucchini pickle
Tomato chutney
Mint sauce
Balsamic dressing
On a shelf in the door AJ and Hannah have their favourites:
Nandos sauces - currently he has four on the go
Sweet Chilli Mayo
Kebab sauce
Garlic Aioli
The kids buy their sauces and dressings, I don't have room in my grocery budget for them. Most of the others I make.
In the pantry I have worcestershire, kecap manis, tomato sauce and barbecue sauce, and I make them all. Sometimes one of the kids will buy a bottle of tomato sauce just for a change.
Looking at the list the only condiment I buy is the wholegrain mustard. The others are all homemade. And that leaves a bucket load of money in the grocery budget, sauces and dressing aren't cheap. If you add just one or two to your shopping each time, you can easily spend $5 or more to the bill depending on what you are buying.
They are easy to MOO. And the Sauces and Gravies Recipe File is full of really tasty sauce, dressing, pickle and chutney recipes.
So how many sauces and dressings are in your fridge? Do you use them all? Or are they just taking up valuable shelf space? This week do a sauce and dressing stocktake. Write the ones that need to be used up into your meal plan (they can be added to yoghurt or sour cream to make a dip, or added to gravy for extra flavour or combined with a little oil to make a marinade). If you have some that are a bit past it, rinse out the bottles and then add them to the recycling. If you have some you don't like, but are still good do you have a friend or relative who might be happy to use them up? And lastly, do you have sauces or dressings on your shopping list? If so, do you really need them? If you don't, cross them off right now and forget about them until you've used up all you have.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
8. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
A $75 a Week Meal Plan
Do-It-Yourself Pest Control
The High Cost of Clutter
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Stockpiles
2019 Decluttering Tally Challenge
Playing the Half Price Game to Win
9. 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 Schedule
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
Thursday: Cheapskates in the Kitchen - want to know how to cook delicious, healthy and cheap meals? Watch Cath and Hannah as they create cheapskates style cuisine and share their favourite recipes.
Latest Shows
Coming Up
Thursday 24th October: Using Your Freezer Properly (yes, there's a right way) and Moist Coconut Cake
Tuesday 29th October: Give Great Gifts 2 - Handmade Edible Hampers
10. This Week's Question
This week's question is from Denise who asks
"This is probably a strange question, but I'm not sure who to ask. I encourage bees around my yard, with bushes with lots of flowers bees love, water during summer etc. but right now they are very interested in my garage, looking for a new home. Does anyone have any ideas on deterrents for bees that won't hurt them, just make a space unappealing? Grateful for any ideas."
Do you have the answer?
If you have a suggestion or idea for Denise, let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send Your Answer
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 $30 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?
As per the terms of sbucription, your renewal will be processed on the due date. Renewal notices are not sent. You can find your membership expiry date on your profile page (membership are active for one year from the date of joining/renewing).
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
Thursday 24th October: Using Your Freezer Properly (yes, there's a right way) and Moist Coconut Cake
Tuesday 29th October: Give Great Gifts 2 - Handmade Edible Hampers
10. This Week's Question
This week's question is from Denise who asks
"This is probably a strange question, but I'm not sure who to ask. I encourage bees around my yard, with bushes with lots of flowers bees love, water during summer etc. but right now they are very interested in my garage, looking for a new home. Does anyone have any ideas on deterrents for bees that won't hurt them, just make a space unappealing? Grateful for any ideas."
Do you have the answer?
If you have a suggestion or idea for Denise, let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send Your Answer
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 $30 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?
As per the terms of sbucription, your renewal will be processed on the due date. Renewal notices are not sent. You can find your membership expiry date on your profile page (membership are active for one year from the date of joining/renewing).
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