Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 48:18
In this Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Good Old Natural Christmas Wrapping; Another Way to MOO Spreadable Butter; Easy Clean, Easy Gliding Tracks
3. Share Your Tips -
4. On the Menu - Ginger Nuts, an Old Favourite
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Let's Revisit Pita Chips
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. Own Your Christmas Challenge - Week 9 Tasks and Tips
8. This Week's Question - Best soap for Cheapskates Washing Powder
9. Ask Cath
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Well the Own Your Christmas challenge has finished - that nine weeks just flew by!
From the emails and messages I'm getting just about everyone is ready and waiting patiently (or not so patiently) for Christmas. What's made me really smile is that every single Cheapskater I've heard from has come in either on or under their Christmas budget! That is amazing, and exciting. Just think: no after Christmas bill shock for these Cheapskaters!
It's not too late, you can own your Christmas. You may need to plan and work a little harder, but it can be done. All the help you need is at Christmas Central, ready and waiting.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
Good Old Natural Christmas Wrapping
Good old natural brown paper and string can be used to wrap gifts. It looks amazingly stylish...and it can be tarted up a number of ways (and not just for Christmas):
- Attach a twig of Rosemary or anything interesting from the garden
- Wrap a strip of bright (Christmas) paper over the middle of the wrapped gift and tie the string around it a few times
- Potato stamping on the brown paper before wrapping eg stars, Christmas trees and love hearts
Also heavy duty brown paper bags are great for cutting out e.g. hearts and stars, punch a hole in them and tie it onto the string for a gift tag.
Contributed by Lyn B
Another Way to MOO Spreadable Butter
I was just reading the spreadable butter tip. I remember when I was a child my mum used to make the butter go further. All she did was get 250gms butter let it soften put it in the mixer and beat it slowly adding 2-3 tablespoons of water. then she would put it into one of the butter bowls we had. This had two benefits, the butter was easy to spread & went further because of that. This tip was passed down from her mum, as they used to do it during the war. It can be much healthier using water as opposed to using oil depending on the type of oil that you use. The bonus is you don't have to melt butter to mix it with the oil.
Contributed by Gail Mulhall
Easy Clean, Easy Gliding Tracks
Use pipe cleaners to remove dust, then use cotton buds dipped in hot soapy water, to drag the built up dirt along and out of the tracks. Works like magic; dry tracks with a dry cotton bud or another pipe cleaner. We rented a home where the tracks were very dirty and the doors would not run. For as little as a $1.00 tracks will be running freely. Once finished all you need to do is vacuum when doing a regular clean.
Contributed by Joy Dyson
Editor's note: We don't have an issue with window and door tracks, but we do have an issue with the shower screens. Being a slightly older home, not everything is square and there is a slight gap that narrows to the wall where the shower screen fits into the base. I use cotton buds to clean this gap. If you have a sliding shower door cotton buds clean the tracks easily too. Cath
There are currently more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Submit Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Submit your tip
4. On the Menu
Ginger Nuts, an Old Favourite
This week I have an old favourite for you – ginger nuts. These crisp (alright, hard) and delicious biscuits are quick and easy to make and are a real favourite in our house. They don't last long at all and taste so much better than the bought ones. They make a crumb base special and add a little zing to a plain cheesecake too as well as being the perfect biscuit for dunking! Ginger nuts - one more thing you can MOO and cross off your shopping list.
Ginger Nuts
Ingredients:
125g butter
180g white sugar
250g self raising flour
2 tablespoons golden syrup
2 level teaspoons ground ginger
pinch salt
1 egg, beaten
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Melt butter, sugar and syrup together in saucepan. Cool slightly. Add beaten egg, and mix well. Then add to sifted dry ingredients. Mix well with a wooden spoon. Put small teaspoonfuls on a greased cookie sheet (I use greased greaseproof paper or silicone paper if I have it). Bake for 20 minutes until nice and brown and cooked. Remove from baking sheets immediately and allow to cool on cake racks before storing in an air tight container.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: French steak, vegetables
Tuesday: Vegetable pasta bake, salad
Wednesday: Sweet & sour chicken, fried rice
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Sweet lamb curry, steamed rice
Saturday: Tacos
In the fruit bowl: Apples, pears, bananas
In the cake tin: cup-cakes, fruit cake
There are over 1,600 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
Let's Revisit Pita Chips
A couple of years ago, Hannah came home from work and the first thing she did was show me a photo on her phone. She'd been in the supermarket and found pita chips. That's convenient, right? Of course it is. Cutting pita bread into strips or triangles and baking it takes up at least 5 minutes of your time. It would be so much easier to just buy them ready made.
And then I saw the price - $8.59 a bag, or according to the unit price, just $71.58 per kilo!
I did the sums. A packet of Lebanese bread costs $1.35 for 400g or $3.40 per kilo. Sometimes it comes on sale for 99 cents, and even better, 89 cents a packet and I buy up big - 10 or more packets (it freezes!). That would bring the per kilo price down and make these gourmet (who'd a thunk the humble pita chip would be a gourmet treat?) treats even cheaper.
Add some olive oil, a sprinkle of salt, a couple of cloves of garlic and about two teaspoons rosemary and for a cost of approximately 90 cents (the cost will depend on how much you pay for your oil and herbs - I grow garlic and rosemary so they're virtually free) and you can have 1 kilo of seasoned pita chips for under $4.50. If you'd rather have them plain they'll be even cheaper.
That's a whopping $67 difference.
I bet that you, like me, believe that $67 is much better in your bank account than the supermarkets (if you don't then maybe this isn't the place for you after all).
Pita chips take around 10 minutes to make and they're so easy even a child can make them. Just brush both sides with a little olive oil, cut into strips or triangles (a pizza cutter is great for this) and bake for about 10 minutes until they are dry through. Cool and store in an air tight container.
Add your own seasonings or not, it's up to you. Either way I can guarantee they won't last long.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge
The Post that Started it All
6. Cheapskates Buzz
From the Article Archive
3 Steps to an Impressive Christmas Dinner Even on a Cheapskates Budget
https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/3-steps-to-an-impressive-christmas-dinner-even-on-a-cheapskates-budget---november-2017.html
A Christmas Ready Fridge
https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/a-christmas-ready-fridge-ndash-tuesday-1st-december-2015.html
Quick Christmas Decorating Ideas
https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/quick-christmas-decorating-ideas---tuesday-1st-december-2015.html
Most popular forum posts this week
Is It Wrong
https://catharmstrong.discussion.community/post/is-it-wrong-9850012?highlight=wrong&pid=1305475420
The Gardening Challenge
https://catharmstrong.discussion.community/post/the-gardening-challenge-9849252?highlight=gardening+challenge&pid=1305463701
Quit Smoking Challenge
https://catharmstrong.discussion.community/post/quit-smoking-challenge-2011-9849324?highlight=quit+smoking+challenge+2011&pid=1305464621
Most popular blog posts this week
Buy it Cheaper
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/10/buy-it-cheaper.html
MOO Stain Removing Soap
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/p/how-to-make-stain-removing-soap.html
How to Stock Your Pantry
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/10/how-to-stock-your-pantry.html
7. Own Your Christmas Challenge
This is the last week of the Own Your Christmas Challenge. By now just about everything you need to do, need to buy, need to wrap and need to decorate has been done.
This week is the week to do a quick review and make sure you've finished everything on your to do list, so that you can sit back on Saturday and enjoy the start of the 2018 Christmas season.
As you're cooking dinner this week, check to see if there are any dishes you can double or triple to have ready to heat meals in the freezer. Even the best laid plans can change, and if know you can get a meal on the table, those spur-of-the-moment changes won't be a stress.
Task 1 Finish decorating. Put up the Christmas tree, hang the wreath on the door. Start stringing the cards as they come in. Start to use the Christmas dishes and table linens. Get out the Christmas music and movies.
Task 2 Write up the last of the Christmas cards and get them all in the post on Wednesday so they’ll be delivered by Friday.
Task 3 Buy, wrap and label the last of the gifts and place them under the Christmas tree.
Task 4 Do a pantry stocktake and write up shopping lists for the next three weeks, adding the groceries you haven't yet bought, and any extra ingredients you need for edible gifts. Add the perishables to the list for the week before Christmas. With the bulk of the grocery shopping done and lists written, you should be able to whizz in and out of the supermarket, butcher and greengrocer in just a few minutes, and avoid the hassle of the Christmas shopping crowds.
The Own Your Christmas Challenge is over.
You've plotted and planned, shopped and wrapped, baked and cooked, written cards and sent them off. And all within budget, and without resorting to credit.
You own your Christmas!
As you sit back during December and watch everyone around you stress and rush around in a frantic panic, you can relax. You know that your celebration is paid for and you know that you won't be hiding from the postie in January.
Congratulations, and merry Christmas.
Get all the tip sheets, planners and tips for owing your Christmas here.
8. This Week's Question
Q. I just wanted to know what bar of soap you used for the laundry powder recipe. I used velvet because it said it was suitable for use in the laundry but it does seem to be on the pricey side - $2.70 for 4 bars of soap. Could I use any no name soap? Wendy
A. You can use any soap - laundry soap is the cheapest, bathroom soap smells nicer if you like the scent. Making your own laundry powder is a great way to use up the ends of cakes of soap. Save them in a jar until you have around 125g (the weight of a cake of soap) and use them up. They don't have to be the same - soap is soap when it comes to laundry powder.
Cheapskates Washing Powder
Ingredients:
1 bar soap, grated
1 cup washing soda (Lectric Soda)
1/2 cup borax
Mix together and store in a sealed container. Use 3 scant teaspoons per load for a top-loader and 1 scant teaspoon per load for a front loader.
I use the zester side of my grater to do the soap. It makes it a very fine powder so it dissolves completely even in cold water. If you have a food processor break the soap up with a hammer or rolling pin and whizz it. Or use the grater attachment to grate it then whizz it to a powder. And yes it is safe to use your food grater or processor to do this as long as you wash it properly when you've finished, after all you would wash it in the dishwasher or with dishwashing detergent if you'd used it for food wouldn't you.
9. Ask Cath
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 10 cents a day you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
11. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
What will you do with my email address?
We never rent, trade or sell our email list to anyone for any reason whatsoever. You'll never get an unsolicited email from a stranger as a result of joining this list.
How Did You Get on Our List?
You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member
12. Contact Details
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
Contact Cheapskates
1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Good Old Natural Christmas Wrapping; Another Way to MOO Spreadable Butter; Easy Clean, Easy Gliding Tracks
3. Share Your Tips -
4. On the Menu - Ginger Nuts, an Old Favourite
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Let's Revisit Pita Chips
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. Own Your Christmas Challenge - Week 9 Tasks and Tips
8. This Week's Question - Best soap for Cheapskates Washing Powder
9. Ask Cath
10. Join the Cheapskates Club
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Well the Own Your Christmas challenge has finished - that nine weeks just flew by!
From the emails and messages I'm getting just about everyone is ready and waiting patiently (or not so patiently) for Christmas. What's made me really smile is that every single Cheapskater I've heard from has come in either on or under their Christmas budget! That is amazing, and exciting. Just think: no after Christmas bill shock for these Cheapskaters!
It's not too late, you can own your Christmas. You may need to plan and work a little harder, but it can be done. All the help you need is at Christmas Central, ready and waiting.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
Good Old Natural Christmas Wrapping
Good old natural brown paper and string can be used to wrap gifts. It looks amazingly stylish...and it can be tarted up a number of ways (and not just for Christmas):
- Attach a twig of Rosemary or anything interesting from the garden
- Wrap a strip of bright (Christmas) paper over the middle of the wrapped gift and tie the string around it a few times
- Potato stamping on the brown paper before wrapping eg stars, Christmas trees and love hearts
Also heavy duty brown paper bags are great for cutting out e.g. hearts and stars, punch a hole in them and tie it onto the string for a gift tag.
Contributed by Lyn B
Another Way to MOO Spreadable Butter
I was just reading the spreadable butter tip. I remember when I was a child my mum used to make the butter go further. All she did was get 250gms butter let it soften put it in the mixer and beat it slowly adding 2-3 tablespoons of water. then she would put it into one of the butter bowls we had. This had two benefits, the butter was easy to spread & went further because of that. This tip was passed down from her mum, as they used to do it during the war. It can be much healthier using water as opposed to using oil depending on the type of oil that you use. The bonus is you don't have to melt butter to mix it with the oil.
Contributed by Gail Mulhall
Easy Clean, Easy Gliding Tracks
Use pipe cleaners to remove dust, then use cotton buds dipped in hot soapy water, to drag the built up dirt along and out of the tracks. Works like magic; dry tracks with a dry cotton bud or another pipe cleaner. We rented a home where the tracks were very dirty and the doors would not run. For as little as a $1.00 tracks will be running freely. Once finished all you need to do is vacuum when doing a regular clean.
Contributed by Joy Dyson
Editor's note: We don't have an issue with window and door tracks, but we do have an issue with the shower screens. Being a slightly older home, not everything is square and there is a slight gap that narrows to the wall where the shower screen fits into the base. I use cotton buds to clean this gap. If you have a sliding shower door cotton buds clean the tracks easily too. Cath
There are currently more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Submit Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Submit your tip
4. On the Menu
Ginger Nuts, an Old Favourite
This week I have an old favourite for you – ginger nuts. These crisp (alright, hard) and delicious biscuits are quick and easy to make and are a real favourite in our house. They don't last long at all and taste so much better than the bought ones. They make a crumb base special and add a little zing to a plain cheesecake too as well as being the perfect biscuit for dunking! Ginger nuts - one more thing you can MOO and cross off your shopping list.
Ginger Nuts
Ingredients:
125g butter
180g white sugar
250g self raising flour
2 tablespoons golden syrup
2 level teaspoons ground ginger
pinch salt
1 egg, beaten
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Melt butter, sugar and syrup together in saucepan. Cool slightly. Add beaten egg, and mix well. Then add to sifted dry ingredients. Mix well with a wooden spoon. Put small teaspoonfuls on a greased cookie sheet (I use greased greaseproof paper or silicone paper if I have it). Bake for 20 minutes until nice and brown and cooked. Remove from baking sheets immediately and allow to cool on cake racks before storing in an air tight container.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: French steak, vegetables
Tuesday: Vegetable pasta bake, salad
Wednesday: Sweet & sour chicken, fried rice
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Sweet lamb curry, steamed rice
Saturday: Tacos
In the fruit bowl: Apples, pears, bananas
In the cake tin: cup-cakes, fruit cake
There are over 1,600 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
Let's Revisit Pita Chips
A couple of years ago, Hannah came home from work and the first thing she did was show me a photo on her phone. She'd been in the supermarket and found pita chips. That's convenient, right? Of course it is. Cutting pita bread into strips or triangles and baking it takes up at least 5 minutes of your time. It would be so much easier to just buy them ready made.
And then I saw the price - $8.59 a bag, or according to the unit price, just $71.58 per kilo!
I did the sums. A packet of Lebanese bread costs $1.35 for 400g or $3.40 per kilo. Sometimes it comes on sale for 99 cents, and even better, 89 cents a packet and I buy up big - 10 or more packets (it freezes!). That would bring the per kilo price down and make these gourmet (who'd a thunk the humble pita chip would be a gourmet treat?) treats even cheaper.
Add some olive oil, a sprinkle of salt, a couple of cloves of garlic and about two teaspoons rosemary and for a cost of approximately 90 cents (the cost will depend on how much you pay for your oil and herbs - I grow garlic and rosemary so they're virtually free) and you can have 1 kilo of seasoned pita chips for under $4.50. If you'd rather have them plain they'll be even cheaper.
That's a whopping $67 difference.
I bet that you, like me, believe that $67 is much better in your bank account than the supermarkets (if you don't then maybe this isn't the place for you after all).
Pita chips take around 10 minutes to make and they're so easy even a child can make them. Just brush both sides with a little olive oil, cut into strips or triangles (a pizza cutter is great for this) and bake for about 10 minutes until they are dry through. Cool and store in an air tight container.
Add your own seasonings or not, it's up to you. Either way I can guarantee they won't last long.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge
The Post that Started it All
6. Cheapskates Buzz
From the Article Archive
3 Steps to an Impressive Christmas Dinner Even on a Cheapskates Budget
https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/3-steps-to-an-impressive-christmas-dinner-even-on-a-cheapskates-budget---november-2017.html
A Christmas Ready Fridge
https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/a-christmas-ready-fridge-ndash-tuesday-1st-december-2015.html
Quick Christmas Decorating Ideas
https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/quick-christmas-decorating-ideas---tuesday-1st-december-2015.html
Most popular forum posts this week
Is It Wrong
https://catharmstrong.discussion.community/post/is-it-wrong-9850012?highlight=wrong&pid=1305475420
The Gardening Challenge
https://catharmstrong.discussion.community/post/the-gardening-challenge-9849252?highlight=gardening+challenge&pid=1305463701
Quit Smoking Challenge
https://catharmstrong.discussion.community/post/quit-smoking-challenge-2011-9849324?highlight=quit+smoking+challenge+2011&pid=1305464621
Most popular blog posts this week
Buy it Cheaper
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/10/buy-it-cheaper.html
MOO Stain Removing Soap
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/p/how-to-make-stain-removing-soap.html
How to Stock Your Pantry
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/10/how-to-stock-your-pantry.html
7. Own Your Christmas Challenge
This is the last week of the Own Your Christmas Challenge. By now just about everything you need to do, need to buy, need to wrap and need to decorate has been done.
This week is the week to do a quick review and make sure you've finished everything on your to do list, so that you can sit back on Saturday and enjoy the start of the 2018 Christmas season.
As you're cooking dinner this week, check to see if there are any dishes you can double or triple to have ready to heat meals in the freezer. Even the best laid plans can change, and if know you can get a meal on the table, those spur-of-the-moment changes won't be a stress.
Task 1 Finish decorating. Put up the Christmas tree, hang the wreath on the door. Start stringing the cards as they come in. Start to use the Christmas dishes and table linens. Get out the Christmas music and movies.
Task 2 Write up the last of the Christmas cards and get them all in the post on Wednesday so they’ll be delivered by Friday.
Task 3 Buy, wrap and label the last of the gifts and place them under the Christmas tree.
Task 4 Do a pantry stocktake and write up shopping lists for the next three weeks, adding the groceries you haven't yet bought, and any extra ingredients you need for edible gifts. Add the perishables to the list for the week before Christmas. With the bulk of the grocery shopping done and lists written, you should be able to whizz in and out of the supermarket, butcher and greengrocer in just a few minutes, and avoid the hassle of the Christmas shopping crowds.
The Own Your Christmas Challenge is over.
You've plotted and planned, shopped and wrapped, baked and cooked, written cards and sent them off. And all within budget, and without resorting to credit.
You own your Christmas!
As you sit back during December and watch everyone around you stress and rush around in a frantic panic, you can relax. You know that your celebration is paid for and you know that you won't be hiding from the postie in January.
Congratulations, and merry Christmas.
Get all the tip sheets, planners and tips for owing your Christmas here.
8. This Week's Question
Q. I just wanted to know what bar of soap you used for the laundry powder recipe. I used velvet because it said it was suitable for use in the laundry but it does seem to be on the pricey side - $2.70 for 4 bars of soap. Could I use any no name soap? Wendy
A. You can use any soap - laundry soap is the cheapest, bathroom soap smells nicer if you like the scent. Making your own laundry powder is a great way to use up the ends of cakes of soap. Save them in a jar until you have around 125g (the weight of a cake of soap) and use them up. They don't have to be the same - soap is soap when it comes to laundry powder.
Cheapskates Washing Powder
Ingredients:
1 bar soap, grated
1 cup washing soda (Lectric Soda)
1/2 cup borax
Mix together and store in a sealed container. Use 3 scant teaspoons per load for a top-loader and 1 scant teaspoon per load for a front loader.
I use the zester side of my grater to do the soap. It makes it a very fine powder so it dissolves completely even in cold water. If you have a food processor break the soap up with a hammer or rolling pin and whizz it. Or use the grater attachment to grate it then whizz it to a powder. And yes it is safe to use your food grater or processor to do this as long as you wash it properly when you've finished, after all you would wash it in the dishwasher or with dishwashing detergent if you'd used it for food wouldn't you.
9. Ask Cath
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 10 cents a day you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
11. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
What will you do with my email address?
We never rent, trade or sell our email list to anyone for any reason whatsoever. You'll never get an unsolicited email from a stranger as a result of joining this list.
How Did You Get on Our List?
You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member
12. Contact Details
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
Contact Cheapskates