The Cheapskates Club
Programs & Challenges
Choose a goal, follow the plan and put the Cheapskates way into practice. Use these programs and challenges to work on spending, groceries, pantry building, MOOing, household resilience and practical skills one step at a time.
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Choose the area you want to work on and jump straight to that group of programs.
Current 2026 Programs
Start with the programs and challenges currently being featured in the Member Hub.
See current programs →Money & Spending
Reset spending habits, strengthen the household budget and deliberately keep more money.
See money challenges →Groceries & Food
Lower the grocery bill, use what you already have and build stronger shopping habits.
See grocery challenges →Pantry & Preparedness
Build useful household buffers and prepare steadily for ordinary disruptions and emergencies.
See preparedness programs →MOO & Practical Skills
Replace things you buy with things you can make, cook, grow, mend or create yourself.
See MOO programs →Challenge Archive
Revisit older Cheapskates challenges whenever one suits what your household needs now.
Browse the archive →Happening now
Current 2026 Programs
Ready for Tomorrow
Save money, plan ahead and build a household that has more time, more options and less panic when circumstances change.
Open Ready for Tomorrow →Ditch the Freezer Challenge
Use down stored food, preserve what can be made shelf-stable and reduce dependence on multiple freezers.
Open the challenge →Handmade Christmas 2026
Start early, use what you have and make useful, thoughtful gifts without creating a frantic December spending spree.
Open Handmade Christmas →Super Shopper $300 a Month
Use planning, price knowledge, pantry skills and deliberate shopping to bring the household grocery bill under control.
Open Super Shopper →Spend less on purpose
Money & Spending Challenges
No Spending Month
Pause unnecessary spending for a month, use what you already have and reset the habits that quietly drain money.
Open No Spending Month →10 Cents a Day Savings Club
Build the saving habit with a tiny daily amount and prove that small, consistent actions really do add up.
Open the savings challenge →2026 Inflation Reset
Review household spending and practical systems so rising prices do not automatically become rising household costs.
Open Inflation Reset →Big Bills Before Little Bills
Audit the large recurring expenses before squeezing groceries and other small everyday spending even harder.
Start the challenge →Make the food budget work harder
Groceries & Food Challenges
Bare Bones Grocery Challenge
Use a deliberately basic grocery list and meal plan for a short period to cut spending and use pantry food.
Open Bare Bones →How to Build Your Stockpile
Build a useful food reserve steadily, stock what your household actually eats and rotate it as part of normal life.
Start the series →Build a Three-Month Pantry
Work towards a calm three-month food buffer without panic buying or trying to buy everything at once.
Start building →Weekly Challenges
Choose a smaller challenge when you want a short, practical savings experiment rather than a long program.
Browse weekly challenges →Build household breathing room
Pantry & Preparedness
Pantry & Preparedness Hub
Use the Pantry & Preparedness index to find stockpiling, storage, rotation, water, backup cooking and resilience resources.
Open the pantry hub →Ditch the Freezer Tracker
Track freezer contents and progress as you deliberately use, preserve and move food out of frozen storage.
Open the tracker →Things I Buy Once a Year
Use once-a-year buying as a planning exercise for household staples that are predictable, useful and worth stocking ahead.
Read the guide →Our Once-a-Year Shopping List
See a practical example of how an annual household shopping list can be organised and adapted to your own needs.
See the list →Make more, buy less
MOO & Practical Skills
31 Days of MOO
Replace everyday supermarket and household purchases with useful homemade alternatives one MOO at a time.
Open 31 Days of MOO →2026 Daily MOOs
Browse the current year's collection of recipes, household alternatives and practical things to make yourself.
Browse 2026 MOOs →31 Days of MOO Archive
Go back through earlier MOO challenges when you want more ideas than the current year's projects provide.
Browse the archive →Back to Basics
Build the wider cook, bake, grow, sew, preserve and mend skills that make a lower-cost household easier to run.
Open Back to Basics →Use them whenever they suit
Challenge Archive & More
Money Challenge Ideas
Browse the wider money collection when you want an older savings, spending or budget challenge to revisit.
Budgeting & Money Articles → Budget Renovations → Money & Budgeting Index →Food Challenge Ideas
Use the larger food collections for grocery, menu-planning, pantry and use-it-up ideas you can turn into your next challenge.
Groceries & Food Index → Meal Plan Archive → Search the Tip Store →Tools & Trackers
Pair a challenge with a worksheet or tracker so you can see what changed and what the challenge actually saved.
Planners & Printables → Tip Sheets → Cheapskates Library →