Posts with tips to save money
What do you do when you can’t stop thinking about something you want to buy? The first month of our 6 month no spend challenge threw a few curveballs, the biggest one to me was the temptation of a dress in my favourite store. It looked fantastic on, the fabric was beautiful and the dress […]
What saves more money living in a home in the suburbs or living in an inner city apartment?Last year we moved from a large 4 bedroom home with a huge backyard, our own chickens, a swimming pool and lots of space in the suburbs to a tiny 2 bedroom unit right in the heart of […]
I’ve been a shopaholic. Not always, I prefer the frugal lifestyle, yet different times in my life I shopped non-stop. If I was meeting friends, we met at the shopping centre. Every week I bought new clothes before I had kids then once I had kids I bought stuff for them. This year, prior to […]
I often see dresses and skirts I like that fit me everywhere but that I wish were just that little bit longer. The op shops are full of them. I get around this dilemma by adding a contrast strip to the bottom of the dress. It’s quite easy to do, takes less than 30 minutes […]
We are 10 days into our no spend challenge and so far we’ve done well. It was the start of school holidays when we started which can often see a blow-out in the budget with movies, takeaway and other expenses to keep the kids entertained. Instead, I was super sick and we had no option […]
Upon reviewing our finances this financial year it was clear we slipped up. There were big changes, huge medical bills and an interstate move plus we developed and attitude of laziness and ‘we deserve it’. As in, we deserve that ice cream because it has been a hard day. We “deserve” take away because we […]
Since we got chickens our vegetable garden has been looking less than full and while it is winter here lettuce still grows well and we eat a lot of lettuce which we prefer to grow ourselves than buy. My hubby and 7yr old worked out an easy PVC pipe hanging planter that holds 36 lettuce […]
What would you do if you found yourself homeless? The past 12 months I have done a lot of work with the homeless and it has been truly eye opening. Homelessness impacts on everyone and anyone can end up homeless. I’ve been homeless, twice. Both times I had my daughters and fortunately we weren’t ‘rough […]
What Discounts and Help can you get with a Pension or Health Care Card in Australia? Each state in Australia has different concessions based on the type of card you have and it is not determined by Centrelink, it is at the discretion of local providers. It always pays to ask! The PBS is about the […]