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The Cheapskates Laundry Powder Recipe – Does It Work? 27 Jun 2013 | 08:10 am
It’s been a month since I started out the whole frugal thing. Overall all I’ve done pretty well, we’ve managed to get our food budget to $300 or below for the week (still room for improvement), and we...
How To Be A Stay At Home Writer Mama Without Going Crazy 18 Jun 2013 | 09:59 am
I work at an untidy desk, at a computer that is used by the whole family. It’s located in a corner of our large living area, and if I turn my head to the right, I can see the television, and the mes...
Costco Sydney – I Braved the Crowds and Survived (and kinda liked it) 4 Jun 2013 | 02:12 pm
I did it. Last week I only spent $230 for the week on groceries. That’s a much better number than the average $500 a week that I was spending. Let me say that I was thrilled. Tracey says: “I was thri...
Our Grocery Bills are approx $2000 or more per month (WTF? and what are we going to do about it?) 28 May 2013 | 08:12 am
Somehow over the past few years, our grocery bills have found a way to get larger and larger, until right now, it’s not unusual to spend around $500 a week or more. Now I don’t know about you, but s...
What to do with this blog 25 May 2013 | 09:05 am
I struggle a lot with what I should do with this blog. I’ve started no less than seven blog posts over the past few months, only to discard them after I’ve finished writing, as they didn’t fit with wh...
Sugar Free ANZAC Biscuits 24 Apr 2013 | 11:41 am
Tomorrow in Australia is ANZAC day (25th April) and it’s a tradition in our family to bake a batch of ANZAC biscuits. We are all still sugar-free here and so I made a few tweaks to my fav recipe and r...
Let’s Stop the Negative Self Talk 20 Apr 2013 | 06:52 am
I’ve just finished watching the latest “You Are More Beautiful Than You Think” Dove campaign. It was a really touching video, where (if you haven’t seen it yet), a forensic sketch artist draws two por...
2013 Goals and Resolutions 19 Dec 2012 | 05:50 am
The end of the year is drawing closer which means it’s time to reflect on what I had planned on doing this year, and what I actually achieved. Looking back at last year’s goals I had planned to: 1. Wr...
Going Sugar Free – Day Ten of Quitting Sugar 24 Nov 2012 | 09:30 am
About two weeks ago I decided that I wanted to quit sugar. I wasn’t really sure about how to go about it, or why it was so important, I just knew that it wasn’t doing me any good, and that I’d had en...
My $20 Budget Fireplace Makeover 18 Oct 2012 | 08:39 am
Nearly two years ago now, we moved into a solid but dated post war Fibro shack in a leafy suburban suburb of Sydney. We chose the house for it’s position and because it seemed to have a good layout fo...
