Archive for September, 2009

Tips Can Be Annoying!

One of the few rules of the $75 budget is: keep it simple. My main budgeting tip is purely and simply to stick to your budget limit. This is mainly because it is  easy to get bogged down  and confused by too many  self-imposed rules and  regulations and that  quickly morphs into an  excuse or [...]

Where Have All the Recipes Gone?

On a normal weekday, my website receives 300 to 400 hits. On Wednesday, I received 298 . . . that is, until I appeared on Campbell Live. By 10 that night, the website had received 14,000 hits and my inbox was filling up fast. It just goes to show that New Zealanders are fed up [...]

Make it yourself !

Our strict grocery budget is certainly teaching us value for money. When you have limited funds, the last thing you want to do is blow it all on a big-ticket item that isn’t worth it. I shouted the girls out for tea to say thanks for being such good sorts about our changed lifestyle. A [...]

What’s Happening Down South

Here are some examples of the postal correspondence I receive every day since appearing on TV and in the Taranaki Daily News:  Hi Lyn, Good on you for letting everyone know your secret to success.  It is always great to see when people share the secrets around.  I have enclosed $10 for the recipes to [...]