Archive for October, 2009

For Women Only

If you would like to enquire about or purchase the menstrual cup featured in this story and save thousands of $$$$ on pads and tampons AND be kind to the environment please e-mail lyn.webster@xtra.co.nz The same question has been raised several times over the course of the $100/$75 grocery budget. Women sidle over to me [...]

Supermarket Survival

There should be classes taught on how to resist marketing. Every day, we are bombarded with messages in print, on TV, billboards, radio, telephone and junk mail. Nearly everywhere we turn, there is another advertisement. Many of the goods advertised are expensive, packaged, overrated rubbish. I think I have become good at resisting temptation, but [...]

Webster’s Web Site

TV and the internet are powerful mediums. Effective on their own, combine the two and the results can be spectacular. In the space of 10 months, Pig Tits and Parsley Sauce has metamorphosed from a weekly column in a provincial newspaper to a national media event. I say this because I have been on TV [...]

Can We Survive on $eventyFive?

 Is someone sitting on a cloud with a calculator, adding up how much we have all saved? Then when the dollars start mounting up, do they order a disaster to befall and take all your hard earned cash away? This disaster could be in the form of an unexpected tax bill, major car repairs, job [...]