In six months last year, Taranaki farmer Lyn Webster saved $16,000 by slashing her weekly shopping budget to just $100. She explained how she did it, and why, during a talk this week as part of Positively Clutha Women’s Week for Women activities. About 100 people heard Ms Webster talk about her life as [...]
Well this is it. The way to beat inflation and 15% GST. Forget John’s cheap tax cuts and jump off the money-merry-go-round. Make your own cleaning products and cosmetics, avoid the supermarket like the plague by shopping at Bin Inn and reap the rewards. We have done it since Jan 2009 – that is a [...]
Half of the food currently produced in the world is wasted, added to the ever increasing piles of rubbish made by mankind. That’s all very well and good if, like us, you live in a land of plenty but literally life threatening for those less fortunate. I remember refusing to eat my Brussels sprouts and [...]