About

Lyn Webster has restricted her family grocery budget to just $100 a week, hoping to save $12,000 in a year to invest in a rental property.

Lyn is charting progress in her weekly column in the Taranaki Daily News. www.stuff.co.nz

Since starting this project in January 2009 Lyn has surpassed her savings goal (by double) in just 6-months. In August 2009 the grocery budget was slashed again to just $75 per week. Savings have swelled to in excess of $30,000 by October 2009.

This has been achieved mainly by Lyn discovering how to make most of the commonly used cleaning products – laundry powder, dish-washing liquid and powder, all-purpose cleaner, window cleaner etc herself at home, quickly and cheaply.  This has enabled her to literally save thousands of dollars.

Go to Homemade products page to purchase recipes for just $10-00.

Publicity in the Daily News has lead to TV appearances on Campbell Live (TV3) and Good Morning (TV1), public speaking engagements, an article in That’s Life , New Idea and Lucky Break Magazines and requests world-wide to buy the recipes and obtain the books.

Classes (demonstrating the homemade products) are available in Taranaki ($25 per person) and Lyn is available to travel to demonstrate to groups of ten or more for a flat rate of $150-00.  The demonstration includes recipes and samples.

Franchises have been set up in communities around New Zealand so classes, workshops and demonstrations are now available New Zealand-wide. Click on classes or franchisees page to find a class near you.

MAKE home made products are now branching out across the Tasman with a franchisee starting up soon in Australia.  For more info see the Australian Franchisees page.

If your Taranaki based group would like to hear the story of the $100 budget, Lyn is happy to do a presentation free of charge but a donation towards petrol costs is appreciated.

If you want a presentation in your area contact your local franchisee.

If you want to hear it from Lyn herself, it costs $500 plus travel and accomodation.  They loved it in Invercargill in July and she is going to Lower Hutt in February.