The true cost of things is not reflected in the price alone. Since cutting the groceries down to less than $75 a week I have become acutely aware of our dangerous consumer habits. It is just thoughtlessness in everyday spending and I have been guilty of it myself for the majority of my life. Have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When something new is suggested our natural reaction is to put up barriers resisting the change. Most people seem programmed to question the new suggestion and I guess that is a survival instinct… you are going along OK as you are – why change? On the other hand, there is a small percentage of adaptable [...]
Slashing our grocery bill to $100 a week has to be the best thing I have ever done. All I wanted to do was save some money, for a change. Now, six months later, I am a successful columnist with my own website – www.pigtitsandparsleysauce.co.nz – and I’ve saved over $25,000. I’ve been on [...]
SPOILT for CHOICE I might as well make it official, as of last week we are cutting the grocery budget again – this time to $75 a week. ROBERT CHARLES Lyn Webster, left, with her new coastal representative Lynn Putt, in Lyn’s new sign-written car. But before I tell you why, I have an [...]
Surprising result: It’s not where you shop, it’s the choices you make. Three different supermarkets, same list: which was cheapest? For this experiment, I used a list of things we needed at the time. I was pretty sure I knew which supermarket would be the cheapest and I expected it to be so much [...]
Twenty-two thousand people have hit on me. I’m kidding – they have hit on my website, www.pigtitsandparsleysauce.co.nz. In six months, Pig Tits has snow-balled from an idea in my head to a media event. Sometimes I wish I had thought of a different name – too late now. The website is attracting people worldwide: China, [...]
GOOD MORNING NEW ZEALAND When you are up to your neck in cows and calves at the beginning of spring, the last thing you can do is down tools and pop off to Wellington for a day of filming at Avalon TV studios. However, thanks to some clever flight scheduling and the help of my [...]