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 [...]
After nearly 30 years of shopping, I have discovered that I don’t have to give away all my money to the supermarket. Here are some ways of getting around the supermarket and walking out with some cash left in your pocket. First, remember that the supermarket is not your enemy: it’s a convenient, one-stop source [...]
To survive in modern times, we need to adapt to change. Lately, with recessions and so forth, this means getting out of your comfort zone on an almost continuous basis, which is tiresome, particularly for no-longer-young-folk who are happily stuck in their ways. But how secure is your future? The $100 a week grocery budget [...]
Instead of being frittered away on unnecessary grocery items, my hard-earned cash is staying in my pocket. Here’s an example of how to trim your grocery bill down without missing out on much. Imagine it’s one of those expensive weeks where everything you need has run out at once. Here are some actual prices of [...]
I have saved more than $15,000 since starting this project in January. This is mind-boggling for somebody who has never saved a cent in her life. Of that, $5000 is squirrelled away in KiwiSaver, so it’s not going to be much use towards the deposit on a rental property, but it’s still there. The rest [...]
The kids are revolting! Actually, they’re rebelling and it’s the the taste of the home-made toothpaste that is revolting. I made the toothpaste myself, for a few cents, using my new pal baking soda, and must admit it needs a bit of fine-tuning in the taste department. However, it does a good job of cleaning [...]
There you have it: A fortnight’s worth of groceries for less than $200. This can be achieved week in, week out, but some skill and a small amount of shopping around is required. If you are affected by brand snobbery, this type of budget may prove beyond your reach. The products listed here are mostly [...]
Sometimes I feel like I live in a nursery rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To give the poor dog a bone: When she came there, The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. Don’t call the SPCA, but our pets are being affected by the credit crunch. Because the [...]
Slapped cents-less by the global recession, we’re counting on a strict weekly food budget to bring us back to our economic senses. In the holidays, our $100 worth of groceries easily lasted a week, making our goal of buying a rental investment property next year look possible. Then something happened: it was back to school. [...]
Surviving on a grocery budget of $100 a week while keeping the family happy, healthy and clean at both ends is my challenge. A family meeting ascertained our staple list of grocery items. Brainstorming saw pasta, tuna, apples, veges (lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, avocados and capsicum), bread, butter, cheese, tinned fruit and meat on the [...]
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