Voting is now open for the AMP Scholarship Peoples Choice Award. You can see my entry by going to the web site below (or direct link see page right) and searching under Taranaki /Wanganui region and Environmental Category. It would be great if you could give me your vote and encourage others to support me too. http://www. doyourthing.co.nz
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 [...]
Sixteen months ago my family made a pact to slash the weekly grocery bill to less than $100 a week. Amongst the many joys that we have discovered within our changed shopping habits is a massive reduction in our household waste. Saving cash was the original sole motivation behind the ‘$100 a week grocery budget’, [...]
Stevie and I did a fortnightly grocery run the other day. On a $75 a week grocery budget that meant an upper limit of $150. We were shopping locally (New World) so not necessarily the cheapest supermarket in the world, however they did have the coupon special on… not that we had any coupons as [...]
If you are up North here is an opportunity for you. MAKE Cleaning Products demonstration. Get started on the road to supersavings. Monday 3rd May 7pm. Bin Inn Kamo, 386 Kamo Road, Kamo, Whangarei. To register email achesaway@xtra.co.nz or ph Kamo Bin Inn on 4354494. $25 or $20 each if you prebook with a friend.
Here is a film review I wrote published recently in Taranaki Daily News. It is a bit random but there is a stark comparison between the fast shallow way of life – Hollywood Blockbuster, and the more thoughtful, sustainable approach – local doco… Anyway have a read and see what you think…. I could actually see the [...]
Just went to Bin Inn and got eggs, barley, rice, mayonnaise, brown sugar, soy sauce, fish sauce, corn starch, sesame seeds, peanuts, sunflower seeds and oyster sauce all for less than $30. I’m having a go at Chinese cooking. I took my own recycled containers and bread bags which I will re-use again and again. [...]