Debt Free, Cashed Up and Laughing - The Cheapskates way to living the good life

I noticed earlier in the week that Kmart had a 25% off sale on clothing so I took a quick look through the wardrobes and decided that the me...

It's not often that I find myself at the supermarket just as they are doing the markdowns but I did this morning. It's a bit of the ...

I was so disappointed last week when I was invited to be a guest on Sunrise and had to decline (AJ had an appointment around the same time I...

I've had to replace face washers, bath mats and towels recently. And the sheets for our bed are almost see-through in spots so they'...

All that honing has paid off. We've lashed out and bought a new lounge suite - a brand new lounge suite. We did take a couple of afterno...

Our family room sofas have had it. They've had a hard life but it's really time to retire them. Not only have they stood up to the d...

We didn’t tell Hannah what we'd done to her bedroom, just picked up one very tired girl and brought her home. She walked down the hall a...

We dropped Hannah at church on Friday night to go on a waterski camp with the youth club. She was so excited to be going I thought she was g...

Happy Valentine's day! We don’t do expensive Valentine's gifts at all, just something fun and a bit special so I surprised everyone ...

The car was filled with petrol on Tuesday afternoon. I almost died of shock as I was watching the bowser tick over. Normally an expensive we...

Still no spending in the Armstrong household. We didn't even get the Sunday paper this week and that is one thing I would have thought W...

Way, way back in 2002 it struck me that for most of December and January all I did was spend. There was Christmas to cover, umpteen birthday...

After eight glorious weeks of holiday school went back today. I had a tear in my eye as I waved the kids off this morning, they never even l...

Yes Marion B., I do feed my kids gelatine sometimes. And yes, I do know what it's made from. I also sometimes feed them white rice, cho...

There's a forum thread going at the moment about cheap deli meats and it made me stop and think about what I buy from the deli. Not...

I can't believe it's been over a week since I last posted. This week I've done two magazine interviews, one newspaper interview...

The cool change I've been waiting for since Thursday hasn't arrived. I must be getting old because I really don't like this hot ...

I am inclined to find New Years resolutions a waste of time. Most resolutions made are worthless, they are simply empty words either spoken ...

.....that no matter what, if you have chosen to live the Cheapskates way, you will no matter who says what to you. Often in our journey th...

We've started the first Cheapskates Club grocery challenge for 2008 today and I've posted the list of challengers in the Forum . It...