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

This week started cold and wet! Not a lot was done, a migraine put a stop to me being too active for most of the week. Washing was dried on ...

Breakfast: 1 tea bag Milk 2 muffins 1 sausage patty 2 slices cheese Lunch: 10 slices bread 1 bagel Butter 5 slices ham 2 slices pastrami 7 s...

Breakfast: 1 tea bag Milk Orange juice 2 muffins 1 egg 1 sausage patty 2 slices cheese Lunch: 8 slices bread 4 slices cheese 4 slices ham Bu...

 This is a great challenge; I'm finding that my stocks are pretty much what we use, with the variables being the fresh veg and fruit. We...

Breakfast: 1 tea bag 1 tsp instant coffee 2 slices banana bread (freezer) Butter Lunch: 8 slices bread (freezer) Butter 1 tin salmon Cream c...

Breakfast: 2 tea bags 2 tsp coffee Milk Lunch: Quiche 5 bread rolls Ham 5 slices cheese Mustard Butter Dinner: 1 pkt corn chips Haystack fil...

This week all the fragments are being gathered and used, every last crumb, because I am doing the TEOTWAWKI Pantry Challenge, and can't ...

Breakfast: 2 croissants butter strawberry jam scraped out jar of raspberry jam 1 tea bag milk Lunch: 5 meat pies tomato sauce bbq sauce 1 te...

Breakfast: 2 English muffins Butter Strawberry jam 2 slices cheese 1 tea bag Milk Lunch: 2 hot dog rolls 2 hot dogs 3 bagels Cream cheese Sm...

I've already found a gap that needs to be filled: honey! I scraped the last of the honey out of the jar and went to get one off the shel...

Yesterday (13th September) was the first day of this challenge for us.  How to keep track of what we used? It was a bit of an aha moment as ...

Hello Cheapskaters, On Saturday, a lovely friend from The Netherlands mentioned in her beautiful post a challenge to live off our pantries a...

Sunday, inbetween rain showers, we worked on filling the veggie beds. They are big, and will take a lot of fill, and we are on a budget so b...

This week seemed to drag. I woke up on Tuesday, and thought "oh, it's Saturday", then the alarm went off and I remembered it w...

As I read my friend Rosanne's link to the article " The World Is Still Short of Everything. Get Used to It " reminded me of a ...

The news this week has been all over the place. One thing that caught my attention, and spurred me into action, was the reports of the truck...

Here’s what my day looked like yesterday. I'm sharing because it was pretty much a normal sort of day around here, busy, but with plenty...

Still in lockdown, but we're going well. Hannah went back into lockdown yesterday at 1pm. I can rest easy knowing she has a full pantry,...

  Our world has turned upside down, inside out, and twisted itself in knots. It has, for want of a modern term, gone crazy. Life for so many...

It's been a while, but I've been busy. Life has a way of getting in the way of our plans. So this last week, our lockdown was extend...