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

This post covers two weeks, life has been busy! The week that was 29/05/2022 What a week! Lots of garden work done. Keren called in for morn...

Sunday was glorious, and so warm, a perfect autumn day. I added three mini cabbage seedlings and three mini cauliflower seedlings to the gar...

Hello! The week started out cold, but the rain stopped, and the sun came out. The days were mild, not warm, but not freezing cold either. Th...

Happy Mother's Day!  The weather turned this week, and it went from a balmy 21C on Monday, with blue skies and sunshine, to wind, rain a...

It has been a long week! Or it feels long, even Wayne felt like it was dragging. Hannah's car was towed (again) to the mechanic on Tuesd...

Each week we try to live as frugally as possible. We have to, we don't have an unlimited income, we have a very, very limited income and...

Time gets away from me, especially if I don't add to my list as things are done. One reason I've not posted is I've been busy! S...

Here's a mid-week challenge for you: how can I recycle four of Wayne's old work jumpers? The problem is the logo, it is embroidere...

Yesterday was our 33rd wedding anniversary. Where have those years gone? It doesn't feel like 33 years, it barely feels like any time ha...

Interest has been shown in my canning plan for the year, so this year, after watching and being inspired by Leisa from Suttons Daze, I have ...

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...