When you are saving money – sometimes it can be a bit depressing – no holidays, no big nights out, no special treats. In the cold, dark winter, you don’t want to be more depressed than the weather might make you.
So here are a few cheap ways of getting the things you want, while still [...]
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Treating Yourself (While On A Budget)
Save Money On Your Groceries
Imagine if you had ZERO money – I mean absolutely none, and no credit.
What would you eat? Well, of course, you would have a stock of food at home that you could eat through, right? Well, this post is about how that food should get eaten RIGHT NOW, not left to languish at the back [...]
Minimise The Cost Of Your Social Life
Having a lot of friends is such a blessing – especially when they are a varied bunch. You get to know people with different jobs, interests, backgrounds – and knowing them widens your own knowledge and makes you yourself a more interesting person.
The problem is – when you have a varied bunch of friends – [...]
Contact Lenses – On the Cheap
If you are a tight arse, it is very difficult for you to come to terms with wearing contact lenses. The things are EXPENSIVE. Not only that, but you need to buy them over and over again. Ok, so if you get the annual ones (wierd) then maybe you don’t, but that is only if [...]
Saving on Heating
Having grown up in Sydney, many Europeans or Canadians or Canberrans (for example), might think I wouldn’t know anything about being cold. However, when you live in Sydney, in a house surrounded by trees, where you aren’t allowed to put on the heating and your dad wears a beanie 24-7, you can get preeeetty cold.
When [...]