The festive season is upon us and we are all stoney broke. No-one wants to turn up at a party with a bottle of plonk that could strip the paint off the family car so what to do?
Wel,l check out this brilliant list of good wines for $15 or less. Given the overall quality of [...]
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Penny saving doesn’t get much better than FREE and this tasty site is set up to let you find out where you can feed hungry little rug-rats for free or at least at significant discounts. In tough times when every penny is by necessity a prisoner, sites like this make eating out with your children [...]
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I’ll post specifically about putting on a fantastic but cost conscious Thanksgiving table in a week or so. In the meantime, in the face of the current crisis more people are turning to (or maybe that should be re-turning to) home entertaining. There is even a new acronym [...]
Fool.co.uk who boast that they ‘…are seriously good with money.’ have published a tongue in cheek list of the top ten stingy tips. Seriously good with money they may be but their top ten stingy tips are worth a laugh (… or an outcry of eeewwww, depending on the tip in question.)
While I might be [...]
This week is Energy Saving Week for the UK’s Energy Saving Trust. By the name of the event, you’d think that the organization was encouraging you to burn fuel like there is no tomorrow for the rest of the year, but not a bit of it. Energy Saving Week is a regular educational drive and [...]
I may be The Biggest Loser’s biggest fan. I get so involved in the lives of these strangers that every season I find it hard to decide who I want to win. In Season 5 it seemed that Mark had not only shed all that excess weight but all the stuffy padding that he had [...]
