One man’s trash is another man’s treasure so they say and that has never been more true than right now when spending on luxury items is becoming harder to justify. But how do you find one man’s trash to turn it into your own treasure in the first place? There is always eBay of course, [...]
Archive for the "Reduce, Recycle, Reuse" category
Finding ways to save money using the Three R’s: reduce, recycle and reuse.
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 [...]
I have no idea if that was Hetty Green’s mantra but if not, it should have been.
She was the richest woman in American history according to a list compiled by the American Heritage Magazine in 1998 and yet despite having more money than your average nation, Mrs Green was known to be more than [...]
Continuing with the food waste theme, how can you save money on food when you have a family to feed?
At the extremes documented in the Food Wastage report the answer would be to stop throwing good food in unopened packages in the trash but not everyone is so totally careless. What if you are already [...]
A British organization called WRAP recently published a report which documents the staggering amount of food waste that is tossed out every single day in the UK. In the report food waste is categorized as avoidable, possibly avoidable or not avoidable. Avoidable food waste is food that has been allowed to go past its best [...]
Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the little changes that add to big differences in your monthly outlay. I’d like to just take a moment to go over them again.
Don’t waste your energy: turn off unused lights and appliances
While that statement seems so obvious unless you have made it a dyed in the [...]
