After a crappy weekend and start to the week, I had money and it was time to do my fortnightly grocery shop. Only, I was going to be at home for TEN STRAIGHT DAYS. Apart from when I had the flu and couldn’t even lift my arms to drive, I don’t know the last time […]
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Don’t Bank With ANZ
Don’t bank with ANZ Advice if this has happened to you: Many people have been finding my blog because this (or something similar) has happened to them. I’m so sorry to hear that you are going through what I did. It’s disappointing to hear that it’s still happening. If you read the entire post (and […]
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Employees Are Valuable
Some small business websites bug me. I feel like they’re so close… and yet so far. I recently saw an example/testimonial type of thing about outsourcing where the office “manager” (their emphasis) cost them $850 per week and how they outsourced all these tasks much cheaper. Well…as someone who works a secondary (tertiary?) career in […]
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$94.52 Grocery Shop
Sadly, I appear to be hammered by bills on all sides right now. While I’ve picked up another contract until Christmas for extra money, it will be weeks until I’m paid. Lousy timing all around! Thank goodness companies are pretty good with extending deadlines, especially as I can tell them the exact date I can […]
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Budgeting for 2016
While I don’t believe that you have to wait for a new year to start a new goal, sometimes it’s easy to feel like you’re starting fresh, clean and raring to go. Disclaimer: not an accountant (or anything like it). Use logic people. That’s what I’ve done here. If you don’t want to use […]
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Tips To Reign In Christmas Spending
There’s no need to go into massive amounts of debt for a happy Christmas. In fact, that’s one of the worst reasons to go into debt! We’re not a big Christmas household – in fact, we don’t own a Christmas tree! While I prep my gift guides for the coming weeks, I wanted to start […]
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Garage Sale Wins
On Saturday I had a great morning out going to garage sales. I’ve had a few things on my “want but could maybe call it a need to justify it” list and I pretty much crossed everything off in one hit! Number one was a slow cooker – I scored this Russell Hobbs […]
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$70.73 Grocery Shop
My favourite bill of all, the electricity bill, arrived this week. I usually put an approximately correct amount of money on it each pay, but that hadn’t worked out very well in the past quarter. So… very small grocery shop it is! ICYMI: I’m also doing fortnightly photo post round ups of what I’ve […]
$165 Grocery Shop
To be honest, I actually wanted to spend less than $100 this fortnight. But stuff I use was on sale, a couple of things at prices that it was ridiculous NOT to buy them. Overall, I know it’s not an expensive shop, but I feel like I was a bit lazy in sticking to my […]
$221 Grocery Shop
A big one this fortnight! Our freezer was getting empty by the start of this week, so I knew it was time to do a stock up shop. It also timed well with pays between varying contracts of mine, so yay! This one will last us a lot more than one fortnight for sure – […]