We’ve all been there at some point – on a very tight budget. Perhaps you are trying to pay off debt. Perhaps you or your spouse are unemployed. Perhaps you are simply not earning enough to cover expenses. Perhaps you are looking after a younger sibling or an extended family member. Life can […]
August this year was definitely an ‘easy’ month for us in that I didn’t have to do a whole lot of grocery shopping! I am glad that I’m under the budget for the month and we should be more than alright for the month ahead as far as groceries are concerned. One of […]
If you’re anything like me, you’re most probably always on the lookout for healthy and inexpensive snacks to pack in your lunchbox for work. No one really wants to nibble on the same foods day in, day out so I’m always exploring new options. I’m sure you are as well! While I like […]
I only occasionally shop at Westpack Lifestyle though I know most of us, who are fans, could probably spend a good couple of hours looking around! This month I needed to stock up on some of the items that I regularly buy, and use, so I thought I would share my top 3 household […]
Last week I had quite an embarrassing moment at work! Just as I’d arrived, and sat down in my chair, a little something on my leggings caught the corner of my eye: it was a hole in my garment, about the size of a green pea, and very, very visible! I had no idea […]
Quite a few of my readers have been searching for a Basic Grocery List on a Budget in South Africa over the past few months. I have been meaning to write a post about this but have been delaying somewhat because I seem to be writing far too many posts about food these days! […]
I am always on the lookout for the most value for my Rand. There have been times when I’ve bought cheaper bars of soap and been terribly disappointed: either the soaps didn’t lather nicely or they lathered too much, and simply diminished too quickly. As a general rule, If I go through any cheap […]
I don’t like to waste anything, especially not food. Sometimes, sure, it just happens. Food goes off or becomes mouldy, perhaps it was too hot or it was left in the fridge for too long. We’ve all been there and done that at some stage but that’s not to say that we shouldn’t make […]
Stealthy Wealth has challenged us all to a Frugal February month. I like the idea of challenging ourselves on a daily basis to be less wasteful, more frugal and more resourceful with what we have. This allows us to save as much money as we can along the way – to invest or […]
The danger with end-of-season sales is precisely that – they are sales. It’s very tempting to buy items on sale simply because they are on sale, we all know that. I can’t quite decide if I love sales or if I hate them. Yes, I love bargains! I love buying things for less than […]
If you are on your journey to becoming debt-free or you’re looking for simple ways to tighten up those leaks in your monthly budget, today I am sharing with you 10 tips which help us save money every day. They may be small things but at the end of the month, they do […]
For most of us, cell phone and landline costs can be quite a pricey little item on our budget sheet each month. Every now and then I come across a blog post suggesting that we ditch either the landline or the cell phone, or in some cases even both, in order to cut costs. […]
In my previous post Becoming Credit-Card Free: Our Journey, I talked about how we had to reduce our monthly expenditure so that we could find extra money to put towards paying off more than the minimum balance due on a credit card each month. Although we never thought of ourselves as big spenders by […]
I don’t know how you feel about this but I think food is becoming more and more expensive. Statistics show that food is the 3rd highest household expenditure, after housing and transport, in South Africa. As I do most of the grocery shopping in our household I pay attention to the prices and […]
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