Welcome to the new-look THRIFTerrific! What do you think, do you like the new design? I was inspired by the success of the refresh project for cyberseraphic, motivated by the vast improvements that the self-hosted version of WordPress offers over Blogger/Blogspot, and spurred on by scoring a free domain name from COVE during a Christmas giveaway (the same company that is also hosting all of my blogs now).

By the way, if you find any pink stuff on the site, it’s because I missed something while customising this retina-burning monstrosity. If you could drop me a note in the comments I’ll make sure it gets fixed up.

So a belated happy new year for 2010, and I hope that through this blog, you’ll continue to find out how easy it can be to live a happier, richer life – in every sense of the word.

I discovered on the weekend that THRIFTerrific has competition! Haha… it was probably naive of me to assume that I’d be the only blogger in Australia to write about saving money, particularly in this climate, but while browsing through the Womens’ Weekly magazine I came across an article which mentioned it. Simple Savings has been around since 2005, and contains an extensive collection of posts about the many ways one can save money. The only thing is, you have to subscribe (for free) to see most of it. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to turn a buck from this site but I probably won’t go so far as to start harvesting e-mail addresses, create mailing lists, etc. But that kind of stuff does works, so good for them.

Anyhoo, just linking it up for you guys in case THRIFTerrific isn’t enough of a thrifty fix, and also to support a fellow Aussie blogger and miser.

Welcome to THRIFTerrific, where the little things matter. In this blog, I hope to share with you a number of tips and tricks to help improve your life. Like it says in the blurb at the top of the page, we let so much opportunity pass us by because it’s too small or insignificant. But these little things can add up over time, and accumulate into very big things – just think about that red paperclip guy.

The tips that I’m going to share here aren’t going to be expensive or hard to do. They’ll be the little tweaks, quirks and oddities in life that I’ve discovered, which you can exploit to eke that little bit extra out of the things that you would normally do anyway.

And of course, none of this would work without you. My writing for THRIFTerrific is only one very small part of the equation, so make this blog your own: write comments, send me your tips and tricks, and share this blog with your friends!