Pay less and get more by bulk buying
The American retail icon, Costco, recently launched a new store in the Melbourne docklands area, and will soon also open a store in the Sydney […]
Easy (if not sexy) car maintenance
My car’s overdue for a service, but I don’t want to take it in ‘coz I know they’re going to charge me some ridiculous sum […]
4 Ingredients on the iPhone
A quick addendum to my earlier post on thrifty cooking: yesterday I noticed that the “4 ingredients” book also has an iPhone App that you […]
Going naked to save on phone costs
Australians suffers from Tall Poppy Syndrome – we love to back the underdog – and when it comes to the telecommunications market, they don’t come […]
It’s a jungle out there…
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 […]
A dash of this, a splash of that … thrifty cooking
MasterChef is finally over, and the Julie-rage is slowly subsiding. So what’s for dinner tonight? Coming up with tasty meals that are also easy on […]
Frequent shopper programs
If you thought Frequent Flyer programs were only for travel, think again! Many of the more popular schemes now also include options for spending reward […]
Petrol: would you like pie with that?
I went to refill my car today, while claiming my free pie, it hit home just how complex this one little transaction had become. In […]
Don’t miss a bargain ever again
You know how you always hear about how so-and-so got this great bargain on the airfare/movie/perfume/etc. that you’ve had your eye on? Well now you […]
Turn your old junk into cash – have a garage sale!
Last weekend, me, my wife and some friends held our very first garage sale. I mean I’d done loads of these before back in Adelaide […]