We all know that buying disposable products adds not only many dollars to our grocery bill but also to our carbon emissions.  Luckily, disp...

There are many little cost cutting measures you can take in a frugal home. Most of them, when you see them as an isolated unit, look too in...

Hanno asked me to thank you all for the lovely birthday wishes sent his way on the weekend. He is 69 now, the last year of his boyhood. N...

A reader asked me to write more on dishcloths - she is having problems with the cloths she knitted because they're too thick and don...

The Energy Monitor a couple of days after installation. (Click on photos to enlarge.) We had an energy and water audit done a few weeks ago....

Lettuce, bok choi and cabbages. One of my fantasies when I was younger was to wander off into the bush and live off the land. In the 197...

The global economic crisis is effecting my family personally. My son Shane and his soon-to-be wife, Sarndra, both left their jobs six weeks...

* No one would apply for our jobs. We work long hours, have no days off, we have to balance our budgets no matter what the circumstanc...

We've all wanted her to return. That icon of the fifties, the housewife in the Audrey Hepburn dress and frilly apron who had perfect lip...

Putting nutritious food on the kitchen table is one of the tasks a homemaker must repeat every day. I cringe when I think of the many times...

It seems to be agreed now, we are headed for a few shaky years ahead. Some are saying it will be the same or worse than the Great Depressio...

There is no doubt about it, things are grim. Jobs and homes are being lost, prices are rising and it looks like it won't improve for a ...

I have to admit to being out of my routine with Christmas holidays and working on my book every day. I returned to work this week, and was ...

I was shocked to see a Labor Party politician on the TV news yesterday say that now we've had our retail therapy over Christmas (his wor...

It was a strange Christmas in Australia. The expected shopping downturn didn't happen and people kept spending just like they always do...