I was so happy with the feedback from my guest post here last week, thank you all for your kind comments. It’s lovely to hear from others li...

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

January, week 1 in  The Simple Home Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.  ~ Abrah...

I'm bad. Here I am telling every one who will listen to stop spending on all those little bits and pieces that make your dollars disappe...

We didn't go over budget during the holidays but there have been many years when we did. If this has happened to you and you're now...

There is no doubt that living as we do and trying to stay on budget presents us with many decisions. Do we buy organic? Do we buy local? Do...

Although I don't write about it nearly as much as I think about it, food budgeting is one of my favourite topics. It's the firs...

We've come to the end of a two year period of renovations and home improvements. We did the work as we had the money, time and energy f...

Alex, Jamie and Opa watching Octonauts. Happy second birthday to my beautiful grand-nephew, Johnathan! I'm really savouring the...

We're fortunate today to have the following guest post by Kate @ Beautiful Chickens . Kate has hundreds of chickens at her property jus...