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Some of our new material added this week:
-Kid's chore worksheet
-Kid's afterschool/before school timetable
-Kid's homework chart
-Laundry timetable
-plus many more downloadable and printable resources.
And ofcourse we have added even more tips to our tip banks.
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Kid's Resources
We bring you an ever growing collection of resources just for kids! Activity sheets, colouring sheets, ideas for rainy days. Plus a collection on how to save money on kids and babies
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Featured Articles
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A good technique to curb your impulse shopping. |
| Have you ever given in to an impulse buy only to regret it later? If so, have a read of this artcile to find out one clever way to curn that impulse buy. | |
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7 Steps to save $3000 |
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Did you know that the smallest changes in your lifestyle can end up saving you the most money. Don't believe me? Take a read of our article to show you just one example.
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ATM fee reform - A good thing |
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The ATM reform is a positive step in making consumers more aware about how much money they are spending on bank fees. |
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The 12 Month Rule |
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The end of the financial year is upon us. Now is the best time revaluate all your service provider. |
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Save Money Tips
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Beware of temporary price raising |
| Always keep track of the regular pricing of an item. A nasty trick that some retailers use is ‘temporary price raising.' For a short period they will increase the price of an item . That way, once they reduce it back to its original price they can have a sign indicating that it is on special | |
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Laminate payment barcodes |
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If you pay your bills at the post office, laminate the part of the bill that they need to scan and keep it in your purse. Each time you visit the post office, you can start to pay a little off your bill. Works great for the larger bills.
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Try flavouring water at home (By Amber 09) |
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If you want to cut juice from you budget completely, try chilling a pitcher of cold water. Add orange slices, lemon slices, cucumber slices, or grapes. You will soon get a subtle fresh flavor in that plain old water! Get creative and flavour your water in dozens of ways! |
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Skip the packaging |
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When buying produce it is usually cheaper to stay clear of the prepacked veggies and buy them by the kg instead. Remember when you buy packaged goods you are paying for the packaging.
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Recent Freebies
YATES Garden Club (bonus free seeds)
Posted Sat, 03/21/2009 - 18:15 by admin - SMGO
Yates Garden club is free to join and each month you will receive a newsletter packed with gardening info and expert advice. As a bonus, when you get two friends to sign up, they will send you free seeds.
MORE INFO: MORE INFO:
http://www.yates.com.au/garden-club/seed-offer/index
BASKIN ROBBINS: Free scoop of ice-cream
Posted Sat, 03/21/2009 - 18:06 by admin - SMGO
Join the Baskin Robbins birthday club and receive a free scoop of ice-cream on your birthday.
MORE INFO:
http://club.baskinrobbins.com.au
MIT OpenCourseWare
Posted Sat, 03/21/2009 - 17:53 by admin - SMGO
This is a fantastic website that has free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
MORE INFO:
http://ocw.mit.edu
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Get Organised! Tips
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21:21 Rule |
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A good way not to get bogged down decluttering your home, is to use the 21:21 time rule. Walk into a room and pick up 21 things that are in the wrong place and put it away and find 21 things that needs to be thrown out or given away. You can change the number as you get less clutter |
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Write down receipt numbers |
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Do you really need to keep all your old bills and receipts? A simple way to still maintain an accurate record with less clutter, is to draw up a ‘receipt record sheet' table with six columns (item, date, amount paid, receipt no#, payment method, note) |
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Master shopping list |
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Attach a clipboard to the inside door of your pantry. Keep your master shopping list as well a blank sheet of paper to make notes e.g. ‘ginger biscuits expiring on 12/11' The master shopping list can be typed onto your compute and printed as needed. Whenever you run out of an item, just highlight the item on the list. |
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The 'chore lucky dip' |
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Get several small squares of paper and write down a simple chore that takes 10 minutes to complete on each one. Put the squares of paper in a small box. Whenever you have 10 minutes to spare, grab a piece of paper and do that chore. It's also a great way to keep kids interested in doing chores. Have a separate box just for them.
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Kid's Resources
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Kid's birthday clubs |
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| Plan ahead for your child's birthday by signing them up to birthday clubs. Local restaurants, video stores, mini golf courses, swimming pools and bowling alleys are just a few of the places that offer either free passes/meals or heavily discounted services on your child's birthday and sometimes even for the entire month. This also makes a great gift for nieces and nephews. | ||
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Make your own cereal boxes |
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If your kids love cereal boxes that have bright and colourful character on them, and cost more because of this, why not get them to decorate their own cereal boxes. Get an empty cereal box, a piece of A4 paper or cardboard and let them design their own cereal box. They can draw pictures, paint or cut out pictures of their favourite characters. You can then glue it onto the box, laminate it, or put it into plastic sheets (cutting out the holes) and stick this on the box and change the picture each week. You can then refill this box with whatever cereal you like. .
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Split the costs |
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| If you are finding it hard to keep up with kid's afterschool lesson's such as learning to play an instrument, ask the teacher if you can split the slot with another student who is also having hardship. For example, one week your daughter may have lessons, and the second week another child. This works well in schools that make you pay for the term fee upfront. | ||
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1. Access to tips that will help you save money Some tips alone can help you save thousands alone!
2. Access to tips that will help you get your life organised this is more important than people think. We are more likely to make hasty decisions in our life if we don’t feel clear headed. Our environment, our clutter contributes greatly to this.
3. Save Money Fact Sheets Facts sheets on a huge range of topics such as using eBay, having a garage sale, starting your very own veggie or herb garden.
4. Get Organised Fact Sheets A growing collection of fact sheets how to organise different areas in your life.
5. Kid’s Fact Sheets we haven’t forgotten the kids. We have fact sheets just for kids from things saving money on kids lunches (not as hard as you might think) to advice on giving children and teens pocket money.
6. Kid’s Resources we have a growing collection of kid’s printables activity sheets and a huge list of articles offering inspiring ideas on how to keep the kids entertained for free (or close enough).
7. Access to our forumswe have 15 forums tailored on helping you save money and get organised!
8. Chat we have a chat room to help you connect with other members more easily.
9. Virtual Cardswe have a growing collection of virtual greeting cards for you to use. The recipient does not have to be a member.
10. SMGO Newsletter we send our members regular newsletters to touch base, offer extra resources and ask for your feedback.
11. your own blog you read right! We want to hear about your money saving ways by giving you your very own blog. You don’t have to use your blog just to share your frugal ways, you can use it anyway you like!
12. your own online albumevery member receives 10 online photo albums to share pictures of their life, family and friends.
13. our official blog we also have our official blog that we welcome you to read. Featured musings about saving money and spending less in money consumed world.
14. Private Messages From time to time you may want to reply to a member’s post in private. We have given you your very own inbox to do just that!
15. Freebies/promo codes We have a growing list of freebies that we will be adding to frequently.