Fear False Economies
You have probably worked out by now that BOGOF offers are a waste of time if you don

Look after your Appliances
 
If I have convinced you to look after your drains then, hopefully, I can also convince you to look after everything else in the kitchen. Replacing new appliances and utensils regularly can work out very costly but keeping them costs nothing.
 
Always follow the manufacturer

Waste water?
My water company charges

Fill the oven
We probably all know that heating the whole oven just to cook one jacket potato is a bit of a waste but how many times do we actually act on this knowledge? It genuinely is quite easy, with a little bit of planning, to fill the oven [...]

Saving cash in the kitchen – Part 1.
I can never understand why people would waste money by wasting electricity. Let’s put aside any environmental benefits for one second and think in just monetary terms. You could be working overtime, or worse doing without a night down the pub just because you don’t run your kitchen [...]

Here on this site is an article for making a box solar oven and in that article I expressed doubt that it would be capable of baking bread in winter (Australian Winter). Well, I proved myself wrong and very happily so! I have developed a bread recipe that can be used as sourdough or conventional [...]

I have kept chooks for many years, and for the past few years I have bought point of lay Rhode Island Reds from a local poultry farm to replace those that have gone to a better place. We have had some recent chookacides and we

Most retirement strategies focus on “wealth creation” or providing you with enough cash to maintain your pre-retirement extravagant lifestyle. This is not necessarily a bad thing in itself, but it is worth knowing that there is a better way – doing it yourself – self sufficiently!
Complete self sufficiency is difficult if to impossible [...]

The story of how I grow and spin my own cotton is still continuing, this years crop looks like it will be a big one (relatively – how much can you expect from three or four plants?). I still spin the cotton direct from the boll and have not gotten around to building a cotton [...]

The generation that lived through World War 2 are sometimes referred to as the Great Generation. Indeed they suffered hardships we can no longer imagine. To us this latest recession means that we might have to do without a night at the pub, sky television or a foreign holiday;  at worst it means changing our [...]