The mail bags are full again and the frugal community has some suggestions to last week's questions.
Michelle from Invercargill has his great grout and shower cleaning tip. "Like a lot of things, regular cleaning of tiles and glass saves a lot of hard work later on. For glass, always wipe dry after a shower with your towel or glass scraper. Once a week, use a cleaner or micro-cloth to remove any build-up. For tiles, every week use baking soda and white vinegar with just enough water to make a spreadable mixture. Once it has black mould you need to use bleach or a product containing bleach, like Exit Mould to kill the spores. After cleaning tiles and glass, you can polish dry with car wash or car wax. Both will create a barrier to make cleaning of water spots and soap scum easier."
"Anyway" from Whangarei has sent in a number of tips for those with larger families.
"As a family of eight, I find natural yoghurt (even spiced up with some flavours), to be a healthy and economic food source. We use Homebrand powdered milk, and two good sized soup spoons from a 6 pack of Meadow Fresh yoghurt, into the yoghurt maker, and that makes a litre of quite thick yummy yoghurt. Costs about $2 a litre."
"I prefer the option of online grocery shopping. It's easier for my lifestyle, and it's actually easier to control what you spend. On the surface of things, Pak'nSave looks cheaper, but if you know how to use your online shopping features, you can make it work quite well for the budget. One of the best features is the ability to sort items by 'unit price -- low to high'. It tells you very quickly which is the cheapest item, by bulk and price. The other aspect of online shopping, is that if you have a set budget, you can see straight away if you are going over it (before you buy), so you put items back, or exchange them for something cheaper. I have found it much more reliable to stick to a budget."
