My new blog

Hello out there! 

A big welcome to anyone who has stumbled onto my blog by accident!

No wait.... please don't leave, you might find this to be exactly what you're after...

If you struggle to understand why you're holding your breath at the checkout waiting to see the EFTPOS machine approve your card even though you've only put sale items and generic brands in your trolley, and why you feel that pang of guilt when you pick up your favourite glossy mag and put it back in favour of one of the floppy little mags promising revelations to save you money or to win your way out of the bargain bin, then welcome home my friend we are kin!

This blog is mostly a way for me to figure out in my own head what I'm doing right and where I can improve it keeping our household budget as small as possible.

I've spent a lot of time surfing around this great wide world we know as the internet (or even just the bloggosphere for that matter) and have found so much in relation to cutting your budgets but most of them seem really obvious to me! 

It can't be just me that has heard enough of the great tip that 'taking your own lunch to work can save you hundreds over a week, month and thousands over a year!'... well dah.  it doesn't take Einstein to work that out ($10/day, 5 days/week, say 48 weeks/year ..... um $50 a week, $2400 a year).

Anyway, I thought that here I could lay out what I like to do (or more over, what I try to do/want to do) to keep myself in check and then use this as a place to collaborate any good ideas I find in my research.

I'd love to get some feed back from those of you who have some good ideas or who might have found a gem either here on somewhere else.

Just one last point, if you're reading something on this blog and I've made a mistake, please let me know.  I am not an uneducated dunce with nothing better to do than force my 2 cent opinion on the world.

I am in fact a young stay-at-home mum of an18month old boy who is studying part-time from home for my Bachelor of Economics Degree while running a pretty good household, with a full fridge and a healthy happy family all on a single graduate income.  I'm quite proud of myself, when I put it like that!  However, with all of this on my plate I'm sure you can forgive me the odd error or total ramble (like now) with the excuse of motherly exhaustion! 

Anyway, enough blabbering, its time to BITE THE BUDGET!