Rosh Hashonah, it’s here. What are your plans? Have you ordered your meat? Do you know what you are making? Yom Tov is always special, even for those who don’t keep Shabbat, as we make an extra effort with food and table settings. For the first time ever, I know what I am making and […]

Scurryfunge- A hasty tidying of the house between the time you see neighbour and the time he/she knocks on the door. Taken from John Gould’s Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, and Wazzats, 1975 Are you one of these people? I was, out of necessity, now life is much less stressful. I used to run around in […]

I am waking up a bit late!  These things have been in my house for 2 months, and you all know what I am talking about! I hope the marketing genius who came up with these has lots of young children in their life! Yep, that’s right. Stikeez! This was a good marketing campaign from […]

How do you stick to your budget and get rid of debt?  In South Africa we do not have coupons to help nor do we have negotiable interest rates on credit card debt. So what can you do? Home loans and vehicle finance can apparently be negotiated to a certain extent.  The rate would depend […]

A blog I follow talked abut doing a home inventory. How many of us know exactly what is in our house? The blog, ‘Home storage solutions’, talks about inventorying everything from cutlery and crockery, to linen, to curtains, to carpets. The blogger suggests taking photographs or videos of our inventory and recording serial numbers of […]

The month of August is nearly at an end. Thank goodness it is nearly pay day again. I previously wrote about auditing your budget. How did you all do? Were you as shocked as I was at how little you knew, or did your audit show that you were on target? This coming week I […]

Rosh Hashanah – the Jewish New Year is coming up in a few weeks, the 14 September to be exact. Of course, being Jews we celebrate with food. My dad always says for Jews the traditional weapon is a knife and food and the national sport is eating! I know this applies to my Greek […]

I took my own advice this week and Konmari’d my cupboard! I definitely owned far too many clothes, some of which date back a minimum of 11 years and some even older! The hardest part about this was that a few of the things I really liked but don’t fit into anymore. I didn’t throw […]

I recently read an interesting blog in which they suggested that you do a yearly audit of your budget, to check if you are on track. I thought I knew where my money was going. My husband has a fantastic, very detailed, spreadsheet that he designed for our income and expenses. He has used this […]

I was blessed with a husband who eats anything, as long as it isn’t raw celery and doesn’t move.  My kids, for the most part, also eat pretty much whatever you give them. So when I was asked about how to feed fussy eaters, I had to do some serious research. Here’s what I found […]