• Park correctly and pay the meter and save up to $144 a month.
• Do not take the cat to get it’s claws clipped. $24 a month
• Cancel your acupuncturist appointment and get the cat to do happy paw clawing on your back and head -
$ 120 a month.
• Make your own vodka from potatoes - $300 a month
• Get the kids to demonstrate how sick they really are by setting up a series of impossible physical challenges to complete – If they get through them, the prize is a doctor’s appointment. Potential savings $160 a month.
• Ignore the Mazda’s obvious suspension issue - $500
• Return videos on time - $45 a month
• Do your own micro-dermabrasion with a body loofah and soap- $110 a month
I saved an extra $18 last month by not getting my eyebrows waxed. I took to them with a pair of tweezers and my magnifying mirror with extreme gusto. After about 20 painful minutes I had a situation on my hands. Not only had I created many gaps due to the removal of my “blonde” hairs, I was also left with one and a half eyebrows instead of the usual 2.
It was something not even the lovely gals at the Benefit Brow Bar could do much with , so they sold me the Instant Brow Pencil. I LOVE THIS. It is easy to use and there is no chance you can stuff it up. You will love yourself sick. This has been a lifesaver and a product I am so impressed with, I bought the company.
No I did not, but I told them my tale of woe and brown-nosed a bit and they sent my out 2 Instant Brow Pencils along with 2 Highbrow Pencils to giveaway to readers. The Highbrow Pencil helps you look like you have not just come home from a night out with Russell Brand. It is like an eye-lift. Without the use of stitches and shit.
Valued at $80, this set is one of Mrs Woog's Favourite Things.*
Leave a comment on this post and tell us your best money saving tip. Next Friday 2nd July, the winners will be notified and your rowdy brows could be a thing of the past.
Interesting side note, it would have been cheaper to have paid the $18 for the professional brow wax - but hey... I am still learning about budgets. According to Mr Woog, this exercise was an example of False Economy.
* This post is not a paid post. No cash for comments here! I am a bit like Oprah in the sense that we both have our favourite things and insist on pushing them onto unwilling people. I have some more Favourite Things Giveaways to post soon so come back and see me sometime. Especially if you like Vodka. And let's face it, who doesn't! Check out this post to enter in the Baby Origami Giveaway - because there are just so many ways to fold a baby.
Wow, my mum could really use one of those. For some stupid reason when she was young she took a disposable razor down the center of her eyebrows, and it never grew back! Lol They're almost invisible now.
ReplyDeleteHmm, money saving.
If I make DP walk to work every day I'd save about $150 per month in petrol! heh heh
or I could stop shopping online..nah
I don't know about saving money, but saving time - if I had just let my kid go back in the house on Monday morning when we were about to head to work/childcare and get her @#*($& pink umbrella, instead of forcing her into her carseat with my elbows so we could beat the traffic and get to work, I would have saved about 20 minutes, my dignity (having the whole street watch you while you wrestle a screaming kid into a carseat is high embarrasment factor to the max), tears and a bad morning in general. I probably would have saved some money somewhere along the line.
ReplyDeleteThis talk of homemade vodka intrigues me! Care the recipe with me? ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm going to get all Homemaker here but I found doing meal plans helps bring the shopping list in under budget. That way you only buy what you need, and nothing gets thrown out ... Except fruit. My kids and their fruit. Eurgh!
i like the sound of your home brew ....WOOGSWORLD VODKA...def. sounds like it could help make the most of the mundane! will you be marketing it?! why just SAVE money when you can MAKE money after all?
ReplyDeleteMy money saving tip....hmmm? Not really an area of my expertise...But perhaps if i stopped eating oreos for breakfast I would save on gym memberships?
I'm in with the homemade vodka, but somethings are better left to professionals...like brow waxing.
ReplyDeleteOh funny Mrs Woog, every day I fall more and more in love with you.
ReplyDeleteMy money saving tip for the week is to call in sick to work. You get paid and, if you're me, you save at least $38 in train fares.
You could even turn this into a money maker by having two jobs and alternating sick weeks... but that just might be illegal or something.
Homemade vodka, eh? I need videographic evidence. hehe.
ReplyDeleteMy money saving tip. Don't shower unless one of your kids tell you "Mum, you have smelly armpits." And no, I am not talking from personal experience here. Ahem.
Happy FYBF, Woogsie baby.
Love the cat acupuncture idea. You are a budget genius.
ReplyDeleteMy money saving tip is quite simple and quite boring - when out and about neither carry cash nor credit card with you that's what I do.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds boring but you actually save a lot of money by not spending it on things that catch your eye on streets, at pools, at cafes etc. Also don't even go for those 2 for 1 offers at the supermarket because the fact is you never needed the tinned fava beans in the first place and you don't need two!!
I tried to save $40 by giving myself a bikini wax but I ended up pulling my back muscle and having to go to physio ($150). But ACC paid half so I guess I saved something.
ReplyDeleteAlso I convinced the kids that luncheon (what you would call devon) was fancier than ham.
I have a slight brow obsession, so I have a feeling these would be FANTASTIC ENABLERS.
ReplyDelete*If this post isn't open to overseas commenters, I totally understand.*
Raina Cox you are reading my blog!! Holy Fuckballs! Yes I will deliver it to you personally if you win.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately (I think) I can identify with almost all of your money saving tips, either now or sometime during the misery years! For the moment, the money saving strategy is to act all forlorn, overworked, slightly manic (and especially write about it on your blog) and kind friends invite you over for dinner during the week so you don't have to go to the supermarket after work to pick up some monstrously expensive cardboard thing to throw down before doing more work/blog stuff. It's working a treat! And as for those products...boy do I need those! P.S. That Raina already has fabulous brows...others are in much greater need :)
ReplyDeleteI discovered a money saver today - my 3 year old refuses to eat breakfast and then is hungry before lunch. Rather than wasting the food he refuses at breakfast and enduring his whining I've decided to just give him brunch.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.... have been pondering a money saving tip that will adequetly show my impressive ability to be both witty and shameless. I came up with something that is neither, but definately worth thinking about in these harsh economic climes. "Save on porn and actually have sex with your husband/wife/partner/whatever????!" he he he :)
ReplyDeleteI don't spend my coins. Its that simple. Anytime I get coins at the shop, I simply don't spend them, but leave them in my purse until I get home and then I empty the coins out into two teapots. One for gold coins, one for silver. Its amazing how fast the tea pots fill up, and how excited I feel when I receive coins as change and DELIBERATELY DON'T SPEND them.
ReplyDeleteAnd I keep this secret from Hoges and the Hoges boys. Its my secret stash for whatever I choose to spend on...haircut, wine, bill, holiday fund, chocolate etc.
Last time I emptied the gold teapot, I banked $120, took about 5 weeks to fill a 6 cup capacity teapot.
I stash my pretty fivers every time I get one not that it's all that often thanks to plastic I manage to stay pretty much in a plastic world 99.7% of the time.
ReplyDeleteLive in another country and pay less tax
ReplyDeleteCount me in! Best money saving advice is to enter as many blog giveaways as possible because the odds of winning are very high. It is very lucrative.xx
ReplyDeleteBest money saving tip ever:
ReplyDelete1. Don't have children.
But if you've already gotten drunk and whoops, it's too late, then:
2. When they are young and lazy relatives send them $$ instead of gifts, use it to purchase stock (in their name of course) in nursing homes, in-home medical equipment and adult diapers. Ka-ching!
OK. Bestest money saving tip- use your shaved off legs hair and lint from the dryer instead of buying expensive stuffing for handmade pillows. Ta-da!!
ReplyDeleteYou can extract vodka from potatoes!? This is new to me! Tell me how!
ReplyDeleteMy money saving tip involes magazines. Stop buying them. Remove the NO JUNK MAIL sign from your letterbox and covet your weekly catalogues from supermarkets and various department stores! Then you give them to the kids to cut up and paste on stuff. So you get entertained. And then the kids do.It's like free paper that just keeps on giving.
What do you think?
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ReplyDeleteMy best money saving tip?
ReplyDelete1. Stop caring. About your appearance. About what is 'in season'. About how humanely the animal you are frying in a pan was treated. And so on and so forth.
2. Let everyone know you're happy for them to use you as the first stop on the way to the charity bin.
3. Never shop without a shopping list.
4. Let your children know from birth that presents are given at birthdays and Christmas. The end. This works a treat because every toy/contribution to Steve Jobs's retirement fund they want to make you don't have to say no, just which list they want to put it on, birthday or Christmas.
5. Embrace the home cooked meal.
6. Convince yourself watching illegally downloaded movies at home is way more exhilarating and fun than at the movies.
Look at that. Six points. Generous to a fault.
I'm a new 'fan' of your blog! Thanks for the amusing posts :) I'm also new to saving money but here goes an idea or 2:
ReplyDeleteDrink tap water (or buy a water filter for your tap) & don't buy bottled water.
Make your own 'fancy' coffee drinks & use a travel mug. Suggested drink: frappe made with 1 tsp of instant coffee, 2 tsp sugar, 1/2 cup cold water - blend until frothy with a hand held blender, add a few ice cubes and you've got a summer bev for pennies. If you don't have a hand held blender, shake with ice and half the water in a martini shaker, when frothy add remaining water...if some sort of alcohol slips into your shaker, all the better :)
I'm currently trialling Maxabella's suggestion by avoiding work with carers and sick leave alternately. Unfortunately I'm actually sick, and the snot monster has possessed my daughter, so fuel savings are being obliterated by medical expenditure. So my money saving tip is to ignore Maxabella's 'frugal' advice.
ReplyDeleteI have some money saving theories. My number one, I haven't mastered yet, but, it is to work on things that only require a one off effort, then keep paying again & again forever, like song writing, writing a book, making a movie... just sit back and watch the royalties come in. It's seems more fun than actually doing without shit!
ReplyDeleteMy second tip is to have self worth that doesn't stem from appearances, because if you are happy with the person inside, you are less likely to court plastic surgeons & other expensive treatments as you age. (this is almost impossible for models & cheerleaders, but achievable for the rest of us!)