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This week's free Cheapskates Club tip Sheet is:

Cheapskates Style Green Cleaners
Commercially made, chemical-based household cleaners can eat up a large chunk of your household budget. Instead of spending your hard-earned dollars on these things, just a few simple, safe and cheap everyday items will clean your whole house.

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Each week we have a different free Cheapskates Club Tip Sheet for you to download and use. Together these tip sheets combine to create a vast library of hints, tips and ideas that will help you to rediscover your money and become debt free, cashed up and laughing.

All the tips on the Tip Sheets come from Cheapskates Tip Store, a vast online library of money, time and energy savings tips. With over 6,000 tips (and more being added every day) this valuable resource is available to Cheapskates Club members.

The tip sheets are ready for you to download, print and start using. There is a tip sheet for just about every situation, showing you that the Cheapskates way is the easy way to save money, time and energy and give you the lifestyle you dream of. You can use them yourself or give them to your family, friends, neighbours, co-workers, in fact anyone who wants to know how to save money, time and energy and be debt free, cashed up and laughing.

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Babies and Children

Fun Kids Playthings
Keep your little ones busy and happy with these great activities. Made with materials that are readily available around the home they'll love the bubbles and flubber and have a ball making up stories to match the pictures in their very own story books. This tip sheet will keep them busy for hours.

Back to School Tips & Ideas
Would you like to know the easiest way to cover textbooks? Or how to stop buttons from popping off school shirts? Or perhaps you'd like to be able to resurect last years school bag.

Nit & Headlice Treatments
The bane of every mum, these treatments are not only effective but they are inexpensive and safe to use on your children.

School Holiday Fun
School holidays can seem long and boring to kids after the hustle and bustle of the school week. Find ways to have fun during the holidays without breaking the budget.

Tips for New Parents
Babies are precious and expensive. These tips have been provided by Cheapskates Club members and they are sure to save you money and stress. Find out how to get the essentials for a fraction of the regular price.

Christmas

Cheapskates Christmas Dinner
Have a spectacular Christmas Dinner for under $50 with this easy to follow menu. Complete with menu, shopping list and recipes and decorating ideas, this tip sheet will show you how to celebrate and save.

Christmas Gifts You Can Make
Quick, easy and full of WOW factor, these gift ideas will make your Christmas gift giving a breeze and keep your budget healthy too.

Fantastic Edible Christmas Gifts
Pressed for time and money? Out of gift ideas? Then try some of these great edible gift ideas. They an all be made at home, in your very own kitchen, and best of all you don't have to be a professional cook to make them.

Quick and Easy Christmas Ideas
It's the silly season again and there never seems to be enough hours in the day. Quick and Easy Christmas Ideas will help and inspire you with some gift suggestions and some tips to get those gifts wrapped up and under the tree without giving you a headache.

Sensational Secret Santa Gift Ideas
Well it's that time of year again. Our first Christmas invitation has arrived, along with a name for a Secret Santa. To the Tip Store I went and found plenty of sensational ideas for secret Santas the Cheapskates way and this month's tip sheet was created.

Cooking

Conversion Charts
Quickly and easily convert measurements from imperial to metric and vice versa with this handy chart covering cups, spoons, weight, oven temperatures and even cake tin sizes.

Flavoured Coffee Recipes
This tip sheet featuresFlavoured Coffee Recipes, with some easy on the pocket, simple to mix, great tasting coffee mix ideas. These also make great gifts.

From Ready-made to Homemade
We love ready-made foods for their convenience. Here are some of my favourite homemade ready-made convenience foods. I'm sure you'll love the convenience and the price.

Glossary of Cooking Methods and Terms
This handy list of cooking methods makes using your recipe books easy.

Handy Freezer Guide
This Handy Freezer Guide has the storage method and the length of time food is at it's peak and covers fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, bread, cakes and puddings.

Homemade Yoghurt the Cheapskates Way
Quick and easy, making yoghurt isn't hard or expensive. You can make a kilo of delicious yoghurt for under $1 following these instructions.

Know Your Cuts of Meat
This tip sheet lists the various cuts of meat and how to cook them. If like me, you tend to stick to cuts you are familiar with this tip sheet may encourage you to be a little more adventurous in your cooking.

Cleaning

Cheapskates Style Green Cleaners
Commercially made, chemical-based household cleaners can eat up a large chunk of your household budget. Instead of spending your hard-earned dollars on these things, just a few simple, safe and cheap everyday items will clean your whole house.

Cleaning Tips Grandma Used
Grandma took pride in her home. It sparkled from the front windows through to the polished back doorstep. The furniture was dusted and polished with either wax or cold tea. And her washing was whiter than white. All without the labour saving devices and array of cleaning products we use today.

Stain Removal Chart
Keep this chart in your laundry and you'll find dealing with those everyday and perhaps not so everyday spots and stains a breeze.

Cheapskates Washing Powder
Our famous washing powder recipe. You'll have clean clothes and a healthy laundry budget with this easy and very, very cheap laundry powder.

Health and Beauty

Getting Fit on a Budget
Getting fit can cost you a fortune, however it doesn't have to be that way. Joining a gym isn't always an option, and it's not often an affordable way to exercise. Find out about exercise clothes and equipment and some great ideas to keep you fit without spending a cent.

The Cold War
Cold and flu season is upon us and while there isn't really a cure for a cold there are plenty of simple, inexpensive things we can do at home to relieve the symptoms and shorten the duration.

Home and Family

Bonza Backyard Barbies
Enjoy a summer Aussie icon in style with these great tips for a Bonza Backyard Barbie! An easy clean, delicious marinades and a sturdy budget cover are some of the ideas on this month's tip sheet.

Family Fun Ideas
This tip sheet has docket savings, family movie nights, pizza parties, free stuff from libraries and other great hints and tips to have fun together as a family.

Create a Family Recipe Book
Start a family recipe book and you'll not only have a record of your family favourites, you could be creating a family heirloom that your children and grandchildren will come to love.

How to Make Shoe Bags
These simple little bags work wonders to protect your shoes (and clothes) when travelling and they are great for keeping shoes in tip top condition between use too.

Tips for Everyday Savings
Saving money isn't hard. It's the little things we do over and over that make the savings, not just the one-off big savings. This tip sheet has some great examples of what you can do.

Money Matters

How to Haggle
Get the clues and become an expert at haggling to get the very best value for your money. You'll find out that you can haggle over just about anything and be a success.

Cutting Spending
Find out how to stop frittering away your hard earned dollars on lots of life's little luxuries, without compromising your lifestyle.

Top 10 Tips for Saving Money
Our top ten ways to stop spending and start saving. Simple, easy and almost painless ways you can increase your savings.

Shopping

Avoiding Scanner Scams
Scanner errors are more common than you think. Find out how you can avoid being scammed at the scanner with this tip sheet.

Save 10% on Your Groceries
Everyone wants to save money, especially on groceries. You can easily trim you grocery bill by 10% just by following these few simple tips.

Super Shopping Tips
Get control of your grocery and general shopping budgets with the helpful and practical tips on this sheet. Slash your shopping bills and watch your savings grow, quickly and easily.

The Cupboard Is Bare Grocery List
When times are tough or you just want to save a little extra, this shopping list will guide you through.

Grocery Shopping Tips
Six simple tips to get you in and out of the supermarket without blowing your grocery budget.

Ten Painless Ways to Save Money on Groceries
These tips that will help you save at the supermarket painlessly. You won't need to compromise your lifestyle or even go without the things you like and enjoy, but you will be able to slash that grocery bill.

Special Occasions

A Priceless Valentine's Day
A bounty of wonderful ideas to celebrate Valentine's Day on a budget and with a ton of romance.

Be My Valentine
Love is in the air but that is no reason to blow the budget. You can show your Valentine just how much they mean to you without spending a fortune. And you won't look cheap.

Easter Tips & Ideas
Get your fill of Easter ideas on this tip sheet. The tips have all been contributed by Cheapskates Club members, so you know they're good.

Crafty Gifts for Mother's Day
Try one, two or event three of theses great gift ideas for your Mum for Mother's Day - or for anyone on any day!

Happy Birthday on the Cheap - Budget Birthday Ideas
Every year it seems that the birthday parties get bigger, more complicated and definitely more expensive. You can have a great party, with fabulous decorations, for just a few dollars.

Favourite Teacher Gift Ideas
Say thank you to a favourite teacher with any one of these cute and affordable gift ideas. Teachers will be thrilled to receive these useful and clutter free gifts.

Wonderful Gift Wrap Ideas
If you want to wrap your gifts so that they look like they cost a fortune without the expense then this is the tip sheet for you. With great ideas for wrapping and presentation and instructions for wrapping the perfect gift, you'll love it.

Travel & Holidays

Holidays on a Budget
Find the best hints and tips for accommodation, entertainment, transport and more with these tips for holidays on a budget.

5 Tips for a Debt Free Holiday
Get the family involved, especially the kids and get them planning your next holiday. Budgets, vouchers, research and eating are all covered in this tip sheet.

Slash Your Petrol Costs

Learn the secrets to saving money at the petrol pump with these hints and tips from dedicated Cheapskates Club members.