As a pensioner I would love to be able to live on $21 a week, will be looking forward to giving this a try.
I find cooking for 1 is harder than when I cooked for a family of 5.

Posted by christina from WA on 30/09/2009 9:25:09 AM

i was shocked to read that the average famly of 4 spend $320 on a weekly shop
I myself only spend $200-$220 a week and thats for a family of 5

Posted by sharon from VIC on 3/10/2009 1:16:59 AM

Carrie a fabulous effort on the $21 Challenge. I must confess I am a Simple Savings member, so I am biased. I think you did a great job, wouldn't it be boring if things always went to plan.

I tried the Challenge last week to celebrate the release of the book and I must say I came a bit unstuck. I ended up buying pizza one night when friends visited (they also contributed - not that I asked for it). And it's funny some would think that I failed the Challenge, but you know what I still won. As even though I didn't go under $21 I still had money left over to donate to the Tsunami victims in Samoa.

Posted by Sandra from QLD on 9/10/2009 5:17:53 PM

Fantastic now thats one book I would love to have. I am always looking for ways to save money and with will power and planning it is worth it.About a year ago I started buying extra stuff each week and now its at the stage where once a month I have to spend 50 dollars on stockups. This month its margarine the 4k tub cost 13.99 we need two of them and a 5k bag sugar 10 dollars. Each week we have cash left in the budget we decide what to use it for , this month we are lay bying drapes for our bedroom and they were on half price .
working to the want and need plan works
if i want it = its not urgent and can wait till things we need are taken care of
If I need it= how fast do we need it , can we get it on layby, or do a no shopping week and use the grocery money to get it.
We have no mortgage , we sold our wowo house and paid off all accounts and bought an old house in need of work and slowly as cash is available we get a bit more done and bartering gets us a long way too.
So we dont live in an upmarket house but we no longer have the stress of mortgage. We bank in a savings account what the market rent would be and this we use for the repairs and you know it is a wonderfull feeling to see the house starting to look wowo and know it was all our our efforts not the banks

Posted by Chris from OTHER on 29/10/2009 9:59:21 PM

I'd like to see KEVIN RUDD, OR MIKE RANN, OR PAULINE HANSON do the $21.00 challenge...... PLEASE EXPLAIN!!!

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