Finance

Oily raggers are great at getting more out of less, and making the most of what others throw out. Here are some of the many ideas readers have sent in, ranging from using toilet rolls to buying better for baby!

Your frugal living tips just keep on coming in, so much so that our staff in the Oily Rag Club Department are struggling to keep up. Here are some of the tips we have received in the last couple of weeks.

Times are tough for those in business, and there are lots of us in business. But never fear, when times get tight, there are lots of oily rag ideas to get us through in good shape.

Last week National Radio's Afternoons with Jim Mora had a very humorous segment about toilet rolls. The question was asked: how to do you hang your toilet roll. We in the Oily Rag Research Unit, like many others, take toilet tissue very seriously. So much

I remember the first time I looked at a set of documents for a 'Blue Chip' transaction. Perhaps I was having a bad day, but I had to read them through about three times to work out how they were supposed to operate. There were, I think, three separate c

Recession, redunancy and dodgy finance companies have put many older New Zealanders back into the job market, and as Donna Fleming writes, it can be a pretty tricky place to be.

Living off the smell of an oily rag is all about rolling up your sleeves and doing things for yourself. Here are a few new tips from oily raggers:

Fruit and vegetables are cheapest when they are abundant - and serious savers will be making the most of the opportunity.

Although there are still some people promoting trusts the enthusiasm has waned somewhat. The big legal topic these days is not whether you need a trust but whether the trust you set up a few years ago is worth the paper it is written on.

Higher crude prices will inevitable cause the pump prices to pass though the $2 a litre level, and cause consumers to ask how they can reduce their motoring costs. Here are a few suggestions.