Savings & Investment

War has been declared. Armies have been marching into a boutique retailer and leaving armed with bottles of cheap milk.

t this time of the year many oily raggers are enjoying daily reminders about the virtues of the self-help oily rag lifestyle as they reap the harvest from their oily rag gardens and fruit trees.

Although the good frugal folk of oilyragaroa have been writing to us for a couple of decades now it still amazes us how people keep coming with great money saving tips and ways to make something out of nothing.

Whether you call them property settlement agreements, contracting out agreements, pre-nuptial agreements, or something else, they all amount to the same thing - an agreement made between two persons who are in or about to enter into a personal relationsh

The good folk at Statistics NZ have been trundling their trolleys in the isles at your local supermarket to see if the things on your grocery list are costing more or less. Usually they find goods cost more, a lot more, but not this time.

Frugality is obviously sweeping though the suburbs as more and more people appreciate the virtues of saving. It is also surprising that the oily rag website has a large number of overseas readers.

It's been another 8-day week responding to lots of frugal tips flowing in from the oily rag community!

It seems the festive season is a time for oily raggers to put pen to paper and write about living off the smell of an oily rag. The mail bags have again been full and lots of new tips are being added to the oily rag website.

Continuing on our Xmas theme we show how to bake a Christmas day treat and how to dine out on culinary fare with frugal flair.

It seems the oily rag word has got out this Christmas - more people want to put the fun into Christmas but take the cost out. We think that's a good thing. .