Tag: Oily Rag

It's Fashion Week. It's a glitzy, flashy and expensive sort of affair, so we thought we would travel the oily rag cat walk with our own celebration of fashion with frugality and flair.

Over the summer the oily rag mail bags have been full, so here are some tips we thought you might find useful.

While governments talk about million, billions and trillions, budgeting is just as important for your humble household as it is for our overweight and overbearing government.

"Restraint is permanent." So says the new Finance Minister, Bill English, as he reviews the government's finances ahead of the annual budget.

 Read more Oily Rag articles by Frank and Muriel Newman  As the temperature falls, heating bills ...

Spring has sprung which means it's time to clean out the cupboards, dust the tellie and catch up on those cleaning jobs that have a habit of ending up on the "to do" list.

 Read more Oily Rag articles by Frank and Muriel Newman  We had an interesting discussion the ...

The nation's Budget has been read and the annual debate over who won and lost has begun in earnest.

School bells are ringing as students return for a new year, so it's time to think about boxes and cheap and nourishing treats.

Infants have the distinction of being expensive at both end of the plumbing system, so in true oily-rag pioneering spirit the Oily Rag Research Department has ventured into the vexed question of "disposable vs washable nappies?"