How to Clear Clutter Without Throwing Stuff Away
Holly Jean Brooker shares her tips from her own experience of disposing of stuff not needed in her relocation overseas.
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Simple Steps to Overcome a Consumer Mentality
It’s easy to fall into the trap of striving to live a lifestyle based on having, acquiring and needing more and more stuff to ‘feel’ happy and successful.
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Fruit and Vegetables: The Benefits of Going Local
Many people are making the switch to local produce as a means to have a more sustainable and positive impact on our community and the health of the planet.
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Home Laid Eggs
In recent years there has been a noticeable increase in backyard chicken-raising. Part of the reason is that people see the virtues of the good life.
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7 Benefits of Living With Less Stuff
Are you still hanging on to things you don’t really need for sentimentality sake? Here are some of the benefits of lightening the load.
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Buying is Not the Solution
Often when we want to solve a problem or make some kind of change in our lives, we’ll go out and buy something. Is this really necessary?
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Member’s Money Saving Tips
We asked the members of Let's Thrive to share their best money saving tips and here are the results - dozens of ways to cut costs and make money go further.
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Organise Your Home and Office in Easy Steps
It can seem overwhelming when confronted by cluttered rooms, paper strewn desks, and overflowing cupboards. Here’s some tips to help you tidy up.
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Consumerism Vs. Minimalism
There is in most of us an underlying desire to buy cool stuff. But maybe we need to stop and ask ourselves - what is it all for?
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Farmers’ Markets
There are more than 50 farmer markets throughout New Zealand and every week more than 50,000 people shop there. What are the benefits?
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Brandless Bargain Buys
These staggering results from a homebrand grocery items survey can help us all save on essential items.
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Energy Uses in Your Home
It coming up to that time of year again. Many homes in New Zealand waste energy. This is what causes power wastage in our home heating.
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Frugal Tips
The best of the money saving tips by the oily rag community. Good value!
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The Immense Benefits of Decluttering
The idea of decluttering and becoming more organised may seem boring, or at best time consuming but the benefits are exciting.
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Beat Advertising
The reason advertising works on most of us is that we feel there is something missing. So how do we resist the urge to respond?
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Get to Your Mess Before it Gets to You
How to make cleaning easier and save your time, energy and sanity in the process.
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Is Bulk Buying Cheaper?
The bulk word usually means an opportunity to make good savings. But that’s not always the case…
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Becoming Supermarket Savvy
Tricks and tips about how to shop wisely and well and make your shopping trips the first step in preparing a healthy food,
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Giving Thanks
How do we increase gratitude for our food? A way to become more mindful of the food we eat is to cultivate a pause.
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The Pleasure of a Home Cooked Meal
Esther Kane shares ten things about eating, breaking bread, and entertaining that she learned from her dear granny on a recent trip to England.
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Haggling is Worthwhile
Most people don’t feel very comfortable about haggling but if we don’t give it a go we may miss out on money saving bargains.
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Thirteen Ways to Eat Cheap and Healthy
Is it possible to eat healthfully on a budget? Not only is it possible, but your wallet…and body will thank you for it.
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Shopping Tips for Frugal Thinkers
According to the annual supermarket price survey released by Consumer, where you buy makes a big difference to your food bill. Here are the findings.
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A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home
Having too much ‘stuff’ can weight us down. Here are some tips for those of us trying to aim for the freedom of minimalism.
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50 Tips for Frugal Living
You have more options with a frugal lifestyle. There are many ways to cut back on spending and live a more frugally...
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The Power of Decluttering
 If you long for the peace and calmness a simple, tidy home brings practice these top decluttering tips.
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Simplify Your Life…And Enjoy It More!
 Busy lives can rob of us time to ourselves, good health and peace. There are simple things we can introduce to improve our lives.
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The Secret Life of Junk Drawers
 Try on these nine tips to clear the clutter and breathe a fresh breath into every area of your life!
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5 Lies You Are Being Told About Getting Organised
 There's so much advice and information about getting organised it's hard to know where to start. These are five lies that may be throwing you off track.
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Clear Clutter and Simplify Your Life!
 Clearing clutter is a great first therapeutic step in simplifying your life. Reorganise your home and work space to boost productivity and reducing stress levels.
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Xmas Thinking
Christmas is just around the corner. With a little bit of planning we can avoid the Christmas panic and take the pain out of our purse.
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Five Summer Tips to Help You Lighten Up
 Here’s some quick ways you can help your home lighten up to support your summer mood.
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No More Gift Buying
Cheryl Richardson offers an alternative to buying expensive gifts.
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