Savings & Investment

It's quiz time. How do your oily rag skills rate? Here's your chance to find out, by taking the oily rag test. Answer these simple questions, then see how you rate.

It is traditional in January to make promises for the year ahead. For many, these resolutions are more about aspiration than they are fact, but oily rag folk like aspiration so we thought it would be worth reflecting on penny-pinching resolutions, mottos

Surveys, surveys, surveys. There have been lots recently so we thought we would recap on what they tell us about our spending habits. How do you rate on the Christmas spendometer?

It's Christmas again (already) so we thought it appropriate to reflect on some of the best Christmas tips. The oily rag trick is to be generous, but frugal. Being a creative lot, oily raggers do this in many ways.

Christmas seems like a good time of the year to talk about budgeting. Fortunately the oily rag community have lots to say about budgets. Here are some of their suggestions.

Spring is in the air so it's time to get cleaning. The best cleaner we know of is called elbow grease - and best of all, it's free!

The mail bags have again been full of great oily rag tips from the ever growing oily rag community. Here are some tips received in the last week and we report on the key findings of the price of flour survey.

With the festive season just around the corner, it's time to start planning for a fun frugal Christmas. So we've come up with some good old reliable and dependable money saving Christmas ideas.

This week we have some real treats for readers. Those living off the smell of an oily rag know how to live with a dash of panache. Here are a couple of iconic Kiwi classics to make on a rainy day!

While Christchurch has had the shakes lately, it has not shaken the resolve of residents to live off the smell of an oily rag. Here are a few ideas we have received from Cantab's recently.