Frugal moneysaving tip for New Zealand.
I’m not a great “old style” moneysaver myself – basically because I’m too lazy and most of the ideas revolve around more work that I care to do. I prefer to do my moneysaving in other ways than hard labour!
However I have just spent the best part of an afternoon breaking up flax stalks. To be honest – I don’t like flax plants, even if they are a New Zealand native plant and it’s a good idea to grow them. And they may well be great for making the most stunning weavings out of. I still don’t like them.
But boy – do the stalks make good kindling for the log burner or what???
And given the last few months of hell, courtesy of NZIS, it was rather therapeutic to be breaking what are essentially big branches over my knee, and stomping on the ones that were too big.
With firewood costing between $200 and $400 a load (4 cubic meters) depending on the wood, having a free supply we can use can get the fire going is a huge bonus. We get through probably about $500 of wood a year ( I refuse to be cold, or wear 10 jumpers – I think that’s just silly).
I also don’t understand what gives when people round hear chop trees down for firewood and then burn the last bits and all the smaller branches in the field – talk about a waste of energy. Those small branches would probably keep us going through the winter!
Ah well: at least the Flax in our garden and paddock does something other than dump a load of seeds into our swimming pool.
PS: Sorry for the lack of blogging in the past week. We took a week at the beach – with no mobile cover and no internet. Peace and quiet – what New Zealand does best.
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- Upgrading Broadband in New Zealand –apparently its too slow.
- Some interesting facts and figures about Immigration New Zealand.
- Petrol Price drops in New Zealand – well that didn’t last long did it???
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