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Special Occasions

Bon bons

  • Make your own Christmas crackers

Cards

  • Christmas card magnets
  • Fast, fun cards for kids
  • Free cardmaking supplies from printers
  • Free craft supplies from home decor stores
  • Greeting card site is top of the pops
  • Greeting cards from Jacqui Lawson
  • Hi-tech Christmas greetings
  • Home made greeting cards can have the 'wow factor' too
  • Love is priceless
  • Save heaps on personalised Christmas cards
  • Save on thank you card postage
  • Send Christmas cards online and save postage
  • Show off your Christmas cards
  • Smaller cards, bigger savings
  • The neverending birthday card!

Children's Parties

  • 'Amazing Race' party impresses older kids
  • 'Birthdays Without Pressure' for stress-free parties
  • 'Cooking' birthday parties for $4 a head
  • Avoid overspending on party food
  • Big birthdays come in under budget!
  • Birthday 'play dates' instead of parties
  • Celebrate school birthdays with crafts
  • Challenge-inspired $10 birthday party
  • Cheap lunchtime 'parties' at school
  • Fairy wishes for school birthdays
  • Give 'wishing stones' to class mates
  • Host a 'garden party' for kids
  • Hours of cheap fun with balloon games
  • Inexpensive decoration for birthday cake
  • Inexpensive plaster craft for kids' birthday parties
  • Kids choose the birthday budget
  • Make a recipe book of your child's favourites
  • Novelty kids' party invites for under $2
  • Party packs for school birthdays
  • Pre-loved parties can be extra-special occasions
  • Save 10% on KFC for parties
  • Set party limits and increase savings
  • Sticker fun for school birthday
  • TWO birthday parties for $25!
  • Use Christmas lights throughout the year

Christmas

  • A cracker of an idea for serving Christmas cake
  • A fairy smart way to save $100
  • A family Christmas gift to last forever
  • A little more conversation brings satisfaction
  • A merry mall-free Christmas
  • Activities each day from the Christmas tree
  • Add a festive touch to solar lights
  • Advent calendar gets the job done
  • Advent calendar in a cup saves up to $14
  • Annual gathering need not be a burden
  • Be board this Christmas
  • Boozy strawberry syrup
  • Buy presents in advance at discounted prices
  • Candy cane reindeer
  • Cheap Christmas windows fun to make
  • Christmas cake for a hot summer day
  • Christmas dinner savings with turkey drumsticks
  • Christmas gift bags
  • Christmas gifts that costs nothing
  • Christmas giving as easy as 3-2-1
  • Christmas lucky dip keeps present costs low
  • Christmas lunch aperitif
  • Christmas tree light repairs
  • Christmas wreath dessert recipe
  • Classy use for broken decorations
  • Coloured paper baubles
  • Combine family gifts for Christmas
  • Coping with Christmas birthdays
  • Creative Advent calendars cost little
  • Creative savings from Christmas surplus
  • De-lightful Christmas activity
  • Decorate cards with glitter pens
  • Decorate with special baby memento
  • Discounted decorations
  • Drawstring Christmas bags
  • Drink up Christmas savings with beverage gift idea
  • Easy delicious healthy Christmas cake
  • Fabric Christmas wrapping brings $30 material gain
  • Festive painted jars
  • Festive patty pan papers
  • Festive season silliness
  • Free Christmas craft ideas
  • Free Christmas website for kids
  • Free healthy Advent calendar
  • Free letters to make from Santa
  • Free microsoft templates
  • Free stocking fillers from The Toymaker
  • Frozen Christmas Bombe
  • Get organised for Christmas and save
  • Go nuts with these home made nibbles
  • Grab something extra each shop before Christmas
  • Help the needy on Christmas Day
  • Hi-tech Christmas greetings
  • Home-made candy canes
  • Home-made fruit cake soaks up $40 Christmas saving
  • Hundreds saved in replacement Christmas lights
  • Kris Kringle without the cost
  • Last minute Christmas bargains
  • Magic of Santa for your child
  • Magic reindeer food
  • Magical Christmas tablecloth
  • Maintain Christmas cheer with seasonal saving plan
  • Make gift tags out of used cards
  • Make secret Santa gifts useful without spoiling fun
  • Make your own Christmas crackers
  • Make your own Christmas wreath
  • Make your own photo cards for much less
  • Mini Christmas puddings
  • Novelty Christmas place settings
  • Perfect Christmas gift for adult children
  • Personalise Christmas stockings
  • Personalised Christmas crackers
  • Phone friends instead of sending cards
  • Plain wrapping paper
  • Raid toy box for free Christmas presents to remember
  • Revamp tired Christmas decorations for no cost
  • Sanity saved with Christmas wish books
  • Save 50% by making your own Christmas hamper
  • Save and have festive family fun with DIY ornaments
  • Save heaps on personalised Christmas cards
  • Save on festive magazines every year
  • Secret Santa a super seasonal saver
  • Send Christmas cards online and save postage
  • Shhhhhhh! While all is quiet, get super-organised!
  • Sisterly Christmas hamper scheme saves $600
  • Start a Christmas hamper in advance
  • Stylish bags for gifts at Christmas
  • Summerware on sale at end of summer
  • Super cheap Christmas card making fun
  • Sweet entertainment
  • Turn a sarong into a Santa sack
  • Turn Christmas cards into postcards
  • Used egg cartons and pantyhose save $40 on storage
  • Weekly supermarket gift card saves for Christmas groceries

Christmas Tree

  • Beautiful Christmas ball decorations for $1
  • Buy next year's tree in the post-Christmas sales
  • Candy cane reindeer
  • Christmas cracker decorations
  • Christmas tree snow
  • Garden trimmings make free recyclable Christmas tree
  • Grow a Christmas tree each year
  • Light up your Christmas tree
  • Lovely Christmas decoration tradition
  • Make your own Christmas wreath
  • New Christmas tree under $10
  • Priceless tree decorations from around the home
  • Save and have festive family fun with DIY ornaments
  • Savings for old rope
  • Starfish tree decorations

Decorations

  • A fairy smart way to save $100
  • Cheap Christmas windows fun to make
  • Christmas snowflakes for a tiny cost
  • Christmas tree light repairs
  • Christmas wreath from mother nature
  • Free Christmas decorations!
  • Hundreds saved in replacement Christmas lights
  • Lovely Christmas decoration tradition
  • Make party decorations with recycled household items
  • Revamp tired Christmas decorations for no cost
  • Save and have festive family fun with DIY ornaments
  • Savings for old rope
  • Simple storage for Christmas lights
  • Storing decorations easily and safely
  • Tree decorations from the garden

Easter

  • Activity books for kids
  • Books about Easter for kids
  • Clean teeth for Easter present
  • Coat plain biscuits with melted chocolate
  • Coins instead of eggs in Easter hunt
  • Colour eggs using food colour and vinegar
  • Decorate a family block
  • Decorate hard boiled or blown eggs
  • Don’t get hot and bothered at extortionate Easter egg prices!
  • Easter egg cartons make great seedling trays
  • Easter egg hunt in yard
  • Easter eggs in jars
  • Easter hunt with scorched almonds
  • Easter jars
  • Easter traditions from different cultures
  • Enjoy craft with your kids at Easter
  • Family lunch and egg hunt
  • Good-quality chocolate bars better value
  • Hot chocolate recipes are yummy Easter gifts
  • Leftover Easter treats
  • Magic Easter Bunny food
  • Make Easter about more than chocolate and save
  • Make Easter eggs using mould
  • Online Easter activities
  • Professional looking hot cross buns
  • Self decorated eggs crack down on Easter expenses
  • Something different for Easter
  • Turn cooking chocolate into great Easter presents
  • Wholesale goodies for Easter
  • Winter clothing or school items as gifts

Father's Day

  • A gift of fatherly advice
  • A special outing
  • An affordable way to create a family treasure
  • Breakfast tradition
  • Father's Day catering
  • Father's Day timetable
  • Gift hunt
  • Keeping in touch when Dad's away
  • Look after Dad without spending any money
  • Miniature backyard golf
  • Nice affordable treats for Dad
  • Pamper Dad

General

  • Affordable farewells for loved ones
  • Alternative to expensive anniversary
  • An affordable way to create a family treasure
  • Ask to loan a costume
  • Bags of affordable gift ideas
  • Buy designer labels for great prices on eBay
  • Celebrate for less without everyone else!
  • Cheap and easy 101 Dalmatians costume
  • Coping with Christmas birthdays
  • Costumes for boys
  • Dress up as a French artist
  • Dress-ups for whole families
  • Fancy dress at less than fancy prices
  • Food challenge a fun, cheap way to dine with friends
  • Fun and frugal dinner parties
  • Innovative kids' costume ideas
  • Letter of love makes a priceless gift
  • Long lasting 'birthday books' for schools
  • Make a Paper Bag Princess costume
  • Message in a bottle for your sweetheart
  • Mix and match basics for dress-ups
  • Nevercost Peter Pan costume
  • Plaster plaque for decoration or gift
  • Quick ideas for dress-ups
  • Recycle cardboard boxes into fancy dress
  • Simple, low-cost Batman costume
  • Spider costume for $5
  • The anniversary gift that keeps on giving
  • Umpire dress-up for football fans
  • Use a watermelon for Halloween
  • Witch costume for $5
  • Zombie costumes from the closet

Mother's Day

  • An affordable way to create a family treasure
  • Basket of goodies
  • Bookmark with child's hand print
  • Collage of family photos
  • Fill box with recipes, poems and inspiring stories
  • From the heart
  • Give booklets of vouchers
  • Home-made bookmarks
  • Place mats featuring family photos
  • Special gestures more important than presents

Parties

  • Apple pies and lemon meringue pies
  • Ask guests to bring a cold dish
  • Ask Newsagent for left over envelopes
  • Baked pasta and spaghetti
  • Baked potatoes, coleslaw and mince
  • Barbecue, trifle and cheesecake
  • Buy heat-and-serve food from food warehouse
  • Candy cane reindeer
  • Car pool, bowl for keys and barbecue next day
  • Catering by footy club committee
  • Catering tenders can save on food
  • Cheap birthday fun
  • Cheaper items in nice containers
  • Cocktail party for 21st
  • Combined birthday parties
  • Dipping sauces on side-table
  • Family members prepare dishes
  • Free invitations online
  • Halve the cost of catering with adults only
  • Home-made mini-meatballs
  • Home-made sausage rolls and quiches
  • Ice-filled child's sandpit makes cheap temporary fridge
  • Invite your friends over for some 'vine' dining
  • Keep celebrations secret and save
  • Make sandwiches to celebrate
  • Make the food look great
  • Meat on a spit and salads
  • Mini Christmas puddings
  • Mini quiche recipe
  • Mix spirits with cheaper soft drinks
  • Only serve nibblies
  • Order meat and Sara Lee products in advance
  • Recipe for pizza scrolls
  • Recruit family members to help
  • Serve dips in bread bowls
  • Spit roast cheaper than caterers
  • Spit roast options
  • Sporting club caters as fundraiser
  • Turkish bread and dips
  • Use Christmas lights throughout the year
  • Watermelon balls, home-made hommus and cheese platters
  • Wire coathangers make hanging party lights easy

Presents

  • 'Down time' box makes special gift
  • 'Frame of friendship' makes a precious gift
  • 'Good luck' pillows make caring gifts
  • A family Christmas gift to last forever
  • A little thought saves $100 on special occasion gifts
  • A merry mall-free Christmas
  • Cheap science toys for Christmas
  • Christmas giving as easy as 3-2-1
  • Christmas shopping at the Salvo's
  • Drink up Christmas savings with beverage gift idea
  • Give the gift of time this Christmas
  • Hand-painted tea towels a low-cost gift idea
  • Home-made apron strings out Christmas groceries
  • Home-made fruit cake soaks up $40 Christmas saving
  • Inexpensive home baked gifts
  • Keep a birthday box
  • Life scrapbook a cheap birthday present that will entertain
  • Low cost gift for budding young photographers
  • Make a unique child's gift for under $10
  • Make heart-shaped cushions for little girls
  • Make secret Santa gifts useful without spoiling fun
  • Message in a bottle for your sweetheart
  • Perfect Christmas gift for adult children
  • Sanity saved with Christmas wish books
  • Santa's little helper keeps you on budget!
  • Secret Santa a super seasonal saver
  • Spiffy recipe book for the bride who has everything
  • Stylish bags for gifts at Christmas

Valentine's Day

  • A rose for every year
  • Be a little cheeky
  • Celebrate Valentine's Day on a different day
  • Give the card without buying
  • Heartfelt message for travellers
  • Ideas from Martha for Valentines
  • Message in a bottle for your sweetheart
  • Messages of love
  • Romance that glows
  • Simple saver valentine

Weddings

  • Ask a friend to decorate bridal table
  • Avoid expense of going-away outfit
  • Avoid extra dress fittings
  • Bears for the bridal party
  • DIY wedding bouquets save $125
  • Everlasting wedding decorations
  • Free Super Wedding newsletters
  • Get help with floral table arrangements
  • Getting creative saves thousands on wedding
  • Give yourself a formal makeover with YouTube
  • Gorgeous, cheap gift idea
  • Guests bring specific dish
  • Home-made Ferrero Rocher wedding cake saves $400
  • Include wedding menu with invitation
  • Keep invitations standard and save on postage
  • Kitchen tea makes affordable hens party
  • Late evening wedding reception saves $1500
  • Mud cake topped with flowers
  • Non-traditional dress fabrics
  • Photo album makes cheap wedding guest book
  • Reduce expense of ceremony flowers
  • Request flowers in season
  • Save money with simpler style of dress
  • Simpler bouquets are cheaper
  • Something borrowed for your wedding
  • Sparklers for guests
  • Spiffy recipe book for the bride who has everything
  • Ten years experience in wedding savings
  • Themed wedding brings savings and fun
  • Unforgettable invites for 25c
  • Wedding invites don't have to cost a bomb!

Wrapping paper

  • Decorate with special baby memento
  • New twist on old family traditions