First tip for every person out there who needs to live frugally is make a list. A list can save you time and you can work out beforehand how much you can spend and make sure you stay with the list.
Secondly where you shop. Believe me this makes a difference especially in South Africa. Even in places like UK I could notice the difference in prices from a shop in central London to one in the outskirts. South Africa it is easy to spot where you would be able to find cheap groceries. Shoprite is the best super market for budget shopping you just have to have your timing right. Early on Thursday mornings they usually stock up for the weekend traffic and it's also the shops most quiet time. I know it is odd to stress when you go shopping but in South Africa you can never be to carefull and if you are white you would stand out like a sore thumb at the local bargain shops on a Saturday.
Timing is also crucial to find bargains. Rather do your shopping at the end of the month, put away your monthly allowance for food for then, the shops tend to have more specials and you won't have to fight to find good cheap meat.
Stay away from fast food. Rather buy everything you would like on a burger and make it yourself. Not only would you save on expenses it would also be much cheaper. And remember if you do it right it won't take so long to make. Once in a while I'll buy a back of skinless chicken breast, which is really not that expensive if you buy at the right place, a couple of buns, lettuce and mayo. The chicken does not even take 10 minutes to make, while it grills I would usually prepare the buns with the mayo and lettuce and viola chicken burgers. It's not the deep fried variety of KFC but believe me it's much better. What I would normally pay for one burger there I can make 4 burgers at home.
Buy in bulk, the price these days tend to rise pretty quickly. For example a pack of diapers cost R130 at checkers but it cost R80 at Christmas time. That was like 6 months ago. Plus most stores has buy two get one free promotions.
Using coupons are nothing to be ashamed about. If you can get them use it. Even those shopper cards that you can get at most stores if you can get savings and even more promotions and so on.
Here is a tip you might not expect but watch the items till up on screen and double check your slip with your items afterwords. You would be surprised how many mistakes can happen sometimes wrong labels or even an item scanned twice it happens.
If it is possible buy fresh produce from local markets. They need to be sold of quickly and you can sometimes barter with the price. They are also less expensive because they do not have all the packaging supermarkets have and all the overheads of larger businesses. In London there was a fresh vegetable stall right by my bus stop so I used to buy all my veggies there. In South Africa they are a bit harder to find they are more available in the summer months. I know you can go to Epping industrial in Cape Town there are many markets with lots of competitors so the prices can be bartered down, if you want to of course.
The main thing to remember is to set yourself a limit and stick to it.

When I bought the Mac i thought its got everything in that you need. Well it turns out you can even play a video on the internet with this dum stupid crap. Where in the world have you heard of a operating system that sells you crap that you have to pay for once you want to use it.
This QuickTime shit came with the computer, if I knew that most of the programs in Mac you have to pay for again after you bought the stupid Operating system I would of spend my money on a way better computer and loaded it with Ubuntu.
Mac sucks because it cant play most videos be default, even videos Windows xp can play by default.
So, unless you want to scrape out more money after you bought the Mac, dont buy a mac.

Not Easily Broken is based on a novel written by Bishop T.D Jakes. Who is an well known author and Preacher.
The movie is a moving tale about Dave and Clarice Johnson a married couple who has grown apart over the years. Clarice wants a career and success while Dave yearns for children of his own. After Clarice was seriously injured during a car crash, her mother moves into their home. She does not approve of the him and makes things difficult for them. When Clarice physical therapist starts to show sympathy to her attention starved husband. They start to evaluate if they really do belong together.
There are pretty decent actors in the film and it seems really good. It's one of those movies that leaves a person touched, even the trailer moved me. The relationship between husband and wife is so close to reality making it so much better. There aren't many positive movies about marriage out there.

Rss feeds
I hate it when people use my rss feed. Seriously, you want to read my stuff then come to my site. I cant stand it when sites and bloggers tell how many Rss subscribers they have. I bet you not even 1% of people that are subscribed to a site actually come and visit the site.
Although I hate it when people read my rss feed on a reader I still like reading other sites on readers. I know, my right to be annoying.
Leaving url in comment
Sometimes I am amazed at people. The comment section clearly states url. Now that means you dont have to repeat your url in the actual comment, it saves you time and effort. But no, you get these annoying people that fill in a comment and then put their urls under what they've written. Maybe someone should make a comment how-to to explain how the thing works.
Telling people where you've not been before
I have done exactly this for some time until I realized how stupid I must of sound to those that really has been there and know what they are talking about. Although I now have the experience, i also blogged about how to make money before I actually made money.
its like fooling people into believing you make money to make money from them.
Link exchange
I get these really annoying emails asking for link exchange. Here's a tip. Link your one page to your other page. There you have a link. Happy now?
Today is a holiday in South Africa, the Day of the Covenant celebrating the Afrikaners' miraculous victory over the Zulu forces of Dingane during the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838. Whereas the new black-nationalist government of South Africa erased most holidays celebrated by white South Africans and was at one time even considering abolishing Christmas as being "Eurocentric", it has kept December 16, albeit under a new name, so-called "Reconcilition Day". In the Newspeak of the New South Africa, "reconciliation" normally means accepting black racial domination and aggression. For example, as part of ongoing attempts to obfuscate the horrific crime and racial violence that characterise South Africa today, various liberal and left-wing groups have advocated that white victims of black violence should get reconciled with their aggressors. A white female rape victim, for example, might pray together with her black male rapist in prison - if ever he did go to prison as most such crimes go unpunished in South Africa - and will foregive him so as to be reconciled with him. Within the sick mentality of our society, this type of travesty is seen as the new ethical ideal, often embraced by mainstream churches and religious leaders. The South African pathology of "reconciliation" derives from traditional African justice where the harmony of the tribe took precedence over individual rights. Even murder was easily forgiven after paying a few head of cattle to the victim's relatives, something which occurs to this day in South Africa, even in urban areas. However, whatever the TV news will say tonight about the many ways in which whites may prostrate and humiliate themselves as part of getting officially "reconciled", tens of thousands of white Afrikaners in towns and cities all over the country will be participating in a very different type of patriotic and religious ceremony. Like their forebears did 170 years ago on the eve of that great battle in which 450 whites defeated an army of at least 13 000 Zulus without any losses in their ranks, they will recite the famous oath: "My brothers and fellow citizens, here we stand in the presence of the Holy God, creator of heaven and earth, to make a vow unto Him, that if His protection shall be with us and He give our enemy into our hand so that we might be victorious over him, that this day and date every year shall be spent as a memorial and a day of thanksgiving, just as a Sabbath is spent and that we shall erect a temple to His honor wherever it will be pleasing to Him and that we shall also instruct our children that they must also share in it, as well as for our generations yet to come. Because the Honor of His name shall thereby be glorified and the glory and honor of the victory shall be given Him." South Africa's ANC regime has been trying to erase the Covenant and the Battle of Blood River from the history books in a way that reminds one of the constantly changing past in George Orwell's 1984. The hero of that book, Winston Smith, is employed in the Records department of the Ministry of Truth where the falsification of history is his official job. As Orwell puts it: "Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." Despite the suppression of Afrikaner history in schools, as well as the changing of Afrikaner place names to eradicate all evidence of the founders of their towns and cities, the Day of the Covenant has remained like a glaring anomaly beyond the formidable reach of the Ministry of Truth. Not only do most Afrikaner leaders deliver a vast number of speeches on that day, but English-speaking whites are increasingly becoming intersted in joining the annual commemoration and are seeing great significance in the event. As one of them, Peter Hammond, has recently commented: "It is remarkable that, despite the treachery that the Boers had endured at the hands of the Zulu, and the massacres of so many unsuspecting women and children on the banks of the Blaauwkrans River, that no atrocities were committed by the Boers in retaliation. Instead, the Biblical injunction to love their enemies was fulfilled by the vigorous missionary work which was established by the Reformed Church in Zululand, establishing schools, hospitals, churches and orphanages, even within sight of where Piet Retief and his followers were so brutally murdered. In the century and a half since that original Day of the Covenant, many millions of Zulus have come to Christ and Zululand has been blessed by Revival. In a very real sense all of that began with the Covenant proposed by Sarel Cilliers, and enthusiastically adopted by the Wencommando." Today the Battle of Blood River has become an allegory of the impending struggle for survival to be fought by Western man on a global scale. In places like South Africa where whites are already a minority of less than ten percent it is a real physical struggle with members of the surrounding African horde attacking us at random every day. Not only have South African blacks benefited from quadrupling and even quintupling their population since 1950, but the ANC's open-border policy has allowed illegal immigrants from other African countries to stream across our borders, adding to the numbers already present. Elsewhere in the West, in North America and Europe, however, it is a moral and ideological fight that is no less intense. Whereas the strategic threats posed by China and a resurgent Islam are universally recognised by Western commentators, the leading role played by blacks from Africa in the moral assault on our civilisation is not. White guilt is after all not defined by the history of Western interaction with China or the Middle East, but by American slavery and European colonialism in Africa. Africans and their apologists are in the forefront of the accusation of "racism!" levelled not only at every white person somewhere in his or her lifetime, but more fundamentally at Western culture and history itself. Black radical thinkers from WEB Dubois onwards, through Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Thabo Mbeki and, I daresay, Barack Obama, have been unanimous in their condemnation of the West and its history as evil and rotten to the core. The Chinese and Middle-Easterners will no doubt stay at home. But the 800 million Africans who will rise to just under 2 billion in the next few decades, will descend on the ageing Western world like they are overwhelming the formerly European cities and towns of South Africa, appropriating everything in their path with the self-righteous violence that has become the African way. The United States, lest we forget, already has an African American as president. The election of Barack Obama was seen as a milestone in Africa's claim, based on her growing population numbers, to a greater share of world resources which will be provided by Europe and North America. While Mugabe is wrecking Zimbabwe, the US is pumping in aid money to keep the country's population alive, demonstrating that the inhabitants of Zimbabwe have as much of a claim on US resources as the American taxpayer. White demography is plummeting and we all know it. Among the many pronouncements of John Maynard Keynes, the famous economist, the following is the least quoted: "The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists." Keynes ascribed both the First World War and the Russian Revolution to rapid population growth in Germany and Russia, respectively. Thermopylae and Poitiers are often seen as two critical battles that saved white, Western culture from extinction in their times. However, as a symbol of the shrinking global European population facing the barbarians at the gate, especially from Africa, Blood River has become far more apposite. In this dark hour when it seems that, apart from the corporate oil wars of the Bush administration, the West has lost its will to stand up for itself, we need to be reminded of the Gideon-like triumph of Andries Pretorius and his men over the Zulu army on 16 December 1838. Outnumbered thirty to one and armed only with antique muskets that took 30 to 40 seconds to reload, they fought bravely and won, against all odds. Only a superhuman effort of the same order could save us here in South Africa today from being driven from our land like the white Zimbabweans were from theirs. Very soon, our kin all over the Western world who are like sleeping babes before the impending peril will face the same predicament - of being a racial minority surrounded by a hostile and aggressive majority. The Day of the Covenant should be internationally celebrated among all those who believe that our Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian civilisation is still worth fighting for.
A South African blogger has been hit with a R 461 500 defamation case after he blogged
about his experiences with a timeshare company.
I love capturing moving airplanes and helicopters. I got this one when he lifter off. This is also at the V A waterfront where people go for helicopter tours of Cape Town. I would love to go on one of those tours but I think it's to expensive for a few minutes in the air. I'd much rather use the money and build my own flying machine.