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    Woolworths receipt sheds light on the realities of Australian shopping experiences: ‘This is what $30.00 of fruit and veg looks like’

    Try your local fruit shop, Coles and Woolworths are very expensive and the local is worth a try. I agree with the price of mince on the docket, I would like to see the date too. Potato price is incorrectly typed in too.
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    These vintage baby names are shockingly making a comeback

    I know a man called Rex Barkey. What were his parents thinking.
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    Furious shopper slams Woolworths over 'insulting' pricing of popular kids food

    Not only Woolworths, Coles have announced that they are keeping the price of some of their items at a LOW PRICE....... what and where?
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    Are you unknowingly breaking the law? Find out the little-known driving violations that could get you fined for as high as $533!

    I have never paid with my phone in a drive through. Possibly the store needs to be aware of this also to warn the customers that it is worthy of a fine.
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    Savvy Shopper Scores Prawns for NEXT to NOTHING - Here's how you can too!

    No use by date.........I hope it was edible.
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    Saying hello to strangers on the street – is it a thing of the past?

    We have found that on holidays in small country towns that people do smile and say Hello and/or respond to our greetings but when we come back to the big smoke that we are more likely to receive the frightened rabbit stare in response, but I can only keep trying.
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    Woman wins $27k settlement after slipping on a grape in Coles

    It really does not matter if it was a grape or anything else, the amount of damage to the lady is what counted and it must have been significant.
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    Aussies predict the cost of living will NOT get any easier in 2023

    Check with you electricity provider to see if you are able to obtain a rebate for medical reasons.
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    Step Back in Time - BIG W's 1981 Catalogue Reveals Incredible Deals on Slacks & Skivvies!

    In 1970 we paid three weeks wages of a qualified cabinet makers wages for a record player. So much money compared with what we could buy a record player today. Our first home, a flat at Highgate Hill was $10 a week in 1966. That was a quarter of my husbands take home pay. One bedroom, tiny 2...
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    11 people on a rope

    One for the ladies!
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    How much have prices gone up? Alarming grocery haul photo circulating online

    When we go shopping I always think of our granddaughter and her husband and their five children, four of whom are young teenagers with hollow legs who can eat you out of house and home. Not easy.
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    Brace yourselves, merrymakers! Your favourite Christmas beer could cost you more this year

    Too often a Merry Christmas is anything but merry for the rest of the family. Less alcohol, more joy.
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    Christmas Competition!

    35 years ago my husband hired a santa suit and dressed up for our then two and a half year old granddaughter. She sat on his knee and looked into his eyes and said "I like you, your just like my Grandad.
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    Your Say Sunday Poll: What's one thing you wish you had more of?

    We have been blessed with minding our three month old (now one year old) great grand son for one day a week this year while his mother teaches. This has really been a highlight of our year and I have gone to bed every night with a smile on my face and a cheer in my heart at the joy this little...
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