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Money advice loves a neat little rule: save 10%, buy a house, never touch a credit card and work hard until everything magically sorts itself out. Lovely. Except family money rarely behaves neatly. The grocery shop blows out, the car needs tyres, someone needs a costume by tomorrow, and the electricity bill arrives wit
Teaching kids to swallow pills sounds simple until you are standing in the kitchen with a sick child, a tiny tablet, half a glass of water and everyone’s patience hanging by a thread. Some kids get it quickly. Some look at the tablet like you have asked them to swallow a pebble. And honestly? Fair […] The post How To T
Need to send flowers but don’t have time to walk around three florists, compare every bouquet and then somehow get it to the right person? Good news: you can do the whole thing online. Even better? You can still send something that feels thoughtful, whether you remembered the birthday weeks ago or approximately twenty
Some secrets are shocking because they are scandalous. Others are shocking because, once you hear the whole story, you understand how someone got there. An anonymous Ask SAHM poll asked one deceptively simple question: “Have you ever been unfaithful?” The answers were not neat. They were not always sympathetic. Some we
Why do teachers get apples? There’s no neat story about the very first student who handed one over, but there is a practical explanation. In some early American frontier communities, families helped feed and house their children’s teachers. An apple was something a family could give, and over time it became a familiar
We spend so much time trying to keep the house tidy, and then there’s the garden shed. The place where you put something “just for now” and find it again two years later. Can you imagine pulling everything out just to find the hammer? Or buying another pair of gardening gloves because you can’t remember […] The post 5
We talk to people all the time, every single day in fact. Our time is spent having constant conversations with the people around us, about all manner of different things. We like to talk about our kids and our jobs and our partners and our struggles, and we expect people to listen as we listen […] The post How to Start
Created by a clinical nutritionist, nurse and mum of four, New Zealand-born Odi has arrived in Australia with nutrient-dense food designed for busy families. Feeding children can feel like a full-time job — except the boss changes their mind every six minutes and sometimes throws lunch on the floor. Between daycare dro
Condensed milk is heaven on earth… you simply can’t tell me otherwise! I’m a complete sucker for condensed milk recipes that let this delicious little pantry hero do its thing. Condensed milk is one of those pantry ingredients that looks innocent until you open a tin and suddenly you are standing at the bench with […]
Pizza night is a favourite in many Australian homes, but takeaway costs can add up quickly. Traditional pizzas can also leave you feeling sluggish, especially when they are loaded with refined carbohydrates and not much protein. That is where this Cottage Cheese Pizza Bowl comes in. This simple recipe delivers all the
Buying a gift should be fun. In theory. In reality, it usually starts with: “What do you want for your birthday?” “Nothing.” Excellent. Very helpful. Then you spend three nights scrolling through gift guides, wondering whether they really need another candle, debating whether a gift card looks lazy and eventually panic
For years, fitness seemed to come with an unspoken rule: if you’re not sweating buckets, feeling sore for days or dragging yourself through workouts you dread, you’re not doing it properly. Thankfully, more women are starting to realise that’s simply not true. The reality is that most people don’t struggle to get healt
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