About me

Hi there!  My name's Anne and I'm now a retired mother of 2 young adults who've moved out of home and I'm living with my husband in the outer suburbs of Brisbane. 

Throughout my late teens, twenties, thirties, married life, being a mother, being a single mother and now remarried, I have remained a good manager of money.

This has allowed me to live a life I love which I've felt I haven't been deprived of anything. Sure, I've got to save for my bills, cut back on the groceries I used to buy but I never think I'm missing out.

I've often asked my kids if they felt like they were missing out when they were young children and they said they didn't know any different.

We went on short holidays, had days at the cinema (or even better "Saturday Night Movie Night" which went for years). They got most of what they asked Santa for Christmas which didn't cost me the earth.

We still eat really well and I think of all ingredients as just food. Not poverty meals, poor food or anything else. It's just food cooked in a really simple way with simple ingredients that tastes good.

I've retired now but have just restarted the Domesblissity website to share more about how now, more than ever, times are tough but there are ways you can get by when everything seems to be against you.

There are a lot of old posts on the website. You just need to enter the details into the "Search" field to the right of the page, eg "cake recipes".

Feel free to send me any questions about what you might be having difficulties with as it relates to household finances and money management.

You can contact me at domesblissity at gmail dot com.