In July 2018 WEST – West Auckland Enterprise Skills and Training ran a Plus Size Clothing Swap event as part of the Becoming Financially Fit series of programmes and workshops. During the event many attendees spoke of the difficulty they had in finding affordable plus size clothing in op shops. New plus sized clothing
Mending and altering your own clothes! If you have kids then you will know that being able to do basic mending at a moment’s notice is a valuable skill. Being able to sew the button on a school shirt, mend a hem or fix a tear can save the cost of buying a new school
A few weeks ago I posted a flyer for one of our Becoming Financially Fit courses on a community Facebook page. Someone posted a reply in the form of a meme (for those who don’t know what memes are, they are a picture with a text overlay that is typically humorous, sarcastic or inspirational). The