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Sara just loves a bargain
08Nov06
Over the next few weeks the Inner-West Weekly will ask residents to nominate their favourite place. It can be a park, a building, a view, under a certain tree or even a particular stretch of road.This week MARIE SANSOM talks to Ashfield resident Sara Goldstein, who takes us to her favourite shop.
ASHFIELD resident Sara Goldstein has an alter ego as the Bargain Queen.
She has her own website, www.thebargainqueen.org, dedicated to sharing information on how to sniff out a bargain and save money on food, fashion, furniture, gardening, decorating and life's little luxuries.
That's why her favourite place is Ocean Fish Market on Liverpool Rd, Ashfield.
``We feast on fabulous seafood for very little money because of that fish shop,'' Ms Goldstein said.
``It costs about the same as the fish market and whatever's in season is usually very cheap there.''
Fresh prawns from the shop regularly find their way into signature dishes of pad thai and seafood stew that she and her partner, Mr Bargain Queen, make at home.
Crabs, pipis, salmon fillets, octopus and calamari are all on the shopping list when the Bargain Queen visits the Ashfield shop.
``We usually have fish two or three times a week,'' she said.
``The people who run the shop are really nice. It's a little Asian store and I think it's family run.''
She started the Bargain Queen website in February this year, after she became ill and had to resign from her IT and design job.
``I didn't want to have to give up everything enjoyable in life to have to live on a tighter budget,'' she said.
Instead she began sharing tips online about being frugal that she had already been using for most of her life.
``I learned at a very young age to make my money go a long way.''
Haberfield's delis and grocery shops and Birkenhead Point's factory outlets are two of her other inner-west bargain tips.
She said a book on bargain hunting was already in the pipeline.
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