I hate waste, of any kind. Food waste is particularly galling. It’s money and resources down the drain, and given the current state of the planet, feels very wrong. I was recently approached by HubbubUK, a charity creating environmental campaigns and working with my local council. They invited me, along with a number of other […]
Making money for old phones with CEX
January 3, 2019 By 2 Comments
Before anyone gets excited, this isn’t a sponsored post. (I’m very open to working with phone brands or recycling /decluttering folks if anyone is offering mind.) A little while before Christmas I won a new Huawei P20 Pro mobile phone, I may have enthused about it at the time. Which meant that my trusty Samsung […]
Would you like to live on #BritainsBrightestStreet?
June 5, 2015 By 2 Comments
Looking up at the sky every afternoon makes me think about all that free energy flowing down from the sun daily. And I rather wish that we had solar panels, like Tim’s brother. Our house is pretty well situated for it, with a good south facing roof, but it’s that initial outlay that’s offputting. That […]
MyFamilyClub’s free MyFamilyPack – sponsored review.
September 13, 2013 By 2 Comments
I follow MyFamilyClub on twitter (often try to join in the #thriftyThursday quiz), and am subscribed to the website. It’s a goldmine of budget tips and competitions, and when they approached me to do a sponsored post about their latest campaign, the free MyFamilyPack, it didn’t take me long to say yes, as I can […]
Saving the pennies and saving the pounds.
April 27, 2013 By 8 Comments
Yellow stickers of shame.
February 3, 2012 By 9 Comments
Browsing twitter the other evening, as I oh so occasionally do, I was surprised to see someone saying something along the lines of self service checkouts being a boon as they cut down on yellow sticker shame. (I’m sorry, I don’t remember who it was, and I’m assuming they’d rather not be credited 😉 ETA […]
