Category: "In the home"
Work surface cleaners
By Value hunter on Mar 26, 2010 | In Money chat, Common sense, In the home, Frugal victories | Send feedback »
Why people continue to buy ever more expensive work top cleaning products, is beyond me. Take a one litre ordinary spray bottle - available from pound shops - write on the label in big black letters "BLEACH" - then add about an inch of bleach and fill… more »
Customer pay outs when companies fail to turn up!
By Value hunter on Mar 2, 2010 | In In real life, Money chat, In the home, Bad business | Send feedback »
A typical scenario, I believe, is happening everyday in the UK: Customer has a fault with equipment and/or a service Customer rings company to report it and have it repaired Company promise an engineer will be sent out to correct the fault Customer sits… more »
Eon key meter failings - Eon staff must do better!
By Value hunter on Jan 7, 2010 | In In real life, Money chat, In the home, Bad business, Frugal wars | 5 feedbacks »
Eon fitted us a smart key meter - after paying for credit to go on the meter, the emergency £5 credit was showing at nil and unavailable, Eon staff insisted that it was my fault and that I had used the "emergency" before my own credit ran out! Here isÂ… more »
Reduce your appliance rental bills
By Value hunter on Dec 27, 2009 | In Money chat, In the home, Frugal victories | Send feedback »
Do you rent any appliances? A few people I know rent washing machines, tumble dryers, TV and freeview recorder boxes, etc. (I rent my TV/recorder box equipment) Did you know for the price of a phone call, you can reduce the monthly cost of these at… more »
A thrifty Christmas idea?
By Value hunter on Nov 30, 2009 | In Wondering, In the home, Dear diary | Send feedback »
As we approach December, the Christmas spirit is not quite here yet. To help get in the mood I tried some Christmas songs, ok but not really the festive mood grabber I wanted (10 weeks of new sprog being awake til 3am has that effect) I was rooting… more »
