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Don’t fill up just yet – petrol prices about to drop?
I have a friend who’s just been made redundant from her oil sector job, she says that the oil companies are in troupble as oil heads for a price crash and petrol prices are predicted to fall by more than 13p to 86p a litre.
Big banks such as Standard Chartered, RBS, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs say that a worldwide glut of oil (there’s a global oil lake apparently) would send costs to an 18-year low, and keep prices down. That is just fantastic news after the high prices of the last few years. The RAC reckons that drivers would be enjoying the cheapest fuel since 2009 with savings of around £180 a year for a family hatchback.
There could be a price war as at supermarket forecourts, we are already paying 99.9p for …
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Win free meal planning service for a year
So here’s my next January giveaway – a year’s subscription to FoodZube.
When cooking is this easy, anyone can do it…that’s the message of food startup FoodZube who have just released a new food app that lets anyone do just that: make cooking easy.
Easy enough in fact that you can do away with the takeaways and ready meals and eat great home-cooked food for minimal effort.
You’ll be eating healthier food, discovering new recipes and saving tonnes of time, all at once! The app finds recipes you’ll love and gets them delivered to your door in the quantities you want. It plans your weeks without you having to do anything!
FoodZube highlights
* Plan your week’s dinners in seconds, based on food you love * Find recipes based on taste, time you have, …
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Giveaway – 6 months supply of Seven Seas Perfect7
Here’s the next of my January giveaways. To help get over the feeling of being skint, I am organising giveaways for my lovely readers.
6 months supply of Seven Seas Perfect7
Seven Seas has developed Perfect7 for people feeling the first signs of ageing and who want to help support their body from the inside. With a unique blend of marine oils, rich in Omega-3, and key vitamins and minerals, Perfect7 has been formulated with 7 key benefits in mind for both men and women.
The Perfect7 formula provides nutrients into the body’s cells to support the body from the inside as it ages and includes marine oils. Men and women are not the same – especially when it comes to ageing. This is why Seven Seas has developed two distinct formulations for Perfect7 Woman …
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Five ways to earn money via the sharing economy
Over the last few years, increasingly a number of ways have appeared where you can make money by sharing services that you can give to others. From sharing your drive to sharing a lift, there are ways to make money really easily. Here are my favourites:
1. Just Park
If you have a parking space, rent it out. We rent out a space and we also use the service to rent a space near Gatwick. It was much cheaper than the official car parks. You can rent your drive, garage or allocated parking spot, by the hour, day, week or month. It’s up to you what you charge, but you can punch in your post code and work out the going rate pretty easily.
2. AirBNB
Whether you have a spare room or a whole …
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Gifts that fit perfectly in every letterbox
Tired of travelling to a Royal Mail collection depot to pick-up your undelivered parcels? A new gift service called Postboxed.co.uk aims to free you and your friends of the hassle of collecting your post this Christmas.
If a delivery fails, the largest proportion of parcel recipients at 43% have to travel 1-5 miles to their nearest delivery office, while 16% have to travel 6-10 miles according to a survey on Consumer Home Delivery in 2014.
Here’s how it works:
– The website only features gifts that measure less than 7 inches (17.5cm) by 1.4 inches (3.5cm) including packaging
– Which are guaranteed to fit through 99% of post-boxes/ letterboxes in the UK
– So you choose the gift you want
– It is hand packaged by the company
– A personalised message from you is …
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Free Carbon Monoxide alarm – keep your family safe
Look what I found out about on the Money Saving Expert website: CORGI is giving away FREE Carbon Monoxide alarms with free P&P (worth about £30).
Claim your FREE Carbon Monoxide Alarm from here.
It’s a really simple process, you complete a registration form and download, the “essential guide to protecting yourself from carbon monoxide.”
The offer is valid from 21/09/2015 until 01/02/2016 while stocks last. Once you register it says, “Thanks for your application. If you’re successful, your carbon monoxide alarm will be with you soon.” I guess it’s like when EE offered their power banks, they didn’t realise how many people would apply, but it only takes a few seconds and the guide is useful anyway.
Why do you need an alarm?
Each year in the UK, around 50 people die from …
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Wisher – the must-have app this Christmas?
Here’s a neat app to help you avoid those unwanted gifts with www.wisher.com. Here are the advantages of the new app:
- Rediscover the childlike excitement of making a Christmas list – snap, scan, upload or browse for the things you wish for, whatever, whenever or wherever it is
- No more unwanted gifts – see what each of your friends will really love
- No more traipsing round the shops – wishes are geotagged, so Wisher lets you know when your friends’ wishes are nearby
- Enjoy the magic of a Christmas surprise – you’ll never see what has been bought for you or by whom, but your friends will see your wish has been granted, so you still get the excitement of a real surprise but with no more duplicated presents
- Free, fun, and simple app available
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Groupon App – save money on the move
Groupon has created an app which enables you to start saving on everything you’re looking for-from right next door to across the globe.
The Groupon experience now follows customers as they travel using location information supplied by iPhone or Android devices to let you know about any deals and offers from stores or restaurants that are nearby.
The free app, which is also compatible with smart tablets and the Apple watch, lets you search for and purchase a deal there and then, saving time and money.
Want to know more?
Groupon delivers deals for 50—70% off the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in more than 500 cities.
If you download the Groupon app, whether you’re shopping for the latest fashion trends, craving a new restaurant in town, or spending work meetings day …
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Dirtiest time of the year? Save on keeping clothes clean
Muddy rugby or football kit as the season kicks off, Halloween, Bonfire Night, walks in the rain and mud, Christmas and New Year all in the space of a few months, means that stains are inevitable.
While I do try to cover stains, it’s a pain, so I have over 10 school shirts for the boys, two pairs of trousers each and enough clothes so that they don’t have to rely on me washing stuff every day…but that doesn’t stop me getting a little bit mad when the pile of stained clothes gets bigger.
I did a little test recently and compared stain remover and detergent boosters Vanish to ACE Gentle and they both did the same job. As ACE Gentle is significantly cheaper, I asked the guys at ACE Gentle to share some advice …
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How to avoid paying 5p for a plastic bag
As of 5 October all supermarket plastic bags will cost 5p, even though small ones you get from M&S. Now what’s 5p between friends? Well actually quiet a lot when you think about how that amount mounts up over the year.
There are exceptions, like smaller retailers don’t have to charge, and bags that you get fish or medicine in should be free!
So what is a poor shopper to do to avoid the charge:
Invest in a bag for life
I’ve had my Tesco hessian bags and Tchibo bags for years – they are such good quality. My Sainsburys bags have ripped at the seams, so do check the quality of any bag you buy.
Carry plastic bags with you
I take one with me in my handbag, and always have lots in …
