i can't remember weather this has been mentioned before or not: -

a lot of companies now offer package deals to customers, either free phone calls or unlimited for a monthly fee. all of which are subject to certain phone numbers being called, namely, they need to be geographical landline numbers.

as companies realised they could make a fortune by scrapping their landline number and taking on an 0870/0871/0845 etc, they could charge you for ...

Does anybody keep an account of their gas expenditure for water heating by any chance?

I am trying to evaluate in actual Pounds and Pence how much impact my Solar Water is having on the gas bill.

I believe that this time last year I would spend about £1 a day on heating water (3kW Immersion on for 3 hours each day at about 10p k/W - so around 300kW per month)

I now use ...

don't give your wife a credit card.

tell her that a 2 for 1 offer isn't saving money, it's cheaper not to buy them at all.
:lol:

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/content/trade/products.htm

Some good reductions payed monthly............no credit checks etc, its just a discount card.

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Anyone see the reports in the paper from RICS about the various energy saving measures homeowners can take and what their payback period is? Looks like a load of b*llocks in general, have to say!

This is what they reckon:

Measure, Cost, Saving per Year , Payback
Solar Water, £5,000, £24 , 208 Years
Loft Insualation, £755, £60 , 13 Years
Cylinder & Hot Pipe Lagging, £761, £20 , ...

Hi Guys,

some of you probably know about this already, but just in case, there is a very nice cashback site called quidco http://www.quidco.com

Basically, they work as an affiliate site for loads of proper on-line shopping sites - and by proper, I mean the ones you and I REALLY use, not some weird sh*t sites.

Way it works is you click to website you want via quidco.com and shop like normal and you get ...