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I recently signed up for a membership with one of the largest sporting bodies in the country which would give me access to tickets at their new stadium (you can probably guess which organisation I am talking about!). My annual membership fee of £50 promised access to some of the biggest sporting events in the country from just £99 and proudly listed them off.
I was therefore very disappointed when I logged in to discover that tickets were not available for some of the events they had promised and absolutely furious when I discovered that prices ranged from £179 to £399 for the events they had originally mentioned in their email. So within hours of signing up I fired off a complaint by email requesting a refund.
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I discovered another £4.54 cashback from Quidco in my bank account today which was a nice surprise as it’s built up of lots of small earnings and includes my £5 annual membership fee. Checking my Quidco account I was amazed to see that I have earned almost £150 cashback in just one year, all for doing nothing more than clicking a Quidco link rather than going direct to the online retailer.
I also finally recieved £30 cashback from GreasyPalm that I have been waiting for a while and by getting paid in Amazon vouchers I also earned a 5% bonus worth an additional £1.50.
It sounds like a line straight out of a comic book but the outcome of this weeks G20 summit will have a very real impact on us all. Gorge Soros, one of the worlds most powerful investors, has referred to the G20 summit as a "make or break" event for the world’s economy and that it might be the last chance to prevent a full-scale depression.
This isn’t just a greedy billionaire looking out for his own interests though as he talks about the developing world being the worst hit and therefore in need of the most help. He suggests that the previous economic system needs to be scrapped and the financial system reconstructed from its foundations up. Strong words, but what can the one day G20 summit achieve?
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I wrote back in January about how I had lent my partner money so that she could buy an annual train ticket before the new price rises came into effect. The benefit to me would be that I could save 1/3 off rail travel when I travel with her and as she has already paid back the money any lost interest is virtually nil.
A surprise benefit was also receiving 6 free weekend tickets that we could also use throughout the year and we used the first of these this weekend travelling up to London to watch the England v Slovakia friendly match yesterday. This saved me £17.90 compared to what I usually pay and also finally meant I got round to getting an Oyster Card, which will hopefully save me more money in the future rather than lazily just adding a travelcard onto my train fare even when I am only doing a single return journey within zone 1.
Research report “The Food We Waste”, published by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) reveals that the average household in the UK throws out £420 of good food a year, approximately one third of the food we buy. For some families with children it can be as much as £610. This is equivalent to filling Wembley Stadium with food waste 8 times over!
The cost of needlessly wasted food to UK households is £10 billion a year, £2 billion higher than previously estimated. Researchers found that more than half the good food thrown out is bought and simply left unused or untouched. For example, each day 1.3 million unopened yoghurt pots, 5,500 whole chickens and 440,000 ready meals are thrown away in the UK. The study revealed that £1 billion worth of wasted food is still “in date”. (more…)
