Restaurant Vouchers

The UK’s restaurant industry is being hit hard by the current recession as people are opting to stay at home and save their money. So to get customers through the doors just about every major restaurant chain is offering vouchers, with savings of 50% frequently available.

I have found one of the best sites to print off vouchers is VoucherCodes.co.uk which has an excellent collection of high street and restaurant vouchers on one single page.

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Are you paying for your neighbours electricity?

Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been focusing on understanding my electricity consumption, with my post about how much it costs to run a freezer being one of the most read posts on MillionaireAdventure. A couple of months ago I started taking daily meter readings to see how much electricity I used and noticed something very odd. Bizarrely on Sundays and Wednesdays my electricity consumption doubled.

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5% bonus from GreasyPalm for Amazon vouchers

Did you know GreasyPalm can pay your cashback in Amazon vouchers, and not only that but they’ll give you a 5% bonus for opting for this method of payment?

This bonus meant I earned an extra £2.15 on my recent cashback payment of £42.94 which included £15 betting cashback from back in March last year and the first £20 of what will hopefully be £50 cashback in total from December.

It also included £7.94 of cashback that I had earned through the GreasyPalm Rebate Catcher, basically a program that you install in Internet Explorer which automatically credits you with cashback when you shop online from any on their partners.

Are you partaking in more homedulgence?

I love the fact that this recession has led to the media creating a whole new vocabulary so that they can sensationalise economic news. If there was a prize on offer for newcomer of the year it would surely go to ‘credit crunch’ which is now so widely used, it’s hard to imagine a time when it did not exist.

But by personal favourite right now has to be ‘homedulgence’ which can be used to describe the growing trend for consumers looking for cheaper ways to maintain the good life they have become accustomed by switching to home-based indulgences, such as cocktail parties and lavish dinners (recently cited by MarketingWeek).

So do you think you are partaking in more homedulgence during this recession? There is certainly evidence to suggest people are as sales of takeaways are soaring with Dominos Pizza announcing a 25% increase in sales over the last couple of months.

The costs of being half sized

One of the downsides of losing weight recently has been the amount I have had to spend on downsizing my wardrobe. Now that my weight has finally stabilised I have found myself in the unfortunate position of being half sized, not in the dwarf sense, but as a size 14 and a half collar and a size 7 1/2 foot.

Whilst people don’t call me names in the street I am however excluded from the majority of high street stores who either simply do not sell these half sizes or rarely have them in stock. So whilst others were over indulging in the post Christmas sales my search for a new pair of shoes was hampered by the lack of availability of anything in my size.

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