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It’s a well-known facts that some leading products such as window cleaner or breath freshener are based on some of the most well-known products and items that we have lying around our houses – for hundreds of years. Take for example newspaper and vinegar. The two would seem utterly unrelated yet when you clean a window with the two it sparkles and shines just as it would if you had of forked out $4.50 for window cleaner.
AltUse is a cool website that I found which shows you alternative uses for almost every product you have lying around your house, office, school and back garden. From lemons to aspirin it has it covered.
Each item has it own page where all of the different uses are outlines. Each different use has its own pictures and instructions. You can also submit your own alternative uses to the site by signing up.
The site has other features for each product such as a section for users to rate the alternative use and perhaps even more appealing – how much money you can save by taking the alternative route. Check it out at www.altuse.com .
Shopping around for the best price will now normally mean going online. A flaw in this plan is that people will almost immediately go to either eBay or Amazon – assuming that they offer the lowest prices. While that may be true for some items – it’s cod’s wallop for others. Often, sellers on eBay know that buyers rush to the site for a bargain so the price will go up: supply and demand my friends.
SortPrice is a price comparison site that is completely free to use and it compares the leading retailers and online firms from across America. I found that the sections for clothes and books were compared really well – as were the technology categories although these can be a bit sparse when you’re looking for a particular model.
The layout and design are done in a very simplistic way which is what you want from a purposeful website that is there for one reason and one reason only – to save you money.
I think it’s better than other price comparison sites because it has both online and offline stores listed while others simply assume that online is always the way to go.
So school and college are starting back soon. Just a few short weeks, in fact. That means thousands, no millions, of young people will be met by costs that would normally have been put on daddy’s credit card. What makes this year worse is that there are few part time jobs around that would have normally paid for the laptops, textbooks, stationary and gadgets that are to be found in the typical student’s backpack. The situation is especially bad in Europe where students and those leaving school have led protests – even violent ones such as those in France and Ireland.
This is good news for Ebay, Amazon and the likes.
The sale of low-end student laptops online is rising. Why pay 600 big ones in store for the latest machine when you could have last year’s model that will satisfy all your needs for a quarter of the price? After all, when at college a decent word processer and internet access is all you need.
Other items which are making big sales in the ‘back to school rush’ are backpacks, art supplies, cameras, suitcases and technical equipment specific to certain courses such as design and engineering.
Here I stand tapping out this article on my phone beside Trinity College in Dublin as I’m away from my desk this week. Students walk by me with iPhones and Macbooks preparing their dorms for their third or fourth year in college. For this year’s freshmen it’s going to be Ebay all the way – in the opinion of this Crenk reporter at least.
Advertisements on the TV and in newspapers from supermarkets are constantly telling us that they’re cheaper than the next guy offering “1,000 cheapest prices” etc… However, how do you really know that you’re getting a bargain on the whole shopping list all together. Well, very soon you’ll be able to find out using Grocio.
It launched a Beta on Monday in Tulsa in which supermarkets and shops submitted pricelists and coupons to the site. When users enter in their shopping list the grocery search engine does its magic and gives you the cheapest store for your shopping list. On top of that money saving idea, they will also give you coupons that you can print out and use in the store.
I can see this being a hit nationwide so long as the big stores keep submitting their price lists. Some see it a healthy competition, others see it as promotion while others see it as the end to small businesses. If the pricelists stop coming then Grocio will go down the tubes.
Gerard Buckley owns the site and is hopeful for its future. He couldn’t have picked a better time to launch such a site as people look to buy in bulk, shop around and ultimately save money.
Cell phones, credit cards and car costs are among the top most expensive bills that we get through our letter box. Stupid tariffs, outrageous interest rates and an ever growing cost per gallon can leave your wallet worn out at the end of the month.
Bill Shrink won’t make the bad bills go away – but it helps to shrink them, sometimes by more than you’d expect. It saves you the hassle of running around shopping for the best deal.
You go onto the homepage and select one of the following options ‘Cell Phone’, ‘Credit Card’ and ‘Gas Prices’. Then, you simply put in some basic information about how you use the particular service such as how often, for what and where.
The next screen asks you for your e-mail address and then the results are sent out in an e-mail for your critique.
The main thing that I like about Bill Shrink is that it’s extremely easy to use. Within two minutes I had results waiting for me in my inbox. They ask for basic information such as ‘how many texts do you send per day?’ and ‘do you use mobile internet?’.
This service could potentially save you $50 per month or more and I think its well worth a go. It is even mentioned in a T-mobile advertisement. Well, what have you got to loose?
It’s a well-known facts that some leading products such as window cleaner or breath freshener are based on some of the most well-known products and items that we have lying around our houses – for hundreds of years. Take for example newspaper and vinegar. The two would seem utterly unrelated yet when you clean a window with the two it sparkles and shines just as it would if you had of forked out $4.50 for window cleaner.
