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February 2010 - Posts

Fuming about the petrol price hike...

  
 
As we've been informed by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, from April 7th, beleaguered consumers will be coughing up an additional 25.5c per litre of petrol and diesel. If ever there was a time to become frugal with fuel, it's now. The increase...

Posted: Feb 24 2010, 08:27 AM | Views: 137 | Ratings: 1 | Comments: 1

 

I spend, therefore I am

  
 
Imagine a world in which compulsive shoppers have themselves micro-chipped, (in the same way that morbidly obese people resort to gastric bypass surgery to prevent themselves from eating a trolley full of chocolate biscuits or crisps!) Any attempt to...

Posted: Feb 16 2010, 11:37 PM | Views: 127 | Ratings: 1 | Comments: 0

 

Waste not, want not

  
 
"Oops, I think this fuzzy grey stuff in the fridge used to be yoghurt..." Sound familiar? We throw away around one third of the food we buy, (UK's WRAP statistics) and at least half of it is food that could still have been eaten. Wasting...

Posted: Feb 09 2010, 04:47 PM | Views: 971 | Ratings: 1 | Comments: 0

 

Outsource your mundane tasks

  
 
New York Times best-selling author A.J. Jacobs outsourced his life to Brickworks , an IT company in India, for a month. His polite virtual assistant, Honey Balani, took over his diary, banking, shopping, and personal tasks such as arguing with his wife...

Posted: Feb 02 2010, 05:22 PM | Views: 156 | Ratings: 1 | Comments: 0