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Let us know about council departments spending money just so they can exhaust their complete budget by April. So they don't have to hand the money back or get a reduced budget for the following year.
If you find your local Council putting in road kerbs on a bend in a very remote spot on a very little used road, is it really necessary ?
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Recession, do we just have to put our heads down and hope we will survive it. Or is it a case of dig for victory?
If we do want to fight what or who do we fight, the banks to stop them from reducing our over drafts. The trouble with banks is that they want to reduce their exposure to any lending connected with even the smallest risk and in this financial climate this means UK Business. Withdrawing and leaving their customers exposed might be good for their profits in the short term, but in the long term!
So what else can we do, high cliffs are in short supply in Norfolk so it looks like do as the banks do and “fight for yourself ”. Buying is good for the economy but putting £1,200 on your card for the biggest TV in the shop is not good sense.
Try looking at savings around the house first, £ 50.00 a month for satellite TV? Two things to do first get a free view box or if you really can’t be without hundreds of channels, multi room and live pause, just phone the well known company and tell them you cant afford it you will be surprised at the response. All of a sudden discounts and offers will appear that you never knew about.
Get online banking and check down that list of standing orders, are there odd ones for £26.50 for that cheap magazine subscription. Have you checked and kept track of your mobile bills or is it a case of just not found time to look. Well now sounds like a very good time to save £ 10 a month on a phone bill.
While we are at it lets also save the planet. Is your central heating system balanced room to room and totally controllable or is that unused bedroom as warm as your lounge? Is your Oil tank secure from theft, could be very expensive.
Light bulb gone, do you really need five 60watt bulbs in the hall chandelier, put in 9watt low energy.
May seem crazy and you will get sneered at by the kids but only put as much water in the kettle as you need. What’s the point of heating up 2pints of water you are just going to let cool down in the kettle again. As a bonus to saving energy you will also save time with the kettle boiling in seconds instead of minutes.