If you don’t insulate you are asking for trouble in a bad winter.

Inexpensive ways to keep warm in your home during winter, without increasing heating costs

Choosing a green dishwasher. Or, use an alternative. Get a partner show him how to boil a kettle and use the hot water to do all the washing up. Less phosphates, corrosive chemicals used as well as less energy.

The lighting market is flooded in the last years by state of the art effective systems and these are LED lights. This is an abbreviation from the more complicated title Light Emitting Diode and what few know is that the lighting is not provided by a single unit but by a group of not so [...]

Electrical power is produced by burning coal and oil. These release carbon dioxide into the air which supports to cause global warming, and this will cause a risky effect on our planet as we comprehend it. Only 10% in the electricity applied by a lgt bulb creates lgt, the remaining 90% creates warmth. Swapping common [...]

Have you noticed how hot it gets in the living room when your new widescreen TV is on? You have? OK so what are you doing about it? Since we’ve changed to digital we have noticed a real increase of temperature in our living room.  Fortunately our heating thermostat is in the hall so is not [...]

Thinking of how to save money but still have a great time I started searching cupboards for the ingredients of my cake-to-be.  Amongst my finds was a near full bag of raisins.  Unfortunately they looked more like currants! At the back of another cupboard, the remains of a bottle of sherry. IDEA – Take one empty [...]

A great tip for you today.  Have individual personal style in your kitchen.  A row of identical canisters may look fine but is a recipe for disaster to many.  By many I mean all those who are visually impaired or just in a hurry. When you buy instant coffee, buy large jars and don’t buy [...]

Rain is pouring down,  had to make a dash to put out the recycling wheelie-bin,  the car has now been rinsed – that’s another story. As rain dripped off the clothes line I thought of clothes pegs and another quick saving tip.  Do you use plastic clips to close poly bags for the fridge?  I [...]

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