Dec
19

Driving Instructors

Get a free driving lesson with new website Instructor Intro .com. The website puts you in contact with a local driving instructor providing your first two driving lessons for the price of one. This is partly to allow pupils to sample the skills of the instructor before making any larger financial investment.

Driving lessons are expensive enough, so this will be for many a very welcome deal.

Oct
07

Dehydration

Dehydration can be a minor, ranging to a serious problem. The symptoms of dehydration can be as simple as mild thirst or irritability right up to death in the most extreme circumstances (such as the elderly during a severe heat wave).

In short the solution is simply to drink enough fluid. The general recommendation is to drink between one and a half and 2 litres of water a day and more in hot conditions or while taking part in strenuous activity. Dehydration can be an issue in extremely cold conditions, this is generally because there is not the same association with heat = sweat and the need to replace water, whereas the cold doesn’t generally cast the same associations while still requiring water replenishment.

So, from headaches to migraine, from grumpiness to passing out or even death – drinking enough means that a potentially serious issue can be easily avoided by a simple discipline.

Oct
02

Burglar Alarm Installers

My brother is an electrician, specialising in the burglar alarms and CCTV trade. He informs me that there appears to be a certain anonymity between electricians and security companies. This is apparently based on the fact that security companies see themselves as being very specialised in their trade (knowing a vast array of available options, knowing which option to recommend, experienced in different installation methods, etc.) where as some (but certainly not all!) electricians can tag on their ‘install friendly’, cheap burglar alarm at a low cost price – and some security companies can see this as dragging down prices unnecessarily – leaving people think that alarms and CCTV systems should be cheap, and then rejecting the offer of a more expensive but professionally installed, higher specification system.

This is a problem with many trades and products. People or companies introduce something cheap, but sometimes of lower quality to the market and ‘Joe Public’ thinks that anything more expensive is being ripped off. So the market floods with a low quality product. Not only that, but it can sometimes force the better, more reputable companies into making and selling the cheap products of be put out of business.

Then, when things go wrong with the cheap, low quality product, does ‘Joe Public’ say, “I really should have invested in something of better quality at a higher price”? More often than not the blinkered public will use it as confirmation as having made the right choice – and just say to themselves, “Phew! Just imagine if I had spent a higher price and it had all gone wrong!”.

In terms of a burglar alarm installers, it will probably make a full circle, eventually. People will hopefully get to grips with, “buy cheap, buy twice” which is often a very good saying. That’s not to say that it is always the case, indeed there is a strong case for not always paying the highest price for a product or service, but in a world where we’ve got to make our mind up somehow, a recommendation from a friend who is already a satisfied customer is often the best way forward.

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Sep
30

Healthy Eating on a Budget

As I plan our family’s meals, I often wonder if it’s possible to eat healthily and, at the same time, reasonably cheaply.  Nearly every time the thought enters my head, I immediately think that it simply isn’t.  However, recently I spent a bit of time looking at our regular shopping list and pricing everything according to how much of each product we use a month.

In a fairly short amount of time, I worked out roughly how much food we would consume each month and did a sizeable order from one of the leading supermarkets which now means I should only have to top up fruit and veg and other perishable items.  I have thought about doing this many times and felt quite a sense of achievement once I’d done it.  This is my first month so I’m very keen to see how accurate my estimate has been in terms of both quantity of food bought and money budgeted for.