Saving money : Beat the Credit Crunch : Money saving

Over time our busy lifestyles have developed into a "throw away" instead of a "make do and mend" society. The retailers love this situation and encourage us to chuck out any broken item and spend money on replacing the item as they make more sales and therefore more profit from us.

Instead of spending a few pence on a quick repair, we are encouraged to spend £100's on a new item, such as a sofa or carpet. With the average cost of a carpet to fit an average room, about £300, great savings can be made by learning how to look after your carpet and how to remove stains.

Fed up with chucking out items?

Fed up with the cost of replacing things?

Fed up with not knowing how to repair things?

Fed up with throwing money out?

Repairing items rather than replacing them is a great way of saving money and helping to beat the credit crunch and you also don't have the added problem of trying to dispose of the item.

Our Repairing Tips and Ideas section covers a wide variety of areas, from DIY to general day to day household repair.

For example, we explain how to:-

unblock a drain the easy way, no more plumbers and call-out charges squeaky floorboards can be silenced easily an easy solution for the runners of a sticky drawer to free up its movement light scratches on furniture can be disguised by using this tip to prevent reduced water pressure in your showerhead, fill a plastic bag with this for a carpet stain that won’t come clean, do this and save yourself a new carpet scratches on DVDs or CDs. Simply apply this household item restore whiteness to a yellowed bathtub or sink by rubbing with this solution use this easy tip to sort out scratches on your car repair a burn mark in a carpet with this tip and save yourself a new carpet sticking windows open easily with this tip to remove stubborn wall paper, use this household mixture if you need to find wall studs but don't have a stud finder, use this tip to help prevent soot build-up in your chimney, do this to prevent the overpowering smell of oil based paint, stir this into the can first to avoid painting on the glass panes when painting window frames, do this first to prevent a "skin" forming on stored paint, do this to remove hardened paint on brushes, soak in this then wash with warm water after cleaning natural bristle brushes, soak in this to get the softness back to remove mould off walls and carpets, spray with this household solution add this to plaster mix to prevent the plaster drying out too fast when plastering add this to a mortar/cement mix to prevent it drying out too fast to revive varnished woodwork that is looking old and cloudy, use this easy solution clean stone walls with a this household solution wipe stone walls with this to keep mildew and moulds from growing to remove a water mark from a glass left on a wooden surface, apply this to cover a deep scratch in wood, use this and rub until the colours match to remove the smell of fresh paint in a home, use this simple tip to remove the smell of vomit from a car, spray the area with this solution to strengthen and clean wood, decking or stairs, use this solution repair small cracks in plaster walls with this mixture loosen a stuck zip without breaking it by doing this easily sharpen scissors by doing this if an electric plug fits too tight and is difficult to pull out, do this to clean stone or brickwork, use this solution to clean a stone fireplace surround use this solution to create a dark coloured stain to cover up scratches in wood, use this solution blend the colour of the wood into a scratched area by using this tip Use this to dust hardwood furniture to add colour as well as shine and much, much more

Our 'Everyday-Life' pdf has hundreds and hundreds of tips and ideas on cleaning, cooking, shopping, repairing and living.

All our quality tips will help you save a combination of money, time, effort and reduce the level of chemicals you use in your home.

In fact our Market Research has assessed that by following our ideas the average family will probably cut their living expenses by up to 50%.