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Should I use Wood products or not?

« 17 March 2008 at 6:44 am | 3 Comments
Ideas/Work, Frugal | Tags: »

There is an argument in my mind.
Should I reduce plastic wastage and use wood based products where alternatives are possible or try to stop cutting down more trees?
Very often there aren’t options that don’t use plastic or wood. Whats an eco-lover got to do?
Or, maybe just reduce consumption overall??
Much easier than it sounds.
:-(



American Express: typical bad customer service

« 25 June 2007 at 10:49 am | No Comments
Nuisance, Frugal | Tags: Nuisance customer service American Express membership rewards amex delta »

I’ve been moving my Amex membership rewards over to my Delta Skymiles card for years now. First, it was a 1:1 transfer (take 5000 from amex and put in 5000 into Delta).Then it became a 2:1 (take 10000 from amex and you get to put in 5000 into Delta).
However, today, when I called them, they said […]



Business Cards, Letterheads, Logos and other schwab

« 17 May 2007 at 7:06 pm | No Comments
Ideas/Work, Frugal | Tags: Startup Entrepreneur creative business cards »

Quick … whats the first and most exciting part of starting your own company?
Of course, it’s the ability to spend dozens of hours choosing the right company name, company logo, company colour, cards, letterheads, powerpoint templates, email signature styles, etc, etc.
Everyone does it, I did too! Spend days getting all this right!
However, very quickly, I […]



How much did I make from PayPerPost.com?

« 4 April 2007 at 6:45 pm | No Comments
Frugal | Tags: »

Well, if you all recall, there was some pretty negative publicity with payperpost.com, the blog advertising guys who pay bloggers to write about specific topics. That led me to a quick stopping of using there services.
But, on a whim, I just logged onto their website this week and see some quality changes.
For example, many […]



How to reduce road accidents?

« 12 June 2006 at 6:27 pm | No Comments
Personal, Frugal | Tags: oil price car accident frugal »

You know how the cops are always trying to give speeding tickets to people who drive fast or rash and break the speed limit?
Well, thanks to reading this post by Thaths where he accuses his Hybrid of reducing his average speed by atleast 10mph … I finally got thinking of something that had […]



10 things to buy second-hand and survive!

« 11 October 2005 at 1:46 pm | No Comments
Frugal | Tags: »

I recently read this article about atleast 10 types of things you don’t need to buy brand-new.
I’ve done a few of them myself .
10 things you shouldn’t buy new - MSN Money Central (also read this second one)
Some things I got recently that weren’t brand-new …

Books (tons of them, all the time)
The original GameBoy (added […]




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