Whilst google product search allows me to easily find prices for products at loads of places, shopping for books used to be a bit of a grind.

For the last couple of years, when i am buying books I have been using Book Brain to search for the cheapest provider – and with many places now not charging for delivery, its almost a case of just buying each individual items from the cheapest place.

She-Who-Must-Be-Obayed-(allegedly) was not spending much on her mobile phone. This showed her as being a borderline case between contract and pay-as-you-go mobile. But if I factored in the calls to her mum and sister’s mobiles from the BT line, it was definitely contract territory. I also wanted to reduce my mobile bills….

So I changed both oof our mobiles to the £15 sim free trariff from virgin. we get 300mins calls, and 300mins texts. That should do it.

And this month, our BT phone bill was only £11.44

That’s much better.

As a general rule, I prefer to buy all-you-can-eat services where there is little room for saving money by reducing use. I’m not going to pay lots of money for an unlimited plan, but I find that not using all my allowance is cheaper than having an allowance of minutes that is too small and paying for the difference, or pay as I go. If that makes sense. The idea is to have a fixed, easily sustainable budget, that won’t be upset by me suddenly wanting to make 300+ minutes of calls one month… (I tend to roll over a full month’s entitlement, thus in one month I could use up to 600 minutes, without paying any more.)