Your random money saving tips?

Des Pondent said:
Use Booking.com or similar for accommodation searches.
When you find a hotel or whatever that you like, go to that establishments website directly, where it will usually be cheaper.
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I have found that booking a hotel room (after checking price on Booking.com) by phone and haggling on phone with the receptionist to be very beneficial price wise to us. This is especially true for hotels in Kerry, West Cork, Donegal and Northern Ireland. The later you leave contact, the better and be prepared not to travel if your bargain cannot be obtained. Use your head and not your wallet - ask for an extra dinner to be thrown in also.

Added Later:-1. I’ve found that leaving your telephone number with the receptionist after your call has failed to bag a bargain stay may prove worthwhile. When they ring you, back, you know they want your business and now you can control the haggle.
2. Hotels are no longer about Hospitality; it’s the Share Price Stupid!
 
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I don’t know if this qualifies for this thread as the money is already spent:-
I bought a good pair of trekking shoes for which I paid c. €200.00. I bought expensive trekking socks too (€20.00 per pair). I broke them in over a few weeks and still found discomfort. Mrs Lep suggested in turning the trekking socks inside out which I did. Hey Presto! It worked, no more sore feet after a trek. And I nearly gave up trekking!!!!
 
If you or more likely an elderly relative still has a plain old telephone line (POTS) from eir, get rid of it fast. I came across two older people lately who still had landlines, both making no more than a handful of calls if even that. And paying eir an astonishing €75 per month (month, not two monthly). Justification was that the was all they needed. Both had mobiles which were their main source of contact. Got fibre broadband installed for both, free install and half the monthly cost, and the land line number transferred seamlessly. One had a personal alarm connected to the phone line and this is also working perfectly over the fibre (via the second phone socket on the router).
 
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Freelance said:
If you or more likely an elderly relative still has a plain old telephone line (POPTS) from eir, get rid of it fast. I came across two older people lately who still had landlines, both making no more than a handful of calls if even that. And paying eir an astonishing €75 per month (month, not two monthly). Justification was that the was all they needed. Both had mobiles which were their main source of contact. Got fibre broadband installed for both, free install and half the monthly cost, and the land line number transferred seamlessly. One had a personal alarm connected to the phone line and this is also working perfectly over the fibre (via the second phone socket on the router).
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Are you sure on the last bit? I've understood that the alarms don't work properly over VOIP?
 
charlie007 said:
Are you sure on the last bit? I've understood that the alarms don't work properly over VOIP?
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I had the same concern and didn't expect it to work and anticipated having to replace the personal alarm box with something IP based. I asked the fibre installer about it when he arrived and he said that he had seen it working on a number of occasions. Once the install was complete we connected the personal alarm to one of the two RJ11 sockets on the router and tested it by "calling" the remote monitoring station and it worked. I was actually surprised.
 
Knuttell said:
How's that a money saving tip???

Unless they have a carer most people are quite capable of buying a phone that suits their needs.
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There's a fair few people who just get the latest Samsung or apple, financed over 24 months from their service provider.
 
Freelance said:
If you or more likely an elderly relative still has a plain old telephone line (POPTS) from eir, get rid of it fast. I came across two older people lately who still had landlines, both making no more than a handful of calls if even that. And paying eir an astonishing €75 per month (month, not two monthly). Justification was that the was all they needed. Both had mobiles which were their main source of contact. Got fibre broadband installed for both, free install and half the monthly cost, and the land line number transferred seamlessly. One had a personal alarm connected to the phone line and this is also working perfectly over the fibre (via the second phone socket on the router).
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Been trying to explain this to the in laws. The only people who contact them on the land line are scammers ....
 
Freelance said:
I had the same concern and didn't expect it to work and anticipated having to replace the personal alarm box with something IP based. I asked the fibre installer about it when he arrived and he said that he had seen it working on a number of occasions. Once the install was complete we connected the personal alarm to one of the two RJ11 sockets on the router and tested it by "calling" the remote monitoring station and it worked. I was actually surprised.
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I appear to have a phone, DSL, USB and 4 ethernet ports on my Eir Router.
I'm assuming a RJ11 socket is something different?
 
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