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Book early Most train tickets are released for sale around 3 months before the date of travel and they are significantly cheaper when they first go on sale. If you know exactly when you're travelling it is a great idea to put a reminder in your phone or diary 3 months in advance or sign…

Increase the Volume The more you can enter, the better your chances. If you can allow an hour or so a day, you’ll be amazed at how many you can rattle off. I used to do my entries while my babies were napping. Ok, the house was a bombsite, but I made up for it…

Here are the basics. Items for auction on eBay have a 'Place bid' button for entering your bid. Above that is the current winning bid. An auction is open for a fixed amount of time and the person with the highest bid at the end of that time wins the item. So far, so good.…

Instaprints Whilst looking to print out an Instagram photo of my dog (I know, right) I came across Instaprints. The website allows you sell your Instagram images online as physical prints and other items. Be that printed photos and famed pictures or your skinny latte Instagram as a poster, greetings card or phone case, it’s…

We frequently find ourselves inundated with images of beautiful, slim women in chic and well styled second hand clothes but often the plus sized amongst us can really struggle to find anything but pleated black trousers and fugly skirts. Even as a local charity shop blogger I do feel like I stick out like a…

I’m always surprised by the amount of very clean women who take pride in their appearance but still somehow, manage to have filthy, grubby Wooden hair brushes. I know it isn’t a huge, big thing in the grand scheme of life but a dirty hair brush gives me the shudders, especially when you consider how…

Hopping into bed at night can reveal the true lack of warmth in the air. Not all of us want to sleep with the heating on and more importantly, few of us can afford to. Here are a few simple tips for keeping warm at bedtime. HOW TO STAY WARM IN BED IN WINTER  1.…

The busy life style that we lead these days destroys your inner-self completely. Huge loads of work and family responsibilities turn us down; we find it hard to take a sigh to relief. Under such circumstance, it becomes imperative to take some time out of this busy life and do something crazy and mind refreshing…