Writer's Block: Saving Money

[Error: unknown template qotd]Petrol please, petrol. And PLEASE don't let me get started on how cheap American petrol is compared to here (but then, shoulder to shoulder, notwithstanding we don't COUNT...)  i'm paying £1.20 PER LITRE BTW.

Anyway, back to the question...

1. Drive less. Use your bike to nip to the shop
2. Car Share/Car pool for work, picking up the kids
3. BUY A SMALLER CAR. You can buy cars that do 40 miles to the gallon and more.
4. Drive slower - I've dropped to a maximum of 50 miles an hour now, and it's really made a big difference
5. Shop online.  I buy just about everything online - and a tesco delivery deliveies 100s of orders with just one truck.  I also order my library books online which means I don't have to drive 20 miles to the big library hoping they'll have the book I want. for 55p I can have any book I want delivered to my local library.
6. Shop more efficiently. Buy everything you need at once so it's only a weekly thing. Bulk buy.
7. Encourage the kids to use their bikes a lot more
8. Get rid of the extra cars - do you really need 2 or 3?
9. Keep your tyres pumped up, flat tyres use more petrrol
10. Keep your car serviced

Three Illegal Download sites - need shutting down

Every day one of these illegal download spots gets spotted. How many others are there that don't get spotted?

MANY MANY ILLEGAL FILES
Authors on this one:

Jade Falconer
Carol Lynne
Laura Baumbach
Alexander Ivy
Alexis Morgan
James Allen
Alyssa Day
Amber Green
Angela Fiddler
Anne Stuart
Laura Bacchi
Josh Aterovis,
Amanda Young
Sedonia Guilldone
Sean Michael
Mychael Black, Shayne Carmichael
Bobby Michaels
Ally Blue
Mike Shade
Suzanne Brockmann
Sandra Brown
James Buchanan
L E Bryce
Meg Cabot
Rene Cade
Carly Phillips
Cassie Clare
Catherine Anderson
Jamie Craig
Christina Dodd
Christine Skye
Christine Feelan
Kirby Crow
Jade Falconer
Anah Crow
Frank Sol
Jules Jones
Kate Steele
M L Rhodes
J M Snyder

ETA: And another - Josh Lanyon's books, and Scott & Scott.

ETA 2: and another Gay Romance

Including GA Hauser, Matthew Halderman-Time, JL Langley ( and many more )

And people wonder why I don't truly approve of ebooks???

How very disappointing

I ordered "Lord Hervey's Memoirs" which I received today and BOY what a bloody waste of money. (about 20p from used books on amazon)

He's one of the most notorious Macaronis of the 18th century - had a 10 year affair (with many passionate letters) a farmer Steven Fox and this entire part of his life has been ruthlessly eradicated from the book. I suppose I should have realised it as the book was published in 1963. Sigh. Annoying and a waste of time and effort. It's hardly worth reading apart from the sections that are actually written by Hervey himself as I can't trust any of the rest of it.

Bah I say to stupid censorship. BAH!

Looking forward to: David Lean season on Film Four. *drools* and Ugly Betty's return. (simply for the Mark/Cliff storyline)