CREDIT CRUNCH CRUSADER; Turn over a new leaf and swap unwanted books and plants, and get more for supermarket points..Byline: Siobhan McNallyWord for word If you've read all the books on your shelves, trade them in for some new reading material at the book exchange website www.readitswapit.co.uk. It's free to join and allows you to swap your books for others in its library of 247,593 titles. Of course you'd first have to find people with the same taste in novels as yourself, which probably rules out finding a new home for that tome on All You've Ever Wanted To Know About Linear, Quadratic quadratic, mathematical expression of the second degree in one or more unknowns (see polynomial). The general quadratic in one unknown has the form ax2+bx+c, where a, b, and c are constants and x is the variable. And Cubic Equations. Won't cost the earth No need to dig deep to fill the garden because it's not just book worms Worms (vôrms), city (1994 pop. 79,155), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, on the Rhine River. It is an industrial city and a leading wine trade center. who love to swap. The green shoots of recovery have started at www.gardenswapshop.co.uk where gardeners can go online and swap plants and seeds for free with other greenfingered folk - although when I checked, many prospective swappers were looking for a plant called "Surprise me". Drive a hard bargain Following on from a reader's letter last week about the savings to be had by ditching ditching, n See ditch. the motor and using car clubs, a not-for-profit firm called Commonwheels is offering even better deals on wheels. Based in Oxford, King's Lynn, Reading, Portsmouth, High Wycombe High Wycombe (wĭk`əm), city (1991 pop. 69,575), Buckinghamshire, S England. The city is well known for its furniture industry and also has paper mills, sawmills, and engineering works. and other towns, the eco-minded company charges just pounds 4 an hour, or pounds 12 to use a car overnight. Visit www.commonwheels.org.uk for more info.. More in store Most people save the points from their supermarket loyalty cards to get a sizeable chunk off their next shopping bill. But instead of taking the cash, you're better off redeeming re·deem tr.v. re·deemed, re·deem·ing, re·deems 1. To recover ownership of by paying a specified sum. 2. To pay off (a promissory note, for example). 3. them against store offers - such as meals out or getting your car serviced - because the points are often worth at least four times their face value. READER'S TIP Our reader Jenny Peel from Runcorn, Cheshire, believes charity begins at home. She emailed to say: "I used to donate my old books to charity shops, but last time I had a clearout I approached a secondhand book store to see if they'd give me any money for them. The owner offered me a tenner. Only trouble is I ended up spending it in his shop!" MONEY SAVING SECRET? WHAT'S YOUR MONEY SAVING SECRET? Email your tips, to readerpanel@mirror.co.uk. We pay pounds 10 for every one printed. |
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