Save Money on Renewals
If you’re looking to renew anything annual it pays to wait a while after getter the renewal notice.
Last week I received a renewal notice for the RAC (motoring roadside breakdown cover) for the grand sum of £122.
Frankly, more interesting things have held my attention so it has not been renewed, add to that it seemed like more than enough money for some reason.
6.30 pm tonight the phone rings:
Hello, Mr Collins ?
Yes
I’m *********** from the RAC, I am calling to ask if you got your renewal notice last week
Yes I did
Is there any problem Mr Collins, you’re cover runs out at the end of May
Yes it struck me as being too expensive
Let me assure you it’s great value your pack offers … blah blah blah
It may be good value but that does not make it cheaper
Let me see what you paid last year … You paid £112 last year Mr Collins
I’m surprised I went off at that much !
As you can see it’s only gone up £10 which isn’t bad as increases and pay rises go Mr Collins
I don’t get a pay rise, anyway I’m sure the AA is about £100 …
Just let me see what I can do … Oh! good news Mr Collins how does £99.95 sound ?
A great deal better - I’ll just get my card
Excellent (drumming fingers together)
Another step further away from the poor-house
Rod said,
May 16, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
What a great day it has been today - bloody good from start up until 7pm
Got even better after a txt at 7.05pm - man what a great day - bloody marvellous.
You beauty
Jordan said,
May 17, 2007 @ 9:08 am
RC
What a great morning for a stroll, you can just go off the beaten track and take in the views, it puts a smile on your face for the day!
There may be grey skies but I only see blue!
Regards
Jordan
Rod said,
May 17, 2007 @ 9:25 am
Jordan,
I see you now - not trudging to work but skipping down a side street taking in the delightful views.
Mirabile visu as we say in GY
Best
Rod LMAO
Jordan said,
May 17, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
Collins Jnr
Has SC needed hospital attention after falling off his chair in laughter?
He is very quite of late, are his half pig sandwiches getting to much for him?
Jordan
Femme Fatale said,
May 17, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
Rod,
What a great Blog…….
The money saving techniques of a Bachelor!!!!!
FF
xx
A Retired Bookdealer said,
May 17, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
J.
Good News travels fast, been laughing to myself all day here, and I have a new screensaver, which looks great.
Well worth the wait.
Thank you.
Rod said,
May 17, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
FF
for more money saving tips keep coming back.
Just scored a pair of Diesel jeans, rrp £150 for £19 today !
I own the market, seems nobody else in GY is 6 ft 2 and has a 29 inch waist, I can sit and wait
A Retired Bookdealer said,
May 17, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
I can sit and wait
” Do not sit for too long you may go from a 29 inch to a 32 inch waist !
Femme Fatale said,
May 17, 2007 @ 7:07 pm
Best deal of the day.
A widescreen TV for a bottle of JD
and cheaper than Diesel Jeans.
FF
xx
Rod said,
May 17, 2007 @ 7:30 pm
FF
free widescreens for all say I - no JD makes it even better value.
Don’t rain on my Diesel parade I was happy having made the saving I did.
After all I do need to get some money back - I spent 30p on my brother’s birthday card today
Rod said,
May 17, 2007 @ 7:31 pm
ARB
no way Jose - I’m staying at 29 inch, if there is any movement it would be to 28
Femme Fatale said,
May 17, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
Rod,
30p on a card, I could have got you one for 20p yesterday.
Can anyone better that ? (apart from making your own)
Only special people get JD.
FF
xx
OMITK said,
May 18, 2007 @ 12:29 am
Rod,
Could have done with your electrical expertise tonight when my eighteen refrigerators, hot lamps, kitchen lights and extraction system went off in the middle of a fifty cover dinner service. Still, the famous Collins boys backbone and never say die spirit kept the ship afloat and stirred it to calmer waters in the forty five degree heat.
On sunday I shall tell you what I have learnt about phases, circuit boards and the like-prepared to be confused!
Rod said,
May 18, 2007 @ 8:54 am
OMITK
after you’ve told me about all matters electrical I shall tell you of my new patented way of cooking broccoli - sounds like it will all end in a punch-up
Rod said,
May 18, 2007 @ 9:32 am
FF,
I got one for 10p last year !
Whilst that is impressive, it does cause problems this year as it equates to a 300% increase in expenditure.
The strict Goldeneye budget does allow for some increase, and indeed diminution, in expenditure but this latitude does not extend to anything like 300% !
Economies will have to be made !
Little Brother said,
May 18, 2007 @ 10:31 pm
Femme Fatale,
Once tight, always tight. He once sent me a card that I’d sent him the year before with my writing concealed with tip-ex. I shall be costing the card and gift(s) carefully this year as an indicator for next year’s ‘biggy’-I’m twenty one.
LB
Witches of Eastwick said,
May 19, 2007 @ 6:43 pm
LB,
Happy birthday from the Witches. Tell Rod, if he doesn’t get his act together you’ll trade him in for some big spending sisters!
WoE
Little Brother said,
May 19, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
WoE,
Many thanks, Witches-very kind. I shall be collecting gifts from the Collins clan in the morning though I expect it to be a thin do regarding Big Brother. You may remember I penned the nickname ‘Redeye’ for him some months ago, well that has come back to bite me in the nether regions as I am sporting a particularly unsightly red eye at the moment. I expect a mixture of fussing, worrying and general hysterical laughing when I arrive at the Old Folks Home.
No prizes for guessing who will be laughing!
LB
Femme Fatale said,
May 20, 2007 @ 8:52 am
LB,
Happy Birthday!
The hysterical laughter will only be coming from someone who is jealous that you will be getting all the TLC and attention
Enjoy.
FF
xx
Rod said,
May 20, 2007 @ 9:07 am
LB
you’ve won the girls over - well played sir !
Enjoy your day in the sun
Little Brother said,
May 20, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
Femme Fatale,
Many thanks for the kind message. There was indeed hysterical laughter at the lunch table, thanks to Mr.Collins aiming a killing broadside at Rod.
An absolute classic.
LB