To be completely straight I do not own a mobile phone. I used to have one about 8 years ago but not anymore. The reason…?

I hate them!!!

My reasons are many but basically because the people who use them everywhere they go are rude, inconsiderate to those around them and plain ignorant. Fortunately a growing number of people agree with me to the extent that one business owner in Australia is now refusing to serve those customers who come into her shop yapping loudly into their mobiles.

Sam Hansen runs a Bakers Delight franchise (a specialty bread shop) and is so fed up with trying to serve rude people who cannot put their calls on hold for 3 minutes that she has placed a sign up informing customers that they will not be served whilst they are talking on their blasted phones.

Now we are not referring to doctors taking vital calls or police, etc – these are people yapping on about nothing at all (and they always yell don’t they?) and annoying everyone else around them. Ms Hansen is fed up with greeting a customer only to be snapped at with “Do you mind, I am on the phone!” …

So she is doing what I would do…going on to the next customer and ignoring the ignoramus with the phone. This is what should be done – mobiles do have a place and purpose but people should keep them, and their inane conversations, to themselves.

I hope this catches on everywhere.

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My Mum in Australia deposited some money in the bank for the kids for Xmas – I was rather shocked when I did the conversion a while ago…

Up until recently A$200 would buy you about roughly half, or just over, in euros. For example, $300 would get you about 160 euros. Today, as I write, Mums $250 buys just 126 euros!

Definitely NOT good.

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Most of us can admit to hoarding a lot of old stuff that we never use but cannot bring ourselves to throw away; I am one of those people.

Also, most of are always finding ourselves scratching for a few extra dollars/pounds to get us through to pay day – have you ever considered that all those odd and ends lying around the house and attic could be just the ticket to getting that extra cash…?

An enterprising group of Australian’s got together and started Rentoid which is a website where you don’t sell all that stuff you want – but don’t need – but rather rent it out to those who do. It has really caught on and so long as you follow the guidelines you can pretty much rent out anything on the site – it’s a great idea particularly for those people who cannot afford the larger rental companies for things such as fridges, TV’s etc.

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