Helpful tips

Welbeck, you can still get those little money bags, even if you are not near to a bank (is anybody these days?), just call in at any post office, they have them, seeing as I have to use my local post office now to do my banking, I ask for a few each time I go in......they are not as generous as banks at handing out!!

Auntieflo

Some great tips here.
We also use a phone or IPad to take pictures of the serial numbers on the back of things like the TV. I shall now use it to take pics of receipts
I used to have an address book, and write book titles, alphabetically.

There is and I was so happy when I discovered it.
It is www.goodreads.com/
Saved me from buying books I already read many times

thank you Magshard. i hadn't thought of trying PO, but they seem fiercer now that they are all privatised.

Today, I wanted to drive to a mail box but found my car dead for the third time since April. I posted a note to myself to clip the portable charger on my car battery every few weeks so it doesn't keep on draining.

can't you just take it out for run on the open road every now and again.
maybe the battery needs changing if it is so unreliable.

I go out in the car once a week gmarie for about 45 minutes on a round trip just to keep the battery topped up which is helpful. Could you do the same? I don't go on this little jaunt if it's wet as the lights and the wipers are a further drain on the battery. So far, so good, fingers crossed.