One way to save money and fossil fuels is to pack a few errands into the same drive. I finally won a $15 book voucher for a photo I posted on the new library portal, http://www.pl.sg/ Problem is, they wanted me to pick it up from their Pasir Ris branch.
"By the time you drive there and back, your $15 voucher will be worth $10," noted Mum. How true, but I wasn't about to forego the voucher. (I'm a budding photographer, and after critiquing many other pictures posted for not having any photographic virtues whatsoever, it was a relief to win my fortnightly prize --very embarassing if my pix, bristling with photographic virtues, never won anything, right?)
Solution: Go to Pasir Ris Park Car Park C in the morning and do some dumpster diving for horse manure. There's a pony riding park, and they throw the horse manure away, nicely bagged in bin bags. Good for fertiliser, if you have a garden. If you're in a flat, you may wish to consider your neighbours'sensibilities before adopting this "free fertiliser"practise.
Then walk over to White Sands, where the library is. The walk takes five minutes each way (seven if you're sick) and saves on parking charges. Otherwise my $15 voucher might turn into an $8 voucher.
Finally, drive to Ikea to get free drinks using the Friends of Ikea card, which gives us 2 free drinks a day, with as many refills as you like. The food at the cafe is not bad, but if you want to save more, get the free drink then move down one floor to buy their cool $1 hotdogs.
Suitably refreshed, can either walk across the road to Giant supermarket, or drive across if you plan to buy a lot of groceries. Parking at these places is free, of course.
Giant had an offer - buy $100 in a receipt and pay with your OCBC card, and get a $10 voucher.
I think all those savings justifies the drive to Pasir Ris from MacPherson.
"By the time you drive there and back, your $15 voucher will be worth $10," noted Mum. How true, but I wasn't about to forego the voucher. (I'm a budding photographer, and after critiquing many other pictures posted for not having any photographic virtues whatsoever, it was a relief to win my fortnightly prize --very embarassing if my pix, bristling with photographic virtues, never won anything, right?)
Solution: Go to Pasir Ris Park Car Park C in the morning and do some dumpster diving for horse manure. There's a pony riding park, and they throw the horse manure away, nicely bagged in bin bags. Good for fertiliser, if you have a garden. If you're in a flat, you may wish to consider your neighbours'sensibilities before adopting this "free fertiliser"practise.
Then walk over to White Sands, where the library is. The walk takes five minutes each way (seven if you're sick) and saves on parking charges. Otherwise my $15 voucher might turn into an $8 voucher.
Finally, drive to Ikea to get free drinks using the Friends of Ikea card, which gives us 2 free drinks a day, with as many refills as you like. The food at the cafe is not bad, but if you want to save more, get the free drink then move down one floor to buy their cool $1 hotdogs.
Suitably refreshed, can either walk across the road to Giant supermarket, or drive across if you plan to buy a lot of groceries. Parking at these places is free, of course.
Giant had an offer - buy $100 in a receipt and pay with your OCBC card, and get a $10 voucher.
I think all those savings justifies the drive to Pasir Ris from MacPherson.
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