Shopaholic? Me?

After my mum’s disability appeal to prove that she needed disability status, I bought her this sticker (see below). I thought it lightened the situation and it put a smile on her face. The reality is that the disadvantages of being disabled are horrific. I push my twins around in a double buggy that is roughly the width of a wheelchair, and despite legislation, I still find it hard to navigate around the shops. This has meant that a number of shops will not be seeing my money and that I have actually increased my online shopping. The fact is that I have the pushchair for a few years but people in wheelchairs are generally in them for life!

I need to get my car serviced and have to get myself a new service centre. I hate having to deal with mechanics as most tend to treat women like imbeciles, “what would a woman know about a car!” attitude. When I lived near London, I used to take my car to Sky Motors  and they were brilliant. Besides the fact that you were treated brilliantly, it was a fair price and I had confidence in their work. They would get your whatever the parts you need whether they were Ferrari parts or basic oil. But to get my car to them today would require a service just to get there. I guess I need to find their equivalent here in IOM. I guess I might go to Search Mann to give a look to see if they have any advice.

I told you that we recently bought a Renault Espace. I must say I do like the car. It does feel a bit van like to drive, though my hubby disagrees but it has some wonderful benefits. First of all it can seat 7 but if you want to use it to load things, you can remove all 5 back seats or even store them using just a side of the car. My son likes the fact that it has airline style tables (and keeps insisting he wants to eat in the car).

I just want to, as my brother says, “pimp my car”! I want new car mats, seat belt protectors, a vanilla smell, sun visors etc! I cannot wait. The only thing is I cannot go pink as my hubby will need to use the car sometimes too. Perhaps Disney!!

I mentioned that we were looking for a 7 seater to “upgrade” our car. So we have been out popping from dealer to dealer to try to buy an MPV. Anyway, we recently came to a dealer and they had an rv for sale, and jokingly I said this is what will be ideally. So much for me opening my mouth. My son thought it was a great idea and kept going on and on about getting it. So when we came across other seven seaters, he was “No, I want the caravan!”. Bearing in mind that we have no driveway and you cannot even park on our street, it is sadly not a good idea. Still, would have been a good idea to buy a motor home! Imagine having everything you need at the tip of your fingers?

The thing that comes with increasing your family is the need to increase your car size. I always thought that when we bought our Jaguar that that would be the biggest car we ever bought… except I am now pregnant with twins… and so we need to “upgrade” to a 7 seater. I am not quite sure if “upgrade” is the right word as some of the 7 seaters I have seen do not come anywhere near close to the standard of car of Jaguar. Sadly Jaguar do not do 7 seaters (at least as far as I am aware).

On the plus side,  an auto insurance quote for a 7 seater is far lower than my current insurance on my Jaguar. My only issue so far is when I put in an offer for a car and it was accepted, we came to sort out how to pay they changed their mind about selling (and we were happy to pay cash if they were happy to wait till the next day).  Go Figure!!

 

I bet you heard of the EASY Group. One of the Easy Group is Easy Car.

Easy Car specialises in low cost car rental online. You can rent a car nearly anywhere in the world from just £8.00 per day. Car rental covers everwhere from Paris to USA and London to Sydney. They cover over 60 countries. They are actually a car rental broker but this means that they have access to 400,000 cars which can be collected from one of 2,400 places such as airports.

By doing this they can keep in line with offering the lowest prices possible. I doubt you will find cheaper car hire anywhere.

I bought a bike a few years ago. Needless to say I never used it. It was not because I did not have the inclination to use it or the want to use it. But simply because I could not manage to use the gears. I wanted a plain simple bike like you do when you are a child. But apparently the shop did not stock any. He convinced me to buy a bike with gears. It had 18 gears. I never manged to count the 18 gears. No matter how I tried, I always got different amounts. Ok it might be that I don’t know how to count. But I suspect it was more to do with not knowing how to use the gears.

I came across this website that sells beach bikes. These bikes have no gears. Just what I wanted. I was sure they still made them. Now I am glad to find out that they do. Their prices are good too.

They current mostly ship to california but they will ship to most states.

Shipping internationally is very expensive, but they will ship in bulk orders. Great if you want to sell the rest on ebay and make some money!

Did you know that a dent in your windscreen can be dangerous and is probably illegal! Also it is cheaper to fix before it cracks or worse shatters.

You can get Auto Glass Repair in Phoenix by clicking on the link. Or watch this space to find national auto glass repairers.

National Car Rental is a world wide car rental company. Most car rental companies require that you are over 25 years old, but with National Car Rental you only need to be 21 years old for most cars.

You can choose you vehicle from:-

• Automatic Cars
• Automatic Estates
• Vans
• Manual Estates
• Multipurpose Vehicles

The cars are in groups. Each group gives you a pictogram showing its capacity in passenger and luggage space. This helps you decide which car is suitable for your needs.

As National Car Rental is such a national (and international) company, you can also book a car for a one way journey. This is great if you for example need to drive from London to Manchester but would rather fly back.

An example of price is a Ford Ka for 4 days for an over 25 driver would cost £119.69.

This would include unlimited mileage, damage liability waiver, road tax and VAT but it would exclude fuel.

If you need to cancel your reservation, you can cancel or change your reservation up to 24 hours before the rental is due to start (within the start branch opening hours). If you don’t cancel or pick up your vehicle they do reserve the right to charge you a £20 fee on your card. But this is still pretty good going.

Do check out our site to see if we have any offers going, as they do accept discount codes for even better pricing.

 

 

Ok, I know most people assosciate shopping with women but I know that reality is that most men love to shop as much as women. They just prefer to buy other stuff. So, I am trying to find more male oriented purchases. And I do know most men love their cars! Not to say women don’t… but I am trying to please everybody.

HID Kit & Xenon Headlights are great kit to have on your car as they enhance your viewing power. At least to me, this is a highly important factor when driving at night. For some reason I am rarely happy with my car’s nightlights and often wish the designer of the car tested the car at night. I do think the best car would be designed if the designer actually had to use the car he / she designed for at least a couple of years. It would be more user friendly.

Anyway, if you install these headlights, it helps extend the amount you can see, which in turn, I suppose gives you more opportunity to prevent accidents. Which is my main priority in avoiding.

Now all their kits are really easy to install. At least it seems easy enough. There are full instructions on the website just to ensure you cannot go wrong. It seems so easy, I might actually let my hubby install them.

In case you are still unsure, they also have a FAQ section to help answer any questions you might have.

(And there is a competition you might want to enter on the website, which is great as you can win yourself a free set too!)