MoneySaver Forum

I want to hear some whingeing. Surely there's something that's annoying somebody out there?

YES ME !!! What is with those people that park in the "parents with prams" carparks - AND have no children?? It drives me insane.... Doing the grocery shopping with 2 children under the age of 5 is hard enough, but then to have to park on the other side of the car park drives me crazy..... why don't these people stop for a minute and think that these car parks are allocated for a REASON !! ?? !!

Mechanics charge too much for the jobs you can do in the driveway. You'll find more advanced repairs - ones you'd have second thoughts about doing yourself - are much more reasonably priced. I do the servicing on my family's cars every 10,000km interval and I save heaps of money. For a major service you're looking at hundreds of dollars, but I can do it for under a hundred almost every time. Pick up a workshop manual for $30-40, and save hundreds over the years doing your own services. Plus you get that warm fuzzy feeling inside that you've done your car all by yourself.

Big department style stores that have dump bins of random products in the aisles. I'm talking Myer's and DJ's recipe book and PJ set tables, Bunnings self promotion product bins, Adventure Megastores drink bottle stands and random travel gizmo displays, and the big supermarkets sweet specials right next to the register queue. Is it just me or do I always end up buying some of this stuff and then later wondering why!?