Losing your best friend is hard enough without the added sting of vet bills.

When a shop asks if I’ll be paying by Eftpos, what does it mean? Does it mean will I be using my credit card and/or Eftpos card, or just the latter? I replied that I’d be paying by Eftpos, but when I produced a credit card, the owner reacted grumpily. Yet I know other shops […]

When your teen tech support moves out, where can you go?

I gave up sending out Christmas cards years ago, but this year, once again, I found myself with a smattering of cards that others had sent me.

*We bought a pine tree in the first week of December. By Christmas week, it was definitely past its best and we threw it out and replaced it with another. Do you think we have the right to demand our money back? How long should they last?* There are important factors to be taken into […]

Our plan is to put up a fairly substantial boundary fence, but our neighbour is a dear old lady in her eighties and not terribly well. When we raise the matter of sharing the cost, she says she’ll talk to her family, but never gets back to us. We don’t want to cause her unnecessary […]

Who foots the bill when work dinner plans go awry?

You are touching on an issue which thousands of parents of school graduates wrestle with.

Council rules are putting a dampener on outdoor fires.

There are things you can try to fix your mill before you try to refund it.