Recent content by PeeBo

It won't be long now until I am 76, I have been driving machinery since I was 9 firstly with farm machinery, I passed my road test in a truck. In all my experience on the roads, I have had close calls instigated by other drivers and never had an accident bar one when I was 22 and a coppers son...

There are two ways to construct a road, the right way and the bodge way. We have the machinery and the materials and yet a new road can be as rough as the road they have supposedly replaced. I can understand adverse weather affecting roads, this cannot be avoided. However, the majority of roads...

I go into hibernation this time of the year as basically this period is a commercial scam. You might get the odd deal, but anything on the internet is something to do your due diligence on. All I can say is buyer beware and save your money and also if it looks like a good deal, ask yourself if...

Not when you think about it logically, though it seems a lot it is a mere pittance in today's values. It does away with the millions spent on paperwork and staff, and extra office space housing new software to try and keep track. It would narrow the doorway for those that want to rort the...

Please explain how this is going to cost an expected $42.4 million over the next four years. If you are going out earning, then that becomes taxable in part in the end, so that is money going into the government's coffers. Other than administration which is automatically calculated when you...

I am somewhat confused as I thought they had already changed it to 300 from 200 a while back. Whatever it is still too damned little for it to be viable and balance out the extra headache it causes. What they should do is give every pensioner when they retire 1 million, this would benefit the...

I would not even think of buying many items on that research in a standard family shop. IT MEANS NOTHING. Seniors, you would do better to do your own survey.

I backed off from using Aldi a few months ago. I have to travel 67 kilometres to get there. With the price of fuel, I ended up spending more. Prices in Aldi jumped about ten months ago, and I have monitored them. Sorry, they are slowly becoming a no-no—especially their fruit and veg. If it was...

The irony with supermarkets is that the base cost never alters no matter what they sell. If you pull a potato from the ground, pick a tomato or fruit. The basic cost never changes, hence why you should do so if you can grow your own or support a farmer's gate. The cost we are forced to pay at...

What a bloody joke this interval payment is. It is a joke that the single and couples payment are so vastly different when both have the exact costs for electricity, rates, mortgage, and transport. The only things that come slightly cheaper for a single are clothes and food. The cost of living...

This is the first time I have heard of people getting heart disease and high cholesterol assistance. I will be making a few phone calls tomorrow. What about pensions? I am struggling like hell here on what we receive and still have a mortgage to pay.

I wish they would leave things alone. There are two messenger bits on my phone and they keep trying to up one another, never understood it, messenger is messenger, so leave the bloody thing alone it's confusing.

Hahahahahaha, a good sales pitch, I have put on two new sets of wiper blades to have them still screech, bounce, and smear their way across the screen. The biggest problem is that once upon a time, you replaced the arm and blade. I managed to source a new arm for my car, and hey presto, no...

I wish I owned my home outright, but I still have a mortgage on a single pensioner's income. Imagine if I had no mortgage I would have and extra $700 a fortnight to play with and save. I would be able to have that holiday that has eluded me since Christmas 2000.