So much water and so little to use

Save!  -Depends.

The long and the short of it:

We have a tremendous amount of rain fall in Singapore and all that water is just getting flushed down into the sea. Collect em and use em!
Beware dengue though!

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Singapore receives like, a crazy amount of rain in a year. When it rains, it just pours (well mostly). A large amount of that stuff flows into our reservoirs and even more of it just flows back into the sea. It's just a huge resource waiting to be exploited!

So... If you live near the ground floor or at the ground floor, grab some buckets and collect some free water. You can use that clear, kinda clean, sky juice to mop your floors and flush your loo. It'd be cleaner and less gray than using water from other washings.


I can't do that cos I live higher up on a HDB and until someone invents a safe way to harness rainwater from the 17th storey, I'll refrain from sticking out a pole to hang a bucket. Least someone gets killed by killer litter.

Oh don't shower or brush your teeth with rainwater though. You'll probably get sick.

UOB's giving moolah to make you use their estatements

Save! Earn! - $20

The long and the short of it:

- Go play the game
- get a score of 7 and above
- subscribe to estatement
- make 2 transactions. Just transfer your funds (min $10) to-and-fro your own accounts with other banks.

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UOB's trying to get people to migrate to estatements and they're dangling carrots.
You just need to:
1) Head over to their game site - http://uob.com.sg/toss-win/

2) Play a game
3) Score above 7
4) Subscribe for estatement
5) Make 2 transactions. Just transfer your funds (min $10) to-and-fro your own accounts with other banks.

DO NOTE!!!!
There are T&Cs.
The most important is being the 1st 50 customers who perform the online transactions during each week. I would suggest trying at midnight for the next opening week which is on 25th August 2014

Doncha say I neber tell you hor.

http://uob.com.sg/toss-win/

A $20 carrot is not too bad!

BTW so... the moral of the story is... Don't do anything like subscribe to estatements unless they dangle some goodies!

I know... Super evil right...

Short size at Starbucks

Save! - $0.50 per cup! Or $26 per year if you hangout there at least once a week.

The long and the short of it:

There's a smaller size for Starbucks coffee than what's listed on the menu. Get it to save some moolah when you just wanna hang out at!

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So... here's a hack that I just tried courtesy of HWZ forum's lifehacks thread.

47) don't know if applicable for singapore... in starbucks, besides the "Tall" (350ml) and "Grande" (470ml), there is actually a "Short" (240ml).
You just have to tell the staff you want a "short". This size is not advertise on their menu. of course, there's the smallest, "Demi" (89ml) but is for espresso shots. might be a wols tip, oh well. - trashtalker

Well me trashtalker, it works! Thank you!

I can now get my usual house brew for $3.20! - as compared to the usual $3.70.
Sadly I can no longer BYO mug due to logistical reasons otherwise I could potentially get a decent cuppa and a nice cooling, wifi-ed, air-conditioned, hipster-ish hangout space with friends for just for $2.70!

An added tip, you can ask for hot milk to go with the daily brew. You don't have to drink black tar.

Don't scoff at that $0.50! With that BYO mug thing, that's a savings of $1 every trip now!
This is definitely a keeper.


See previous:
Using the Starbucks Card
BYO Cup @ Starbucks