Money saving tips & advice from DiscountCoder.com

There’s been another flurry of news about payment  protection insurance this week, as thousands of us flock to claims specialists to get back the premiums we’ve unknowingly paid for payment protection insurance we neither wanted nor needed. But do you really need to use a claims specialist? Or can you do it yourself? I know…read more

This week we’re looking at restoring and tarting up furniture and decorative items, either for your home or to sell. So where can you sell the results of your hard work? Here’s a bunch of useful tips. It’s always worth trying to sell online via places like the Friday Ad site and local listings sites like…read more

You can transform tatty old wooden furniture into something really special with a bit of time and creativity, whether it’s simple distressing or something a bit more elaborate. Here’s how I tidied up an old French cupboard I picked up for £30 in a junk shop to create a handy, unusual storage cupboard in my…read more

If you’ve ever watched the US TV programme ‘Auction Hunters’ on Discovery, you’ll be impressed by the amount of money they make by simply doing things up. If you fancy making a few extra quid tarting up old stuff and selling it, you’ll need to get a decent DIY toolkit together first so you’re not…read more

OK, it’s raining cats and dogs in many places across Britain today. But spring really is on the way and before long we’ll be lazing around in our gardens, eating alfresco and downing wonderfully cool drinks as the hot sun sinks below the horizon. Heavenly! All of which means it’s time to get your outdoor…read more

We went to an excellent garden centre at the weekend and came across a huge stack of stunning indoor ceramic planters from a German art pottery company, in splendid rainbow colours, some metallic, some patterned. Oh, I wanted all of them! But at a tenner a go for the tiny six inch diameter ones, there…read more

It’s surprising there are still so many ‘get rich quick’ sites online when it’s actually really difficult to make a fortune on the internet. One of the most common is the ‘make £15,000 a month’ type schemes, some of which claim you can make a lot more than that! But do they really work? The…read more

If you bought all the products advertisers seem to think you need for your baby, you’d spend an absolute bomb every week. But do it the old fashioned way and you might find you are both happier. Here’s a list of  baby stuff you can do without: you don’t need a changing mat. Use a…read more