Saving Tips In Singapore

3M Wire Medium Hooks

2010-03-06T04:12:00.001-08:00

Last week I went to purchase a 3M Medium Hook (as shown above) from NTUC fairprice. It cost me $4.95.

I found the hooks very good and you can reuse them again with the special double sided tape.

Today I went to Sheng Siong to buy another one and to my surprise the price is $3.30 only.

So it is $1.65 cheaper than NTUC fairprice. If you are looking at savings go to Sheng Siong.

Get DAILY$ when you use your POSB everyday card

2010-03-05T08:35:00.000-08:00

It has been a long while since I last created a post.

For today's tip, you can use your POSB everyday card to earn DAILY$ to offset your next payment.

I used POSB everyday card to pay for my electric and conservancy bill and earn DAILY$ at the same time.

If you need more information, just visit POSB website. Cheers!

Save on your printer's cartridge

2009-05-03T02:59:00.001-07:00

I bought a new all in one Canon printer MP198 couple of months ago. The ink ran out really fast.

When I went to my local computer store, I was shocked to find out that the price of one black original canon cartridge cost around $30! The colour one cost even more at $35! Total cost is about $65!!!

I am not going to fork out so much just for printer's cartridge. I can easily top up another $30 to pay for a brand new printer. It is just not worth it to buy original cartridges.

So I went to my favorite store at Sim Lim Square and bought compatible black and colour cartridges. The brand is Ink Station and the print quality is comparable to the original.

And most important of all, the cost is about $20 for both the colour and black cartridges. And I can print 3 times more that the original cartridges!

The store has a website http://www.vip.com.sg

Feel free to check it out and happy savings!

Swensen's 1 For 1 Lunch Treats till 30 June 2009

2009-04-07T00:10:00.000-07:00

Cafe Cartel Discount

2009-03-29T06:22:00.000-07:00

If you guys like western food like ribs and steak then Cafe Cartel will be the choice for you. The price is affordable. It costs about $20 for a New Zealand sirloin steak that comes with a free drink and a soup.

There are several outlets. The one me and my wife usually frequent is at IMM. The other outlet is at Plaza Singapura.

If you carry a UOB credit card, you get 10% discount off your total bill. If you have a CitiBank Credit card, you get 15% discount. The savings will be good to offset the service charge!

Happy Savings!

Get 2% rebate when you use POSB everyday credit card

2009-01-27T17:51:00.000-08:00

You can get 2% rebate when you use your POSB everyday credit card.

For example, if you make a $100 purchase at participating stores like Watson, you will get a $2 rebate which you can use it to offset for your next purchase.

You can save quite a few dollars especially in bad times like now.

$35 gas savings and free $20 cold storage voucher

2008-08-29T23:40:00.000-07:00

I got the below card in my mailbox a couple of weeks ago.

The deal is when you make an advance payment for 5 LPG cylinders, you will get $35 savings, a free $20 cold storage voucher and free LPG accessories worth $75 for new customer

I think it is a fantastic deal. I am now paying close to $37 for a cylinder which I think is quite high. You can call the number at 63830808 to find out more.

Movie tickets savings

2008-07-03T23:28:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I update this blog. Anyway I have good news for movie fans.

You can now get movie ticket for only $6 from Monday to Thursday at Cathay cinemas using NETS.

New movies are always out on Thursday so it will be a great money saving to watch it on Thursday after your work than watching it on weekends where you have to pay $10 bucks!

Anyway if you prefer to watch on weekends, you can always use your Safra card to book for Golden village movie tickets for just $8 compare to the usual of $10.

If you have UOB or OCBC credit card, you only need to pay $8 on Friday and weekends.

Reduce credit card debts

2007-12-04T22:51:00.000-08:00

Let's say you have 3 credit cards and you own each of them $500. You can consolidate all your credit cards bill into one credit card. Of course you have to choose the bank which offers you the lowest interest rate. I recently got one promotion call from DBS which offers 2.5% per yearfor 6 months.

The normal credit card charge an interest of 24% per year. You bill of $1500 will incur an interest of $30 a month. So if you take up the DBS offer, the interest is about $3 a month only and you got to save $27 every month!

Waive your credit card annual fee

2007-10-21T01:05:00.000-07:00

You don't have to pay for your credit card annual fee. Just call you credit card company and tell them you want to request for a waiver of your annual fee. The guy on the phone will want you to use your credit card points to waive off the fee but don't use the points because you can use the points to redeem for other free stuffs. Then the operator will ask you to use the card for the next few months so that you can get the waiver. You just said you will use it for the next few months and you get your annual fee waived. If you still cannot get any waiver, just cancel the card and reapply a new card that comes with free first year annual fee.

Cheap cartridges

2007-08-15T21:51:00.000-07:00

I went to JB last weekend and got a very good deal on printer cartridges. There was a pc fair at city square and the crowd was huge! Anyway, the good deal was I got 6 black and 2 colour printer cartridges for only $15. I am using a Canon ip1000. In Singapore, I have to pay $10 for a black cartridge and $15 for colour and I am talking about compatible ones.

But I believed you can only get them at JB and not Singapore.

Low interest balance transfer

2007-07-21T21:16:00.001-07:00

I always receive sms from banks offering low interest rate balance transfer from 2.88% to 6.88% for 6 to 12 months. Recently, I just did a balance transfer with DBS and got a free Swatch watch worh $79. What else can you say, you got to save on interest rate for balance transfer and take home a free watch.

Golden Village movie ticket saving

2007-06-25T22:53:00.000-07:00

I watched movie almost every week. So for those who want to save on movie tickets, there is good news. If you book your tickets online and pay the tickets with your HSBC card, you will have $1 off per ticket. Further more if you are a safra card member, you will get another $1 off per ticket. That is a total of $2 off per ticket. But the safra card $1 off only applies for friday, weekend and holiday only. The HSBC $1 off applies for all days.

Check out my movie review blog .

Savings using HSBC and OCBC credit card

2007-06-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

I started this post to offer some saving tips for Singaporeans.

Have you heard of the HSBS $1 deal. Just spend $50 on a single receipt in a day and you only get to pay $1 dollar for a pizza hut meal.

I spent $63 to pay for a Swensen meal with my friends on Friday (22/6/07).
My wife spent $65 for a bedsheet sets on Saturday (23/6/07). Both of us are using the HSBC card. We went for dinner at Pizza Hut, show us our sms code for the 1 dollar deal and ordered 6 piece wings and curry baked rice (did not taste good) for 2 dollars only!

We also ordered the OCBC 1 for 1 pizza deal. Which means you get 1 free pizza for every pizza you ordered using the OCBC card. We ordered a regular thin crust pizza for $14.90.

So in total we spent less than $20 for the whole meal that made us really full!
All thanks to HSBC and OCBC.