Hi °C | Lo °C Smart Consumer: How to give your kids a healthy diet – without breaking the bank
A nutritionist and mother of four tells Aideen Sheehan that careful planning is the key to success
Smart Consumer: Why are we spending €1,000 too much on our grocery shopping?
Do the grocery shopping on Saturday, throw it out on Thursday? Despite these austere times, a new survey by the Environmental Protection Agency says that many of us are still costing our own wallets up to €1,000 a year throwing out food that goes uneaten.
Smart Consumer: Online pharmacy users may be just a mouse click away from death
The cost of medicines is driving patients to play Russian roulette with their health, says John Costello
Smart Consumer: Why falling head over wheels in love can drive you to despair
Okay. I'll admit it – and I haven't even told my husband this – I was looking for love. I wanted to be wooed, wowed, fall in love.
Now you can smell like the stars – but do you really want to?
One-in-five of us is now wearing the fragrances of the famous, writes Deirdre Reynolds
My mobile phone has broken down three times – can I demand a replacement?
Q Anne got in touch about a phone that keeps breaking down. She got her mobile handset at the start of October last year and didn't have to pay as it came as part of her bill-pay package.
The travel insurance with my credit card had not got me covered
Q Brendan contacted Smart Consumer about travel insurance that comes with his credit card.
Smart Consumer: Why going digital means big changes in our small screens
Check out at all the options when it comes to watching TV, writes Tina Leonard
No fights over the remote here!
In Jonathan Harte's family home in Dunboyne, Co Meath, there's a TV with a Sky box in the sitting room, and another with Saorview in the kitchen.
Don't forget: check the shop's returns policy before you buy
Q Maureen contacted Smart Consumer with a question that often comes up.
How I got my costumes and decorations for €20
Given the cost of Halloween bits and pieces can very quickly begin to mount, I set myself a limit of €20 and wondered just how much I could buy with it.
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