{"id":2768,"date":"2007-03-14T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/in-the-mood-to-save-money\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T20:52:00","slug":"in-the-mood-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/in-the-mood-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"In the mood to save money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange has pissed me off for the last time (I hope).<\/p>\n<p>I hate Orange. They&apos;re fucking evil and this will be the last time I have to deal with them or give them money. The first year of my contract was fine. Then my phone broke 1 week after my contract was renewed and it would have cost more to fix it than to buy a new one. So I did. And it sucked. Then I started traveling to the continent for work and my phone bill tripled in roaming charges. And Orange was laughing all the way to the bank the whole time, because I was paying &pound;40 for about 30 minutes of airtime and about the same number of SMS messages. Fuck Orange. I have now switched to a pay-as-you-go phone on T-Mobile. I&apos;m in the process of moving my phone number over so there should be no disruption on my calls and contacts. <\/p>\n<p>I&apos;m also in the process for shopping for a new broadband and phone provider, as well as looking into 0% balance transfers for the credit card. I read a very interesting article recently on how businesses make money on the laziness and inertia of people. We can save &pound;240 a year by switching to a package deal on Virgin media and probably just as much with a balance transfer for the visa.<\/p>\n<p>All things you should all be looking into :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange has pissed me off for the last time (I hope). I hate Orange. They&apos;re fucking evil and this will be the last time I have to deal with them or give them money. The first year of my contract was fine. Then my phone broke 1 week after my contract was renewed and it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/in-the-mood-to-save-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;In the mood to save money&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-IE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}