Whilst, phenomenally, reading the Poorhouse is still free, sadly not everything in life is. There are any number of ways to save money via the Internet. Maybe this topic will be revisited, but for now...online supermarket shopping.

Supermarkets are generally pretty evil. So, if you succumb to their clean, shiny, bargain items, why not at least cut down the bit of money you hand over. The Internet is covered in money-off codes. For instance if you do your online shopping via Tescos, always be sure to surf the interweb for some free money that will not only make up for any delivery charge, but actually save you a few quid compared to if you went a-shopping via manual methods. Check this blog for plenty of codes. If it fails you, do some sensible Googling for other sites, forums and blogs just desperate to give you vouchers.

The commercial internet has created a new product, oft to be seen on eBay. These are the "ebooks", which contains all sorts of t0p s3cret information, often the sort that promises to make you 1 million dollars in two minutes. Of course almost all of it is rubbish, or freely available elsewhere. This doesn't stop thousands of people selling them on eBay. One day even you, wise reader, might be tempted to click the buy-it-now button for some ridiculously low quality information. Before you do so, get yourself to websites such as Floodle where you can download them for free, as opposed to for expense. Everything from the Fruit Machine Cheat Book, Learn To Speak Spanish for Babies, Become a Millionaire Overnight and "Miracle Vinegar" is just a mouseclick away.

On the subject of eBay, Goofbay has a few handy tools. You can use it as a search for things that the sellers have spelt wrong or not made a sensible title for, to pluck out those bargains mere normal people never see. Alternatively it has plenty of useful tools to check things like how many people are watching a particular item, who's bidding on what, and whether two people are in a bidding relationship that looks a tad dodgy in terms of using two accounts to boost prices of their items.

One potential way to save some money is to never sign up for AOL. The Poorhouse is sure that plenty of people have a good time with it, but stories abound of computer problems, strangely regular over-charging of credit cards and massive troubles actually cancelling your account if you decide that's what you want to do. One such fairly hilarious example is currently doing the rounds of the Internet. Vinny, from Insignificant Thoughts decided to cancel an account that was of no use to him. Listen here to the poor guy trying at length to compete with an especially rampant Customer Service Representative who really, really seems to believe that nothing will hurt the customer more than to do what they ask for. Congratulations to AOL for an extra-special heavy level of downright rudeness.