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For a while I’ve wished I was the genius who came up with the idea of bottling something you can get out of a tap for free, namely water, and charging a quid a bottle for it. However now they’ve taken it even further.

Our local Tesco store now stocks Diet Water. Yes it’s true. So lets examine this concept.

Water has no nutritional value whatsoever. In other words you can drink as much as you like of it without putting any weight on. So basically they are now filling bottles up with water out of a tap, marketing it as a dieting aid, charging a couple of quid a bottle and making an absolute fortune out of the idea.

Think I might go on Dragons Den and try and get funding for my latest idea of a product. Diet Air…. it’s bound to sell like mad

Diet Air is copyright Dave Thorp UK patent pending

Yvonne was an Avon Rep for some time and I used some of their products.

We’ve just had a closer look at their Men’s Face Scrub which amongst other claims, it claims to reduce oil in the skin.

So what is the second highest ingrediant I hear you ask?

Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil!!!

Might as well just scrub your face with Lard. It would be cheaper!

Those with kids (or those in the know) will know the Government launched a new scheme a few years ago called the Child Trust Fund which gave a Government contribution and then allowed money to be saved into it

Both Stuart and Alex have these funds with the same provider with Stuart having £500 invested by the Government and Alex having £250 (so far… should get another £250 as well). The problem…..

The money is invested in a stakeholder fund. There are two types of fund stakeholder which is based on stocks and shares and a savings fund which is simply a savings account.

Due to the credit crunch and the various problems the economy is currently having unfortunately this means that both Stuart and Alex have lost money (Stuart has lost £90 so far and Alex in the four months of his life has lost £34).

So I guess what I’m asking is if anyone in the know could advise on whether to either

a) Keep the money where it is in hope the economy stabalises and the stakeholder funds actually start performing

b) Cut the losses and transfer the money into a savings based trust fund

Advise, or failing that stories on how other parents funds are performing appreciated