The Lawrence Family

This month's Digital Family is single parent Brenda and her son Lamaar. Brenda is a retail manager and governor of a local school and thereore a very busy person. Lamaar is an energetic ten year old and both Brenda and Lamaar rely upon the digital world to support their very active lives.

Lamaar has his own laptop and a variety of gaming devices including a Nintendo, X-Box and a Nintendo Blue. Brenda's passion is her Blackberry which she "wouldn't do without ..... it frees me from the office".

A major concern of Brenda's is internet safety. She is very aware of the potential vunerability of her son, and his computer. Because of this he has been banned from accessing social networking sites.

Brenda appreciates Lamaars 'saviness' when it comes to IT. "He helped me insert a picture into a document I was working on. I could insert the image but couldn't get the text to behave properly. He clicked on a button called Format and then did another few clicks and my problem was solved". "He has even set up his own website".

The focus this week is on internet shopping

Internet Shopping

you do lots of shopping online you could make some very good savings in cash back deals. Some sites will give you 20% cash back on certain products. How do you do it? Firstly register on the cash back site. Once registered you go to your online store by clicking on the store link on the cash back website. Make your purchase and the cash back site send the percentage cut to your nominated account.
Make sure that you are getting a bargain by looking at prices at other stores.
Top 4 really useful money back websites

1. Top Cashback topcashback.co.uk
2. Cash back Kings at cashbackkings.com
3. Quidco at quidco.com
4. We Promise to at wepromiseto.co.uk

Some other useful spending websites

Money Saving Expert moneysaving-expert.com does what it says.

Say No to 0870 at saynoto0870.com gives you direct dial numbers, not expensive national-rate numbers.

Consumer Direct at consumerdirect.gov.uk is the Government site for consumers.