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If you are planning to up your recycling efforts in the new year, this Bosch XEO is a great Christmas gift. Use it to cut down cardboard boxes, plastic packaging, carpet or tough fabrics – those feeling creative can even fashion their own Christmas decorations from coloured cardboard. Priced from £34.99, the Bosch is available from Focus, B&Q, Homebase and all other leading retailers.

A website dedicated to mending things in the all areas of the home and garden, mendmy.com offers free repair information on everything you can find in a property.

With absolutely no membership, login in or email details required, mendmy.com is a free portal for finding out and giving out helpful advice and info regarding fixing things. Simply go on to the site, post your query and then wait to see what information you receive back.

Fumbling for keys and locating the lock to your home can be a struggle during darker winter months – but this Solar Key Hole Light from Natural Collection can help. Charged by sunlight, it can be attached just above your key hole to allow you easy access whatever the hour of night. The Light comes with interchangeable covers (brass, white and chrome) and provides up to 720 operations.

Worried about your electricity bills and the environment? Don’t know where to cut costs?

Disorganised filing cabinet?  Need labels for the jam jars/ packages/ media?

Light bulbs, vacuum parts and batteries are just some of the items that always get forgotten when you go to the shops – the food aisles of the supermarket tend to be distracting in that way…..Luckily needonenow.co.uk can help combat this frustrating habit. It sells all manner of domestic consumables such as energy-saving light bulbs, vacuum bags, i-Pod batteries and cooker hood filters – necessary yet mundane items that are a chore to shop for.

Whether it’s Wimbledon, football or a night in with a couple of DVDs, a good quality TV can make all the difference, and Richer Sounds offers some of the best models on the market. This Samsung LE23R71bx offers a high-definition sharpness, processing no fewer than 12.8 billion colours, and combining DNIe (Digital Natural Image engine) for crystal clear clarity. Normally priced at £549.95, this is currently being sold in Richer Sounds stores for £349.95 – but readers can buy it for just £299.95. The best value way to bring the action home.

Too hot?

Fans simply don’t do the job when temperatures hit the highs, so it’s well worth snapping up a good air conditioner for the hotter days ahead. The happy home solution to all things electrical, Ryness has a small yet reliable collection of air conditioners in its stores. It was this 12000 Btu Mobile Air Conditioner that got the gold star in the line up though. Dubbed as “one of the most powerful air conditioning units money can buy”, this will quickly cool down your room and does not need to be professionally installed.