Katie Elizabeth refills fit Freshmatic device

Found some refills in the local pound store with the brand name "Katie Elizabeth". These fit the device nicely and also the freshmatic nozzle fits so just swap the nozzle over so it has the 2 black bands on it.

Will have to return to the store to see if they have any left.....

Katie Elizabeth refills work

Found the local pound store selling some refills with the brand name "Katie Elizabeth". These fit the device nicely - and the genuine freshmatic nozzle fits as well so no need to pain any lines - just swap the nozzle over. Will have to return to the store to see if they have any more...

Using alternative refills in airwick freshmatic- revisited

For those that are having trouble - here is the little white line painted on the nozzle to make the device think I've splashed out on a genuine refill

Red Spotted Hanky

New rail booking site RedSpottedHanky run by Atos Origin.  Read about in on Martin Lewis' Money Saving Expert site as they took Tesco clubcard vouchers.

Was not sure what would happen if I transferred across tesco points to them and then booked a ticket for a lower value. Would I lose the rest? Anyway tried it and it seems OK so I've now put a whole load more tesco points across. The vouchers in RedSpottedHanky don't seem to expire for 7 months so plenty of time to use them.

Had a problem collecting tickets from station. Bought three tickets but only had one confirmation number. Put this into the machine but only got one of the three tickets. Looked on RedSpottedHanky's website for how to contact them and just went round in circles. Anyway seems atosonline@atosorigin.com works. I emailed them and got a reply back asking me to phone to discuss. Amazingly the person answering was the person who wrote the email  - do they only have one person on the helpdesk (or maybe she gave me her personal number). Anyway they offered to send the missing tickets out by 1st class post - arrived soon after so all happy.

Airwick Freshmatic and cheap refills

I bought an Airwick Freshmatic a couple of months ago for the bathroom. It gives an automatic squirt of airfreshner every 30 minutes or so. Here in the UK, a replacement aerosol can to go in the device costs about £2.50 but there are cheaper ones for about £1 - but not made by Airwick.

The devide wants about non-genuine refills but I tried anyway. The replacement fitted OK but afte one squirt the red light on the device started flashing to show it had detected a refill it did not like. Question was - how did it know?

I took a good look and found some black/white bands on the side of the genuine refill nozzle and a small photosensor on the device to read these marks. As the nozzle went down to give a squirt, the sensor would see a change from black to white and so knew all was OK. My cheap refill did not do this - but a white stripe painted on the nozzle (I used the old typist correction fluid) was enough to fool the device and let me carry on.

Cheap refills for me now! Sorry Airwick (Reckitt-Benkiser)