Articles in the Tools Category
How Would A 1% Rate Change Affect Your Mortgage?
November 27th, 2007
According to a report by Nationwide, 75% of us couldn’t tell how much our mortgage payments would change if there was a 1% change (either increase or decrease) in its interest rate.
To be perfectly honest, I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head. But why …
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Tracking Your Spending: The First Step To Saving Money
October 15th, 2007
As you may have read in some previous posts, I’ve been trying to knuckle down to track all of my spending for at least a month. The reason for this effort? So that I can identify where my money is being spent, and identify where money can be …
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Petrol To Hit £1 Per Litre
September 27th, 2007
It looks as if petrol will soon be hitting £1 per litre, but here’s a quick and easy way to find where the cheapest prices are in your area, and hopefully to save you some money.
PetrolPrices.com has the prices from over 10,000 petrol stations in the UK, so you …
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How Long Will It Take To Pay Off Your Credit Card Debt?
September 27th, 2007
Credit card debt can be a scary thing, even for those of us who supposedly should know what we’re doing with our finances.
In The Debts That Wouldn’t Die, The Fool gives a few scenarios of how long it can take to pay off a credit card debt if you’re only …
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Zuzzid: Give Your Views On Insurers
September 24th, 2007
I’ve just come across a new site which promises to “put the power in the hands of the insurance customer, not insurance companies”. The interestingly named Zuzzid gives you the chance to speak about your experiences with insurers and their policies, across all types of insurance, by either …
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How Do You Organise Your Finances?
September 20th, 2007
There’s an interesting post over at Blueprint For Financial Prosperity which is looking for ideas on how people organise their finances.
I fall into the “files all over the place” category, having a mixture of both paper and digital records, which are kept in several places.
My ideal setup would be …
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TescoCompare.com: Tesco Takes on Comparison Sites
September 13th, 2007
I’ll be keeping a close eye on www.tescocompare.com tomorrow (14th Sep) as it should be the day that Tesco starts to take on the likes of MoneySupermarket.com, by launching a financial comparison website.
Tesco has launched its car insurance comparison service at www.tescocompare.com, which marks its first move into the …
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Get Better Customer Service By Recording Your Calls
August 29th, 2007
The Money Hospital has a tip to try to get better customer service, or to prove what was said in your phone calls to companies, by recording your calls.
We’re all used to hearing the line “your calls may be recorded for training purposes” before sitting in a queue of …
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How Do You Keep Track Of Your Finances?
July 31st, 2007
Sadly, my recent experiment with Expensr seems to have fallen by the wayside - I guess I find it just too difficult to remember to enter all of my spending in there. And this isn’t necessarily a problem with the tool itself, more to do with me both having …
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Expensr: A New Budgeting Tool
July 9th, 2007
Expensr is a new budget / spending tracking tool which looks quite interesting. It allows you to monitor what you are spending money on, gives you useful visuaisation of statistics to show you where all of your money is going, and probably most interestingly, allows …
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