From time to time statistics used by financial service providers can help you out in unexpected ways. For example, when you’re retiring and looking for an annuity, if you’re a smoker, there’s a good chance that you’ll get a better rate than a non-smoker. This is because statistics show you’ll probably live for less years […]
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How Much Money Is Lying Around Your House?
How much money do you think you’ve got lying around your house? I’m not talking about the hands-full of change left on top of your chest of draws in your bedroom, or the odd coin wedged between the cushions on your sofa. I’m talking about the value there is in the items that sit unused […]
How Do You Share Your Restaurant Bills?
It always seems to be awkward an awkward moment when you come to discuss who’s paying at the end of a meal in a restaurant – usually, you have a mixture of people who are willing to split the bill evenly, along with those who know they’re going to be worse off doing that, who’d […]
Ideas For A Cheaper Valentine’s Day
Well, we’re a couple of days away from Valentine’s Day, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll be trying to think of ideas for pleasing your loved one on a budget. We’ve pretty much decided to save money and not buy anything for each other this year, but I’m now in that awkward situation where […]
Find Forgotten Money
Nope, this won’t help you recover that lost loose change from down the back of the sofa, but new website Mylostaccount has been launched to help you recover money from lost or dormant acounts with banks, building societies and National Savings & Investments. The free service has been put together by the British Bankers’ Association […]
5 Ideas For Earning Easy Money
Marc at new personal finance blog Askix has posted 5 ideas for making some easy money: Polices ID parades – get paid for looking like a criminal! Football steward – I’d be surprised if there’s not a massive waiting list for these jobs, as it means you get to watch the matches for free (although […]
Sort Out Your Life In Your Lunchbreak
A new website has launched today aiming to helping working parents organise their lives by taking 1 step a day at a time, including looking at money and finance. ThisIsNotWork.co.uk is written by the people behind ThisIsMoney (also the publishers of The Daily Mail / Mail on Sunday) so there’ll be some good writers featured. […]
EDF Raise Energy Prices: More Providers To Follow
I mentioned yesterday about our mammoth gas bill, and posted some tips for reducing your gas consumption. Today it has been announced that EDF, our energy supplier, is to raise its gas prices by just under 13%, and their electricity prices by just under 8%, following nPower’s price rises at the start of the year. […]
Our Huge Gas Bill & Tips For Saving Gas (& Money!)
Our gas bill dropped through the postbox this morning, and as we’d expected, it wasn’t very pretty. Over £200 for just under 4 months (which was estimated, so it might come down a bit), and although I haven’t really got a clue how this compares to the average gas bill, I get the feeling it’s […]
Students of English: Save Money On Textbooks
Here’s a neat little tip courtesy of Lifehacker, which probably only really relates to students of English Literature, but might also be of use to those who like a good read too. Project Gutenburg is a website which publishes ebooks (books in Adobe PDF format) of texts which are out of copyright. For example, this […]