Out of curiosity, I recently checked my own credit rating, just to make sure there was nothing nasty on there (and why should there be?!). What it did tell me was that having moved house within the past year could cause me problems if I applied to get more credt. If think you may be […]
Month: September 2007
How Do You Organise Your Finances?
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 to have everything held […]
Warning: Use This Tip For Saving Money On Batteries At Your Own Risk!
Lifehacker has recently posted a few tips on how to save on batteries by opening up bigger batteries. A few weeks ago they showed how to get several watch batteries out of a single 12V battery, and today they have shown how you can get 32 AA batteries from a single 6 volt battery. As […]
TescoCompare.com: Tesco Takes on Comparison Sites
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 financial comparison market. Although the […]
Child Trust Fund Performance Figures
At the end of last month The Telegraph published a table of the performance of stocks and share Child Trust Funds. If you want to compare how your kids trust fund has performed, view the table. The table shows just how much difference your decision can make to the size of the fund – the […]
Good & Bad News From The Banks
There’s been mixed news from the banks today which makes for some interesting reading. Firstly, on the good side, if you’re a saver, savings rates have reached a massive 7% from some banks and building societies, with many having raised their interest rates on savings accounts in the last couple of weeks. As ever, for […]
Independent: Spread Bank Pressure
There’s an interesting article I really agree with at The Independent, calling for the recent consumer backlash against banks to spread to other companies within the financial services industry: The thrust of this consumer power into the financial services industry has so far been limited to bank accounts – the basics of running our daily […]
Student Finance: Insurance for Your Belongings
One thing that many students overlook in their haste to get setup in their student house or halls of residence is insurance for their belongings. With the amount of electrical items and gadgets that the average student will be taking with them on the increase, it is becoming more and more important to get adequate […]
Student Finance: Credit Cards
If there’s one financial product I’d suggested you try to avoid for as long as possible at university, it’s credit cards. Nothing can hurt your finances as much as a couple of grand sitting on your card steadily growing as the interest mounts up. Recent studies suggest that 43% of students have a credit card, […]
Money Links For 7th Sep 2007
Links to other interesting money articles on 7th Sep 2007.