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. […]
Month: January 2008
Encouraging Child Trust Fund Figures
Despite the initial slow takeup of Child Trust Funds (CTFs), more recently there has been signs that parents are beginning to understand them and take them more seriously. For the uninitiated, CTFs are savings accounts for kids which cannot be accessed until the child is 18. When they’re born, the child receives a voucher from […]
Money Links For 16th Jan 2008
Links to other interesting money articles on 16th Jan 2008.
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. […]
Bank Charge Court Case Delayed
There’s been a false start in the bank charges court case that was supposed to start on Monday. Apparently the judge’s commitments have meant that it is unable to start on time, although it is hoped that it will begin at some point this week. When there is anything interesting from the case, I will […]
Martin Lewis’ New Sun Column & The Advertising Paradox
Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis has recently started a new column in the Sun newspaper. The column is part of the Sun’s new “Rated” section, and helps to bring his money saving tips to yet another new audience (along with his new TV programme). It’s good that this sort of information is becoming more and […]
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 […]
35 Tips For Investing
I’ve quite enjoyed talking about stock market investing over the last couple of days, and although it’s probably not something I’ll get involved in myself for a while (I’ve got some more pressing financial goals to achieve before worrying about buying more shares), I’ll try to keep an eye out for investing tips and tricks […]
Are We About To See The End Of Free Banking?
This week could see the start of another bad period for the banks, thanks to a new test case starting tomorrow (14th Jan). The High Court is to start ruling on a case the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is bringing against 7 top banks and the Nationwide building society. The case is looking at […]