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 […]
Month: February 2008
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 […]
Money Links For 7th Feb 2008
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Google Finance UK Launched
If you’re into trading stocks and shares, or simply love following the ups and downs (and downs) of the stockmarket, then you’ll be interested in Google’s recently launched financial portal for the UK. Google Finance gives you near-realtime data on UK share prices, unit trust fund prices as well as the performance of the FTSE […]
Egg Cracks
As a current (although soon to be ex) Egg customer, I’m interested to see the fallout from their decision to cancel the credit cards of 161,000 customers. According to Egg, they are no longer willing to give credit to those who they say now pose an unacceptibly high risk. To be perfectly honest, although I’d […]
Insurance: Scams, Fiddles and Honest Claims
There was an interesting programme on Channel 4 last week which followed the investigations of the insurance claim team from Norwich Union. The programme displayed the range of techniques that insurance companies now use to weed out false claims, and it also showed the lengths to which people will go to try and defraud the […]
Money Links For 2nd Feb 2008
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