Using your credit card cheaply is becoming more and more tricky, as figures released by MoneyFacts shows how credit card companies have increased many of their fees recently. It’s the good old fashioned cash withdrawal which is yet again being used by providers to sting cardholders. According to the MoneyFacts figures 69 cards increased their […]
Bonfire Night Insurance Tips
I guess it’s kind of sad writing about the need for insurance on bonfire night, but you can’t be too careful about things like this these days, and bonfire night has been shown to be the second worst day for fire damage (next to Christmas day!) and the worst for damage to cars. If you […]
London Is #1 For ID Fraud
A new report on identity theft has shown that those living in the London area are most likely to be its victims. CIFAS, the UK’s fraud protection service, published a list of the worst 20 postcodes for ID fraud, of which 19 were within the M25, and the other was just outside in Maidenhead. The […]
MoneySavingExpert.com Under Attack
If you’ve tried to visit the MoneySavingExpert website today, you may have noticed that the server is struggling to return any pages. Whilst I’d like to take the blame for sending it so much traffic from my top money saving sites post, unfortunately it would appear that the downtime is down to a “denial of […]
Top Money Saving Websites
The Guardian recently published a list of their ten best money saving sites, which in my opinion missed out some of the most obvious sites to visit, as well as featuring some that I had quite frankly never heard of. In any case, this got me thinking about my own list of top sites to […]
Is It Christmas Already?
Slightly off topic, but is it just me, or has Christmas started far too early this year? I heard my first Christmas song of the year back on October 16th (on an advert for Argos I think), and already most big shops have got their Christmas displays up. I find the whole thing slightly nauseating, […]
Shopping: How To Save Money & Improve Your Health
A recent survey by the Alliance & Leicester said that millions of us Britons are paying too much for our basic goods when we go shopping. 62% of us do not shop around when we buy items such as bread and milk, but if like me, you like to avoid the aisles and do your […]
A Million Pay Their Mortgage On Credit Cards
One of the big personal finance stories of the week concerned a study by the charity Shelter, which suggested that over a million people in the UK have payed for their mortgage on their credit card in the past year. The survey questioned over a thousand people, of which 6% said they had put their […]
Should You Build That House Extension?
Home improvements are often thought of as a way to add value to your house, but the amount of value can vary depending on what type of improvement you make. The Fool reports on a few surveys which will give you an idea of which home improvements add the most value. The two surveys quoted […]
More On Tracking Your Spending
In a post yesterday I said how one of the first steps to being able to save money was to closely monitor your spending. I’ve just read a post over at FreeMoneyFinance which looks at this subject and discusses how by tracking your spending you can budget and fix your cashflow. The process they propose […]