Links to other interesting money articles on 26th Sep 2007.
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Do You Believe These 50 Money Myths?
The Telegraph recently published a fantastic article dispelling 50 (yes, count them, 50!) myths about money. It’s quite a long read, but it’s well worth taking the time, as there is some brilliant advice. If you can’t be bothered to read it, here’s a run down of some of the most interesting points, with my […]
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 […]
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 […]
Money Links For 7th Sep 2007
Links to other interesting money articles on 7th Sep 2007.
Don’t Fall For This New Telephone Scam
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has issued a warning about a telephone scam that is doing the rounds which involves fraudsters calling up claiming they’re from the OFT, saying that they can help the recipient claim back their bank charges. The callers ask for both personal and financial details, including bank information, and the […]
Get Better Customer Service By Recording Your Calls
The Money Hospital has a tip to try to get better customer service, or to prove what was said in your phone calls to companies, by recording your calls. We’re all used to hearing the line “your calls may be recorded for training purposes” before sitting in a queue of 30 callers whilst being told […]
Sat Nav Thefts Up: Offered As Incentive For Car Insurance
I found it quite ironic today, after having heard on the radio that the number of cases of theft of satellite navigation systems from cars has risen considerably, that Tesco is offering cheap sat navs as an incentive to take out its car insurance. Going slightly off topic – aren’t we in a similar situation […]
Money Links For 31st Jul 2007
Links to other interesting money articles on 31st Jul 2007.
New Tool Will Show You How Much Energy You’re Wasting
A month or so ago I wrote a rambling article on how we could all find out the optimum use of electric and gas by constantly testing different settings, for example by turning your central heating down or reducing the time you have your hot water heating for. What I think I was trying to […]