As you may have read in some previous posts, I’ve been trying to knuckle down to track all of my spending for at least a month. The reason for this effort? So that I can identify where my money is being spent, and identify where money can be saved. The tool I’ve been using on […]
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The Big List of Money Saving Ideas: Hairdressing
This post is part of Money Watch’s Big List of Money Saving Ideas. Warning – this post include tips for hardcore money savers only! OK, this one isn’t particularly easy – we tend to be quite protective about our looks, and once we’re happy with a hair style or hairdresser, we tend to stick with […]
The Big List of Money Saving Ideas: Life Insurance
This post is part of Money Watch’s Big List of Money Saving Ideas. By and large, life insurance premiums have reduced over the last 5 or so years, so if you took out your policy back then, it might be worth finding out if you can get a cheaper premium. Also, if you too you […]
The Big List of Money Saving Ideas
The key to achieving a good financial situation is simple: spend less than you earn. If you’re not able to do this, and let’s face it, many of us aren’t, then there are obviously 2 ways in which you can try to reach this position: increase your earnings, and/or reducing your spending. In this post, […]
Petrol To Hit £1 Per Litre
It looks as if petrol will soon be hitting £1 per litre, but here’s a quick and easy way to find where the cheapest prices are in your area, and hopefully to save you some money. PetrolPrices.com has the prices from over 10,000 petrol stations in the UK, so you can go on there and […]
Get A Free Annual Credit Report
A few days ago I posted some tips for improving your credit rating, one of which was to ensure you monitor your credit rating. Generally, you have to pay a company such as Experian or Equifax a couple of quid for your report, but I’ve just been reminded of a free credit report service that […]
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 […]
Student Finance: New Series
As we’re approaching the start of the new academic year, I’m starting a series of posts looking at the thorny subject of student finance. Studies suggest that this year’s freshers will owe £21,000 on average by the time they graduate, so it’s becoming more and more important that students, and their parents, are thinking about […]
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 […]
How Do You Keep Track Of Your Finances?
Sadly, my recent experiment with Expensr seems to have fallen by the wayside – I guess I find it just too difficult to remember to enter all of my spending in there. And this isn’t necessarily a problem with the tool itself, more to do with me both having the time to enter the details […]