I’ve just come across a new site which promises to “put the power in the hands of the insurance customer, not insurance companies”. The interestingly named Zuzzid gives you the chance to speak about your experiences with insurers and their policies, across all types of insurance, by either “ranting” or “raving” about them. Whilst this […]
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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 […]
TescoCompare.com: Tesco Takes on Comparison Sites
I’ll be keeping a close eye on www.tescocompare.com tomorrow (14th Sep) as it should be the day that Tesco starts to take on the likes of MoneySupermarket.com, by launching a financial comparison website. Tesco has launched its car insurance comparison service at www.tescocompare.com, which marks its first move into the financial comparison market. Although 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 […]
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 […]
Expensr: A New Budgeting Tool
Expensr is a new budget / spending tracking tool which looks quite interesting. It allows you to monitor what you are spending money on, gives you useful visuaisation of statistics to show you where all of your money is going, and probably most interestingly, allows you to compare your spending with other users within the […]
Four Personal Finance Software Packages Reviewed
I’ve got to admit I’ve had very limited experience with personal finance software – it’s always seemed like a good idea, but I haven’t had the time nor inclination to sit down and find out what works best for me (I did use Microsoft Money for a few months a couple of years ago, but […]
Google Currency Converter
Holiday season is approaching, so we’ll all be trying to work out how much spending money to take with us and how much goods cost in our holiday destination. I’ve always used the Universal Currency Converter to get an idea of the exchange rate, but personal finance blogger FiveCentNickel has pointed out that Google can […]
How Much Tax Will I Pay?
An Excel sheet to help you work out how much Income Tax and National Insurance you pay.
This Is Money: Children’s Free Money Sits Untouched
A quarter of all parents whose children received child trust fund payments have not chosen an investment tool for their child’s money