A bit of this and a bit of that

There’s nothing better than a little recession to make you think twice about how much you put away every month and how that nest egg is growing. Interestingly I found out recently that in Asia it’s normal to put away at least 10% of one’s earnings (and sometimes as high as 25%); which is a [...]

I’ve just signed up with a new site called WePromiseTo Cashback. The website lets you get cashback from different retails, both online and offline. To tell you the truth, I’ve seen a number of these, but this is the first one I’ve come across that works with offline retailers also. All you do is register [...]

I managed to get my letter out to the insurance finally yesterday. I’ve had this ongoing saga with a bag that British Airways lost for me in January 2006. When I finally got all the paperwork in order for the Direct Line they came back to me wanting the original receipts of everything that I [...]

Isn’t it great that you can just get a loan online? In the past you used to have to go to a bank, fill in lots of forms and wait for ages to get approval. Nowadays it’s much simpler. Say you were looking for lower car payments for example, Rate Genius is a website that [...]

Have you ever found that you’re short on funds a few days before your pay cheque arrives? I don’t know if this is done here in the UK, but in the US you can get a Payday loan that will tide you over for a few days. It’s an interesting idea, you can borrow between [...]

I’m sure I must have seen an ad on TV about Go Compare, the car insurance comparison site, so to day I thought I’d pop in and have a look to see if the insurance I was using was worth it, or if maybe I should switch to someone else. Turns out they do more [...]

We’re thinking about getting a new car, so over the last few days, we’ve been looking around to see what’s available. We’ve pretty much agreed that we should get an MPV, you know, a car that can take more than 5 people, as the last time we had guests we only managed by keeping Arthur [...]

Did you know that you can make money on FaceBook just by surfing websites from there? There is a new application called CashCliques that gives people using is cash for visiting websites they select. Plus, if you recommend other people to the application, you also make money off their clicks. Interested? Check it out.

A couple of days ago I almost left my credit cards behind at Tesco. I managed to retrieve them, but it got me thinking about how dependant on cards I had become. Without them I would really be lost. That small pouch had literally thousands of pounds of potential cash and it would have been [...]

If you’re not .. you should! There’s of savings you can take advantage of if you try to find out a bit more. For example, Vonage is one of the companies who provide VOIP services here in the UK. Their £8 plan offers free calls to the whole of the UK and Ireland as well [...]