Have you ever come back from the shops and hidden what you bought from your partner? Or secretly saved money for a rainy day without your other half knowing? Or downplayed the amount of debt you’ve stacked up?
UK banks have come in for their fair share of criticism in recent years. People have been angered by the huge bonuses the top dogs have received since the banks were bailed out by the taxpayer.
Is there anything worse than those cheesy TV adverts asking if you’re in debt and offering you a magic cure?
An extra 17.4% for gas and 10.8% for electricity has been added to energy bills in the latest round of price hikes. The average annual bill has hit £1,287, with bill payers using around 40% of their annual usage during the winter months.
A few weeks into the New Year and many of us have already given up on our overambitious resolutions. We only went to the gym twice and survived just two booze-free weeks. But rather than concentrating on the goals we haven’t achieved, let’s think about what we can effectively improve at the start of 2012. [...]
Everyone’s talking about the government’s ‘Green Deal’, but what does it actually mean? And, more importantly, what’s in it for us?
