Helping you keep your finances healthy!

Can’t keep your wallet in your pocket? Always got to have the latest gadgets or Gucci goodies?

If the answer is yes, you may be interested to know there’s a way of recouping some of your outgoings using a simple tool: the cashback site. Using this mechanism wisely could save you hundreds of pounds a year (or free up hundreds of extra pounds to spend on more gadgets and goodies!)

Dealing with out-of-control credit card balances used to be relatively simple. You’d swear an oath to stop spending, carve up your old credit card and apply for a new balance transfer card to clear your debts.

Why is it then, that the biggest, most important accomplishments in our lives are so
flippin’ costly?

Whether it’s education, procreation or superannuation, everything that’s worth doing seems to come with a massive price tag.

We look at the 5 costliest things you can do in your life and try to find ways in which you can
lessen the burden and dodge the blows…

With an election just around the corner, Alistair Darling delivered a rather insipid Budget that at times seemed more self-congratulatory than forward-looking. Darling said that it had been a time for “making difficult decisions, difficult choices … to support the economy, business and families, or let the recession take its course”. David Cameron later challenged [...]

On March 24, we’ll see this government’s last budget. Will it be full of taxpayer giveaways and pleasant surprises? Not a chance. So we decided to come up with our own plans. For with less than two weeks to go to Budget Day, this is traditionally the time that lobby groups of all sizes, shapes [...]

It’s a New Year and a new start. Now that all the celebrations are well and truly behind us, we thought there’d be no better way to start 2010 than helping you come up with some financial resolutions for the next 12 months. We’re all pretty agreed that 2009 is perhaps best forgotten. But that [...]