If you own a house, there’s a way of making extra cash this summer that you might have overlooked.
So you’re all packed up and ready to jet off to sunnier climes. The men have checked their passports 100 times and made sure the cases are securely fastened. The women have jammed in 20 pairs of shoes and 50 changes of clothes.
You’ve got travel insurance, car insurance and contents cover – heck, even the goldfish is probably insured. So do you really need to buy life insurance as well? And if so, how do you know which is the right type for you?
With the cost of living rising and our disposable incomes declining, are we Brits being backed into an economic corner?
I fear we are. The news shows that the squeeze is coming from both sides:
- Our cost of living is rising at the fastest rate in a generation.
- Our take-home pay is in decline, thanks to job cuts, pay freezes and higher tax.
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…
According to David Hynam, Chief Executive of Friends Life, recent research shows that the “coping classes”, those earning between £20 and £50,000 , feel disproportionately affected by public sector job cuts and have adopted a new attitude to debt.
