000 Your car is likely to be the second most expensive asset you will ever own, after your home. Not only does it have the biggest price tag, but it also has some of the biggest long-running costs that consistently bite a big chunk out of your budget. But is there any way to make […]

000 Stop for a second and imagine that you’re running your own business (or perhaps you’re already a business owner?). With the title CEO comes a wide range of responsibilities, a jam-packed schedule and a variety of tasks at hand. Undoubtedly you lead a busy life and faced with daily decision making as the face of […]

000 Life with kids is challenging enough without having to worry about money. For single parents, financial strains can often be harder as they have young dependants reliant on them for housing, feeding, clothing and everything else in life — often on a shoestring budget. So, if you’re a single parent, what can you be […]

000 AI, or Artifical Intelligence, has been included in banking for quite some time now but with the introduction of voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa, this concept is being taken one step further. Amazon has been in talks with JP Morgan Chase & Co, as well as online banking entities such as Monzo […]

000 Millennials have come to be known as people who think outside of the box when it comes to most things and using the digital word to make money is definitely one of these. However, sometimes it can be more difficult than you think to make an income from online viable and successful. Photo credit: […]

000 It is hard to hate anything about online banking. Typically online banks offer better saving rates, making you keep more money, which is never a bad thing considering modern day economical instability. Not to mention that the usage of it is way more convenient, then the traditional bank, because we know that – time […]

000 These days, having a mobile phone with adequate data, texts and minutes is less luxury and more absolute necessity. Not only do we demand social media everywhere we go, but we also call on maps, lifestyle apps like Airbnb, and trusty old Google!  In this expensive world of mobile phone demands, cutting costs should […]

000 A major part of getting ready for a long trip overseas – whether it’s a gap year or an early retirement bucket list thing – is getting your finances in order. You need to spend some time sorting out your money so that you have enough to live on while you’re away and also […]

000 Photo credit: Pexels We all know we should be saving more. But adding to that rainy day fund when you’re already on a tight budget isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Most of us think we’ll do it next month instead, or simply hope for a large cash injection in the near future. […]

000 It might be time to get frugal, but do you know how to actually achieve that? Rather than spending your money willy nilly, you’ve got to have a plan, and that plan has to involve savings that will protect your future. So, without trying to curb your lifestyle completely, there are a few ways […]

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There’s more than one way to take control of your spending habits. Just because you’ve tried one method of budgeting before and struggled to see results doesn’t mean that better money management isn’t right for you. Instead, it simply indicates that you need to try and handle your money in a different way. The […]

000 Going abroad may be off the cards for most people this summer, though the restrictions on travel could potentially encourage people to go bigger and better next year instead. If being stuck indoors during lockdown for much of the past year or so has made you keen to get out and see the rest […]

001 I’m fascinated by economics and behaviour and especially how economics affects behaviour! For example, did you know that the reason petrol caps on cars are on the driver’s side in some cars and the passenger’s side in other cars is because petrol queues would be longer if petrol caps were always on the driver’s […]

001 Every once in a while it’s good to do a financial tune up. Our car insurance is due to renew next month so we have been looking at better rates and I also have a to-do note to call Sky and re-negotiate our TV package! I try to make diary notes each year so […]

000 Mums running a household can teach people a thing or two about saving money! We may not be managing budgets of millions but we still know how to make our moolah go that bit further, so I have put together a list of 30 ways to save money. 1. When I shop at ASDA, […]

000 Luxuries are often thought to be things like fur coats, diamonds and slap up meals at fancy restaurants driven there in a fast car. But I disagree. I could easily do without any of those things. I think that luxuries are those little extras that we have in our daily lives that make us […]