We all know what the £5 note looks like, but how many of us actually stop to think about this tatty blue note? As the value of our fiver decreases, we take look at the history and anatomy if the Fiver! Let’s start with some quick facts which you may not know… Our well-loved fiver [...]
If you are struggling with a poor credit rating you will find yourself excluded from the vast majority of mainstream credit options, including overdrafts, personal loans, mortgages, and credit cards. However, credit builder cards have proven to be a popular way for people to improve their credit rating and learn about managing their borrowing (without [...]
In a time when money is tight, people are spending less and less on all their essential bills, including food. This might have started with people switching from expensive brands to a supermarket’s own labels, but now saving money is driving us to compare supermarkets in the way we compare utilities companies. Of course, we’ve [...]
When certain types of currency – not coins or paper money, but other tokens and vouchers with monetary value – are no longer accepted, most of us would throw them out. To an Exonumist, these are valuable pieces of history, and worthy of preserving. Exonumia is the collection of coin-like objects, such as encased coins, [...]
Whatever your income amounts to, you can be rich or poor no matter how much you make. It’s what you do with you money that counts.
We all know that the cost of living has soared beyond belief in recent years. The rate of inflation hit its record high at the end of 2011 (although it has dipped back a little in in recent weeks) and unemployment seems to only be going one way! In the event that you are unable [...]
As the great, good and over-paid of the world back put their Ski-suits back in the loft after another “Davos”; we ask, ”What the heck was that all about then?” So what happens at Davos? The event, otherwise known as the World Economic Forum (WEF), was originally set up in the 1970’s by Professor Klaus [...]
Whilst the good people of Punxsutawney are on tenterhooks over the unconscious prophecies of a 2ft rodent; we ask whether your finance feel like they’re in their own Ground Hog Day?
As we struggle to make ends meet in our own homes it’s sometimes easy to forget the charities on which so many others depend. So do we cut our charity giving during recession or continue to dig deep in the knowledge that charities need the money even more than ever?
Section 75; what is it and why do you need to know?
