After my recent blog-post on borrowing for wedding day, it was quite refreshing to read the story i have for you today: A bargain bride walked down the aisle in a 99p ‘dream dress’ from eBay. ‘Lots of guests thought it was worth thousands of pounds,’ said Suzanne Daniel, 24, who married in Coniston, Lake [...]
What's A Quadrillion?
July 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I have been asked this question several times since yesterday. Simply put, a quadrillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000 or a thousand million million. Get it? A quadrillion is the big brother of a trillion, which itself is a step up from a billion. A billion in turn is higher in rank than a million which is a [...]
The $23quadrillion Cigarette
July 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Cigarettes, as we all know, are not good for your health, breath or your wallet but one smoker almost choked on his habit when he bought a pack at a petrol staion and went home $23quadrillion in debt. Josh Muszynski was stunned to find he was overdrawn by the 17-figure sum ($23,148,855,308,184,500) when he returned [...]
Every Penny Counts
July 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A reader recently drew my attention to the fact that not all stores use the 99p tactics. He pointed out that the sales strategy of Primark, a clothes store chain in the UK is that their products are priced not just with 99p endings like other store but with endings like 23p, 57p, 78p etc [...]
The 99p Myth
July 13, 2009 By 1 Comment
For decades, retailers have relied on the inability of shoppers to comprehend that the difference between an item priced of £1.99 and that priced at £2.00 is just 1p. The human mind most of the time just sees the £1 in £1.99 instead of rounding it up to the £2.00 that it really is. In [...]
'Faster' Than Bolt
July 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This has nothing to do with a 100metres’ race as you might be thinking. The Bible says “All things work together for good …” and this statement could not be any truer than in the case of a great escape in Hungary. Beata Goenzc says a call of nature saved her from being zapped in her [...]
If They Can Do It, So Can You
July 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I told you yesterday about getting your credir card interest rate lowered; well here are some people who have already benefitted from picking up the phone and making the request. Learn from them, you too can do it. Watch the movie here.
Get Your Interest Rate Reduced
July 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Credit card companies have several tricks up their sleeves and for you to get out from under the bondage of debt (yes, it is bondage!), you cannot afford to play by their rule. One of the ways you can get out of credit card debt quickly is by having your interest rate lowered and all [...]
Unsolicited Credit Limit Increases May Be Banned
July 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
After writing yesterday’s blog, i found out something rather interesting from the Independent website. Credit card companies could be banned from raising borrowers’ credit limits without their consent to help prevent people running up unaffordable debts. Under new government proposals restrictions could be placed on card companies increasing interest rates on existing debt, as part of [...]
Stop Being a Cash-Cow For Credit Card Companies
July 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
About 19% of credit card holders in the UK have had their limits increased without their consent in the past year. The recent survey went on to suggest that the average person have seen a credit lime rise of just under £1500. What do you make of this? Do you think these companies like you [...]
TV's Burning
July 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Firefighters in Switzerland responding to an elderly woman’s call to say her TV was burning arrived to discover that it was actually tuned to a channel which airs the constant image of a fireplace in the small hours. ‘The fire was extinguished with the press of a button,’ a Zurich police spokesman said. Lesson: switch [...]
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