If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! When people are bent on doing something right or wrong, they only need a reason for doing it (see my earlier post). Beer lovers are now being told – by beer makers – that beer is really good for [...]

As we edge closer to the half-way point of this year, i suppose we should be mindful of check once in  a while if we have actually made any financial progress since the year began. Courtesy of Credit Action, below are the UK Debt Statistics for1st of May, 2010 which can be a good indicator [...]

To many people getting a tax refund is as if they’ve won the lottery (not that i advocate playing that). They behave as if it is new money. Wake up! this is your money that the government has been using free of any charge from you. The worst part of this kind of thinking is [...]

Truth be told, what you owe the Taxman – the Taxman will get! But to use a high-interst credit card to pay the taxes may not make too much sense. Although paying this way is a still better than not paying your taxes at all, but you should not just plunge into further debt to [...]

Here’s another little joke to begin your weekend with: A young man was having some money problems, and needed $200 to get his car fixed and road-worthy again. But had run out of people to borrow from. So, he calls his parents via the operator, and reverses the charge and says to his dad, “I [...]

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 [...]

Spring-time usually ushers in the season for weddings in any given year and this year is not an exception even with the ongoing financial crisis. However, there is a new development which may stir the course of many new marriages towards ‘the rocks’ from day one. The wedding custom mostly used in the western world comes [...]

Do you still think your bank loves you? Think again. Even though the Bank of England and other Central Banks are slashing the rates of borrowing, some financial institutions are doing just the opposite. American Express has increased the cost on borrowing on its British Airways Premium Plus card to 46% - more than 30 times the Bank [...]

Is God Using The Credit Crunch To Punish Us? An Anglican bishop thinks so. The Right Reverend Wallace Benn, the Bishop of Lewes in East Sussex, said the credit crunch was God’s way of punishing Britain for being materialistic. He made his controversial assessment in a church newsletter where he also argued that our society [...]

Borrowing money from friends or relatives may be a life-saver when you are in desperate need for the fact that there is no interest added (usually!!) and the friend may accept payment of a small sum of money each month or over a fixed period of time. However, the situation can become tricky if you [...]