Mint, are you minted?
Mint is the new way to manage your money. The cloud based software from mint enables you to manage your money effectively online by drawing all your accounts into one place and seeing the current status of your accounts in one single place. Mint is not the first service to help you manage online but [...]
How much is that cold costing you?
Flu jab in order. This author now understands the benefits of preventing illness in lost productivity. Having just got over flu which turned into a chest infection which took two weeks to shift I’m now going to be signing myself for a flu jab next year without doubt or even this year. Just a few [...]
Three massive dividend paying stocks
So your bank rate is terrible and property is a rubbish idea at the moment. Where do you go for investment? One place is high dividend shares that yield double digit returns on investments. Yep that’s right there are some investments where you can achieve more than 10%. Here are three double digit shares that [...]
Mint and Money Dashboard – the new way to save and budget?
Forget the days of trawling through reams and reams of receipts and paper. The new way to manage your finance is online with the services of companies such as Mint. Mint aims to be the one-stop shop for your finance needs from budgeting and planning to handling your tax and receipts. Smart services such as [...]
How to negotiate your rent
Housing is one of our largest expenditures so it makes sense to reduce this cost where possible. Rent is one of those costs so here are a few tips for reducing the spending on that roof over your head. 1. Never be too keen or desperate to move into a place. 2. Always ask lots [...]
Are rising rents going to kick start the buy to let revolution again?
For many homeowners they have become reluctant landlords after being unable to sell their property. As potential first time buyers struggle to achieve the mortgage deposit for their own home and turn to renting, could this be kick starting the renting market creating pressure on would be renters and hence increasing prices. Many estate agents [...]
Should you use a pawn broker?
Over the financial crisis there has been a resurgence in the number of pawn shops on the high street. This rather old fashioned “pawn” store is a place where you can sell your high worth items such as jewellery for cash. But more than that…there is a loan…where if you repay the money you can [...]
Saving cash by investing in high dividend stocks
Saving money might not be the highest priority on your todo list but we all need to be saving for a rainy day. Whilst many are struggling just to make ends meet, the question is how do you make money given the poor returns from putting money in a bank account? One way is to [...]
House hold name stocks paying more than 10%
With falls in stockmarket share prices, some shares now look really cheap compared with their dividend payouts. Two well known listed companies are paying out dividends of over 10%. Compared to paltry rates in the bank, investing in shares could over as much as 5 times or even 100 times the tiny interest rates on [...]
