Websites such as freecycle.org.uk, snaffleup. co.uk and gumtree.com offer good second-hand furniture and what’s more, it’s free. All you have to do is bring the van.
James Johnson, 35, who works in marketing, and his wife Caroline, 32, used Freecycle to furnish their rented two-bedroom house in Shadwell, East London.
While their flat had the basics […]
Websites such as freecycle.org.uk, snaffleup. co.uk and gumtree.com offer good second-hand furniture and what’s more, it’s free. All you have to do is bring the van.
James Johnson, 35, who works in marketing, and his wife Caroline, 32, used Freecycle to furnish their rented two-bedroom house in Shadwell, East London.
While their flat had the basics […]
Equitable insists that according to the rules I have to buy a pension that will pay me 1p a year. This is ridiculous .Is there a way round this? W.W.L.Y.
Des Hamilton, technical director at the Pensions Advisory Service, replies: The only way you can lift the remaining £1,000 of your Equitable […]
Peter Ilic, who owns the Little Bay restaurant group, will not present a single food bill to diners, leaving it up to them to decide how much the meal and service is worth.
It comes as a number of Michelin starred restaurants slash prices to entice credit crunch-hit diners, with lunches for as little as […]
Quidco.com A cashback website that has saved me hundreds of pounds. When you buy something from one of 1,200 online shops (including Play.com), you receive a percentage of the price back. Normally, a site such as Google receives a referral fee. Through this ‘online cooperative’, the cash is paid into your bank account. For example, […]
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has advised those benefiting from lower rates as a result of bank rate cuts to reduce their mortgage balances, as it warned of tougher times ahead.
Its advice came as it released new figures showing the number of homebuyers hit another record low in November, despite mortgage rate cuts […]
When you are getting close to the retirement age, deciding when to sign up for the social security benefit can be quite a serious decision. Social security is the largest source of income for the retired persons. Depending on the age you start receiving the payments on your social security, it can vastly affect the […]
Many were still reeling from seeing December’s shock one point rate cut applied to their accounts early in the New Year.
Two out of five of all variable savings accounts now pay interest of 1% or less, according to a survey by rates analyst Moneyfacts carried out last week.
The latest bank rate fall means that […]
1. DO I REALLY NEED PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE
You really do need to think about the advantages of PMI and whether you need it. Private healthcare is a luxury, not a necessity, and while it may mean you get treatment for nonurgent complaints more quickly, by the doctor of your choice, in the place […]
In the third in our series, (read part one here and part two here), we gather tips for 2009 from investment experts.
Our tipsters are Jeremy Batstone-Carr, director of private client research at Charles Stanley Stockbrokers, Henk Potts, equity strategist, at Barclays Stockbrokers, Gian-Luca Manca, analyst, at UBS AG and Jonathan Jackson, head of equities, at […]
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