The Top Three Worst Mistakes in Job Hunting
Now more than ever, throngs of people are out of work and searching for their next source of employment. With such fierce competition for the few available jobs, it’s important for individuals to stay at the top of the masses if they hope to be successful. While there are many resources that can tell a [...]
3 Quick Steps to Start Saving for Retirement
While we are all struggling to pinch pennies every chance we get just to make ends meet every month, we also need to keep our futures in mind. Saving for retirement is often something start thinking about too late. The sooner you start saving for retirement the better and more comfortable your retirement will be. [...]
What’s Brilliant About Avoiding Bank Overdrafts?
It may seem like a simple question: Why should anyone avoid overdrafts on their bank account? But the simple answers – that they cost money in fees, plus end up as a “ding” against your credit score – only tell half the story. The other half is learning how to be savvy about how you do [...]
Buying new furniture? Don’t forget to add it to your home insurance
Shopping for new furniture is something of a national obsession in the UK – just head to your local chain DIY store on any given weekend for further proof of this fact. There’s no getting away from it – we all like to give our homes a facelift from time to time, whether that’s replacing [...]
How to Finance a Home Extension
No matter how much money or how little you have spent in the creation of your home extension, there comes a time when you will eventually have to pay for the work you did or had done. Of course, the smaller the extension is, the less of a problem you will face, but in every [...]
The Right (Legal) Way to Lend Money to Loved Ones
You can ask all the big time personal finance gurus out there – from Dave Ramsey to Suze Orman – and they’ll all tell you the same thing: lending money to family is a bad idea. It invites a plague of ethical dilemmas and amateur mistakes that statistically often stack against the lender. But what [...]