by Maria Nedeva | 31 Oct, 2018 | Control spending, Insurance, Motoring
In this post we share five ways to keep car insurance for young drivers affordable. Car insurance for seventeen year old drivers is not cheap but there are ways to make sure you don’t pay more than necessary. “What? We are not paying £2,000 on car insurance for our...
by Maria Nedeva | 24 Oct, 2018 | Control spending, Insurance
Do you want to pay less for car insurance? Yep, I do as well. Not only because I hate overpaying for anything but also because I know that when it comes to keeping costs down our best bet is to focus on what we can control. Car ownership has much to recommend it. It...
by Maria Nedeva | 14 Apr, 2015 | Financial Health, Insurance
“It simply can’t be 170 over 120!” I was staring at the nurse, open mouthed and stricken with the surprise. She had just taken my blood pressure and it was through the roof. Now, discovering that you have high blood pressure is bad enough. Discovering you have high...
by Maria Nedeva | 22 Dec, 2014 | Insurance
Most people are pre-occupied with getting ready for Christmas and don’t want to think about whether they need insurance. I’m finished with these preparations. So, I’m sitting here making an inventory of our insurance arrangements. Yep, I was right: our car...
by Maria Nedeva | 27 Aug, 2014 | Insurance, WTFIFL
Did I tell you about the time when I almost knocked myself out? I didn’t think so. It is rather embarrassing and very ‘professorial’: I am such a cliché. Several years back I was invited to a research workshop in Granada. Of course I accepted: Granada is one of my...
by John | 25 Feb, 2014 | Insurance
Several years back, the banks in the UK were found guilty of a Payment Protection Insurance scam. The basic idea of PPI was that for a small monthly sum you would have no worries if bad things happen to you like you die, become incapacitated or lose your job: your...
