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Ultra Cheap Flight Finding: Step-by-step air travel speedy cost cutting plan NEW ARTICLE
There are three types of cheap flight websites; screenscrapers, flight brokers and flightcheckers. Using the right one for your trip slashes the cost. There are also serious further savings possible by booking with a hotel on special websites, checking out a charter and haggling with flight agents. New Article: Cheap Flight Finding (Mini-mutterings) Related Articles: Barter For A Bargain Beach Trip, Flight Upgrades FREE Cineworld Cinema ticket! Loophole Find out how Claim back any unfair bank charges, don't let them keep your cash! NEW ARTICLE
Many people have had great successes in reclaiming £100s if not £1000s in unfair bank charges. You can claim money going back six years, so find out how. New Article: Reclaim Your Bank Charges. (Mini-mutterings) Related Article: Top Current Account £30 PAYG mobile phone: includes £30 credit plus delivery's free Top chat forum spot! SPREAD THE SAVINGS! Pls suggest friends/family/colleagues get this email too New car registration special: cheapest cars, insurance, mots and petrol
The DLVA launched the new 2006 car registration plates this week. So I thought I'd run through the site's car MoneySaving resources. If you're buying a new car, use a comparison site, if you need insurance check the Car Insurance Cost Cutting Article, to avoid unnecessary repair bills read Driving Down The Cost Of MOTs, and check out Petrol Cost Cutting Xbox game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory £5 in store/£9 online Bargaintastic! Permanently low long term cheap debt
Life of balance transfer offers are one of m'favourite things – they let you shift debts to a cheap rate that's fixed until paid off. Previously, to get the very cheapest rates with Amex Plat* or BA Amex* you had to earn at least £20k per year. Now, Intelligent Finance has launched a higher rate version at 4.95% but with no minimum salary requirement. Full Article: Best Balance Transfers (Mini-mutterings) Related Articles: Best Card For New Borrowing, Internet Shopping Time & Money Saving Techniques Cash machine charges: have your say Do the CAB survey Official: the funniest joke about Money!!!!!! £100 contest winner (sorry if it's a bit rude)
Last week you voted, so I can now exclusively reveal the funniest Money/MoneySaving joke is.... and don't blame me, it came from you and 16% of the 2,500 voters chose it... "Q. Why did the Irish name their currency the 'punt'? A. Because it rhymes with 'bank manager' ". Congratulations to chat forum user Brokebuthappy who suggested it and wins the £100. Read the entire top 10 |
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New Top Current Account pays 5.1% - great, providing you're a Billy-no-mates
Coventry Building Society's just launched its First Account, pitched as a hybrid savings & current account. To use it requires £1,000/month to be deposited. In other words pay your salary in if you earn over £15,500. It's top of the tree for current accounts for those who are always in credit. However Lloyds* or A&L* are close and pay refer-a-friend bonuses, so if you join together with a friend they're better as you can get over £100 cash too. All the details and what to do if you're overdrawn in the Updated Article: Top Current Account Great Job Based Discounts Hunt: see what special deals are available
Everyone knows about student discounts, but there are also hosts of discounts for other vocations too; doctors, teachers, nurses, builders, electricians, the works. So I thought I'd tap MoneySavers' collective knowledge to find what's out there that others should know about. Add your ideas/read others Past Great Hunts: Airport Parking, Spruce Up Your Home and Bit On The Side £15 professional St Tropez: tan your hide!
Last week's MoneySaving challenge was to find cheap fake tans, which don't make you look like you'd been tango'd, in the Great Cheap Fake Tan Hunt. Your ideas included £3 Piz Buin, Professional £15 St Tropez tan and Johnson Holiday Skin 2 For 1 |
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Last chance to invest your Child Trust Fund voucher!
It's a year since the government sent out the first batch of CTF vouchers. If you haven't done anything with your voucher yet, after this week the government'll do it on your behalf. Sort it now – don't throw your kids' money away. Download & print the totally Free MoneySavingExpert CTF Guide (380KB), taking you through the process step by step. Related Article: Where To Start With Savings Plumbing Masterclass: Save on your U-bend mend with top MoneySaving info
Folklore says plumbers earn more than barristers, and while that's not always true, if you want a U-bend mended it sometimes costs serious cash. To help, in the past I asked media plumber, Ian Puddick of Leakbusters to answer your Plumbing MoneySaving questions. More than bog standard answers Related Articles: Cheapest Gas & Elec Plus Cashback, Water Bills Cost Cutting FLIGHTCHECKER SALES WATCH Montpelier, Venice & Loire Valley c. £20 each way
Budget airline Ryanair currently has a range of destinations at 19p each way. When you add in its taxes and charges this becomes roughly £20 in total. Use my special free FlightChecker to find the seats in seconds MoneySaving: The Game You've seen the site, bought the Money Diet book, got a car sticker... now Play the MoneySavingExpert Game (read the strategy guide first) |
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Board of the week: How Much Have You Saved?
Huge savings are possible if you take hold of your finances. If you want to inspire others with the ease and size of your savings this board's the place to do it. Discussions include Off to college thanks to MSE, Over £2k saved per year and Changed my whole way of thinking about money JEREMY VINE NOTE: If you joined the email list after Friday's programme read these: Where To Start With Saving, Cheapest Gas & Elec. plus Cashback, Read more Want to see my showreel?
Showreels are what TV producers and execs look at to see how a presenter is on air. I've just updated mine and thought you may find it fun to watch, as there's lots of Make Me Rich clips in there. It's available in Windows Media (High Quality/Low Quality) or Quicktime (High Quality/Low Quality), it should stream but for some it'll just download. Beware though these are 10 minutes long so it's a big file if you're downloading it. Related Stuff: Martin's Biog, About the Site This week's Martin's Musings: Calling Carol
'Weather World' and 'Did I really say that on prime time BBC1?' Read m'blogs (or RSS users access) REGIFTING POLL: You've an unwanted prezzie, do you recycle it? Vote or Discuss. Also, did you enter the £100 joke contest? See if you won
That's it for this week. However I had to point out the new MoneySaving Fight Club. Some of the regulars have decided to pit the chat forum smileys against each other in all out war..... have your vote to see who wins Fight Club IV, Fight Club III, Fight Club II, Fight Club I (vote may've been rigged a touch in this as it's my spinning smiley fighting!)
I hope you save some money
Martin
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