Over the last few months, I had quite significantly changed the accounts I follow on Instagram. I have moved away from all of the random parenting blogs that I had connected up to three years ago, back when I was blogging more heavily and in an attempt to build a following for me site. Now I have refocused onto accounts which help me either in improving life or improving my mental wellbeing. So at some point a late in Autumn …
Tag: Money
Despite being a fairly organised person who likes to get the best value for money out of everything, I will admit to putting off routinely reviewing my savings accounts to ensure I am getting the best deal. However, I just watched the Celebrity Mastermind on BBC iPlayer and Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert fame was one of the guests. In his mini-interview before the general knowledge round, he pointed out that using one of your days of Annual Leave …
This week hasn’t been too bad, so far. It won’t go down in history as one of the best weeks ever, but I have known weeks significantly worse than this! The first positive that happened this week, of course, was I got my second Icesave email! Hurrah! I confess, I did give a mini cheer when I saw the email; it has been long in coming. I promptly raised my claims and hopefully I will have my money early next …
The FSCS have just announced they hope to return money to Icesave savers within the next few weeks. Apparently I should have an email from them by Friday. Yippee!! …
So, it seems that I (and much of my family) are now falling victim to the ‘credit crunch’. Yesterday it looked likely that one of the banks where we have savings accounts was going to declare themselves insolvent. Only time will tell what the outcome is. Hopefully we’ll know one way or the other today. At least if a decision has been made you can act appropriately; at the moment there is nothing we can do because all deposits and withdrawals …
It’s all doom and gloom in the press at the moment. Every time I look at the BBC website, another bank in another country is currently being bailed out by their government. It’s really depressing and it gets me so angry. So much of this has been brought on by people’s greed. It’s not just the general public’s greed though, it’s the businesses and the banks that are the driving force behind it. The banks just kept lending to people …
