Save money on your supermarket shop

Okay, I know we bang on and on about how to save money on food in the supermarket; the importance of checking what you already have in your fridge and cupboards and making a list so you don’t get smoozed by all that supermarket marketing. But it really does make a difference to the cost of your shop. Whether you shop at Aldi, Lidl, Asda, Sainsbury’s or the Harrods food hall, shed loads of your dosh goes on baked beans and aubergines (sometime mouldy aubergines, found rank and disgusting at the bottom of the veg chiller two weeks later ‘cos […]

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Bank interest rates – will they never learn

Just when we in the Money Fight Club dojo think the banks cannot get any worse, Barclays does its best to prove us wrong. Way to go Barclays. The bank has announced it’s moving 2.3 million savers (that’s you folks) into new tax-free individual savings accounts (ISAs) from November. Two thirds of them will be getting a worse interest rates than the one they are at the moment. Worse interest rate? Now. Surely some mistake? The best rates at the moment are over 2% but from November the best rates on accounts holding up to £14,999 will be 1.39%. Yet, […]

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