Picture the scene. You’re cruising down the highway when something starts rattling and rumbling in the engine. Something goes clang and your windshield is suddenly engulfed in a plume of black smoke.

Something clearly isn’t right. Your car – your trusty car – has finally stopped working. [Read more…]

There can be no doubt that we live in economically challenging times, both from a domestic and an international perspective. From the continued uncertainty surrounding Brexit to a lack of real wage growth, households are being hit hard and facing up to the prospect of a bleak 2017.

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Money, it is the root of all evil and it is something you really cannot live without. Well, you can live without it, but it makes for a less than pleasant life. However, living with money doesn’t have to mean spending a bunch of it here and there.

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For all the discounts and special offers students tend to enjoy, the motives of those targeting students with their products and services don’t always come from a place of showing solidarity with the students’ cause and their somewhat anaemic budgets. Quite the contrary really — for many product sellers and service providers, students are perceived to be so loaded that every opportunity to milk them a bit out of their money is duly taken. [Read more…]

So you’ve arrived at your budgetary limits, but you’re not close to the boundary of your target neighborhood. What to do? It’s all about balance – and some savvy accounting. Your top tips from a real estate agent (and who could know better about living the high life lite?):

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For many of us, going through the motions of something like buying a daily or weekly lottery ticket is exactly that — just going through the motions. We never really expect to win anything, let alone an insane jackpot of upwards of a 100m. This applies even to some of those lotteries which are operated off-shore, like perhaps the mega millions lotto which is accessible online and is a US-run lottery open to bettors from beyond the borders of the USA. [Read more…]