Guides on logbook loans and money.
Plain answers on how logbook loans work, borrowing against your car and keeping on top of your money.
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Credit Score Factors: What Helps and What Hurts
Which habits help your credit score, which ones harm it and which common worries make no difference, plus how to check and fix your report.
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Cost of Borrowing Compared: The Main Types of Credit
Follow one borrower as she compares loans, cards, credit unions and secured credit, using APR and the total amount repayable to compare them.
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How to Reduce Your Utility Bills: A Practical Checklist
Work through five questions to lower your utility bills, from checking your energy tariff and water meter to social tariffs and support schemes.
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Insurance Checklist: The Main Types of Cover Explained
An insurance checklist explaining the main types of cover, from compulsory car insurance to buildings, contents, life and income protection, and where households often overpay.
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No Credit Check Loans: What Borrowers Need to Know
What credit checks are for, how soft and hard searches differ, and a simple checklist for telling a genuine lender from one to avoid.
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Inflation Explained: CPI, Real Wages and Your Budget
How UK inflation is measured, why CPI may not match your own costs, what real wages are and how to protect your household budget.
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Expense Planning: Build an Annual Bills Calendar That Works
See how one household maps a year of irregular bills, works out a monthly saving figure and uses sinking funds to stay out of debt.
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Using Savings vs Borrowing: How the Costs Compare
Spend your savings or borrow? A worked comparison of the costs, the exceptions to watch for and why a buffer still matters.
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Planning a Summer Budget: Holidays, Days Out and Bills
Answers to the summer money questions families ask most, from planning a holiday budget to entertaining children and spending abroad.
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Recession-Proofing Your Finances: A Household Plan
A step-by-step household plan for an economic slowdown, split into what to do this week, this month and over the next three months.
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Thinking About a Logbook Loan? A Checklist Before You Borrow
A checklist of the things to understand before you borrow against your car: who the loan is designed for, the warning signs to pause, and how to stress-test your budget first.
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Understanding Your Budget: The Figures That Matter Most
The figures that show whether your budget works: what each one measures, how to calculate it and what to do when the result is not what you hoped.
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