Let me be honest. I’ve got a funky thing on my finger! I say funky, perhaps it’s more fungy. Around the nail of one of my fingers there’s a tiny bit of white flakey skin. Now I’m not writing this just to put you off your cornflakes. There’s an important point here. As I live in an...

I got an interesting call today from BBC Childrens’ news programme Newsround. It was following up a story on the launch by pfeg (the personal finance education group) about money education in schools and wanted some MoneySaving Tips for their audience (target age nine-years-old). Sadly I was hugely disappointed when I saw what pfeg is doing. The...

A MoneySaver has just sent me a letter they received through the post, a broadsheet newspaper with a handwritten note on the top of it saying ‘Sarah, get it, it works’ (I’ve changed her name). The article itself is headlined WANT PERFECT SKIN? Why a remarkable occurrence in Russia could now make it possible. Thankfully, it has...

In my past blog you’ll have seen my article to MPs where I say it’s not about ‘responsible lending’ but ‘responsible borrowing’ and that while lenders should be culpable we must take responsibility for our own debts, through educating ourselves. Yet where do you draw the line? A few months ago I met a MoneySaver who worked...

While no one ever asks me the question, the poor MSG is constantly asked “is he like that all the time, so hyper and energetic, how do you cope?” And I’ve just read a similar comment from MoneySaver Pavlov’s Dog in the forum “I must admit, I really enjoy watching the money muttering, as well as being...

My lack of musical interest is pretty well known (well Radio 2 Vine programme spent a week discussing it), yet I think I’ve just surpassed all prior ignorance. While talking about web search functions in MSE Towers, I said “suppose you want to search for songs by Billy Holliday”, at which point MSE Archna started to smile....

Over the last few months the re-design of the site has come on a long way (see the last incarnation). So much so, we’re getting close to the final look so I wanted to give all MoneySavers a quick preview. The new home page (click to view full size) IMPORTANT: Don’t worry, the image you will see...

I’m addicted to Alexa stats, which show every website’s worldwide ranking (and is quite a useful way of judging a site’s legitimacy) and now I’m overexcited as MoneySaver KJF has sent me the link to the stats I’ve been waiting for. Finally it seems Alexa.com (part of Amazon), has a list of the 100 most visited sites...

I was playing with Google paid listings, doing a few experiments at very low ‘cost per click’. One of the phrases was Martin Lewes as opposed to Martin Lewis and I was shocked to find yesterday it was searched 1100 times and that 740 of those who searched it clicked the MoneySavingExpert.com listing (at a penny a...

Clearing out a cupboard recently, I happened upon an old photo of the day I went to Wembley to present Mick Jagger with the Honorary Presidency of the LSE (London School of Economics) Students’ Union. It brought back memories so I called the LSE and asked if it had a copy of the article I wrote for...