I’m shocked at the results of last week’s Haggling Poll… The question was what would your opening price be for goods costing £120 when in a country known for haggling?

Today was supposed to be a day to tick some things off my To-Do list as well as doing Moneybox Live on Radio 4. Yet all that changed. About an hour ago I took a call from ITV1 Tonight; the Supermarket Cheap programme going out this Friday has been moved to this evening; as understandably ITV want...

Last night I played the MSG at Scrabble – normally it’s ferociously competitive, but last night I was on a flyer. I scored a mammoth 596; vastly eclipsing my best ever previous score of 481. During the game I got four seven-letter words and consistently scored well. The MSG didn’t score as highly as normal, but with...

There’s an advert on the TV currently that is a disgrace. It asks people to text in to “find out if you and your partner are compatible” with some ridiculous numerology test. At first I just thought it a little piece of nonsense; then I saw the price. Disgusting! The following is from its terms and conditions...

Loans have more pitfalls than disused colliery. The latest bizarre trick, sent to me by MoneySaver Nigel Durbridge, isn’t close to the most despicable piece of financial manipulation but it certainly makes you think… The cost of a pound The interest rate on Tesco’s loan bizarrely jumps if you borrow £20,000 or more; it’s rather bizarre as...

I love a Freebie, but I’m getting fed up of the Yellow Pages and The Phone Book being sent to my house. They appeared again this week, these two big anachronistic catalogues lumped outside the front door; each made from half a forest worth of paper. Yet I haven’t opened one in at least three years- after...