If you’re paying for your petrol / diesel topup using cold, hard cash (or even NETs), you ought to be shot like the bald old man below (you see, he paid using cash).Today, credit card companies offer all kinds of privileges on petrol and car ownership that you would have be an idiot not to ...

Yes, we all know you coffee addicts can’t do without your daily cup of “nourishment”. But when coffee, and coffee alone, is setting you back enough to buy a top-end coffee machine every year, you ought to be relooking how you drink your coffee.A $6 cup every workday for the entire year (261 weekdays) sets ...

Do you have a home mortgage? If you have your own home, I'm sure you do. In line with our previous post on http://www.financecents.com/2009/02/03/to-save-money-take-another-300000-loan/, here's how to see if you can refinance your mortgage with even lower rates!If you're looking to buy a new home, this will also help you!The Real Group, a local company, ...

I received an email from a reader, Jonathan, recently, with reference to my post on Don’t let credit cards rob you!. His question (extracted) was:Sure, you may get all these credit c …

Drive a car? Want to subsidize your monthly car payments? Now, consider putting an advertisement on your car for a monthly fee! Renvertising, a local company, is paying drivers to install sticker adverts provided they drive a minimum of 500Km every month. Check out http://www.renvertising.com for more details.

They say it never rains but pours. Such is the power of Murphy’s Law, and I absolutely guarantee that it will happen to you all at once. You get retrenched, lose your insurance policy you had with your company, and then right at this time a family member gets hospitalized and your invested assets fall ...

So the recession is here, and the banks have started to lay off staff. The boom days have come and gone, with us in its dust. The STI has fallen by about 50% from its all-time high. How do we best prepare ourselves for the days that follow? What are YOU doing?In the next couple ...

And abusing his call minutes, talking on his phone with girls like talktime’s free? Even with free unlimited student minutes, this is still not a good thing. It’s a downright bad habit.So how do you control it? Most parents pay for their kiddo’s handphone bills, and we all know how much you treasure money you ...

Do you know it’s actually possible to cut your expenditures by almost S$2,000 every year by simply looking at how you use your electricity and water? Or are you just letting your dollars flow down the drain?Of course there’s lots of ways. You can save money by pasting notes all over your house reminding you ...

What ring do i get? Where do i ask? When will it be the right time? How do i pop that question? Do you have these questions running through your mind? If the answer is Yes, you are sufferi …