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October 2017

Spend Less Time On Your Home & Achieve Better Results With These Tips

Spending lots of time on your home and garden is common; many of us do it. But that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing. With the tips that you’ll find below, you’ll come to realise that it’s possible to spend less time doing things in your home and still achieve better results. It might sound like a strange proposition, but it certainly can be done. Find out more now. Simplify

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3 Crucial Steps To Follow When You’re Let Go From Work

(Source: https://flic.kr/p/nbAv6C)   For whatever reason, there could be a time in your life when you’re let go from your current job. As a consequence, you could be in a very tricky personal finance situation. With no regular income, your personal budget becomes much tighter, and paying bills is a lot harder. If you’re not careful, this situation can spiral out of control, and you end up in a mountain

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Time To Get Savvy With Your Internet Marketing

Marketing is a great way to boost your business persona. It can help drive sales into your business, perhaps increase website traffic online, or simply enable you to boost your business presence online. However, there are great ways to take advantage of internet marketing, and there are wrong ways to do it. I wanted to share with you how you can get a little more savvy with your internet marketing

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Tips For Reducing Your Bills At Home

Unlike payments like your mortgage, or the repayments on your car, utility bills are something that we will always have to pay for whether we like it or not. There’s no end date where you stop paying for them, and to ensure that our heads are above water we should be taking the necessary steps into making our forever bills more affordable. Here’s some tips on reducing your bills at

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Breaking The Mould

Image Source   Is there mould in your home? Or perhaps in your office? Not only this fungus unsightly, it can also be bad for your health. Inhaling mould spores can cause you to become sick or develop respiratory problems. If you spot mould, it should be tackled immediately. Here are a few ways to remove and prevent a mould outbreak.   Bleach any existing mould Mould can be easily

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A College Grad’s Ultimate Guide To Financial Matters

If you have recently thrown your mortar board high into the air in celebration and sheer relief at completing your degree and achieving an incredible qualification, you are now well on your way to stumbling into the big wide world on your own two feet. You may have left home a while ago and have been living with friends or in a dorm with fellow students. You might even have

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Denial Is Not Just A River In Africa

We are all on a quest for a happy, healthy life. We try out all sorts in our efforts. Many of us take up yoga or attempt to meditate. Some of us even become vegan in an attempt to cleanse our souls and bodies. Pixabay Image   But, many of our efforts at happiness fail. And, while there can be a variety of reasons for this, there is one common

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The Things It’s Actually Worth Splurging On

Image source   When you’re trying to save money and live a more frugal life, it can be easy to get ways sucked into the process, taking frugality to the extreme,and although there’s nothing wrong, per se, for always choosing the cheaper option and making savings where you can, it isn’t always the smartest idea. You see, there are lots of things that it’s actually worth spending more money on

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5 Types of Land That Make Good Investments

Governments around the world need to protect the land we live on. Otherwise, building in some locations would get out of control. Governments do this by “zoning” areas so contractors and investors can only build certain types of buildings on certain types of land. This has opened a market to investors in a way that they can invest in different types of land to suit their portfolios and expertise. If

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How to save fuel and be a greener driver

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders found that 78,778 diesel cars were sold in January this year, which was a drop of 4.3 per cent compared to the same month last year. Over the same period, the number of alternatively-fuelled cars (AFV’s) jumped by 19.9 per cent, and AFV’s now account for more than 4 per cent of the market for the first time. While consumers are looking to

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