Filed under: Financial Crisis, Me vs the Recession
After the global economy suffered another bad year and recovery looks to be slow and protracted, we look back at some of the lighter moments of 2009.Filed under: WalletTip, House and Home, Insurance
It's the season of nights drawing in and night-time goings on. While we all want to enjoy the festivities of this time of year, you need to prepare your home, so the only fireworks you experience are the pretty ones.
Filed under: Financial Crisis, House and Home, Budgeting & Planning
At this time of year, the shops are full of severed plastic fingers and other green and slimy tat as everyone prepares for Halloween. You may not be spooked by a posse of teenage trick-or-treaters, but do your finances frighten you? Filed under: Work & Careers, Weird and Wonderful, Christmas
Getting drunk in front of your boss, making a fool of yourself with the office junior, then engaging in inappropriate behaviour with the photocopier. The work Christmas party has always held the potential for head-hanging, career wrecking nastiness. But for those who manage to avoid the worst excesses of festive tomfoolery, it's also the one thing we can look forward to at the gloomy, cold end of the year.
Filed under: Weekly Review
It has been a scary old week for Walletpop. Filed under: Entertainment, Families
Half term in the depths of winter has the potential to be one of the most expensive weeks of the year. It's cold, it's wet and it's miserable - free days in open air are out of the question. Instead it's pricey cinemas, leisure centres and shopping centres that hit the top of the entertainments list.Filed under: Entertainment
While plenty of people will be braving the cold and dressing like loons to hit pubs, clubs and their neighbours' doorsteps this Halloween, there are those who would far rather curl up in the dark with a terrifying film and a very large cushion to hide behind.Filed under: Entertainment, Families
There's no getting away from Halloween. Especially not if you've got kids.
If being frightened to death is your idea of fun, then Halloween offers an ideal opportunity to get away from it all. A number of companies offer Halloween mini-breaks for the non-faint-hearted, where you can dress up in your best witches' hat, pop a couple of toads in your bag and meet a bunch of like-minded spook fanciers. Here are a series of breaks where you can do the voodoo that you do...
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