Comments on: Personal Finance with Pounds

Question: Personal Finance with Pounds

Happy Dave — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:01:17 -0800

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." British personal finance blogs, forums and other resources?

After several post-university years of lurching from one personal finance crisis to another, I'm finally pulling clear of my personal debt.

I've had a very decent increase in job income, and I'm also about to receive a legacy which will let me pay off my post-universtity loans, and, for the first time in my adult life, leave me in a position to start saving properly, investing fully in retirement funds and give me a stable enough life to create and follow a budget that isn't going to get dashed to pieces on my bank's indifference and yet another overdraft charge.

Since I started working towards fixing my personal finances, I've been following a few personal finance blogs in the US (Get Rich Slowly, The Simple Dollar etc). While these are very useful, and some of the principles are currency independent, they are very US-focused.

I'd like recommendations for personal finance blogs, forums and other online resources that talk about the specifics of the UK financial world, from ISAs to investing to bricks and mortar. My key aims in the next few years are to pay off £12k in student loans as fast as possible, save 6 months of expenses, a deposit for a house and get my retirement funding in order - which websites will help me do this?

By: gene_machine

gene_machine — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:59 -0800

The Motley Fool.

By: Jakey

Jakey — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:22:41 -0800

Money Saving Expert

By: jamesonandwater

jamesonandwater — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:37:17 -0800

Don't live in the UK but can recommend British blogger Plonkee.com. She has a nice writing style, a lively comments section, and responds to questions. She links to other British bloggers on her sidebar there too. Also try this GRS post which rounds up some British money bloggers.

By: boosh

boosh — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:38:32 -0800

The HousePriceCrash forum has good sections on savings, investments, markets and general economics, with a healthy side-serving of cynicism.

By: tonylord

tonylord — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:21:34 -0800

Seconding Money Saving Expert. And this is the page you need.

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:43:47 -0800

Brilliant, thanks everyone.