Yesterday the renewal notice for my wife’s car dropped into the mailbox. A 30% increase on last year’s quote! Naturally I started looking for cheaper car insurance.

Usually this takes me the best part of a day. I have to find all the latest offers, enter my wife’s details into all the little boxes, plus mine as co-driver of course. Then compile a spreadsheet with all the quotes and associated excess.

It’s not fun.

But this year I decided to give multi-quote agencies a try. In the UK I found

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Did you know that it is now possible to read your favorite magazines online?

I was surprised to find out about this too. For some years I’d been subscribing to a hobbyist magazine that I really liked but had to pay international posting costs to receive.

It really stuck in my craw that the postal costs amounted to almost as much as the magazine subscription costs. And, of course, I had to wait every month for the postal service to ship it by airmail.

Then a friend started telling me about what he’d read in the latest issue BEFORE I HAD RECEIVED THAT MONTH’S COPY!  ...Click Here to read more...