photo credit: Artis.Rozentāls
No? Nor me.
But, it seems people do – according to this article in the Telegraph . Mmmm – I’ve just visited the website of the bakery – Hobbs and I can see why they are tempted!
The funny thing is though – £21 for a loaf of bread seems extraordinary enough to talk about and I bet, like me, you are tempted, but in a ‘nose pressed against the sweetshop window’ fashion – you want one, but you know you can’t because it’s silly.
I have two main types of customer, those that want me to do something – arrange a pension or a mortgage or something like that. And the other types are those that know they have a load of direct debits to insurance companies, but don’t really know what they are for.
For the second group (and often the 1st) when I look at what people spend on their insurances, ISA’s, pensions, utilities and mortgages; saving £20pm is often easy and sometimes I can save people a great deal more than that. I’ll use me as an example – my business phone used to cost me over £100pm, now it costs about £20 – £25 most months. I could have 3 of those loaves every month just on my phone bill saving.
This may be because it is what I do – for me, all the information is available and I know how to assess the best products, I know the ones where cheapest really is best, or where spending a couple of £ extra is good value. No call centres will baffle me, or try to ‘upsell’ and so the process is easy.
I can do this for you. I will visit you at home, look through your stuff, tell you what can be done and if you want me to, sort it out.
For blog readers, I will cover any expenses that I have for this. If I can save you £20pm you can invite me round afterwards for a sandwich made with £21 bread…
