Welcome to Askix, this site is here to bring you money saving tips and general money advice. My aim is to make the most of every penny and I hope to help you do the same. I try to source the best information and provide practical advise that everyone can use to make the best use of their money possible. This doesn't have to be time consuming for you and you can spend the money your save on treating yourself and your family! Hopefully Askix can become your one stop shop for all your money saving needs. Now I realise I can't possibly know everything but I do usually know where to find it. So if there is useful advice out there I will point you in the right direction. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy your visit.

Have you thought to yourself – I am going to change my ISP? I had similar thoughts recently and in the end decided I was going to change my ISP. Broadband providers are very competitive at the minute, so I decided now was the right time to change my ISP. They are some great deals [...]

A good Credit Score can help you do more. Get your credit score from freecreditreport.com. If you have a bad credit history it can effect anything you might want to do. It is often useful to perform a bad credit check to make sure you are in good shape. If you perform a bad credit [...]

Planning your next holiday? If you are a true money saver you will be doing it yourself, and I’m sure you will be on the look out for really cheap flights. Budget airlines brought down the price of air travel and for a long time you could get really cheap flights all over the place. [...]

Student office software is more widely known now, but I think there are still a lot of people who don’t know about it. Student office software is available from a number of vendors and means you can get software such as Microsoft Office much cheaper, if you are a student. These type of student office [...]

I have been thinking of getting some white computer speakers for a while now but there don’t seem to be many places that are selling them. I would like to get some cheap white computer speakers really, well not cheap but they have to be good value. There are meant to go next to my [...]

If you are reading this then like me you are probably always on the look out for a bargain. PC Happy which is a computer support company based in Sheffield have some great prices for fixing computers and others services. The website can be found here  - Computer Support and PC Fix in Sheffield – [...]

If you have a website that you are trying to make a bit of money from then getting traffic is a key requirement. Sometimes you can try and pick up on short lived trends that may drive traffic in your direction. Unfortunately if you aren’t quick you may end up missing the boat. This type [...]

In basic terms a lawn aerator is a garden tool designed to aerate the soil to promote the growth of grass. Lawn aeration improves drainage and encourages worms, which are all good for your lawn. A commercial lawn aerator does this on a much larger scale. It will usually be powered by an engine unlike a domestic lawn aerator [...]

When I was buying my last car about a year ago I considered a number of things. I decided in the end that one of the most important things to me was how much it would cost to run. Well that was probably the second most important thing as firstly it had to fit down [...]

I have only recently started checking my receipt after someone suggested I should and already I am wishing I had done it sooner. I have found on a number of occasions that I have been charged too much for something or not got an offer that I should have. Shops are usually pretty good at [...]

I don’t think I know anybody who doesn’t freely admit to hoarding stuff that may “come in useful”. Chances are it never will. I thought to myself as I was carefully storing the 232nd plastic bag in the “plastic bag” drawer – why am I doing this, what can I do with 232 plastic bags [...]

Usually the best place to put you money in the UK is in a tax free ISA as these have good interest rates and you don’t have to pay tax on them. If you have already filled your ISA allowance or have another reason for not using on then you will want to use an [...]

There have been companies offering cheap international phone calls for a number of years. Often in the form of a phone card that meant dialling a number before the one you wanted to call. In recent years this has become a very competitive market. One of the reasons for the increased competition on cheap international [...]

Healthy eating is getting a lot of press at the minute. I think we now all realise we need a healthy lifestyle to keep our bodies in good shape. This should be the primary reason for you say no to junk food and unhealthy food, but it is also good for you wallet too. A [...]

I found this great place where you can read books for free and you can even take them home and keep them for a couple weeks. It was full of thousands of books and there were only a few people there. It turns out these places have been around for ages, the women behind the [...]

A few years ago I realised I was wasting lots of money every day. It is very easy to get in a routine that costs you too much money. There are lots of things that you spend money on every day without really thinking, add all these expenses up and they make a big difference. [...]

Buying gifts for all your friends and family can be very expensive, but have you ever considered making your own inexpensive homemade gifts. You may think people will think you are being cheap but in reality most people love the fact you have put a bit of time and thought in to making them something. [...]

Over the past couple of years broadband has changed a lot in the UK. LLU has really started to take off and is becoming ever more popular. This is Local Loop Unbundling and basically means that a company other than BT has put it’s equipment in your local exchange. You may think this doesn’t sound [...]

I seem to be spending all my free time at the minute looking at personal finance and money blogs. As I have been going along I have been bookmarking them all so I can use them again. I have found some great stuff on these sites so I thought it would be a good idea [...]

I have been considering stopping sending real cards for a while now and giving the money to charity instead. There are many other ways of passing on your greetings without helping the card companies make an even bigger profits. How about a free online greetings card and a telephone message. Take a bit of time [...]