Household Spending Habits

The credit crisis is causing people to rethink their spending, a recent poll by Fairinvestment.co.uk has found.

A whopping 24 million British travellers could be inadvertently smuggling goods on their return from holidays and trips outside the EU, according to research by Saga Travel Insurance.

Alliance Trust Research Centre's Financial Reality Index highlights the worsening financial reality facing households and points to household spending growth cooling over the year ahead.

New research by The Co-operative Bank think card has revealed the majority of Brits (61%) now consider ethical issues when shopping.

We're all middle class now... or so we thought. How many Brits who classify themselves as middle class are actually working class by financial standing?

A survey published by the Charities Aid Foundation has found that we think we should be much more charitable than in fact we are. Nearly one third (29%) of us believe we should all aim to give two per cent or more of our income to charity each year.

At a time when household budgets are being squeezed more than ever, the last thing Brits need is to be landed with an incorrect bill. However, in the last three months over eight million people have been overcharged.

40 per cent of Brits - 18.4 million people - are prepared to put their money where their mouth is and pay extra for environmentally friendly products, according to new research from online bank cahoot.

Over a third (36%) of Britons admit to judging people based on what they wear, with many of us tempted to spend beyond our means in order to appear ‘well-off' to our peers despite the recent credit crisis, according to new research from CreditExpert.co.uk.

Inflation hit the over 75 year olds the hardest in March - this age group faces an inflation rate of 3.4%, according to a study by Alliance Trust. Inflation rates facing all other identified age groups decreased slightly in March but still remained ahead of the official headline rate of inflation of 2.5%.