Predictive text predicament
October 16th, 2008Try typing this into a predictive text phone: “Tidying treacle in Cornwall.”
Try typing this into a predictive text phone: “Tidying treacle in Cornwall.”
Now expendable can make calculations for stoozing as well. Stoozing, if you haven’t heard that word, is when you pay for things on a credit card that charges 0% on purchases so that the amount you would normally pay off the card with each month is moved into a savings account instead. This way you can earn interest until the 0% period ends. Here’s an example.
As I wrote previously, I’ve been keeping tabs on how much electricity I use. Last week I got a whole-house electricity monitor called an OWL from natural collection and have been playing around with it. It’s surprising how surprising the results are, if you see what I mean. I know that switching on the kettle uses more electricity, but I was a bit taken aback at how much more.
This is a quick guide to using Expendable for modelling home finances. If you want to be able to predict how much time or interest can be saved on a mortgage by using an offset facility, or want to see the effects of using a cash ISA or regular saver account, or any other type of savings account, this might be for you.