Tuesday 7 April 2020

Effective Ways To Contact Financial Institutions



Effective Ways to Contact Financial Institutions
Hey hey there. Hope you are hanging in there. Oh yes, I've had my own personal experiences of contacting a few financial institutions. I had to wait for two hours on the telephone at one point.

Here are the best and effective ways to contact your financial institution:

Best Ways To Contact Financial Institutions


  1. Live chat: typically, staff who cover the live chat part of a business do not work in an office. They are usually remote workers working separately to staff we meet on a day-to-day basis. These staff are available to speak.
  2. Email: yes, good old email still works. You've never received a response so fast in your life!
  3. Contact form: remember those forms we sometimes fill out online and totally forget about? Try them too. They work just as great, if not even better.
  4. And finally, Bot. The AI (artificial intelligence) that answers standard questions. This is probably the least useful of them all.
Please do not provide personal information, usernames or passwords EVER!

If you must speak to someone on the phone, be ready to wait.

Be Ready To Wait


As with anything I write or say, Spend BETTER by saving your much needed data. 

N.B - there are a few other ways of contacting these companies such as video call and WhatsApp.

#WeAreInItTogether

Until next time,
Much💛
Deborah

Saturday 15 February 2020

Water



Water

Say 'Yes' to all of these questions and I'll say no more!
  1. Do you use bottled water to shower?
  2. Do you use bottled water to cook?
  3. Do you use bottled water to brush your teeth?
  4. Do you use bottled water to wash your food?
  5. Or do you wash your hair with bottled water?
  6. Does your whole family use bottled water for all of these things?
  7. Do you wash your dirty clothes and dishes with bottled water?
  8. Is water man-made?
  9. Oh, before I forget to ask, do you drink tap water at restaurants?


You get my drift.

Hello and welcome back. I've spoken on this topic sometime in the past. I think it was in my all female Facebook group. Anyway, let's break it down even further!

What has water got to do with financial literacy or education? A lot!
Sawyerrs' House
Water
I'll simply put it this way. If bottled water is costing you an arm and a leg, drink what comes out of your tap. But why Deborah? Are you thinking to yourself right now, I just can't live without bottled water? Hear this, you are paying for water two times over. 

Here's a YouTube video I'd like you to watch. It's called Spendaholics. Scroll to 10 mins and to 15 mins where she gets round the issue.

Think about it. When you get your monthly paycheck after tax, you pay for your water bill out of it. Then, you dig into the rest of your pay packet and pay for bottled water.


What I am not saying is, 'don't buy bottled water'. This post isn't for you if you don't have access to clean drinking water.

What I am saying is this:

  • Tap water is just as treated as bottled water.
  • The plastic containers water are sold in are bad for our environment.
  • Just get a pretty glass bottle, fill it up with tap water. Keep it moving.
  • The Western world has free clean water. I hope we remember this.
  • Some developing nations don't have water at all - let alone dirty water. Please remember this.

Sunday 29 December 2019

The Power of 3 as a Thank You

The Power of 3


It has been such a long time that I sat down to write anything. Suddenly, it occurred to me how I've been working in 3's without even realising it.

I'm no poet, but here we go:

3 stages in your financial blueprint
The foundation, structure and apex

3 bank accounts is what you need
The Need-to, The Want-to, The Must-do

3 percentages to your Money Makeover
50%, 10%, 40%

3 taglines
Spend BETTER, Save BIGGER, Invest BRAVELY


The Power of 3

3 is half of 6, the number of kids flashcards
Budget. Needs. Wants. Bucketlist. Save. Invest

3 years ago, Sawyerrs' House was established
You have made it happen. Thank you so very much.


Power of 3



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