Week 2: Fine-tune your car insurance

Okay, let’s start this whole saving-money-on-financial- products thing with something that’s fairly straight­forward and easy to do but which we don’t tend to do because, well, quite frankly we’ve usually got better things happening in our lives. And also maybe a little bit because we’ve never been shown how, which is a shame because it’s not difficult and it can potentially save you hundreds of dollars.

I’m talking about shopping around for your car insurance. A 2011 CHOICE report found that shopping around could net a young male driver a potential annual saving of $981, and an adult couple (or singles) $531, so it’s something that’s well worth spending an hour on. It really doesn’t have to be any more ...

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