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Long Time No Blog!

Written by David Dunn on October 29, 2008 – 11:20 am - 111 views

Yes, I know, I haven’t blogged on either of my blogs for quite a long time now (I’m not even going to look at the date of my last post to see how long it’s been).

However, I haven’t stopped reading several blogs on the internet and keeping on top of stuff. The main reason I haven’t been blogging is just the lack of time - having just started college and such like.

When keeping myself updated with blogs on Google Reader today I came across a blog post from Budgets are Sexy - another money-making style blog on the internet. The blog post was about a ‘dollar a day’ challenge.

Now, I never knew nothing about the mentioned ‘dollar a day’ challenge as I haven’t been subscribed to this blog long enough to know about it.

The blogger posts this post about how they are going to tweak their originally set out challenge to save $1 every working day.

Now, at the moment I own an ISA bank account from Halifax and I have great difficulty saving any money at all - therefore I reckon that adopting this plan myself I could at least save some money every year whereas now it would just get spent.

So this is how I am going to do it:

1. Save £1.50 every day of the year (including days I am not working as if that was the case I’d only be saving £3 per week)
2. This means that I’ll be saving £547.50 per year just from these £1.50s

I am also going to experiment something I found quite interesting from one of the major banks (I don’t remember which) whereby when you spend something using their accounts, the change is saved into your savings account. I’ll try and explain this better:

• You spend £12.50 on some stationary from Staples
• You pay using your debit/credit card
• The amount is then rounded up to the nearest pound and the difference is saved into your savings account
• In this case it would be 50p

I’m going to give this idea a go on a weekly basis saving up my receipts until the end of each week and transferring the ‘change’ into my ISA. I will keep the blog up-to-date about how both of these are going.

What do you think about these two ideas? Do you currently carry out either of these things or something similar? Are you finding it beneficial?

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Naughty Registration Plates

Written by David Dunn on January 15, 2008 – 2:29 pm - 4,715 views

I often visit Reg Transfers as one day (when I’m a millionaire :P) I wish to own a few expensive cars and a few expensive registration plates to go with them.

On their website they have a naughty section with some pretty cool (but naughty) plates.

Here’s a selection of some that I found great and would have on an expensive car - just for a laugh

It’s pretty obvious what this one is spelling out. You can spot it from a mile away. Price: £150,000

This one has always been a one of my favourites as Reg Transfers have had this one for a while. They had it on one of their promotional Smart Cars once, not sure if it’s still on though. Price: £99,995

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FerrariDave is Changing!

Written by David Dunn on January 14, 2008 – 11:33 am - 1,129 views

After running FerrariDave since 11th November 2007, I have decided that some stuff needs to change. Nothing too drastic so don’t worry.

Rather than FerrariDave being a personal blog, I am going to start another more personal blog with a domain name more personal to myself. This website will not only have a blog but will talk about stuff I am working on and other personal stuff - basically it will be more of a website than just a blog.

What will happen to FerrariDave?

FerrariDave is going to become more focused on motoring/automotive topics. Anything related to the motoring industry, driving, traffic law, Formula 1, and the likewise will be posted on ferraridave.com.

What else have I got planned?

Over the not-so-distant future, I plan to release the following sites:

• Personal website
• A joke site
• A cool idea for my local area that I don’t really wish to go into more detail about until I develop it a bit more..
• Local news blog
• Money making blog

That’s about all I have in mind at the moment. Obviously some of the ideas are going to be developed a bit more quickly than the others and some I have even started work on already.

More information about each project will be posted on my personal website, rather than on this ‘motoring’ site

Entrecard competiton

The Entrecard competition is still running and I will probably keep on running Entrecard contests once this one is over. Which reminds me, I need to find out how I stand with regards to Entrecard once I have more websites. Anyone have any ideas?

So hopefully the readers that I have at the moment will continue to read FerrariDave. If you aren’t interested in motoring, then I am sorry, but hopefully you will continue to follow my projects and hopefully I’ll develop something else you are interested in

Thanks for reading and wish me luck with my projects, please, I might need it!

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