{"id":1213,"date":"2008-11-30T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T07:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/home-finance\/brits-plan-sweeping-changes-as-credit-crunch-hits"},"modified":"2016-03-13T21:39:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T21:39:41","slug":"brits-plan-sweeping-changes-as-credit-crunch-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/home-finance\/brits-plan-sweeping-changes-as-credit-crunch-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits Plan Sweeping Changes As Credit Crunch Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/images\/legal-and-general\/sweeping-changes.jpg\" alt=\"Brits Plan Sweeping Changes As Credit Crunch Hits \" class=\"right\" \/>According to new research from Legal &amp; General, 93% of people in Britain are making major financial cutbacks in the home, in order to survive the current economic turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>At a time of market uncertainty, when UK homes have been hit by a string of major cost of living hikes, the new research suggests that the majority of British families are responding, by taking practical action to combat the financial pressures.<\/p>\n<p>Legal &amp; General\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcChanging Face of British Homes research\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, points to widespread action being taken to tackle the market downturn head on, across all age groups and all regions.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of over 4,200 people, asked Brits what steps they are taking to keep home and living costs down.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 ways being taken to beat the downturn across the UK:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. Buying cheaper food \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 65%.<br \/>\n2. Initiatives to keep fuel bills down \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 65%.<br \/>\n3. Cutting down on takeaways \/ eating out \/ ready meals \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 50%.<br \/>\n4. Switching to cheaper utility\/energy provider \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 39%.<br \/>\n5. Shopping around for cheaper home insurance \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 32%.<br \/>\n6. Walking or cycling more \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 29%.<br \/>\n7. Putting off home improvement projects \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 27%.<br \/>\n8. Having a car boot\/ eBay sale \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 22%.<br \/>\n9. Making energy saving\/ home improvements \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 22%.<br \/>\n10. Growing own fruit and vegetables \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 20%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Legal &amp; General has developed an online calculator, www.legalandgeneral.com\/contentscalculator\u00c2\u00a0to help people determine the amount of household insurance cover they should consider having in place.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that by using this service, customers will be able to place a more accurate valuation on their contents, to ensure they have a realistic and cost effective level of household contents insurance cover in place.<\/p>\n<p>Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalandgeneral.com\/\">http:\/\/www.legalandgeneral.com<\/a><br \/>\nTel: (0800) 02 77 156<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changingfaceofbritishhomes.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.changingfaceofbritishhomes.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new research from Legal &amp; General, 93% of people in Britain are making major financial cutbacks in the home, in order to survive the current economic turmoil. At a time of market uncertainty, when UK homes have been hit by a string of major cost of living hikes, the new research suggests that the majority of British families are responding, by taking practical action to combat the financial pressures. Legal &amp; General\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcChanging Face of British Homes research\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, points to widespread action being taken to tackle the market downturn head on, across all age groups and all regions. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/home-finance\/brits-plan-sweeping-changes-as-credit-crunch-hits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7698,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/7698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}