{"id":84380,"date":"2018-04-02T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-spring-clean-your-bank-account\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:03:20","slug":"how-to-spring-clean-your-bank-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-spring-clean-your-bank-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to spring-clean your bank account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nMany of us still have direct debits for things we don\u2019t use, need or want, such as insurance or extended warranties. So now\u2019s the time to check your monthly cash flowIt may be time to spring-clean your bank account. According to a recent survey, on average more than a third of direct debits are for things we don\u2019t use or don\u2019t realise we\u2019re paying for. This costs us an average of \u00a339.98 a month, the research for Sky Mobile found. How can you better marshal your money? Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/shortcuts\/2018\/apr\/02\/how-to-spring-clean-your-bank-account\" target=\"_blank\">How to spring-clean your bank account<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Many of us still have direct debits for things we don\u2019t use, need or want,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-lWY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87909,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/first-direct-offers-seven-day-switch-but-its-been-a-nightmare\/","url_meta":{"origin":84380,"position":0},"title":"First Direct offers seven-day switch \u2013 but it\u2019s been a nightmare","date":"May 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Moving direct debits over has involved a string of calls to the likes of British Gas and BTI recently switched my bank account to First Direct and despite the seven-day switch guarantee it has been a nightmare. 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