HyperJar Blog

Remember that day when you and your partner, said: “Right, let’s go and live together and share all our household expenses. It’s gonna be fun”?

HyperJar is now available to download on any phone - terrific news for everyone who shares spending and money plans with friends and family.

Our lives are more and more social. We talk together in groups more – thanks to Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter.

HyperJar member Ben talks about how to manage money when you up-scale your quality of life but downsize your salary. Spoiler alert: it involves a lot of coffee compromise.

We asked behavioural economist Dr Nick Southgate about what makes us good or bad with money, and how being in control of the stuff is the very definition of cool.

Lidl have been one of the great innovators and success stories of the UK supermarket sector in the last few years. They’ve achieved this by working closely – and inventively - with suppliers to minimise cost, and deliver great products.

2nd year student Nicky talks about student budgeting, the pressure on freshers, and how to manage finances beyond those first hectic few weeks.

Unlike the glamorous, exciting, frictionless world of getting yourself into debt, the world of being smart with money has somehow ended up with a vocabulary about as attractive as bowl of cold porridge.

As we’ve been developing HyperJar, we’ve taken time to explore people’s relationship with money, and the tools they use to manage it.