As part of our FT Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign, some of our experts explain how they learnt the hard way . . .
What have you got against free money?’ – Pilita Clark, business columnist
Take home message: read the small print – Brooke Masters, chief business commentator
How I crashed my finances for love – Isabel Berwick, work and careers editor
Strawberry yields forever – Jonathan Guthrie, head of Lex
Why am I still paying for this coffee table? – Claer Barrett, consumer editor
The fatal lure of a massive black telly – Matthew Vincent, editor, FT Project Publishing
‘If you ever have to pay someone money’ he said . . . – Sarah O’Connor, employment columnist
The crippling cost of having children – Lucy Kellaway, FT writer
Losing money was always on the cards – Paul Lewis, presenter BBC Money Box
My four-wheeled foibles – Ken Okoroafor, FT Money columnist and blogger