Why Home Insurance is NOT boring

When I was about 13 one of my favourite bedtime reads (apart from The Joy of Sex - the one with the horrible line drawn hippies in) was Monty Python's Big Red Book. It was blue, wasn't very big, ho ho, and it had an article in it about 'Why Accountancy is NOT boring'. It was, of course, incredibly dull and written, I think, by John Cleese who had originally considered a career in that profession before discovering his silly walk.

Anyway, it got me to thinking I should write a similar piece for my blog about Home Insurance, building and contents cover andcheap home insurance quotes on line and on the phone and why that really isn't dull at all. So...

Hold on. Before I start I really should say that, apart from the fact that Home Insurance is definitely not painfully and excruciatingly boring, that it is absolutely necessary and very important in order to protect your house, its contents and your possessions against fire, theft, flood and all the other very interesting and not boring threats faced by the UK householder. Get Home insurance, get it from Performance Direct now, save money and you won't go wrong.

Now, where was I. Listen to this, just one example from one of my favourite Home Insurance prose pieces (not from Performance Direct) which I think sums up rather well why Home Insurance is absolutely not dull.

"Household goods and personal property. Money and Valuables all belonging to and/or the responsibility of You and/or Your immediate Family contained in the dwelling Home or Holiday Home or in the open within the boundaries of the said Land as previously defined belonging to the said dwelling Home or Holiday Home. Our liability in respect of such aforesaid Valuables shall not exceed 23.5% of the Contents sum insured in any one period of insurance.

The term Contents does not include any living creature, any mechanically propelled vehicle (other than domestic gardening and pruning machines), aircraft, watercraft, hovercraft and accessories attached thereto, outboard engines, motorcycles, caravans, trailers, trailer tents, personal massage machines and their parts and accessories, credit cards, deeds, bonds, bills of exchange, promissory notes, securities for money, documents, manuscripts, firearms, shotguns."

Pure poetry. I can't see why more people don't read the small print of their Home Insurance policies (you really should), it is definitely NOT dull.

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