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June 2025 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the sixth Grocery Challenge of 2025! As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget to levels that you will be pleased with, not forgetting that we always recommend that you stay inside your own comfort levels and take things gently one step at a time. Remember that this is not a…
May 2025 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the fifth Grocery Challenge of 2025! As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget to levels that you will be pleased with, not forgetting that we always recommend that you stay inside your own comfort levels and take things gently one step at a time. Remember that this is not a…
New to the Old Style MoneySaving board? Start here
💬 Some classic Old Style threads * Share your charity shop bargains * Cooking for one * Meal plan thread * Sneaky Ways to Save the Pennies and Lots more Sneaky Ways to Save the Pennies * Vinegar - 1001 uses! * The Old Style Starter Pack * What are you making for dinner? * Reverse meal planning Plus keep an eye on the…
Coffee...
I am used to a daily coffee shop flat white or portadown but soon I may need to cut down due to budget and buying a house. I am here to ask what's the next best thing to a coffee shop which saves a bit of money? I have expensive taste so won't be using instant coffee just want to reduce from £4 a day. I also value…
Weekly Flylady Thread 9th June 2025
Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole…
Could we start a meal plan thread again, so it's not lost in the GC?
Just thought this would be quicker reference than what's for dinner or searching through lots of posts? There used to be one a while back, Meal Plan Monday or obviously whatever day you start yours on 🙂 I did post mine in the Grocery challenge, but will post again for anybody that doesn't join in with that thread. Vegan…
5 OS pleasures in your day today - part 3
Ok I'm diving in as I've noticed several of us have lost posts we thought had posted, and there now seems to be a serious risk of losing the whole thread. So thanks for the heads up Karcher. (and i sympathise Frith - i too like to nip back) I've revisited the first thread of our part 2, posted 28th October 2009. It said:…
2025 Fashion On The Ration Challenge
(The Fashion On The Ration Challenge is about restraining our shopping impulses and buying the clothing we need as well as what we want. As @Laura_Elsewhere said "If this group is about anything, it's about understanding how we buy and what we buy and when we buy...". We use the original, 1942, clothing rations.) ---------…
2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering
To use Guineapigsqueaks/Sa1sysoo words “A new thread for declutterbugs in (2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024) 2025 !" My 2024 was another washout on the decluttering & decorating fronts. That is what happens when I don’t plan ahead 😔 Neither DH nor I have managed to summon up any enthusiasm for anything…
Cooking for one (Mark Three)
Welcome to Cooking one (Mark Three), time to get a shiny new thread up and running. The link to "Cooking for one (Mark Two)" can be found here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/73708876#Comment_73708876 Cooking For One 13th Jan 17 at 7:32 PM Hi, newbie poster though long time lurker trying to adjust…
Summertime
...and the living is easy Well, at least all about us doing the things that will make our day to day lives easier, our minds easier, and our long term life and MSE goals easier to achieve 🥂 Oh, and finding mse ways to enjoy it! Looking forward to hearing about everyone's summer aims and achievements 😊
Let Thrift shopping thrive in 25!
A shiny new thread for the thrift shoppers amongst us - those who haunt car boots, FB marketplace, Vinted, Ebay, jumble sales & charity shops to score bargains galore!
Shop Charity Store in '24!
A shiny thread for chazzer shopping in 2024 - and remember, if you're 'fashion on the ration' then it's 'coupon-free'. If you want to save the planet, boost a cause or stretch your money - come post your finds on here, be they fabulous or funny.
Making pasta pots
Can anyone give me hints and tips about reproducing similar pots to the supermarket ones please? I love the basic pasta with dressing, pine nuts and cheese and can enjoy the one with garlic mayo. Now they have gone up to nearly £5😲 and I've had a go at them. My problem seems to be that I can't make them the day before or…
Old Style daily Friday 13th June
Morning all from Mehefinland Friday 13th again! Well will be better than the 12th when we had tremendous downpours in the morning. In the afternoon there was an almighty bang and all the power went off in the village and the surrounding area. A transformer up on a pole in a nearby field had 'exploded'. One of my…
2025 Frugal Living Challenge
Welcome to the all new 2025 Frugal Living Challenge Challenge yourself to live a frugal lifestyle so you can afford the freedom to enjoy life. This is about household budgeting, simply living and being creative with your money. Frugality can be a fabulous lifestyle choice for debtbusting, boosting savings or investing in…
What are you making for dinner?
There were problems with the original thread in that it disappeared and could not be reinstated. So a new thread was created and we all started again, unfortunately that thread also seems to have joined it's predecessor. So here's a new one. We need to hear about Suki's lamb casserole and Island Maid is back from Amsterdam…
Tiger rolls and doughnuts
I ordered two TGTG bakery boxes from Morrisons, and I received 28 rock hard tiger rolls and 15 sugared ring doughnuts (also a couple of loaves of bread which are now in the freezer and will be fine for toast. Any ideas on what to do with the rolls and doughnuts, apart from the obvious!! Was thinking of cutting the rolls…
O/S Daily Thursday 12th June 2025
Good morning, I'm a bit early this mornng, after a bad night. It's a nice morning, fine and dry. I've just been out in the garden admiring the results of my labours yesterday - I finally got out there, weeded and did a general tidy. I washed the front door and window frames, even the front gate!! I know it won't stay like…
Smelly dishwasher
Awful awful ‘wet dog’ smell! We have cleaned out literally everything and every part of our dishwasher, filters, seals, spray arms, then put a dishwasher cleaner on in the empty machine on intensive wash. We always put intensive cycle on anyway. And STILL this awful smell which means I have to rinse a plate to use it! We…
Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 2nd Quarter 2025
Hi All Welcome to the Old Style Weight Loss thread for quarter two 2025 Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st April until the 30th June. You do not have to submit a loss or gain for the first week as it's our starting week, you can post your first loss…
O/S Daily Wednesday 11th June 2025
Morning, just starting off.
Reusing and repurposing - frugal ideas and tips on how to reuse and repurpose virtually everything!
Hello all, I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread on tips and tricks people have found to reuse and repurpose all the things in our lives that have come to the end of their first life, and would otherwise be chucked in recycling/bin. From an environmental perspective recycling should be our last port of call.…

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Winter Fuel Payments to be reinstated for millions – Martin Lewis explains how it'll work, what it means and if it's an improvement
All State Pensioners in England and Wales will receive a Winter Fuel Payment this winter, though those who earn over £35,000 will see it clawed back through the tax system. It means nine million pensioners will get the £200 or £300 top-up. Here MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis shares his instant response and analysis, and we include answers to your key questions.
Winter Fuel Payments to be reinstated for millions – Martin Lewis explains how it'll work, what it means and if it's an improvement
All State Pensioners in England and Wales will receive a Winter Fuel Payments this winter, though those who earn over £35,000 will see it clawed back through the tax system. It means nine million pensioners will get the £200 or £300 top-up. Here MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis shares his instant response and analysis, and we include answers to your key questions.
Which NatWest and RBS branches are closing from 2025? Here's the full list – and banking alternatives
NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which are both part of the NatWest Group, will shut at least 108 of their bank branches in 2025 and beyond, after the Group announced a further 52 NatWest closures.
Winter Fuel Payments to be reinstated for millions – Martin Lewis explains how it'll work, what it means and if it's an improvement
Winter Fuel Payments will be reinstated to all pensioners in England and Wales this winter – but will be clawed back automatically from those earning over £35,000 a year, the Government has confirmed. It means nine million pensioners will get the £200 or £300 top-up. MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis shares his instant response and analysis.
Car finance mis-selling update: regulator prepares for compensation scheme – and warns against using claims firms
Payouts for mis-sold car finance could be another step closer as the financial regulator has set out the factors it will consider if it were to introduce an industry-wide redress scheme – though we won't know more about how this will work until after a key Supreme Court decision expected in July. In the meantime, the regulator has warned that you DON'T need to sign up with a claims firm to be included.
Winter Fuel Payments to be extended to pensioners earning £35,000 or less – here's what we know so far
Winter Fuel Payments will be extended to all pensioners with incomes of £35,000 or less this winter, the Government has confirmed. It means nine million pensioners will get the £200 or £300 top-up.
Winter Fuel Payments extension confirmed for this winter – watch Martin Lewis' instant response and his message to the Chancellor
Winter Fuel Payments will be extended to more pensioners this winter – though not to everyone – the Chancellor has today confirmed. However, exact details of who will now qualify still remain scant. Watch MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis give his instant response, as well as his key message for Rachel Reeves.
Nationwide Fairer Share: Free £100 bonus confirmed for 2025 – here's who will get it
If you bank with Nationwide, you could get a free £100 paid into your account in June or July as part of the building society's 'Fairer Share' scheme. The bonus will be paid to millions of its current account customers who also have savings or a mortgage with it.
Forced onto a prepay energy meter? You may be due money back as 10,000s to be compensated
If you had an energy prepayment meter forcibly installed or your smart meter was remotely switched to prepay mode without your permission, you could be entitled to compensation of up to £1,000 and may even be eligible to have your energy debts written off.

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