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Have you checked whether you would be entitled to any benefits??0
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yes, i wouldn't be as I am just above the amount you see. can't get a reduction with council tax or anything. never mind, am looking for another job, so that's something...
didn't spend a penny yesterday! Hurrah!Saving £12k in 2015
January : £200
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Food - £3.42 left until next Tuesday
Entertainment - 2.20 left until Tuesday
Rent 52.47
Water 5.00
TV Licence 5.00
Food 15.00
Entertainment 10.00
NRT 8.50
Travel 9.00 - less 1.50 - got a lift home!
Council tax 17.00
Mobile phone 13.75
Internet 3.74
landline 2.75
Electricity 10
Dentist/Prescriptions etc 3.25
Clothes 5
160.47
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just a thought, can you read papers online? thought i'd heard somewhere you could, never done it though, saves you spending on them and risking the expensive snack temptations at the newsagents!Time, Tide and Diarrhoea wait for no man.
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I think you can yes, but when jobs are advertised most papers do two options - so advertise via the web and the paper, or advertise on web and not the paper, or advertise just with the paper. so worth gettting the paper, just in case something isn' advertised on the web...if you get me drift..Saving £12k in 2015
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Your phone seems high for a week.
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.0
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