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Whether it's high street charity shops or websites like eBay and Vinted, there are plenty of second hand bargains to be had if you're looking to save cash on clothes (and do your bit for the environment at the same time). Have you ever bought a pre-loved item of clothing?
"Waiter, waiter! There's a fly in my soup!" "Shh! Quiet down or everyone will want one." Badum-tsh (thank you, I'm here all week) Whether it's an unwanted insect interloper or something else entirely, it can be disappointing to be dining out only to have a meal marred by a mistake. While some of us might flag it to the…
My dentist has recommended I switch to an electric toothbrush, as I wasn’t quite getting the technique right with a manual one. She told me that several of her patients use the Oral-B iO3, and said that if I decide to buy one, I should definitely avoid paying full price — as they often come up on sale, as special offers,…
(Second time writing this because this keeps crashing! It took me about half an hour to write it initially so I'm just going to summarise it this time as I really can't write it all out at length again!) 1) A dodgy company called "Suits Me" sent a bank card to my old address. 2) Occupant of my old address forwarded it to…
SO pre retirement our post tax, post mortgage, post retirement savings income was about 30k pa. Now I have retired, have paid off my mortgage, no NI and less income tax it is likely to be closer to 55k. Not that we are likely to spend it all. Anyone else finding their planned / actual post retirement 'disposable' income is…
I referred my parents to sign up to Plum when they were offering the referral bonus. They both signed up and I've noticed with both accounts, Plum is automatically been dipping into their linked bank accounts and has basically set up a rule to take monthly sums from their linked accounts. With my mother's account it's £1 a…
Any ideas for cleaning some very old silver. This isn't hall marked stuff, but probably Indian silver from about the turn of the century. 3 pieces that belonged to my grandmother and I think her mother. I bought some jewellery cleaner and dipped them in but that did nothing (all 3 pieces are tarnished badly). I used to…
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It's also been confirmed that you'll be able to get automatic compensation from your energy supplier for certain smart meter problems.
The Bank of England said there had been "substantial disinflation over the past two and a half years". It's the third time the base rate has been cut this year.
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