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These days, voice recognition on our devices means you don't even need to type anything let alone use a pen and paper. But still, for some of us there are times where writing by hand is preferred. How often do you find yourself physically writing something down?
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Morrisons is by far the worst. Check your receipts everyone. Morrisons overcharge me at nearly every visit. And even telling the cashier of being overcharged (if you get a cashier to scan your products) means that you have to go into a separate queue to even ask for your discount to pay the advertised price! They don't…
Just over a year has passed since the final entry of my last diary. A whole year of no debts and no mortgage 😁 We are semi-retired, using our private pensions to cover the cost of bread and butter and running our own business part-time to put jam on it. You’d think I could do without a money saving diary in those…
Hope all is well Please can you advise why I get page unresponsive or the page is slowing Firefox when I use ChatGPT as the only other thing open is mail, and my accounts package? The laptop is less is just over a year old? As tried edge IE Chrome Firefox get the same, do I need to take the laptop top in for a check up, or…
Hi, So, My mortgage is due for renewal in June 2026. I bought a house for £190,000 with around a £48,000 deposit on a 5 year fixed rate of 1.63% interest which comes to an end on 30th June 2026. I currently owe £129,363 and pay £517.72 and i have 25 years and 6 months left to pay (i will be 68 when this ends). I know…
It seems like no lender does anymore more. I would like a mortgage I can overpay, but if needs be draw that overpayment money back out if needs be, it seems I can only see Barclays allow underpayments and thats it? Offset seem non existent or extortionate rates?! Scottish Widdows and First Direct no longer even do offset.…
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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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