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Which one item truly brings you happiness for little or no cost? That's the question posed by one MoneySaver this week. Let's take a tour of some of the latest MSE Forum highlights. Seen something on the Forum we should include in next week's highlights blog? Let us know in this thread.
There's a bank holiday approaching (at least at the time of posting this!), which means many people will be thinking of attempting some jobs that need doing around the home. But while some seem comfortable knocking together an extension or retiling a bathroom, others find putting up a shelf or changing a fuse to be an…
What have MoneySavers been talking about this week on the MSE Forum? Join us for a whistle-stop tour of some of the latest discussions and dilemmas. Seen something on the Forum we should include in next week's highlights blog? Let us know in this thread.
From what I've read my understanding is that HMRC use the previous year's interest on savings to estimate a figure for the current year and adjust the tax code accordingly. My question is how this works in the first year of going above the £1000 limit. My situation (rough figures for illustration only) is that I will be…
Due to sudden and debilitating chronic illness, I won't be able to work in the foreseeable future. I am hoping that I will recover within the next decade, but this is uncertain. I have 200k GBP in savings, which should allow me to focus on my recovery and not having to worry about my existence from a financial standpoint.…
Can anyone recommend reliable and good value breakdown cover that includes up to a month of European cover, please? I've looked at the AA, with Topcashback, which seems good for the UK, but European cover is quite expensive, particularly as we're only going over there for a couple of weeks this year.
Hello all, On the 2nd August we purchased and collected a used car from a local dealer to ourselves, all fine and dandy in the first week apart from we could not understand how to function the infotainment screen, during that week my Wife asked me to take a look, I was reading the manual to see what we needed to do but was…
Hey everyone, I went back to uni just before I turned 40, so have quite a lot of debt from that, and from generally trying to live whilst working and studying. I tackled a bit before the end of 2024, but that was mostly getting on top of things, doing some 0% balance transfers, and I paid of two small debts of about £250…
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