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Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
Sending hugs and hope for better times for you @Prudent Not too much frugality has been happening here due to YD's birthday last week; we had a lovely lunch at our favourite cafe and then a wand…14 -
Re: Changes in your retirement expenditure
The drop in income, while significant, has been manageable (don't underestimate the costs of being employed). That depends on the kind of job. When I retired, I gave up a fully expensed company …3 -
Re: Broken toilet handle
Boiler service - Gas Safe engineer. Plumbing - General plumber or handyman. A GS engineer may well be more expensive when it comes to general plumbing jobs. So I'd treat the boiler service as on…2 -
Re: Broken toilet handle
Thanks very much - no idea of the make or model of the tap. It's probably 20+ years old. When it broke (ahem, 2024) I was starting to mull over the idea of replacing it, but life got in the way …1 -
Re: Changes in your retirement expenditure
We all just assumed you spent your winters on Bondi Beach1 -
Re: pension will cost me £100 to receive
Sorry not related to resolving the OPs query as such, but this is the reason we kept renewing our mother's passport, even though travel abroad was not a likely possibility.2 -
Re: Octopus saving sessions
Mrs QrizB took her EV away for most of the day (I know, how thoughtless 😂) but nevertheless we did OK. My first session was 1100-1200. It was dull and solar wasn't making anything much so I rec…3 -
Re: IHT - GWRoB - Complications
OK, so we decided to accept the money and buy the PBs and not to mention the risk of GWRoB any further as FiL robustly denied that there is any such concept as GWRoB and therefore it cannot apply. It…1 -
Re: Switching bank accounts while I have a loan
Income doesn’t matter for standard current accounts, of which there are plenty. Setting up any DDs required on the donor account for the switch bonus might be a bit more challenging - but there is a …2 -
Re: Click to pay
Which retailers support Click to Pay? I do not expect that we will be forced to use it any time soon. No retailer (with any sense) will force you to use CtP, the conventional form-filling will still …1
