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Re: Tariff Conundrum
Not sure why you would want to be paying a lot more for 5 months over winter when you dont really need to.3 -
Re: Waitrose - £500 in double dipping parking tickets and their unhelpful response.
He parks in Waitrose, walks our 12 year old to the bus stop and then shops in Waitrose for the meal deal. There is a 2 hour parking so sometimes he grabs a coffee in Costa and then goes into Waitrose…1 -
Re: The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread
Santander RS Well I started my RS on the 25th of the month and made my next payment on the 1st this was never returned.5 -
Re: NS&I Guaranteed Income Bonds - What term would you choose?
Just to add some perspective here ......the difference between a 1 year income bond & a 5 year income bond is £1.50 interest a month per £10K in saving. That amount of difference wouldn't pe…8 -
Re: The Pensions cashback and incentives discussion thread
That is for their most recent "year end" offer, and yes that's due to pay on the 5th December. The one being referenced above was the previous offer of 2% (to a max of £1000 cashback) …3 -
Re: Pension mis-selling in the 90s
Back in the day, pensions 'advisors' were even advising members of the (notionally) non-contributory Armed Forces Pension Scheme to opt out and join their schemes instead. Although the rule…5 -
Re: Warning about a new ANPR TOLL on Warburton Bridge over Manchester Ship Canal managed by Excel
I have received a response to an FOIA request to DVLA which may be of interest - they have actually not answered the question I asked but have supplied, a heavily redacted, 100 page DPIA from when th…8 -
Re: New Capita-run Civil Service Pension Scheme - problems (what a surprise!)
Hi All I let HR know that I would be retiring and gave them a date of Dec 18th back in the first week of September, I have logged onto Capita's portall to check if there is any notification and …2 -
Re: Changes in your retirement expenditure
Like others, I had tracked and planned expenditure for years before retiring June 2024 at 63.5 yrs. The decision moment came because supporting parents was getting increasingly awkward whilst working…2 -
Re: 2026 Frugal Living Challenge
@leftatthetrafficlights , Nancy Birtwhistle's book Clean and Green is great for recipes for homemade cleaning products and they’re pretty good.14
