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Re: Money Moral Dilemma: Should we return the furniture we thought we'd been given for free?
The donation was already a generous and thoughtful way to say thank you for something that was essentially gifted to you. If they expected payment, they should have said this upfront before giving yo…1 -
Re: NST March 2026: The Turtles are revolting!!!
Revolting turtles: 1 apple_muncher 2 thriftylass 3 grandmanerd 4 weenancyinAmerica 5 beanielou 6 Thriftymissus1 -
Re: Pick'n'Mix - the joy of the chaz in '26!
Daphne!!! One nice find today: a pair of Brasher Grisedale walking trousers. I had a pair of these from a charity shop in a 12 and have been wearing hem but they are ahem slightly snug. So delighted …10 -
Re: The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread
Purrfect, I bet there will be at least 9 tales about this.8 -
Re: Pick'n'Mix - the joy of the chaz in '26!
Aw. She is a celeb because of this forum.8 -
Re: Lloyds switch for up to £500, 24 February to 30 April 2026
So I rang Lloyds up to get more clarification on the spending exclusions. Not that I’m adverse to spending £200 on the card, it’s more that I spend on my Amex every month and clear the balance, so I …2 -
Re: MSE and Virgin Media
So you have a deal for 24 months and then you go out of contract and you pay full whack at that point? That's pretty much normal if you do nothing. If I look on MSE site I can see the following …1 -
Re: Surving Spouse Pension
There is no obligation to nominate someone for a surviving spouse pension. There must be many divorced/single retirees in the same position1 -
Re: Surving Spouse Pension
If it's like the civil service can you not do a "Partnership declaration form" rather than going the whole hog and entering into a Civil Partnership. If you do enter into a CP - would …1 -
Re: MSE News: Energy firms to trial ‘low or no Standing Charge’ tariffs from April – here’s what we know
Interesting from Greg Jackson https://youtu.be/DU3f7wB7rVQ?si=M3meHsVRkAMkcU091
