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Re: Parking stories in the News/media
Adept deflection away from the posts I made last night. You lot don't like news articles exposing the sector-wide scammery, do you? Hmmm... you don't seem to like my reminding everyone abo…8 -
Re: Nearly there - What would you do?
You've done really well to pay off your cards and loans, so I'm curious what makes the overdraft harder. Has your income or expenses changed, is your motivation flagging, or is it because i…1 -
Re: How can I resize a picture to 500 pixels for eBay?
Thanks for the above, it suggests it is the either resolution or fole size, but potentially for being too big (despite the warning suggesting the opposite). You mentioned rmailing to yourself resizin…1 -
Re: Make Do, Mend & Minimise
Well not much make do or mend but minimise well my clothes are done 4 black backs to go whoohoo ohh make do i did cheap cusion covers put directly on to the old cushions they look fab mend nothing so…6 -
Re: How can I resize a picture to 500 pixels for eBay?
You could try Chat-GPT. Upload the image and ask it to convert to the required pixels. One thing I occasionally do is just add a clear white background and centre the image to it, so you end up with …1 -
Re: Ovo Energy - demands for payment for previous occupier. I am an Octopus customer
I'd suggest that the problem may even have occurred before the OP moved in. It sounds as though the previous tenant (the one with dementia) may never have registered their account with OVO, so O…1 -
Re: Not a full state pension plus a private pension
Would you believe that there are still some women still paying the married woman's stamp. Not many but one is one too many.1 -
Re: Fuse energy- Horrendous
Or the poster could probably have reduced their fixed monthly payment via their online account, no human intervention required by Octopus.1 -
Re: £10-a-Day Challenge: 2026
I’m at £1,008 so far in January. This is made up of Savings interest which I’ve maxxed out due to guidance on this forum. Online sales nectar points boots points curious cat I hope to have more updat…1 -
Re: Looking for an investment
@aroominyork probably also noticed "low risk but some risk of underperforming but not more than 1% below BoE interest rates and very resilient to a tech sector crash, with reasonable - good resi…1
