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Re: Which pension pot to drawdown first?
You should ask the two pension providers if you have a protected minimum pension age Vanguard definitely don't, so you don't need to ask them. Do you take from long held assets which have r…3 -
Re: Chargeback or S75
To clarify , a chargeback has been started and is in hand. I’d completely forgotten the £100 bit for S75 and neither payment was £100 or over so the chargeback was appropriate.1 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
So i forgot ive been growing lettuce in the garden and ive just checked on it and im overrun! Free to anyone local to me 🤣🤣 The car decided to kill the bottom left one.. here he is in action!!19 -
Re: Progress is...
Thank you all ladies & gent for popping into the virtual kitchen - your support means ever so much! I'm home and showered, fed, watered and tidying up from when the Ambulance was here - also…9 -
Re: 11 years of pension freedoms
When it comes to either going with an annuity or not, here are some things to consider: Do you want to leave an inheritance for kids / someone who isn't your spouse? If not then that's a po…3 -
Re: The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2026!
Agreed :) I have alpine/wild strawberries everywhere. Teeny tiny, and slightly perfumed flavour. They grow in cracks in paving… but then it turns out normal-sized strawberries grow well there too!1 -
Re: The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2026!
babes you are a champion for having a go 🍾🏆️🏅1 -
Re: Strategy Change in lieu of 2027 Pension and IHT legislation
What problem? Serious question there. You have many hundreds of thousands of pounds in pension pots at age 70, and a property portfolio worth almost a million pounds. Are your children destitute or a…8 -
Re: June 2026 Grocery Challenge
I tweaked the food plan due to the incoming hot weather, so instead we will be eating Fake Nando's chicken legs, spicy rice, garlic bread, corn on the cob, salad, coleslaw, olives, homemade appl…4 -
Re: June 2026 Grocery Challenge
Evening all, l did three shops at Lidl, Aldi and Tesco today. I spent quite alot £111.24 in all. However £45.81 was for entertaining on the weekend and included £10.90 for beer and tonic water, not n…4
