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Re: Renting long term - Employed by own Limited Company
You are correct, a large savings pot is irrelevant in this day and age not just for renters but also for obtaining any kind of meaningful mortgage from mainstream lenders. The concept of 'cash b…1 -
Re: Prepping: the new world...
As the weather turns soggy in places, it seems may be that Last Week was the time to reproof waterproofs. But then I took the lads school coats to the launderette to really bake in the Nikwax. Now I …8 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
Hi all. I have returned from DDs - great time but a bit exhausted. Car has an oil leak but hopefully fixed following call at garage on my way home this afternoon. DGCs decluttered until Thursday. The…15 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
weenancyinAmerica I have only had a few cook books in my lifetime but my standby from the 70s to the 90s was The Joy Of Cooking.12 -
Re: Octopus saving sessions
I am giving up on free power hours. I managed to qualify for Sunday’s free power hour but struggled to make use of it. First of all my Powerwall had been calibrating so was empty. I turned on max bac…1 -
Re: New laptop or repair for a careless teenager
Why do you want to insure a broken MacBook? Unless I am confused then sorry.2 -
Re: Early retirement next year, is it worth adding to my pension?
Anything you add to the pension will attract tax relief, up to the limit of contributing your entire salary, gross. So each £80 that you put into the pension becomes £100 after tax relief is added. (…2 -
Re: Octopus saving sessions
Another 101 point 18:00-19:00 session, tonight. (S Wales) As was foretold1 -
Re: Change text from lower to uppercase in word FIXED
That is because LLM AI does not know anything. They are basically very fancy predictive text engines.1 -
Re: Early retirement next year, is it worth adding to my pension?
for your original question it seems there is little downside to piling what you can into a DC pension (doesn’t need to be your workplace, could be a SIPP). If you have the spare funds I’d be tempted …2
