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Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
I regret, I don't know how much it costs Baileys_babe - but last time I was in the launderette - I'm talking 2 years ago?? I'm pretty sure that £1 bought you 6 minutes on high (I hones…6 -
Re: NST December 2025 A Different December
@dustydigger -Sending many hugs. It sounds like what happened to my grandfather. He had a series of mini-strokes. When we watched "Hogan's Heroes", he tried to go on the roof to shoot …7 -
Re: NST December 2025 A Different December
Thinking of you @dusty x2 -
Re: Investing - Where's the pot of gold?
The "pot of gold" comes from exponential growth over decades. If your money grows by 7% every year then after 10 years it will have almost doubled because (1+0.07)^10 =1.97. There's al…2 -
Re: Halfords dispute
and what reason did you give? I only ask as if you did it all the right way they will have a record of it on their system1 -
Re: Halfords dispute
so you sent the word cancel to the chatbot? did you follow the link and then cancel and explain why you were cancelling?1 -
Re: The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread
You are an absolute legend @Bridlington1 Thank you so much.1 -
Re: Halfords dispute
Clear as mud.. sounds like the work would be done during the week between 20-27th Dec and then the repeated MOT which should now pass would be on 27th. You've potentially cancelled the repeat M…1 -
Re: Halfords dispute
We don't know if the OP DID cancel though. He doesn't have any evidence and his misinterpretation of other messages doesn't inspire confidence in his recall of events. Best way forwar…1 -
Re: Halfords dispute
Agreed. Either the OP is being disingenuous, or has convinced themselves that they did cancel the work (though I still can't see how based on the messages shared). It'll be a tricky situat…1
