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Post of the Month for February
Please nominate your most Useful/Helpful Post of the Month £50 award by replying to this post. Also please do not lobby to win the prize - it's not cricket! Please include: A. A hyperlink to the specific thread/post - highlight the web address of the thread/ post when you're viewing it from the address bar at the top of…
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Yabbadabbadoo
Thanks to everyone in the MSE club for helping me to become a better saver. My savings so far are: £27.50 / month Changed my sky package £9.00 / month gas & electric £6.32 / month prescription card £16.78 / month car insurance £4.91 / month mobile phone 5.6% on current account balance The car insurance is with the same…
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Top articles viewed so far this month - 30/1/2006
Top articles viewed so far this month Petrol/Diesel Cost Cutting = 161487 views The Best Balance Transfers: cut the cost of existing credit card debts = 142,466 views The UKs Cheapest Home Phone Calls Provider = 110279 views Earn 14% interest when saving for Xmas '06 = 97034 views Broadband: Who's cheapest = 86843 views…
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Contact Lens
Check out ASDA for contacts I got 3 months for £56.40
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Bought my rented TV, saved a packet.
We have rented a widescreen sanyo tv, video and dvd player for years paying around £50 a month. We took it all apart and said you can come and collect it now so that we could buy a new one to stop paying that high rental fee. It helped us at the time though to rent but as these packages are much cheaper now it seems better…
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The Most Popular Chat Tips Ever as of 27/1/2006
1 (2) Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt. = 335406 :money: 2 (1) Tesco misprices thread - please only post misprices here = 309899 views Please read THIS 3 (3) GREAT 'WHAT SHOPS DON'T WANT US TO KNOW" HUNT = 277155 :money: 4 (5) Free MoneySavingExpert Car Sticker! = 229078 :money: 5 (9) Just Tesco grocery codes please, no…
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Off To College Thanks To MSE
Over the time I've been a member, we have implemented several of the ideas and suggestions. Last year DH told me his employer had introduced childcare vouchers. I was aware of what benefit they had, having read about them on here. I saw that it might be a chance for me to attend college and update my skills with a view to…
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Changed my whole way of thinking about money!
Hi All The most important thing I have got from this site is just to become more aware of what we spend & when. Not just a question of saving, its just not throwing money away on frivolous things. We are writing everything down that we spend & its a real eye opener! Savings so far per month: Changed ntl to SKY £25 Hubby…
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Cheaper AOL Broadband with just 1 call
Seeing the old TV series and how people have haggled with companies to get better deals I thought I would give it a go. First I tried with Sky TV - Saved £60 already over next 3 months, will probably be more when I call again in 3 months. My next victim was AOL. Been with AOL for about 6 years now. Currently paying £17.99…
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Martin's top articles viewed so far this month - 23rd Jan 2006
Top articles viewed so far this month Petrol/Diesel Cost Cutting = 145,684 views The Best Balance Transfers: cut the cost of existing credit card debts = 113,795 views Earn 14% interest when saving for Xmas '06 = 89,124 views The UKs Cheapest Home Phone Calls Provider = 80,834 views Time to Swith Gas and Electricity…
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Thankyou, I've saved loads..
Thanks to this site I have reduced my outgoings quite a bit... Just changed house insurance: down to £300 from £600 for the year. Just changed gas/electricity providers with a projected saving of approx £100 over the next year. Balanced transfered £5000 to a lower rate card: saving over £850 in interest if it took me 3…
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a little packet this week on the car insurance alone!
Well, we did the car insurance list a couple of weeks ago after getting our renewal notice from the AA just before New Year. Last year car insurance was £760 ( :eek: I know! newish car, bad record for 2 claims - neither our fault, one theft, one freak accident caused by another driver - and three points for me from a few…
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£1131.50 better of this weeks thanks to MSE
I have had £1131.50 refunded to me by the Co-op Bank this week in respect of bank charges incurred over the last 6 years. These have been the banks charges for exceeding my overdraft limit, returned items and daily charges. This is all due to the advice given by dchurch24, available on the current account board under the…
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around £100 this WEEK!
Yes I have saved well over £100 just this week! I've been scanning and copying my family's entire photographs so that I can have copies for myself. THE ENTIRE LOT for a family of 8 people (my parents and 6 kids) and my own little family (me partner and baby) is around 1200 photos which at the standard rate of 10p a picture…
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Most popular chat topics ever as of 17/1/2006
1 (1) Tesco misprices thread - please only post misprices here = 308,612 views Please read THIS 2 (3) Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt. = 285,305 :money: 3 (2) GREAT 'WHAT SHOPS DON'T WANT US TO KNOW" HUNT = 270,061 :money: 4 (4) Latest top topics (chat forums) = 220,083 5 (5) Free MoneySavingExpert Car Sticker! = 222,376…
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£56.87!
Did my first haggle and got 10% off a very specialised sword I have commissioned for my OH's wedding gift. Absolutely nerve wracked about negotiating but got offered the discount right away, and over the telephone! Now wish I'd asked for it to be rounded down to £500!
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Top articles viewed so far this month 16th Jan 2006
Top articles viewed so far this month Petrol/Diesel Cost Cutting = 114537 views The Best Balance Transfers: cut the cost of existing credit card debts = 81475 views Earn 14% interest when saving for Xmas '06 = 78782 views The UKs Cheapest Home Phone Calls Provider = 62883 Budget Planner = 53022 views Time to Swith Gas and…
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Save Money After Xmas
Save Money after Christmas, i was looking around and found this link u tehy send you money off vouchers for tesco every week and extra club card points too. They include money off vouchers for other companies too like currys and woolworts, its worth a look http://www.geocities.com/tesco_vouchers/index.html
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Most popular chat boards by number of views 11/1/2006
The Money Savers Arms = 245,212 views Quick! Grabbit while you can = 104,350 views Discussion Time = 82,592 views MoneySaving Old Style = 75,896 views Freebies (no spend required) Board = 64465 views Techie Stuff = 58,677 views Shop but don't drop = 56,306 views I wanna buy-it or do-it = 46,875 views Travel, Trips &…
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Thank you to everyone
Between myself and my partner we have managed to save around £90 a month just by doing little things like changing to 1899 and remorgating etc. Thank you everyone you have all been a great help. MonkeyGirl
