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short term savings
Hi new to the forum and probably could find answers somewhere. I am wanting to put £100k in uk banks for one year, till markets settle or go bust? Currently with natwest for current, Any suggestions to split two or three ways. dont need acess, but looking for 4.0% ish?:j
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I haggled & got a discount in Comet
went to buy a new iron in Comet and decided to go with a fancy morphy richards jetstream elite - yes it was expensive but I do a lot of ironing! Anyway I picked the one I wanted but they only had the display model left. The offer for a half-price ironing board had finished according to the website - but I mentioned it and…
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£10 spends purse
To stop the temptation on spending this year, Ive got an old purse and put £10 in it on a Saturday, Ive Put my debt card away so there no temptation to use it, Whats left at the end of the week i put in a money box to save so far theres £8.56 in there, Ive stopped buying the kids snacks on the way home from school, they…
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New to the site - saved already!!
Hi everyone! Just thought I'd say a hello, I only joined up to the forum today but have been browsing for a few days. I made one phonecall today thanks to some advice I read on the main site (about water meters - see signature) and am set to save over £200 this year. I plan on following more tips and advice and saving more…
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How MSE Saved me Money
No wish to disclose personal information
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**Big thank you to Martin and MSE**
Hi I just wanted to say thank you for saving me approx £40. Was my son's birthday and he wanted to go to pizza hut with a load of friends. I had remembered seeing half price voucher for pizza hut on here and I printed it off. In total bill came to just over £80 but I presented the half price voucher and bill was halved…
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My Free iPod
Due in no small part to MSE, yesterday I got an iPod Touch 32Gb; by following links to surveys and signing up with reward schemes posted here I was able to built up enough points to get £290 of Argos Gift vouchers - so many thanks to any and all who posted anything that pointed me in the right direction. And apologies to…
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Softstuffs thousand day challenge
Id been thinking about doing this for a while, and last week was the crunch, when the idea of a thousand day challenge came to mind. I'm not loving my job at the moment (trying not to sound too ungrateful, since at least I have one), and am tired of being yelled at by people, but have no prospect of other work in the…
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tennant in common
i wonder if any one can give me some advice regarding tennants in common. i, inherited a piece of land with a tennant in common, who i have never met,i wanted to seperate the land into equal halves and give my partner first choice of any half, he said no. but to put the land up for auction i do not want to do this as ,i…
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MOC saving 09.
Hi people, well another years begun. I,ve started my MOCs in a small way because I only needed a few things. I will not buy just for the sake of using coupons this year, I think I wasted a lot. I will count my survey luncheon vouchers and have my first booklet ready to go, also got a nice calendar with a couple of quids…
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How are you saving money this year?
Well, what are you doing? We've never been able to save much before, but have finally got my OH to see the error of our ways... ;) We have started buying our weekly grocery shop online. We have so far spent around £70 a week for a family of 4 (plus pets!). Prior to this, we were spending £100+ in the supermarket, even…
