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This silver saver wants to downsize to small car.
I want to cut motoring costs by downsizing to a smaller 2 door car with cheapest road tax available. I'm particularly keen to hear from any silver savers out there who have recently bought a new car and are happy with it? I'll be driving in semi-urban area and very limited motorway trips. I love my automatic; are there any…
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Personal Alarm service advice please
86 year old uncle lives alone and had a stroke 6 months ago. We visited him over the weekend - he lives about 200 miles away and he seems fine but does have a fear of falling and not being able to get help. Ive suggested a personal alarm system which connects to a central control via his phone and he is happy about this…
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m&s vouchers
I have been given £50 of m&s vouchers from daughter as a gift , can thease be used anywhere else as pensioner and would have prefered groceries ,also m&s over 60 mile away...nice thought as could do with a little help , but wrong shop.
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Advice on present for 70 year old dad
Hello all :D Not a money saving idea but advice required as I'm fast running out of ideas. As seen in the title my pa is 70 in a few weeks. He's still fit and mobile and gets about easily, spending my inheritance on holidays left, right and centre;) (he earned it he can spend the lot!) He loves diy but has everything he…
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warm front fast track?
just wondered if anyone has ever had their application fast tracked due to being elderly and complete breakdown of central heating and hot water system. any advice appreciated thanks
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An idea for a never-changing will
Solicitors make (even more of) their money by making minor modifications to wills and writing new ones when you want to make changes to the beneficiaries to a will. Is there any obvious problem with the following idea (other than the really obvious one)? Assume a single person with no dependants. Leave everything to…
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Dad 'bed blocking'
I have to bit a bit vague here as it might get unpleasant and I don't want to much info online. My father lives in a residential home (no nursing care no nurses work there) and is currently in hospital for the second time in a week. He now has a catheter. I last spoke to the hospital last night who assured me that all…
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National Pensioners' Convention
http://www.npcuk.org/ Does anyone belong to this organisation? If so, what can you tell me about it?
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Just for fun
Are you younger than your joints ? Try the www.jointagecalculator.co.uk and find out :) My joints are 8 years younger than I am, pity my face isn't :o
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B & Q Tiling Offer 28% discount
B and Q currently have a 20% discount on floor and wall tiles when you spend over a £100 on tiles and adhesive. The range seems to be quite depleted, so I imagine it is to clear the shelves for new lines. The discount is taken off automatically at the till. However, the Diamond card 10% (Wed only) discount also works -…
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Where to sell an Ercol vintage coffee table?
An elderly relative has decided they want to sell their Ercol vintage coffee table and has asked me to research to find a market for it - not easy! Of course Ebay has them selling at about £60 -£80, but I sense they want a bit more than that for it as the latest Ercol catalogue has the sam table priced at £385!!!!!!!!!!…
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Great 'Unpleasant issues of age chat' Hunt
The 'unpleasant issues' chat. Some things aren't best avoided. Hopefully once you’ve hit sixty or beyond, you've still got several dozen years of fit body and mind ahead of you, but there’s a chance you might not. The mental incapacity or death of a loved one is a hard enough issue to deal with, but often the financial…
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deprivation of assets and care fees
Can anyone advise me. I have POA for my elderly father who is self-funding in a residential home and has capital of around £80k which I estimate will mean about 3 yrs before we are down to the first threshold for SS assessment for help with fees.Other than his care home fees and clothing/chiropody/haircuts there are…
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Paying for care - Help required please.
Hi my mum and dad are getting quite old and have began to worry about going into care. They brought there ex-council house very late in life (both in their 80s) To qualify for their mortgage I was incuded on the mortgage and deeds of the house more as a financial gurantee than anything else. The only reason my parents…
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Selling a property to fund care
We are just about to sell a property for a relative in care. Well, I should actually have said, we are just about to put it on the market - selling may take some time at the moment! Trouble is, we are getting some anecdotal information from another relative which is a bit worrying - they say that the Local Authority can…
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Computer Courses for my mum...
Hello, My mum, who is in her sixties, has just bought herself a laptop. I've provided all the tech support I can but she really needs to get herself on a course on how to use a computer and how to use the internet. I've done some searching but can't seem to find anything appropriate for her. Does anyone have any idea for…
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UK holiday insurance
I have posted this on another board but I reckon you good folks may be able to help. My annual free travel insurance from my bank will run out in a few months when I am 65. I have booked a coach trip for next spring ( after it expires) with friends but without DH. The coach company requires you to be insured. Their…
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Which Frozen Meals for the Elderly?
I am looking to set up a supplier of frozen ready meals for my elderly mother. My research has taken me to several supplier websites such as Country Home Foods, Wiltshire Farm Foods and Oakhouse Foods and all seem to be very similar in what they offer. I have not been able to find any websites that give any reviews or…
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family breakdown
I am very afraid that my daughter's marriage may be on the verge of breaking down. As one who has been through that, many years ago, I know how hard it can be, and want to support her as best I can. Financially speaking it will be almost impossible for them to work out as they have committed themselves heavily with a house…
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Willwriters?
Has anyone used the Society of Willwriters to draw up a will? Are they reliable Thanks for any info