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Young saver... needing advice from the wise!
Hello everyone! I've always been rather thrifty, hugely influenced by my mum but I need it now more than ever. I'm 20 and I live my 23-year-old boyfriend of 3 years. I'm a student and he is a graduate having working in full time employment for 1 1/2 years. I get almost nothing from the loans company and no other income. I…
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Self Service Checkout Glitch?
Just came across this recently, so it makes me wonder how much I've been ripped off so far. I bought some snacks for work on a 3 for 2 offer and when it got to the payment screen the machine hadn't given me a discount for the deal. The shop girl came over and told me to cancel payment, the machine will then sort the price…
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One students saving goal...
Hello! Ok, so my current saving goal is to have £5,000 saved by next July... My current situation.. i've worked full time over summer to pay off my overdraft, i currently have £160 leftover in my savings account, i have no rent to pay for the next 12 months as i've already paid it. My student loan is the maximum amount at…
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train travel
We wanted to use evouchers at redspottedhanky.com and checked cost of open return family ticket Ely-London (with Family and Friends railcard) - quoted £61.20. Also checked trainline.com and same price quoted. In the event we didn't get the evouchers in time and had to pay walk up price at the station - £51.50 for the same…
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How to decide how much to spend and how much to save
I expect some people who use MSE save as much as they can and spend as little as they can. I'm possibly in the minority(?) but I try to balance the two so that I still have a good standard of living but am increasing my savings too. I don't want to be run over by a bus tomorrow and have loads of money saved but not have…
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newbie help me!
Hi guys, Yes im new to all this and i really need some help, i need to raise some money in the next 10 weeks, by either selling, earning and other ways of making some money, please guide and advise me just where to start and what to sell on ebay etc, awaiting your advice. pantherchick:j
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10 months until my dream
waste of time
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to save as much money and keep my life as organized as possible
Helloooooooo,(((( echo echo))))...... Its so very quiet over here! Right i really want to keep a diary so i can keep track of every penny i save and to keep the rest of my life on track and organized. So a little bit about me, my name is Karrie and im a 42 year old single mum, to two teenagers, iam in the fortunate…
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What a difference a day makes...
I used to think of myself as pretty shrewd when it came to household bills, but after today... well, I'll let you be the judge... I was supposed to be working from home, when I got distracted by the fact my Sky contract is up on 8th of August and it got me thinking about special offers and what-not. We've had Sky with the…
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Uptill Now!!
I have been saving small amount whenever possible since my first job back in 2007 and up till now I have saved 9000 sterling...:) now I am planning to do some good stuff like travel and pleasure.
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Amazed at the savings I made!!
Hi, I am a newbie to the forum ( not the site though, been getting the emails for ages). I have spent the past few days having a good old rummage around the site and am pleasantly surprised at how good we (me mainly) are. So far I have been squeezing my toilet rolls and have just bought a pint of full fat milk and watered…
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I saved myself £50
I have a wedding in Sept and I saw a dress (from Phase 8) that I loved but was £99. A couple of weeks later it was reduced in a John Lewis sale to £79 so I bought it. This was back in about April and it's hung in my wardrobe ever since. Then, I saw that Phase 8 had a massive sale and my dress was only £30 and I was soooo…
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Saving, Saving, Saving...
I quite fancy a bloggy type thing to attempt me to motivate myself into saving. I really need to try and get £45k together in 3 years... which means £1111 a month over that time period. Lets see if I can get anywhere close? I have a few small debts at the moment and will concentrate on getting those paid off first of all.…
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Right way to save the money.
Hi,I have lost two of my favorite cars,and my laptop and some cash too from my house and many thing more just in 6 month,But now I have install some security camera and alarms and I have catch the burglar (He was my neighbor and I recover the all money).it's all due to my security system,so what's about you ? If you have…
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Very long savings diary. Next 2 years hopefully!
Hello forum users. I'm 19 years old and would like to save really hard this next 2 years. For the last year I've basically gambled all my money away. I am now left with £2000. I'm expecting to come I to a windfall of around £3000 - £5000. So I'm using this to boost my savings and get a grip of my life and give up this…
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My savings diary, thought it would help keep me motivated if I posted on here.
Right guys I am going to post here whenever I get paid/get money and say what I have got and how much of it I have saved. Sharing always helps keep me motivates so here goes. Tommorow payday I am due £170. Will have £80 after paying something off. Out of this £80 I will save £50. :) . Until I move out to be with my job, I…
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A newbie to MSE...and saving in general!!!
Hey everybody, After reading lots of forum posts on the website and seeing how nice and supportive of each other you all are...I've decided to join to motivate myself to SAVE SAVE SAVE! Would love to hear about any of your saving goals and how you're doing....its really inspirational to read how well some of you have done…
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I got rid of nuisance calls :)
Last 2 weeks I was getting about 5-7 nuisance calls a day, then the other day I decided to tackle 2 of them, and I have not really heard anything since. Once was those "your hard drive is infected" The other was the surveys. The second one, is annoying but what can you do, tell them to remove you from the marketing list as…
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Do "non savers" annoy you?
Have you come across someone that paid too much for something and you tut under your breath!! Your doing it all wrong!! You can get it for much less don't you know!
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Time To Take Control!
I have been moaning for a while now about wanting either a new laptop or a home built pc. The reason I want one is because my current laptop is rubbish for playing The Sims 3 (and most other games, videos etc). It's fine for everything else, just not playing higher spec games. It might sound silly wanting to spend hundreds…
