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EDF ENERGY
Last year I switched to EDF energy. I paid £110 per month. After about six months they put my DD up to £206 pm which was a struggle as we are pensioners. So that was an increase of about £90 pm which I’ve paid for six months, or £540. I received my bill yesterday which stated I would receive a refund of, guess what, £540.…
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Building savings to bubblewrap my new life.
I would like to join the savings gang if you will have me. I am a fifty something on the verge of a big life change. I am moving away from the place I have lived for many years to a lovely market town with rural countryside on my doorstep plus a nature reserve and a river. I will be under 5 miles from the sea too. I had…
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The savings pit
Hello forum! I have joined the site and am starting a thread in an attempt to record my daily efforts to get a savings pot together. Predictive text changed that to savings pit haha! I am a single mum of two so there always seems to be something to pay for. I have recently finished some renovations so now seems like as…
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FUEL PRICES
with fuel prices AGAIN going through the roof, im more grateful than ever for my Duster bi-fuel car. paying 72.9p or less for lpg. when im driving more than 1000 per week the savings do add up. great car, great value.
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Refunds from booking.com
New to forum so not sure if this is OK? Wondering if members have advice on getting refunds from booking.com? They approved it on 30th July, despite weekly emails repeating info over and over, still no money back! £172.50 so not a couple of quid! Threatened with legal advice - still nothing! Help or advice from any who’ve…
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Saving for a smallholding
Hi all, Up until late last week I had thought we would be joining the Mortgage Free Wannabe part of the forum, but unfortunately our house purchase has fallen through. We have reassessed our buying power and realised that we need to make some changes over the winter and start looking again in Spring. Long back story: we…
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A modest saving - but easy.
My comprehensive motor insurance has been pretty cheap for a long time (old, no accidents etc and every year I do haggle or swap). This year I did the usual on receiving my quote for this year (£18 more than last year): 1. look on a couple of comparison sites recommended by MSE; find cheapest quote for identical cover 2.…
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Ryanair and self isolating
So a family member in our household has Covid . We’re having to isolate and had a flight booked for this Sunday . I bought insurance (hoping it will cover ) Trying to get through to Ryanair is driving me to despair . I need a no show letter . Anyone else in this situation and have advice please ? 🙏
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I need a statement from 2003
Can anyone help I need a bank statement from 2003 ant help would be very much appreciated
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Coronavirus is actually saving me money
Since lockdown began, I've been working from home and saving around £200 a month. How much has everyone else saved?
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Price Match Guarantee
Thank you Martin and the team for your constant encouragement to ask for discounts. This was my first time trying it. I just bought a microwave from Curry’s online and I used their Price Match Guarantee. AO.COM were out of stock of this item but Curry’s who were more expensive sent me a discount code within 2 hours to…
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Sh*t creek - is now in my rear view mirror...!
Hello all, I am moving out of my worries now, but, not there yet. I am continuing this new thread in the hopes of getting out of it via saving and other ways if I can. You are all most welcome to read along and give me the odd poke with a long stick, or just a comment to cheer me up along the way, to motivate me. Please be…
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Virgin Money current account how easy is it to get issues resolved
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Insurance Auto renewal £268.70 saving!
So we all know you should never auto renewal right?! I got caught out last year and paid the price for it! This year I was quoted £491.15, checked a few comparison websites and got quoted £222.45 from a well known company. Rang my original provider for the them to tell me they couldn't match the quote. Ran through quidco…
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Hitting 60, time for change.
Well it arrived, the milestone I wasnt looking forward to. So I decided to get my bottom into gear and make some changes. My house is full to the brim with stuff and I mean full. Very little of it means anything its just detritus gathered in 40 years of marriage. My plan is to sell as much as humanly possible to buy a…
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Nationwide Home & Contents Insurance
Having received a renewal notice for £978.76 which is £88.62 more than last year, I contacted Nationwide to ask if they could negotiate on price before I started comparing the market. I had renewed my policy with them every year for 30 years. Very nice Neil put a quote together based on a new policy, like-for-like, and…
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2021 - let’s start again!!
I closed my previous thread as I wanted to start a whole new one. I started last year with £5K and finished with £3.5K. Last year was expensive! I stopped putting anything away in September as I knew I had an expensive Christmas coming up. Anyway, my house plans are only put back by about a year so far. As the clocks…
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Dolly's Emergency Fund
So this Dolly has just bought her first ever flat and now it is time to be a proper adult and get myself an emergency fund. My aim is to have an EF of £8,000 and tbh this will take me a long time to get there but it's good to have a goal. I have added my first £100 so I have saved 1.25% of my goal so far which is teeny…
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Advice to invest £15000
Hello, I currently have £15000 in savings in a local credit union. Can someone advise me where to invest this as I retire in 5 years and won’t need it until then?
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100% FUNDED STORAGE RADIATOR REPLACEMENT.
I was looking to replace all the storage radiators in an old ladies house. I kept coming across sites on Internet offering to replace old storage heaters free of charge. At first I thought it was just a marketing scam and there would be lots of hidden costs but filled in the form anyway. It turned out to be 100% genuine,…
