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I am saving around £864 a year without trying
I know its not too exciting - but since not buying bottled water (£1) and latte's (£1.20) at work every day (20 working days a month), instead refilling the bottle at the water machine and making cups of tea thats £44 a month i am saving :eek: . Plus i used to take my car to be washed every sunday in and out, £7 per time,…
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ppi saving
I dont know if i,m posting this in the right place, Last week i recieved a letter from the Alliance & Leicester claiming they sold my policy Legitamately because they had a voice recording to prove it. Iwrote back telling them they would have to disclose it to the financial ombudsman because i was still going ahead with my…
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Ranked.
http://www.big-boards.com/ Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place. Money saving expert is ranked 158. Excellent news since there is thousands of forums listed.:T:T:T:T:T
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Combined Tesco / Nectar Rewards
It's my first post and I'm not sure if anyone has already spotted this so apologies if i'm posting 'old news' but I took out the AMEX Nectar Card to receive the bonus 5000 points and now shop at Tescos for food. By paying the balance each month we do not pay any interest, we receive Nectar rewards by the bucket load for…
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The biggest fish
I'm a keen Money Saver but I only target the main things (ie I don't walk down the beach with a metal detector looking for loose change :D ) In order, which goods/services have you made the biggest savings on?
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Thank you - tips for saving/making money
Hello all I joined this website in March this year. I absolutely adore it and have now started to see some BIG savings/gains. For example:- 1.I have shopped at Tesco for three years and never knew about discount codes. I have since saved £'s - at least £100 off my food bills so far over the last few months. Also - I am now…
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£180 saved on car insurance
Just followed your guide to car insurance. The best price came back from the Tesco price comparison site. My current insurer (Norwich Union Direct) wanted £515 to renew insurance on my wife's Renault Clio, with myself and our 19 year old daughter as named drivers. No claims in last 10 years, max protected no claim…
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Nominate post of the month December 07
I propose DOOZERGIRL for her prompt reply - within 4 mins! - saving me £400 for advice and government reference about Home Information Packs. My agent said I needed one, but thanks to DOOZERGIRL I have been able to tell them otherwise. Link: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=7007649#post7007649
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My first EVER clawback!
Thank you to everyone on this site, your advice gave me the courage (and knowledge) to make my first tentative attempts to get a better deal. First off I phoned the AA and told them I wanted to cancel my membership, the very nice man on the phone offered me a discount and following advice from here I said 'No!' and…
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Nominate Post Of The Month for November '07
UPDATE: The winner has now been chosen; well done Batgirl. Please send me (MSE Natasha) a PM with your name and address. Nominations are now open for December's Post Of The Month. Please nominate your most useful/helpful Post of the Month £50 Award by replying in this thread. Remember, you're nominating, NOT voting - there…
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Have saved enough to pay for my wedding!!
Martins Money tips has totally turned my life around. This time last year I was living from wage to wage, I was always overdrawn and could never afford to do anything fun. I had awful trouble getting a mortgage due to my terrible finances. I have since claimed back £3000 in bank charges which started me off and it's got…
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re mortgage exit fees and tescos
Thank-you MSE. After using your remortgage exit fee recliam template to my previous two mortgage companies I received two cheques worth a total of £200 in August. This week I registered at Tesco's for the prescription collection and look forward to receiving 250 points. My unexpected re mortgage cheque went towards paying…
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Council Tax Re-banding
Thanks to this site/Martin's advice on a radio show, I succeeded in getting my Council tax Band reduced from E to D, this pocketed me a refund of £2950, it was the best feeling I have ever had, like winning the lottery, I have also saved money by making informed decisions based on information on this site, for example best…
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Council rebanding refund!!
Hi everyone, Following the threads on this site I have sucessfully appealed against my banding and it has been reduced from F to E. It has also been backdated for ten years when I first bought the house from new. Total sum I am getting back is £2468!!! so thanks Martin for this site. On the same subject, does anybody (that…
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money savings
Have just changed dual fuel from Staywarm to British Gas (thanks to you) and have saved £258 per year. Many thanks.
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Not sure exactly how much I've saved
. . . because I haven't been counting, but I know this site has helped me in several ways. For example, I've found out what the best savings and bond accounts are; where to go to get price comparisons for gas and electricity charges and how to go about changing suppliers; that I should use my Nationwide card abroad because…
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Ned Flanders (max Savings)
I have saved a massive £6000 per year, When I first heard about this site I thought, it must be a load of rubbish, nobody can save the money doing just little things, and the few people who can must be shredding the contents of the wallets on a daily basis, I am smart, I am astute. Then I read the book, everything…
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Thanks Martin
Hi Dude Just wanna say a huge thanks to you, your a genius and this site is absolute A+. * I got my 2nd year car insurance down from £789 renewal to £495 = £294 saving :beer: * I reclaimed 2 lots of bank charges back totalling to £315 :j * I build computers and sell them via ebay (extra money if you will), before I came…
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How much has this board saved us?
Well, a humungous amount!!!!! Our first move was to check out our pension mortgage as we have had the letters from the pension providers over the years, saying that our pensions would not cover our mortgage, so please would we pay loads more in so that we would be able to retire in style. My OH (bless him) is a bit of an…
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Council tax rebate
Just a quick thankyou to Martin.We have just challenged our council tax banding and have had it reduced to band c from d netting us an eight hundred pound rebate:rotfl:
