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Is it just me.... Whenever I look at for the top threads, all I can find is all those who are suggesting top threads. The link to the thread is not always included. How do I find what the top threads were about, maybe for each month. Which thread won, I cannot see it

i have just recieved a cheque from Abbey for £175 the differenc that they charged us when leaving them last year and the contract we signed 16 years ago along with credit card charges refunded and £300 saving on our holiday all i can say is thank you all for the help and information to gain this money back and to beating…

Thanks to Martin and everyone's great ideas on this board, I've saved:- £10.50 monthly Virgin Media (tv/broadband/phone package) £14 a month Car Insurance from the Post Office (and got £50 in postal orders) £15 monthly saving on Gas and Elec through changing suppliers £15 a month more disposable income due to Council…

Hi everyone Since I join MSE last january I am a complete converted. So much that I am going to start teaching my Sixth Former the art of budgeting. This is were you all can take part. ;) I would be grateful for tips for them, from eating for a quid, to cheapest cd's. Everthing and anything !. I will try to make sense of…

I e-mailed Madasafish (my broadband server) and said I was ''shopping around for a better deal'' and are you open to negociation? THEY rang me back and reduced my £17.99 per month to £13.99 and included free spam filter. YES YES!! try it

woohoo! i used a screen scraper last time which found me a very good price. I upgraded the car and the premium went up - made the mistake of not shopping around at the time because i though it must have been competive. However, gave it a shot today and was shocked to nearly half my premium so bit their (esure's) arm off!…

Hello All I found this website a little over two weks ago. I was searching for some legal advice on a couple of problems i currently have and this site popped up.I HAVE NEVER IN ALL MY LIFE BEEN AS GLAD TO FIND A SITE AS I AM TO FIND THIS ONE Iam definitly in line for 5 grand + and now could be in line for thousands more.…

Using MSE article of 4th January I have managed to reduce my monthly outlay on phone/TV/Broadband package, with Telewest, by £14.50 per month.:j

I am a new user and after a bit of advice please from any-one with experience, good or bad from this.. I mortgaged my property in 1981 but according to the calculations on this site I would be just over the limit to get my banding changed, however my next door neighboor is the band below. Would I have a case for…

My home telephone broke today and not able to afford my pay as you go mobile phone at the moment.I was wondering what I could do and started to look round the shops for a basic phone without answer machine. Went into Asda and found a brand called Duraband Silver Corded telephone It includes last number redial,mute and…

Thanks to Martin via his video podcast I have managed to book 2 return trip via Euro Tunnel to France for "free" with my Tesco Club Card vouchers. Before I would just redeem them at my local Tesco store. Since I use my Tesco Visa card (and pay the whole amount off each month) I was getting about £25 each quarter. So…

Thanks to Martin, all at MSE and all the regular contributors I have become much more money 'savvy'since I found the site early last year. In particular I am proud of my £174 casback from TopCashBack.co.uk earned over the last 12 months. This is from 'normal' shopping and nothing out of the ordinary. It doesn't even…

Hi For my next holiday using information from this site, I have saved the following! I saved 39.98 by using an airport parking discount code on this site! What a Bargain! (Quidco/Purple Parking/TIPO) In addition using the comparison sites shown at the bottom of the Homepage on Travel, and the Kayak site, I saved over…

Long post........ Once upon a time there was a woman who wanted so much to spend time at home when her new Baby that she embarked on a very big adventure. It was an exciting & sometimes scary journey….to save as much money as possible. OK, so my Baby brain is in full gear right now but you get the gist. That was me 6…