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Old Style Daily Tuesday 20th August
Morning all, be back after another coffee :)
July 2024 Grocery Challenge
Welcome to the seventh Grocery Challenge of 2024! ******** Please post your budget in BOLD and HEADING 2 ******** If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your June Budget then keep on posting in the June Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery…
Old Style Daily Monday 19 August 2024
Morning. Going to batten down the hatches.
Weekly Flylady Thread 12 August 2024
Welcome to the weekly Flylady Thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole…
Strong Wholemeal Flour
We make our own wholemeal bread, and we recently bought some Marks and Spencer own brand wholemeal flour. When we got it home, I looked at the small print on the side of the packet, and the fibre content is only 7%. Most other brands are around 11% or 12%. Does this mean that M&S are processing the flour to remove some of…
Old Style Daily Sunday 18 August 2024
Morning all. It's a wee bit brighter so far!
Old Style Daily Saturday 17 August 2024
Morning folks. BRB
Old Style Daily Friday 16th August 2024
Can't believe I am the earliest...so I'll bbl but happy new thread :)
The Knitters Thread
Following on from the recent thread about handknitting it is apparent that many of us OS'ers are also keen knitters. The idea of this thread is to give us a place to post comments/suggestions, to be able to chat about our current work in progress (WIP), share patterns/tips/tricks, and post pictures of our completed work…
Old Style Daily Thursday 15th August 2024
Morning all from Mehefinland Back in 2 ticks
Cleaning leather sofa, clean and feed spray
My sofas are a few years old. We have no pets, just the two of us and we've got several sofas made of real leather. I was using a spray, 750ml bottle but it seems it's not around anymore. I last bought the item 18/24 months ago. It's Stardrops, leather clean and feed. It left the sofas with a slightly dull finish as they…
Old Style Daily Wednesday14th August 2024
Morning all from a soggy Mehefinland back shortly M
Old Style Daily Tuesday 13th August 2024
Morning all from Mehefinland. Back in a bit
Old Style Daily Monday 12 August 2024
Morning all. Today is already muggy, dull but humid.
No Buy Year
I’m planning a no buy year. My disdain for consumerism has been building for a long time, but this year has been the final nail in the coffin. I don’t need anymore stuff. The environment needs me to stop adding to the rubbish tip. I watched my nieces and nephews, with playrooms filled with toys receive more and more, with…
Weekly Flylady Thread 5th August 2024
What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the whole task easier and quicker. We also…
Old Style Daily Sunday 11th August 2024
Must be Sunday lie in!!
Old Style Daily Saturday 10 August 2024
Morning all. Coffee time.
Old Style Daily Friday 09 August 2024
Morning all. BRB
cheap kitchen roll/alternative?
Does anybody know of any cheap kitchen rolls or alternatives I could buy, even in bulk?? I have 3 lovely (but very old) dogs and between them they are blind, deaf, toothless, arthritic and have dementia! I love them to bits but I also seem to spend an awful lot of my time cleaning up accidents and am getting through an…

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Winter Fuel Payments to be reinstated for millions – Martin Lewis explains how it'll work, what it means and if it's an improvement
All State Pensioners in England and Wales will receive a Winter Fuel Payment this winter, though those who earn over £35,000 will see it clawed back through the tax system. It means nine million pensioners will get the £200 or £300 top-up. Here MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis shares his instant response and analysis, and we include answers to your key questions.
Winter Fuel Payments to be reinstated for millions – Martin Lewis explains how it'll work, what it means and if it's an improvement
All State Pensioners in England and Wales will receive a Winter Fuel Payments this winter, though those who earn over £35,000 will see it clawed back through the tax system. It means nine million pensioners will get the £200 or £300 top-up. Here MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis shares his instant response and analysis, and we include answers to your key questions.
Which NatWest and RBS branches are closing from 2025? Here's the full list – and banking alternatives
NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which are both part of the NatWest Group, will shut at least 108 of their bank branches in 2025 and beyond, after the Group announced a further 52 NatWest closures.
Winter Fuel Payments to be reinstated for millions – Martin Lewis explains how it'll work, what it means and if it's an improvement
Winter Fuel Payments will be reinstated to all pensioners in England and Wales this winter – but will be clawed back automatically from those earning over £35,000 a year, the Government has confirmed. It means nine million pensioners will get the £200 or £300 top-up. MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis shares his instant response and analysis.
Car finance mis-selling update: regulator prepares for compensation scheme – and warns against using claims firms
Payouts for mis-sold car finance could be another step closer as the financial regulator has set out the factors it will consider if it were to introduce an industry-wide redress scheme – though we won't know more about how this will work until after a key Supreme Court decision expected in July. In the meantime, the regulator has warned that you DON'T need to sign up with a claims firm to be included.
Winter Fuel Payments to be extended to pensioners earning £35,000 or less – here's what we know so far
Winter Fuel Payments will be extended to all pensioners with incomes of £35,000 or less this winter, the Government has confirmed. It means nine million pensioners will get the £200 or £300 top-up.
Winter Fuel Payments extension confirmed for this winter – watch Martin Lewis' instant response and his message to the Chancellor
Winter Fuel Payments will be extended to more pensioners this winter – though not to everyone – the Chancellor has today confirmed. However, exact details of who will now qualify still remain scant. Watch MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis give his instant response, as well as his key message for Rachel Reeves.
Nationwide Fairer Share: Free £100 bonus confirmed for 2025 – here's who will get it
If you bank with Nationwide, you could get a free £100 paid into your account in June or July as part of the building society's 'Fairer Share' scheme. The bonus will be paid to millions of its current account customers who also have savings or a mortgage with it.
Forced onto a prepay energy meter? You may be due money back as 10,000s to be compensated
If you had an energy prepayment meter forcibly installed or your smart meter was remotely switched to prepay mode without your permission, you could be entitled to compensation of up to £1,000 and may even be eligible to have your energy debts written off.

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