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This thread has now been going for nearly 2 years. I'm interested whether any of the early posters have implemented long-term any of the original suggestions. With today's increases in energy prices, we may all need to be making savings.
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JAMIEDODGER wrote: »code-a-holic
i am sure that if your nearest school is over x miles away then the council pay to trasport the children. this happened to me a few years ago, the kids nearest school way a long way and the council sent them to school in a taxi.
The council do provide transport, but only after the age of 5. We were lucky that i asked the bus company very nicely when my son was 4 and they let him him use the bus. Im hoping they will allow dd2 to get on too when he starts full time at the age of 4. Then its just 1.5 years of daily taxing my dd for playschool and half day school. im too scared to add up fuel costs!0 -
I have just been reading thois thread with interest and wondered if, in light of the financial position facing many families today, how anyone is planning to cut their budget/do without certain things in order to meet their basic mortgage/fuel/food payments?MFW 2011 challenge - Aim: Overpay £414.26 a month/£5,000 a year. Overpayment Total to date: £414.26:jMortgage start 28/9/07 £46,217.00 :TMortgage balance as of 25/05/11 £24,490.58 :T
Interest saved as of 25/05/11: £2,849.84 Projected term reduction as of 25/05/11: 9 years 11 months0 -
Just changed my broadband/tv/mobile phone/landline and saved quite a bit that way.
working plenty and doing extra hours so my maternity pay will be as good as possible.
buying kids clothes from the SALE in Primark :rotfl:
apart from little ds who gets big ds's clothes.
Put off the shopping order for a week and 'shopped from the cupboards' instead.Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0 -
I am with Eon aswell and got a horribly high bill (something like £250.00)in August although we had not been using any heating since we moved in at beginning of June. It was not an estimated bill, they said they had checked our meter on a certain date. Turned out whoever checked the meter was wrong by miles. I rang them with my own reading and ended up £26.00 in credit. I have been doing the same since and I am now £350.00 in credit.
Worth checking!
Snuffi
It's definitely worth checking - we switched to E-on and when we got our first bill it was frightening, nearly £500 for under three months. Since we live in a small 2 bed house and I'm obsessive about not using the heating etc unless we have to (AND it was summer, AND it wasn't for a full quarter) I insisted on querying it and I'm glad we did. Apparently they had/have a glitch on their system which overcharges new customers by 90% on their first bill ... we weren't told anything about this and I imagine there's been a fair few people who just swallow hard and pay up. I'm sure we would have got it back eventually :rolleyes: but it's a lot to be asked for.0 -
I cant believe (reading through the previous posts) that we seem to have come full circle again with all the prices of utilities, food etc going up at a rate faster than our salaries. Makes you wonder what is going to happen in the future and how our kids are going to cope. Even the prices of the basics (bread, milk, pasta etc) have increased significantly, not to mention council tax. There is no way that my pay is keeping up with these increases in price, and for someone who watches every penny, I cannot absorb these increases anywhere, they have to come out of things I already buy, so ill be living on value beans and value toast before long!MFW 2011 challenge - Aim: Overpay £414.26 a month/£5,000 a year. Overpayment Total to date: £414.26:jMortgage start 28/9/07 £46,217.00 :TMortgage balance as of 25/05/11 £24,490.58 :T
Interest saved as of 25/05/11: £2,849.84 Projected term reduction as of 25/05/11: 9 years 11 months0 -
Ive reduced my Sky + package down to the lowest, and ill be able to cancel it totally in July when I will have had it for 12 months which will save a bit. Does anyone know if I leave the sky + connected if I can get freeview via it? And also, if I can use it to record programmes?MFW 2011 challenge - Aim: Overpay £414.26 a month/£5,000 a year. Overpayment Total to date: £414.26:jMortgage start 28/9/07 £46,217.00 :TMortgage balance as of 25/05/11 £24,490.58 :T
Interest saved as of 25/05/11: £2,849.84 Projected term reduction as of 25/05/11: 9 years 11 months0 -
Hi, we cancelled our sky plus last august, you can no longer record with the box, and you dont get as many channels as freeview, only like itv 2/3 bbc 3/4 etc, you dont get e4 or sky sports news so we boughts a cheapo freeview box from asda. kept the upstairs sky box to just watch itv etc on because theres no aerial connection for a freeview up there..0
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sarahsarah wrote: »Hi, we cancelled our sky plus last august, you can no longer record with the box, and you dont get as many channels as freeview, only like itv 2/3 bbc 3/4 etc, you dont get e4 or sky sports news so we boughts a cheapo freeview box from asda. kept the upstairs sky box to just watch itv etc on because theres no aerial connection for a freeview up there..
Thats a shame! Oh well, if things get really bad I will have to cut the sky out and buy a freeview box then!MFW 2011 challenge - Aim: Overpay £414.26 a month/£5,000 a year. Overpayment Total to date: £414.26:jMortgage start 28/9/07 £46,217.00 :TMortgage balance as of 25/05/11 £24,490.58 :T
Interest saved as of 25/05/11: £2,849.84 Projected term reduction as of 25/05/11: 9 years 11 months0 -
If you're looking at freeview to cut down on costs - you might want to check this out. I've heard good things about it. There's an initial start up fee, but it includes dish, box, etc.
http://www.freesatfromsky.com/MSE mum of DS(7), and DS(4) (and 2 adult DCs as well!)DFW Long haul supporters No 210:snow_grin Christmas 2013 is coming soon!!! :xmastree:0
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