Hooray for MSE

goldnails

I have saved my mum a projected £600 a year on fuel bills, moved her credit card debt from her 19% (!) Barclaycard to a 4.6% life of balance card, saved her around £300 a year on her phone and broadband charges and am in the process of moving her (overdrawn) bank account from Barclays to A and L by lending her the money to be in credit for a week in the month preceding the move, cutting her overdraght interest to 0% for a year and with 4.7% after that.
Thank you so much Martin, it means so much to me to have been able to help her as much as I have with the info from your site, and they're such little things that make such a big difference to her quality of life. If I can be maudlin for a second, my mum is really quite skint as she and my father never married and when he died unexpectedly at age 46 she was denied access to his pension and the widows and orphans fund he'd paid into most of his working life, messing up the financial plans they had made for each others futures and leaving her to cope with running a home and family set up to be paid for by two incomes on her own (much smaller) income.
It's all just the beginning of making up for staying out late and running around with unsuitable boys so much when I was a teenager.
But honestly, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

System

That is wonderful news, and i am sure you would be a candidate for a daughter of the year award. Well done you!!