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Silver Savers or Over 50s MoneySaving

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  • Senior Savers is quite a good one.
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
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  • baccyman
    baccyman Posts: 316 Forumite
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    i dont mind the existing name.
  • chesky369
    chesky369 Posts: 2,590 Forumite
    Don't mind really, but Silver Savers is better than Golden Oldies.
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    It's not so long ago that the members descriptors were changed. Perhaps it's time to drop the Silver Savers descriptor, which I suspect was created quite a few years ago when the site was first designed.
    I don't feel it accurately describes the over 50's, in the same way that a board header Spotty Yoof Savers wouldn't accurately describe that group.
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  • Biggles
    Biggles Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    Errata wrote: »
    I don't feel it accurately describes the over 50's
    Not even when immediately followed by the words 'over 50s' in brackets every time you read it?

    I think someone is making a problem that doesn't really exist. I haven't read any comment so far that disagrees with keeping the current name.
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    Biggles wrote: »
    Not even when immediately followed by the words 'over 50s' in brackets every time you read it?

    I

    No, because Silver Savers is a descriptor and Over '50's is a category. Apples and oranges.
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  • EdInvestor
    EdInvestor Posts: 15,749 Forumite
    edited 21 January 2010 at 10:44PM
    I've gone for Over50s MoneySaving because Silver Savers MoneySaving is a cliche, as well as being repetitive.

    BTW what is the correct house style?

    Money Saving (space)

    or

    MoneySaving (no space)?
    Trying to keep it simple...;)
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    House style appears to be MoneySaving
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  • Bennifred
    Bennifred Posts: 3,986 Forumite
    I vote for Over 50s MoneySaving because I am (just!) and I intend never to be silver, so there! (Not that it doesn't suit some people:o)

    I tend to associate Silver Savers with people a generation older than me - 70+, haha! Maybe I'm in denial.........
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  • I like the Senior Savers suggestion and would vote for that if it was an option!
    "If you dream alone it will remain just a dream. But if we all dream together it will become reality"
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