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Can You Save a Grand in a Day? on ITV, 7.30 tonight

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  • Hi I enjoyed the show, but just wanted to point out that the RAC deal,( show in the show) through Tesco clubcard vouchers- is actual face value of the vouchers and not 4x the value. We tried to get this and didn't have enough vouchers for the deal.
    Blackadder: Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
    Still lurking around with a hope of some salvation:cool:
  • Did you notice that the teenagers didn't offer to give up anything to help the finances?
  • MSE_Martin
    MSE_Martin Posts: 8,272 Money Saving Expert
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    edited 30 January 2010 at 2:02AM
    budgeteer wrote: »
    Did you notice that the teenagers didn't offer to give up anything to help the finances?


    Hold on remember you saw 30mins of a big programme - actually the teens were great. :)
    Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert.
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  • Joe_Bloggs
    Joe_Bloggs Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    I enjoyed the show via the ITV player link that MSE Dan provided. I am rarely home when the show is aired so I would appreciate links to where I can catch up.
    Those guys in the van were the ultimate travelling technical support ensemble.
    J_B.
    I suggest that Martin should be nominated for a Bafta or something TV/journalism/factual TV related award .
  • p00
    p00 Posts: 824 Forumite
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    Skint_Catt wrote: »
    He can only cover one family! What's the point in covering someone with no debt, nothing to cut back on and grows their own veg?

    Because maybe then he'd have to actually work something out instead of just repeating everything he says every programe. Did anyone actually learn anything from this one?
  • tomstickland
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    Makes me wonder really... 4 motorbikes in the garage and worried about debt.
    Happy chappy
  • MSE_Martin
    MSE_Martin Posts: 8,272 Money Saving Expert
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    Makes me wonder really... 4 motorbikes in the garage and worried about debt.


    To be fair to the family there's a lot that's edited out in a TV programme. Two of the bikes were 'fixers up' which had been obtained for free and were being worked on to be sold.
    Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert.
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  • MSE_Martin
    MSE_Martin Posts: 8,272 Money Saving Expert
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    Hi folks,

    On this I've answered a lot of the queries in this blog

    http://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2010/02/01/why-don%e2%80%99t-i-do-tv-money-makeovers-on-those-in-horrible-debt/

    Also please respond there not here (i wont be monitoring this)
    Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert.
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    I watched it on ITV player and as always I find it interesting as to how other people live and get themselves into debt. The lady seemed to be eminantely sensible, and had been obviously worried about how their finances were progressing . I'm not too sure about her husband as he seemed a bit more 'happy-go-lucky' in his attitude, but had suddenly realised that things were getting a bit out of control and this was probably an early warning to him.
    I think a lot of what people spend depends on what they decide is 'essential' to them. The magazines seemed totally superfluous to requiredments ,but then I don't keep chickens and couldn't imagine my late ma-in-law ever buying a book telling her how to do it. But again different strokes for different folks .
    A lot of the time the advice is really commonsense to us on this site as we all learn from here and other folk on here how to go about saving extra cash here and there.
    But a lot of people really don't know about how much stuff there is at their fingertips with the aid of the internet.
    Well done Martin for an excellant programme as always, perhaps it would be a good idea if maybe schools did a 'budgetting' course for youngsters as I feel sure that often older folks ideas do rub off on the young .
    I know a lot of what I learnt from my Mum has stayed with me through my life and one of the best things she ever taught me was about debt.Basically 'if you havn't got the cash you can't have the goods' I have had lots of 'lean' times in my life when the wolf not only was knocking at the door, he was giving a good pounding at times but I always seemed to get by and through these times without resorting to borrowing.
    I read last week that people are now getting to pay their mortgages and food with their credit cards,a very frightening prospect for many.The only debt I ever incurred was our mortgage and we always overpaid it as much as we could to get shot of it as sooon as possible.I know it can be tough with unemployment and illnesses striking when least expected but that is nothing new.My generation had unemployment and reposessions back in the 1970s-80s. I can remember when the mortgage rate hit 15% and it seemed as though they just couldn't squeeze any more out of us but it always somehow got paid and everything else got cut back on.Todays cutbacks are mild compared to some I have seen but its just a different generation today and there are higher expectations and folk seem to 'want more' as opposed to 'needing more' I manage quite well on what money I have but when the utilities bills come in at the end of this month then if they are higher (which I guarantee they will be owning to the bad weather we have had this winter)then I shall cut back a bit more and tighten my belt and pay up as that's all anyone can do .
    JackieO
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