It's time to start digging up those Squirrelled Nuts!!!!

Anonymous101

There are some fantastic deals around if you shop smartly and aren't afraid to take an ever so slightly older model. For example I've recently taken advantage of a £74 upfront £21 per month deal on an iPhone 11. unlimited calls, texts and data. It was less than the Sim only deal I was previously on for my iPhone 6 so made absolute sense.

I've left sky and rejoined several times. Currently paying £60 a month for superfast broadband and all the TV channels.

Being a squirreller and having some tech aren't mutually exclusive if you aren't at the extreme's of either.

k6chris

ex-pat_scot said:

i was about to post smugly on our relative lack of tech.  
One dumb TV for the family.
5 x basic giffgaff monthly contracts. Work mobile for me. 2nd hand handsets. Old laptops / PCs.

Then I remembered my garage full of fancy racing bicycles.  

Fancy racing bikes are an investment, they don't count as spending.

Ibrahim5

Fancy racing bikes are OK if they are used for RACING. It's a waste of money if they aren't. I remember a man at the gym saying you had to pay £3K for a TRAINING bike. I kept thinking surely a. rubbish bike is the best for TRAINING.

zagfles

Anonymous101 said:

There are some fantastic deals around if you shop smartly and aren't afraid to take an ever so slightly older model. For example I've recently taken advantage of a £74 upfront £21 per month deal on an iPhone 11. unlimited calls, texts and data. It was less than the Sim only deal I was previously on for my iPhone 6 so made absolute sense.

I've left sky and rejoined several times. Currently paying £60 a month for superfast broadband and all the TV channels.

Being a squirreller and having some tech aren't mutually exclusive if you aren't at the extreme's of either.

You were paying over £21 a month for SIM only??

We pay about £2.50 a month on 1p mobile, but we're low users, we'll use wifi whereever possible. Kids use Smarty and get 30GB a month for a £10 which is easily enough even for their excessive usage!

zagfles

Ibrahim5 said:

Fancy racing bikes are OK if they are used for RACING. It's a waste of money if they aren't. I remember a man at the gym saying you had to pay £3K for a TRAINING bike. I kept thinking surely a. rubbish bike is the best for TRAINING.

I've always thought that - if you want to get fit riding your bike rather than use it to cover long distances or get somewhere fast, then an old clunky bike is best! It makes it harder work! I've got quite a nice circuit I do on my old bike (prob cost about £150 new 10 years ago), it's hard work but that's the point.

Sea_Shell

Sea_Shell said:

We've put about £15 credit on our PAYG mobiles between us this YEAR!!!

And we've still got most of it left!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I've just looked at my spreadsheet and it's even more shocking than I thought!!!!      I'd mis-remembered.

We've only bought £5 of extra credit this year, and still have about £8 credit each on our phones at the moment.

Anonymous101

zagfles said:

Anonymous101 said:

There are some fantastic deals around if you shop smartly and aren't afraid to take an ever so slightly older model. For example I've recently taken advantage of a £74 upfront £21 per month deal on an iPhone 11. unlimited calls, texts and data. It was less than the Sim only deal I was previously on for my iPhone 6 so made absolute sense.

I've left sky and rejoined several times. Currently paying £60 a month for superfast broadband and all the TV channels.

Being a squirreller and having some tech aren't mutually exclusive if you aren't at the extreme's of either.

You were paying over £21 a month for SIM only??

We pay about £2.50 a month on 1p mobile, but we're low users, we'll use wifi whereever possible. Kids use Smarty and get 30GB a month for a £10 which is easily enough even for their excessive usage!

Temporarily yes. I'd gotten to the end of my contract with EE which was previously £15 and that was the standard cost of the tariff for the amount of data I was using. I'd say I'm a fairly high user often using the data for work whilst travelling.

I'd guess standard SIM only deals are around £10 as your kids, twice that for high users, half that for low users. £2.50 is very good.

zagfles

Sea_Shell said:

Sea_Shell said:

We've put about £15 credit on our PAYG mobiles between us this YEAR!!!

And we've still got most of it left!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I've just looked at my spreadsheet and it's even more shocking than I thought!!!!      I'd mis-remembered.

We've only bought £5 of extra credit this year, and still have about £8 credit each on our phones at the moment.

We were like that but we've upped our usage a bit - use stuff like google maps on mobile data when out and about which is useful and apps like whatsapp and messenger, which use virtually nothing unless you download videos or loads of pictures.

But we've found our usage is still only about 200MB a month, so we pay about £2 a month on 1p mobile, except when we went on holiday to somewhere with no wifi, when we bought a 2GB "boost" for £6 which was easily enough.

Mobile usage costs are very cheap these days if you're sensible, paying over £10 a month is crazy, unless you're paying off a "loan" for the phone.

k6chris

Looking at (new) phone deals during Black Friday and the strange thing is, for almost all Apple deals it would be significantly cheaper to buy the phone at List price from the Apple store and then a sim-only deal from the network provider.  There were some REALLY bad deals if you bought the two together!  The power of "only £35 a month for 3 years".........

MallyGirl

but you'd actually buy it from John Lewis for the same price as Apple store but get a 2 year warranty rather than just one - this is MSE after all!