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patientperson

Furness BS - 1 Year Festive Saver - 2.55%

http://www.furnessbs.co.uk/saving-accounts/regular-savings/one-year-festive-saver/

Maximum opening deposit in the first month is £1,250 (£2,500 joint). Thereafter the maximum monthly deposit is £250 (£500 joint).

• £1 minimum investment
• No withdrawals in the one year term
• Monthly payments of between £1 and £250 (£500 joint)
• Additional investment of £1000 (£2000 joint) can be made in month one

GreenBitterfly

Hopefully Skipton Building Society will be offering a Christmas saver this year.

Steve_xx

GreenBitterfly wrote: »

Hopefully Skipton Building Society will be offering a Christmas saver this year.

Let's hope they do something cheerful. They keep on emailing me about funeral plans. So much so that I complained that it was distasteful to their chief exec. Whilst awaiting the response I received yet another email inviting me to make a will!

badger09

Steve_xx wrote: »

Let's hope they do something cheerful. They keep on emailing me about funeral plans. So much so that I complained that it was distasteful to their chief exec. Whilst awaiting the response I received yet another email inviting me to make a will!

Maybe they know something you don't Steve_xx :eek:

Steve_xx

badger09 wrote: »

Maybe they know something you don't Steve_xx :eek:

Maybe so! It's bizarre that they send these invites to people who clearly have enough money to bury themselves.

badger09

Steve_xx wrote: »

Maybe so! It's bizarre that they send these invites to people who clearly have enough money to bury themselves.

When I read that, I instantly had an image of you buried under a mountain of used banknotes and building society passbooks:rotfl:

planteria

Special_Saver2 wrote: »

I have added the Nationwide FlexOne Regular Saver to post 3 (thanks Archi Bald for pointing this one out).

good work. i quite like the look of this one, for £100/m:think:

planteria

patientperson wrote: »

Furness BS - 1 Year Festive Saver - 2.55%

http://www.furnessbs.co.uk/saving-accounts/regular-savings/one-year-festive-saver/

Maximum opening deposit in the first month is £1,250 (£2,500 joint). Thereafter the maximum monthly deposit is £250 (£500 joint).

• £1 minimum investment
• No withdrawals in the one year term
• Monthly payments of between £1 and £250 (£500 joint)
• Additional investment of £1000 (£2000 joint) can be made in month one

so you could put £1250 in, and then just top up with £1/m?

GreenBitterfly

Steve_xx wrote: »

Let's hope they do something cheerful. They keep on emailing me about funeral plans. So much so that I complained that it was distasteful to their chief exec. Whilst awaiting the response I received yet another email inviting me to make a will!

Yes, I follow them on Twitter and there's a distinct depressing feature about their tweets about retirement and death, I keep thinking I just want to save for next Christmas! I think it's probably to do with that they'd make more money for investments for retirement, will making etc, than savings accounts atm.

Steve_xx

GreenBitterfly wrote: »

Yes, I follow them on Twitter and there's a distinct depressing feature about their tweets about retirement and death, I keep thinking I just want to save for next Christmas! I think it's probably to do with that they'd make more money for investments for retirement, will making etc, than savings accounts atm.

Well I took exception to it. I don't much like that sort of thing where banks are obviously targetting death and despair in such an overt way. On a lighter note, yet in a similar way, a few years back my Mum was complaining to me because she'd hit a certain age and she said that Cilla Black had started sending her letters. It was at the time when Ms Black was advertising funeral plans on TV for Liverpool Victoria.

In any case these funeral plans are a nonsense. The longer you linger, the less they're worth and if you go within the first couple of years you only get what you've paid in.

In true MSE spirit, a few years ago I took one out. I did it for no other reason that they were giving you a free digital TV or a SatNav if you took one of their policies, and the first two months payments were free. So I got the telly, and then promptly pulled the plug on the payments!