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Getting FIREd up 😀
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Hey SC - do you do Consumer Pulse? If so, I have a question for you. Ta
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Yes I do - ask away 😀Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!2 -
Have you had an email recently about them closing the Entertainment category?I had one yesterday which said reminder..but I don't recall having had a previous one.If it's true, I will be disappointed as I do log a lot of book purchases ( perhaps unsurprisingly
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Yes, I did. Have just checked and it was sent 26/11. The subject was "Important Information Regarding Christmas" though, so not obvious by any means!Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!2 -
Ah...OK. Thank youThat's another site which will be less fruitful for me now. Shame.1
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I too had both the emails, I'm rather disappointed as most of my purchases are in the entertainment category and now Consumer Pulse will be significantly less fruitful.Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases
One income, home educating family2 -
Have just got round to reading the email Vanguard sent me on Thursday, to discover they are more than doubling my account fees as my lowly investments with them are below £32k. Ouch 😥
Research into other providers has gone on the Christmas holidays to-do list....Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!4 -
The Rebel Finance website has just launched a calculator so you can work out what the effect for you us of the fee increase, based on your current balance and contributions. Might be worth a look!South_coast said:Have just got round to reading the email Vanguard sent me on Thursday, to discover they are more than doubling my account fees as my lowly investments with them are below £32k. Ouch 😥
Research into other providers has gone on the Christmas holidays to-do list....3 -
Ooh, thank you. Will add that to the list as well (already longer than I can possibly get through 🤦♀️)Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!3 -
Well they can get straight in the bin, how rude!https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael3
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