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Casual use printer
Can anyone recommend a good reliable black and white printer with affordable cartridges and costs less than £50
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road 2023
New Year and new thread for 2023. I know what I need to do and where I need to go. Looked it up on the web and Follow the Yellow Brick Road means a course of action that a person takes believing that it will lead to good things. So here I go. More to follow on my journey to be mortgage free.
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Payment a Day - Chapter 2025
Small Payments. BIG Impact. Making a small (or large) Payment a Day (PAD) - or whenever your budget allows - towards debts or savings all adds up really quickly! And can change your financial future... Hey everyone, Welcome to the Payment A Day - Chapter 2025 challenge! (this will start from 1 January 2025) We've decided…
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Lumiona's MFW Diary
As a forum lurker, I'm not a threadstarter but I figured like many of you that a diary is a good accountability method. Ok so here goes: Backstory, we moved to our current house in 2006, bought for £178k mortgaged at £130k for 30yrs. Interest rates were high monthly payment about £750, went up to nearly £900 at one stage.…
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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 4th Quarter 2025
Hi All Welcome to the Old Style Weight Loss thread for quarter four 2025 Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st October until the 31st December. You do not have to submit a loss or gain for the first week as it's our starting week, you can post your first…
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Returned modem but still being charged by ISP
Hello! On 9th August I ended my 18 month contract with Pop Telecom and I have signed up with Virgin Media. Pop Telecom told me I needed to return my router within 14 days, which I sent recorded delivery the same day. On 16th August Pop Telecom sent me an invoice for £79.99 for an unreturned router stating that a direct…
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Extra brush for Henry hoover
Wanna clean mattress, sofa,electric blankets etc as there's a dust/allergy problem but don't want to use brush attachment I stick over all through floors or should I. Anyhow can you order them off Amazon?
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Colleague on long term sick - TUPE question
Good Morning! I'm asking on behalf of a colleague of mine, who's in an unenviable position at the moment with little to no engagement from our existing employer. Fast Facts: Colleague has been with the company ~25 years - been in a senior technical role for about 20 years of that Colleague has been on long-term sick since…
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2026 Savings & Investments Goals
Has anybody any plans for 2026?
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2025 - 52 Week Envelope Saving Challenge
Save £1378 in 2025! Welcome to the '2025' 52 week envelope savings challenge! This challenge ran the last couple of years and I have been asked to set it up again for 2025. It can really boost your savings pots and help with paying for Christmas, or a family holiday...anything you like really! It can be done wither with…
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Landlord wanting to set up trust
Apologies if in wrong category, please move if so! A friend is a private landlord who is not overly financially savvy. They are trying to transfer the rental properties they own outright across to younger family members before they get too old. They seem to think a trust is the best way but on a quick google, trusts can be…
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New smart tv 40 ins
Any recommendation for a mart tv 40 in’s pl? My preference is Panasonic but the one I intended to buy just before Xmas is no longer available. Thanks Panasonic TV-40S55AEY 40" Smart Full HD HDR LCD
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New credit card
I recently switched current account from Smile to Lloyds. Partly because Smile’s website is showing its age/becoming glitchy and partly to take advantage of Lloyds £200 switching incentive. I also decided to close my little used, nil balance credit card with Smile, thinking it would be simpler to have one with Lloyds.…
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TANDEM Instant Access Cash ISA paying 4% including top up bonus
Hi In case it hasn't been mentioned before I have just seen Tandem have this flexible Instant Access ISA accepting transfers in too. Can open a portfolio ISA with them mixing instant access and FR Isas.
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Hi, Can anyone recommend a current account with a clean intuative online (not mobile) interface?
As topic, I'm currently with Santander, and as been described in these forums previously by others, I've found their website clucky and unintuitive. My latest (only because i've had to use it again!) bugbear being the 'Payee Name' problem again previously decribed in these forums (If you use COP as Payee name to ID, you…
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Who are IBERDROLA GROUP, Ariba & SAP Business Network??
Our house has Solar panels which were installed back in 2011. Scottish Power pay our FIT payments. We have received some unsolicited emails recently from an account called "Ariba Administrator" saying we should, "....register as a supplier on SAP Business Network. In order to manage collaboration processes, participate in…
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New SNUG rates
Great to see the off peak staying the same
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Royal Mail Lying about collections Our local Parcel Office only opens part time and as a result of
Royal Mail Lying about collections Our local Parcel Office only opens part time and as a result often don't bother to collect parcels as arranged, which is fine, but they shouldn't lie! EG "Unfortunately, we couldn’t collect due to the following reasons: YA4866??????? - The parcel wasn't available when we called." Is a…
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Self assessment for a non-worker with interest under £10k
Hi there. My partner will be paid around £9.5k in interest this tax year. She receives no other income, does not work and does not claim any state benefits or pension. Does she need to complete a self-assessment tax return for 2025-26? My understanding is that if total interest is under £10k then you don’t complete a…
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More debt to clear debt
Hi everyone, I have a situation. I am currently in around 50k of debt. Most of it I am paying a small token gesture, and interest is frozen. However, 10k of it I am paying £700 a month, I can't get it lower (court ordered and family) and it is a chain around my neck, and I can't think of anything else. I am working 7 days…
