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Hi We took our 8 year old out of school in April to go to Centre Parcs (damn their holiday time prices!!) and we each got the £60 fine which we paid. I've seen in the new school year that fines are going up to £80 per parent per child, and our youngest will be starting primary in September. He was kept back a year due to…
Welcome to the 2024 weekly cash envelope (or online) savings challenge! This challenge ran in 2023 and I have been asked to set it up again for 2024. It can really boost your savings pots and help with paying for Christmas, or a family holiday...anything you like really! Last year we set it up for physical cash saving but…
Hi All Welcome to the Old Style Weight Loss thread for quarter two 2024. Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st April until the 30th June. 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 loss…
Hi there, today I reactivated my account with MSE. Hoping to get some motivation to pay off our mortgage a little quicker. Little bit of back story- So I had a diary in the debt free wannabe forum many years ago. I paid said debt off, saved up money to purchase a house :) and moved. Since then (2015) I have divorced, been…
My recent car insurance renewal had increased which I anticipated but shopping around seemed not to bad so I checked the policy and phoned to renew. My OH has been added before but due to serious health issues and him giving up driving and selling his car this year I thought it best to remove him from the policy and…
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