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£205 of beauty products for £50 via Advent calendar. MSE Blagged. Incl Ciaté, Molton Brown etc. 3,000 avail 1.5% easy access savings, best rate since Jan 2016. Mega-popular last week, so for those who missed it... get 1.5% AER variable (incl a fixed bonus of 0.15% for 1yr) from Marcus Bank*, the UK arm of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs. See Top Savings for more. Ends Sun. Free Halfords MOT with 50p spend - book any time until Oct 2019. How to get a 'free' MOT. 'Free' Amazon £6 credit for some. See if you're eligible for 'free' £6 Amazon credit. Missed out on Glastonbury tickets? How you can still go for FREE. On Sun it sold out in 30mins... but we've five ways to get to Glasto for free. Free and cheap flu jabs. Winter is coming... find the cheapest lurgy protection. PS: MSE's Coupon Kid is BACK - Crohn's can't keep him down. He's had a tough year in and out of hospital, but we're chuffed our star coupon hunter has returned to MSE Towers. Read his story: Coupon Kid vs Crohn's |
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Plus if we can switch you, we give you roughly half what we get as cashback - that's £25 per dual fuel switch - so it's cheaper than going direct. We've now got filters to let you home in on a deal that suits. These links take you through those (they can always be unselected, or combined on the results page) - The 'I only want firms with great service' comparison - based on our twice-yearly polls. - The 'No price hikes' comparison - this only lists fixed-ra te tariffs (or go long with a 2+ winters fix comparison). - The 'I only want names I know' comparison - only shows Big 6 and big brand firms. - The 'I like my current provider, find me its cheapest' comparison - so you can save without switching. - The 'Green me up, I want renewable energy' comparison - lists only those with 100% renewable electricity. Isn't this all redundant as Ofgem's launching a price cap in December? No. Those on providers' standard deals will see prices capped from Dec. For someone on typical use, that means Big 6 prices will drop from around £1,220 to £1,136 a year (for clarity, this doesn't mean £1,136 is the most anyone pays - use more and your cap's higher). Ofgem calls this a 'fair' tariff but that doesn't make it a 'good' tariff - the cheapest deals are still far less. And be aware this cap is to be updated every 1 Apr and 1 Oct. Since it first announced the cap, wholesale rates (what energy firms pay) have exploded, so some predict it could be £100 higher on 1 Apr. Is there a chance prices could fall - is it safe to lock in now? There's no sign recent world energy price rises will reverse (but that doesn't mean they can't). And prices could still rise further. Locking in on a cheap fix now protects you from that. If things reversed very heavily you'd usually pay £60ish early exit fees - yet if you're overpaying now, the small risk of that's trivial compared to what you'll save. |
70 autumn plants £8 all-in. MSE Blagged. Lucky dip from pansy, primrose, viola, etc. 3,000 avail Ends Thu. Fast fibre & line equiv £21.39/mth - less than many pay for normal fibre. Newbies to TalkTalk can get superfast avg 63Mb speeds on an 18mth contract. You may need to trade top service for the cheap price though - our last poll saw a small improvement, but still 38% rate it 'poor'. Pay £25/mth on an 18mth contract but claim & spend a £65 Amazon, Argos, Tesco or Ticketmaster vch to make it equiv £21.39/mth. See Broadband Unbundled for more options. £35 for 7 bottles of wine & 2 glasses. MSE Blagged. Via Naked Wines newbies subscription code. 1,500 avail (Pls be Drinkaware.) Large A2ish photo canvas for £14.49 delivered (norm £58). MSE Blagged. Or bigger size for £20. Ends Sun. FREE MSE Mental Health & Debt 2018 booklet. It's Mental Health Day today (Wed). Sadly those with mental health issues are 4x more likely to be in debt crisis. If you or someone you know is impacted, download our free 44-page Mental Health & Debt 2018 booklet - and Martin's Money & Mental Health Policy Institute charity would love you to join its Experts by Experience group. |
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Now's the perfect time to start booking Christmas trains Don't derail your budget - our tips incl splitting your ticket and how to get a £10 railcard If you're train-ing home for Christmas and New Year, now's the time to start looking for tickets, as cheap advance fares will disappear faster than the sherry and mince pies you leave out for Santa. The sackful of tips in our Cheap Train Tickets guide apply all year round though (think of it as a gift that keeps on giving) - here are a few to get you on the right track... Book Xmas trains now to grab cheap fares. Rail firms usually confirm timetables and start selling cheap advance tickets around 12 weeks ahead . Some are releasing Christmas tickets a little later this year but others are already selling super-cheap fares, so now's the time to start looking - eg, we found 22-28 Dec London-Leeds £39rtn (£110 on the day). We've a full list of release dates, plus how to get a free alert when more tickets go on sale. Xmas trainsTwo singles can often beat a return. Bizarrely, it may be cheaper. This applies year-round, but is especially true for the festive period - you may need to weigh up whether to buy a cheap single now or wait for a return as most post-Xmas tickets aren't available yet. Singles vs returns Split your ticket to save. We always say chuck the logic book out the window with trains, and this is particularly true when it comes to split-ticketing. Same train, same time - buy two or more tickets and you may save large. Eg, we found a Manchester to Edinburgh ticket for £106, but Manchester to York then York to Edinburgh was £60. See how to do this and tools to help find where it works in Split ticket help. Swap £10 Tesco vouchers for £30 train tickets. You can exchange Clubcard points to use on train site RedSpottedHanky. It works on advance tickets and with railcards, but note there's a £1 booking fee (and Tesco's stopping this offer in Feb). Slash the cost with a railcard - some can get one for £10. Railcards - for families, couples, under-26s, over-60s, disabled people and more - give a 1/3 off many fares. To max the saving, look for a deal on the railcard itself - right now we've blagged 15% off a 16-25 Railcard, and if you or a pal has a season ticket in the south of Eng or West Mids, you can bag a £10 railcard. Full info in Railcard savings. |
FREE 6-bag Walkers crisps multipack (norm £1.50). Get a vch now, redeem next week. Save a packet BT HAGGLE - SUCCESS OF THE WEEK:"Thanks. I just haggled down my BT bill from £74 to £48 with one phone call. Over the 18-month contract this will save me £468." (Send us yours on this or any topic.) Fun Oct half-term activities (and life skills) for 16-17-year-olds for £25. Norm £50 but half-price with a code. Govt-backed Eng & NI scheme incl nights away - gets teens abseiling, canoeing and more. Spaces still avail, but going quick. National Citizen Service |
THIS WEEK'S POLL Would you eat food past its 'best-before' date? This week, Tesco announced it is removing 'best-before' dates from over 100 fruit and vegetable products in an effort to reduce waste. So when you find food at home past its best-before date, what do you do? Would you eat food past its 'best-before' date? Older MoneySavers are most likely to pick up a penny. In last week's poll, we asked if you'd bend down to pick up money lying around and 14,000+ of you responded. Tellingly, the most likely group to pick up coppers were the over-50s, with 71% saying they'd pick up a penny. In contrast, less than a third of under-25s would do the same, in fact, 12% of this group wouldn't pick up less than £1. See full penny poll results. |
MONEY MORAL DILEMMA My housemate has a bigger room - how should we split the rent? I'm renting a shared house and recently found out my housemate is paying less than me for a bigger room. We just signed a new contract and have agreed to discuss splitting it in a fairer way. What's the best way to go about this? Enter the Money Moral Maze: How should we split the rent? | Suggest an MMD | View past MMDs THE QUICKIES - Debt-Free Wannabe chat of the week: Looking to clear debt by 2020 |
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MARTIN'S APPEARANCES (WED 10 OCT ONWARDS) Thu 11 Oct - Good Morning Britain, ITV, Deals of the Week, 7.40am MSE TEAM APPEARANCES (SUBJECTS TBC) Wed 10 Oct - BBC Cumbria, Money Talks with Ben Maeder, from 6pm |
QUESTION OF THE WEEK Q: Virgin Media has emailed to say it intends to raise prices in November. How can it do this when we have a contract? Patricia, via email MSE Steve B's A: Annoyingly the regulator Ofcom's rules do allow telecoms firms to raise prices mid-contract - in Virgin's case, it's said it's t o cover rising costs. However, the rules also say you can leave your contract penalty-free if prices rise, so long as you tell your provider you're off within 30 days of being notified. This means you are free to switch to another provider - see our Broadband Unbundled tool for the best deals - or if you'd prefer to stick with Virgin, it's also the perfect time to haggle. 82% of MoneySavers who tried were successful in negotiating a better deal with Virgin, such as Mary: "Phoned when threatened with yet another price hike. Now paying £25 per month instead of nearly £50!" See our Haggle with Virgin guide for more tips. Please suggest a question of the week (we can't reply to individual emails). |
'MERRY CRISP-MAS, EVERYONE' That's all for this week, but before we go... we've yet to get to Halloween but (scarily) the door is already open to novelty Advent calendars. One of the earliest to pop up at MSE Towers is the Pringles Christmas calendar, featuring 12 cans of crisps hidden away behind the festive windows. But is it actually a deal worth singing Pringle-bells about? Head over to our Advent calendar deals page to see if it stacks up. We hope you save some money, |
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