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Lawns, luggage & upcycling – this week's MSE Forum highlights

Forum Executive

14 March 2025

This week on the MSE Forum we've had kitchen questions, bathroom queries, a bedroom furniture success story, a garden discussion and a car cleaning conundrum. Whichever part of the home you're working on, Forumites will have some MoneySaving wisdom for you.

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A few of this week's top threads

These are some of the Forum discussions that caught our eye this week:

Money Moral Dilemma

Every week, the Money Tips email features a real-life Money Moral Dilemma (MMD for short). They're intended to encourage debate and, as such, they're usually among the most discussed threads each week.

Should we leave more to our younger children in our wills?

We've always treated our children equally. The older ones, now in their late 40s, were fortunate enough to go to university with generous grants and their fees paid for them, so they graduated with no debt and have now almost cleared their mortgages. It's much tougher for our younger ones - for example, the youngest is 31, has student debt of over £50,000 and rents a shared flat. Should we give the younger ones a bigger share of our estate in our wills as, due to circumstances beyond their control, they have greater need?

See what our MSE Forumites had to say and add your own thoughts on the Money Moral Dilemma discussion thread. Do please stick to the MSE Forum rules: keep it kind and keep it clean. Remember, there's a real person behind every dilemma.

Photo of the week

In the make do, mend and minimise thread mandy47 shared their latest handiwork: "Painted old bedroom furniture with chalk paint that was left from another project. Replaced the knobs and it looks great. Really pleased."

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Latest comping wins

Congratulations to Kokuei who is celebrating their first-ever competition win: "My unofficial new year's resolution was to enter any competitions that interested me but I never expected to win anything! Good luck to everyone in future competitions."

Our Competitions time board is the best place to get into the comping habit.