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HOME INSURANCE COST CUTTING JUST GOT BETTER! I've hoped this'd happen for a while. My quick 4-step cost cutting plan includes using 'screen-scraping' websites to scour the market. Yet before only Insuresupermarket* offered this, now Confused.com* does too. Fully Rewritten Article. 4-step home insurance plan. Related Article. Car Insurance Cost Cutting. REMEMBER... provided you haven't claimed you needn't wait for renewal to switch!
MAJOR TESCO LOOPHOLE! Buy beef, feed the homeless and get a holiday! Buy three Birds Eye Beef in Gravy for 65p each (£1.95) and you get 150 Clubcard points. These can then be converted to £6 towards a holiday. A few people have bought £500 worth, given the beef to homeless charities and got a dream vacation (one MoneySaver's hopefully bagged himself a trip to New Zealand). Read details, how to and more.
HALF OF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! I was shocked last week's poll found 38% of you spend on debit cards and 17% on non-cashback credit cards, paid off in full each month. Shame on you! Use a cashback credit card and you earn cash every time you spend. Simply set up a direct debit to pay it off in full. Top cards: high spender Amex Plat*, mid spender Amex Blue*, low spender Morgan Stanley*. Read Best Cashback Card Article. Stop giving them your cash!
Reminder. Top instant access clean savings. ICICI's 5.4% Article
Reminder. £125 free cash for you plus a friend. Alliance and Leicester* details in Best Current Account article
Reminder. Market leading balance transfers (9 month 0% fees free). View/Apply: Virgin* Read Best Balance Transfers
FREE CD PLAYER WITH a £3.31 PENCIL! Top Chat Voucher Find
FIX YOUR MORTGAGE RATE TODAY! Now. Don't delay. Urgent. Coo--eee! Fixed rate mortgages are currently very cheap, but disappearing fast. So if you want to fix, do it quickly or lose out. Free MoneySavingExpert Remortgage Guide Printed/PDF . Articles. Fix vs Discount, Sneaky Free Mortgage Advice.
GREAT "CHEAPEST LEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOADS" HUNT. This week Tesco entered the market charging 79p for singles downloads. Yet there are many other ways to it. So I'm tapping MoneySavers' collective knowledge to find the cheapest and best legal ways.
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WANT A MARTIN MONEYSAVING MAKEOVER? Want to be on m'new ITV1 series “Make Me Rich?” The aim's to get the best deals and stop you being ripped off by big companies. Pls e-mail the producers at makemerich@moneysavingexpert.com or read More details about the series.
SNEAKY EGG LOOPHOLE. Reminder. Borrow at 0% while protecting your credit score Egg's* Anniversary offer is great for credit card tarts but many cardholders chance paying more than they need. Use my loophole to genuinely enjoy 0% interest year after year. Updated Article. Egg Loophole
TIME OUT LONDON MAGAZINE 27p/COPY. Time Out!.
FLIGHTCHECKER SALES WATCH Costas, Balearics and the Algarve £25 each way. These are Mytravelite's current offers incl taxes & charges. Use the free FlightChecker to find them in seconds.
(Also see Daily Bargains Updates and Chat Tips GOLD)
- Boots £5 voucher for skincare products. If you spend £5.
- Optical Mouse, Photo Paper and possible ink cartridge Only £3.14
- Six in 1 Sports Table. Keep the kids quiet Can you find them cheaper?
- Heinz baby bargain. Five pots for 65p Spot the pots
- Buy Heat magazine get Cinderella Man cinema tickets £1.50 all-in
- Free phone number for your computer. Cut your friends' bills
- Free £40 Asda voucher if you've a 40th Wedding Anniversary soon Get shopping
- Old Style (Frugal) Board Thread of the Week: Prepare your kids for Uni Emergency Food Tin
- Nominate Post of the Month for August
AIR YOUR DIRTY LAUNDRY IN PUBLIC. No, not salacious gossip. I'm talking literally. MoneySave with a new 'switch off the tumble drier' campaign for the summer. More Info.
Reminder. Heading off to Uni? Top Student Accounts
Offer Ending. Unlimited calls to UK landlines £6/month for August sign-ups Talk Talk
Reminder. Get money back on dental & optical treatment Healthcare Cashplans
FANTASY FOOTBALL. The footy season's back and so's our yearly game. Join the MSE friends league on Channel 4's fantasy football game (be quick!). I'll give the winner either champagne or a football shirt of their choice. More Info.
BOARD OF THE WEEK. Not Sexy But Necessary. Cutting Tax. Tax returns are due in nearly a month so send it back if you want the Inland Revenue to calculate your tax. This board is where you can read and answer questions. Discussions include Working from home and Do I need an accountant? plus Quick Links.
Dishwasher Tablets, Kids Toy, Free DVD and Rental Trial,
Legal Music Downloads, Fragrance Cards for your Drawers
UNOFFICIAL MONEYSAVERS MEETS. Edinburgh and Blackpool.
RADIO 2 LISTENERS' NOTE. If you joined the email distribution list after hearing me on Jeremy Vine read the following articles: Best Balance Transfers, Cheapest Personal Loans and Your Credit Score.
BRAND NEW OR BANGER? POLL. Do you dice with depreciation or dream of dirty and used? Vote or discuss. Also, see last week's Cash King or Plastic Fantastic? Poll results.
CALM DOWN MARTIN! Finally I've got the links of Mr. Winner telling me to calm down on Radio 2. Here you go. 'Calm down Martin' and 'Calm down dear'. You can read my blog about it here.
And while we're on the subject of Mr. Winner I thought you'd like this. Someone's hip-hop-hyped him up into his own techno-dream beats - anything but calm.
That's it for this week.
I hope you save some money
Martin
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