AK
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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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as soon as you get paid shift money to other account(s).
Thats what I do.... you forget about it short term, but remember if you really need it.
I'm shite at saving - always have been, always will be 
Only time I get do any worth while monthly saving is when I'm saving for somthing (house deposit, new car etc)
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AK
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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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Nights out are crackers.... 
Take £100 out... wake up with £40 in your wallet and think its been a very cheap night 
Then a week later all the shitry slow cash machines you have to pay to use come off 
DOH
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emicen
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Registered: 26th Jul 10
Location: Glasgow
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quote: Originally posted by AK
Nights out are crackers.... 
Take £100 out... wake up with £40 in your wallet and think its been a very cheap night 
Then a week later all the shitry slow cash machines you have to pay to use come off 
DOH
The two dirtiest words in the drunken vocabulary: cash back
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Eck
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
Location: Lundin Links, Fife
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Cash back is fucking horrendous You forget that the reason you're using your card in the first place is because you've spanked your budget in notes already, and it just goes downhill from there
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Gareth
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Registered: 2nd Mar 00
Location: Derby, Drives: EVO VIII MR & pug 308
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quote: Originally posted by Norcy91
quote: Originally posted by Neo
quote: Originally posted by Gareth
You should be loaded living at home wait till you've got a mortgage and bills to pay!
This, hate the people at work that moan they are skint when they are on the same amount/more but live at their parents
I'm not loaded when i'm a first year apprentice! I wish i'd have started this when i was 16 really, not 20.
But yeah i get what you mean, i'd have no chance of being able to afford to pay a mortgage or bills with my current wage.
Yeah i just based that on the fact you said "good steady income" which could be 30k a year for all i know
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Norcy91
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Registered: 15th Sep 08
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quote: Originally posted by Gareth
quote: Originally posted by Norcy91
quote: Originally posted by Neo
quote: Originally posted by Gareth
You should be loaded living at home wait till you've got a mortgage and bills to pay!
This, hate the people at work that moan they are skint when they are on the same amount/more but live at their parents
I'm not loaded when i'm a first year apprentice! I wish i'd have started this when i was 16 really, not 20.
But yeah i get what you mean, i'd have no chance of being able to afford to pay a mortgage or bills with my current wage.
Yeah i just based that on the fact you said "good steady income" which could be 30k a year for all i know
Yeah thats true! I wish i got something anywhere near that
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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I have major spending issues at the minute Everything I earn gets spent no matter how much overtime I do. Figured no mater what I buy, I'll want something again next month and it just keeps going on like this.
I'm spending £300 a month on weekends out in town - this has to stop as it's doing me no good at all. Two nights out and 5 days ill.
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Xs
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Registered: 12th Apr 02
Location: Lanarkshire
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quote: Originally posted by Andrew
I have major spending issues at the minute Everything I earn gets spent no matter how much overtime I do. Figured no mater what I buy, I'll want something again next month and it just keeps going on like this.
I'm spending £300 a month on weekends out in town - this has to stop as it's doing me no good at all. Two nights out and 5 days ill.
If I could only spend £300 a month on weekends I'd love it, sadly do that a weekend. They should turn off cash machines after midnight on friday and saturdays!
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Tom
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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quote: Originally posted by AK
Nights out are crackers.... 
Take £100 out... wake up with £40 in your wallet and think its been a very cheap night 
Then a week later all the shitry slow cash machines you have to pay to use come off 
DOH
I hate that, they are so slow that it can be 4/5 days later depending on what day you did the dirty deed. I never use those cash machines normally, as someone else said cash machines should be switched off after midnight
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Jon_C
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Registered: 7th Dec 05
Location: Suffolk
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quote: Originally posted by Xs
quote: Originally posted by Andrew
I have major spending issues at the minute Everything I earn gets spent no matter how much overtime I do. Figured no mater what I buy, I'll want something again next month and it just keeps going on like this.
I'm spending £300 a month on weekends out in town - this has to stop as it's doing me no good at all. Two nights out and 5 days ill.
If I could only spend £300 a month on weekends I'd love it, sadly do that a weekend. They should turn off cash machines after midnight on friday and saturdays!
If you spend 300 quid over the weekend while out on the beer you clearly earn way too much money or really need a new hobby
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: MK
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quote: Originally posted by Jon_C
quote: Originally posted by Xs
quote: Originally posted by Andrew
I have major spending issues at the minute Everything I earn gets spent no matter how much overtime I do. Figured no mater what I buy, I'll want something again next month and it just keeps going on like this.
I'm spending £300 a month on weekends out in town - this has to stop as it's doing me no good at all. Two nights out and 5 days ill.
If I could only spend £300 a month on weekends I'd love it, sadly do that a weekend. They should turn off cash machines after midnight on friday and saturdays!
If you spend 300 quid over the weekend while out on the beer you clearly earn way too much money or really need a new hobby
Or a coke problem.
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
Location: carluke/braidwood--IRNBRULAND
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I'm a money saving bastard...
Instead of paying insurance monthly (usually 30% extra a year) get a savings account and put money in every week/month so when the year is up you will have enough to pay it at once.
If you have credit cards I got one that is only 7.9%APR yes 7.9%...but has no insurance so I took out insurance for £25 that covers that card and all my other card and everyone in the households cards 
Eat at home more 1 takeaway could feed you for 2 days maybe.
etc
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
Location: carluke/braidwood--IRNBRULAND
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Get wrecked before you go out to the pub!!!
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Money saving so you've got a credit card you need to pay interest on and also paying money for useless insurance
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
Location: carluke/braidwood--IRNBRULAND
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How is it useless if my cards get nicked or I buy from a fraud...I get my money back.
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
Location: London
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quote: Originally posted by John
Money saving so you've got a credit card you need to pay interest on and also paying money for useless insurance
Haha I thought the same
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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quote: Originally posted by sand-eel
How is it useless if my cards get nicked or I buy from a fraud...I get my money back.
Like you do as standard you mean?
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