30-03-2013, 10:07 PM
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Re: Martin Lewis "Moneysavingexpert" or stating the bleeding obvious?
Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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My tip is : Check that you don't have any holes in your pockets or you may lose money.
Don't put your money in a Cyprus bank account
02-04-2013, 09:03 AM
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Re: Martin Lewis "Moneysavingexpert" or stating the bleeding obvious?
Originally Posted by Losos
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And here's one that even Elbee probably didn't know until a few weeks ago:-Don't put your money in a Cyprus bank account
The LAST thing I would do is put my money in overseas banks, especially those that are not FSCS protected. Eeven worse I would NEVER put more that the €100,000 that is protected either.
The Mail on Sunday was full of ads and features about how good Iceland savings account were. I never used them!
In fact as a general rule it is better to do the OPPOSITE of what the majority are doing and what he papers are saying!
But hey, what do I know, my ears don't stick out and I am not on telly!
03-04-2013, 01:52 PM
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Re: Martin Lewis "Moneysavingexpert" or stating the bleeding obvious?
I've often said to anyone who'd listen that Mr lewis and his ilk are simply stating common sense and, if you are sadly lacking in this department then Yes, by all means listen to what he says but for Gawd's sake don't take it all as Gospel 'cos it isn't!There's a whole host of daft TV Programmes doing much the same and if you sit down and actually watch how people got into some of the scrapes that they did you'd honestly believe they must be retarded but some people are absolutely stupid and therefore ANY help that they might get, FREE, will help them and, hopefully save on their knuckles dragging on the pavement too. stevmk2
03-04-2013, 01:59 PM
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Re: Martin Lewis "Moneysavingexpert" or stating the bleeding obvious?
Thing is not everyone has the same education or experiences so saying they are stupid or knuckle draggers is very derogatory just because they lack the same knowledge you do.Only time we have ever had any problems we couldn't see an end to in life was when we inherited a little money it caused us all sorts of problems if we had consulted ML or similar they may have stopped us getting in so much trouble.
Easier to have nothing than a sudden wind fall we found.
04-04-2013, 03:09 PM
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Re: Martin Lewis "Moneysavingexpert" or stating the bleeding obvious?
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Thing is not everyone has the same education or experiences so saying they are stupid or knuckle draggers is very derogatory just because they lack the same knowledge you do.
In my honest opinion, stupidity is on the increase and that is in reference to mental capacity, nothing really to do with education because if you haven't got the IQ in the first place, no amount of education is going to make any difference!
By the way, my education really wasn't great because we moved so many times as I came from a Royal Navy family and back then you were moved every two years. stevmk2
04-04-2013, 03:24 PM
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Re: Martin Lewis "Moneysavingexpert" or stating the bleeding obvious?
Education in the sense of money and how to save or spend wisely. If I had learnt and copied my parents not only would we have been on low wages but we would have been up to our necks in debt too it is only my husbands mother who had any money sense and taught him better.I have a tendency to be completely uncoordinated with money - never know what we have or what we haven't got just doesn't interest me at all my husband deals with it and tells me what I can or cannot spend. Works well for us but imagine two like me married recipe for financial disaster.
04-04-2013, 05:14 PM
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Re: Martin Lewis "Moneysavingexpert" or stating the bleeding obvious?
Martin Lewis may well be stating the bleedin' obvious but he shared his experience with the "stupid & uneducated, those lacking common sense"Not only that... he sold his website for a cool £87,000,000
An all win situation
13-04-2013, 11:08 AM
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Re: Martin Lewis "Moneysavingexpert" or stating the bleeding obvious?
Originally Posted by stevmk2
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I've often said to anyone who'd listen that Mr lewis and his ilk are simply stating common sense and, if you are sadly lacking in this department then Yes, by all means listen to what he says but for Gawd's sake don't take it all as Gospel 'cos it isn't!There's a whole host of daft TV Programmes doing much the same and if you sit down and actually watch how people got into some of the scrapes that they did you'd honestly believe they must be retarded but some people are absolutely stupid and therefore ANY help that they might get, FREE, will help them and, hopefully save on their knuckles dragging on the pavement too. stevmk2
I saw a programme called How TV ruined your life which was really entertaining. In it they said people are so stupid that they now belive science fiction is actually real!
To prove the point, they showed a silly woman in the street a "new mobile phone" that you could call yourself on in the past. You could warn yourself not to do certain things etc.
When she realised what was being claimed she said, "
where can I get one, I like the thought of being able to talk to myself."
She even missed the point that if the phone was real, anyone could phone back the winning lottery numbers to themselves in the past every week and the winnings would be in their "present time" bank account!
Perhaps I should start bottling Sussex sea air!
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