Check your Bank to make more savings.

[Paul]

Not to knock Iceland but check out the 'size & shape' of their normal day to day customer waddling around the aisles .

What they sell is not the best and certainly not going to do your health any favours eating processed/frozen ready meal salt and sugar laden s**t they peddle in their fridges.  

Not that the other supermarkets are much better

Iceland is one of the best UK employers give it their dues, and i remember seeing a documentary about the day to day workings of Iceland and can recall they have a ex-Michelin starred chef for the head office staff canteen.  The bosses and mangers are not fed on dinosaur shaped turkey twizzlers for their dinners, that's for sure.

Whilst it is nice to save a few bob here and there, put your health first.  your body is your engine, feed it the right things, learn to cook from scratch, learn about diet, learn to source ingredients, become a friend of your best local butcher, use farmers markets, learn to meal plan.  cooking doesn't need to be a chore

I am near 90% paleo diet for a few years now, and avoid anything processed wherever I can.  No crisps, fizzypop, chocolates, ready meals, limited bread & dairy etc. 

"If it didn't come out of the ground/sea, moo or cluck it probably isn't do you good if you eat it too often" is paleo in a sentence

Investing in your health is one thing I dont think you can put a price on - investing in yourself and saving it in good nick for the future, is just like we are trying to do with our savings in precious metals.

 

[KDave]

Not sure what I think of this, but I have seen some offers on TopCashBack involving online Casinos and such, offering cash back for signing up and placing a bet. Some were on the lines of deposit £20 and wager it, receive £31.50 cash back. Looks like free money. Not to mention the potential of doubling your money on black at the roulette tables  

I count a dozen offers with that kind of cash back. What do you think? Is it worth giving over your details to these companies to get that kind of return? 

[sovereignsteve]

1 hour ago, KDave said:

Not sure what I think of this, but I have seen some offers on TopCashBack involving online Casinos and such, offering cash back for signing up and placing a bet. Some were on the lines of deposit £20 and wager it, receive £31.50 cash back. Looks like free money. Not to mention the potential of doubling your money on black at the roulette tables 

I count a dozen offers with that kind of cash back. What do you think? Is it worth giving over your details to these companies to get that kind of return?

Read the small print and the T&C very carefully. It's common for casino offers to require you to "rollover" or stake (a) your initial deposit, (b) your bonus or (c) both multiple times (up to x100). Unless you can do this efficiently (eg blackjack using "perfect" play at 1 % house edge), you will lose any winnings you are lucky enough to generate, and your initial deposit. These offers are not intended for punters to walk away with free money!

The heyday for casino offers is well gone, I don't think they're worth chasing anymore.

[SoulUK]

I did a few of the casino cashbacks when I first joined TopCashBack

main catch is what you bet on, normally has to be something that's odds over 2.00, so if you do red/black on roulette it'll not pay you the cashback

 

as above, check the T&C's and can you make a little cash, aslong as you can wait 3-6months on the return its not bad

[sovereignsteve]

6 minutes ago, SoulUK said:

I did a few of the casino cashbacks when I first joined TopCashBack

main catch is what you bet on, normally has to be something that's odds over 2.00, so if you do red/black on roulette it'll not pay you the cashback

 

as above, check the T&C's and can you make a little cash, aslong as you can wait 3-6months on the return its not bad

I think I got the wrong end of the stick with my reply, which has more to do with the bonus type casino offers. If the return is purely the cashback on a deposit, then it should work in theory as @SoulUK says.

I think I would stick the deposit on blackjack and hope for a good run of wins. You can easily win several hands running and then play conservatively if you do build up a nice total, until you have completed the rollover and are allowed to withdraw.

[Cornishfarmer]

I looked at it but when you look at the comments sections most 90% of people in last 6 months said it failed to pay the cashback

[a_a]

It is car insurance renewal time - my current provider initially quoted me £565, I called them up and they knocked £95 off, I said I'd think about it

Searched in 3-4 well-known comparison sites and got it down to £273, less than half the original renewal quote. Plus there's £52 cashback if I use TCB, taking it down to £221

£330+ saved from 2 hours messing about. Unfortnately I can't buy coins as I also need a new car

[Danny-boy]

I got 41% off my RAC breakdown renewal this week.

Never, ever accept an auto renewal price. Ever.

[Scuzzle]

2 hours ago, Danny-boy said:

I got 41% off my RAC breakdown renewal this week.

Never, ever accept an auto renewal price. Ever.

They always haggle, you phone them up and tell them you are looking at car insurance renewal that includes free Green Flag cover so you would have to cancel, your renewal quote from your existing insurer would be so much simpler to accept and to keep using RAC but it's a hundred pounds of a difference and see what they say.  I think I got mine reduced by about the same amount.

[whitesands1]

13 hours ago, a_a said:

It is car insurance renewal time - my current provider initially quoted me £565, I called them up and they knocked £95 off, I said I'd think about it

Searched in 3-4 well-known comparison sites and got it down to £273, less than half the original renewal quote. Plus there's £52 cashback if I use TCB, taking it down to £221

£330+ saved from 2 hours messing about. Unfortnately I can't buy coins as I also need a new car

Massive saving, well done!  It is disappointing that customer loyalty is not valued but the insurer's strategy of higher prices for loyal customers must work for them.  Madness not to shop around.