25p a week

Every little helps! ?

Have you read Milly Molly Mandy? She found a penny and invested it wisely in (among other things) buying a skein of wool, knitting a pot holder and selling it at a profit.
There’s a crying need for pot holders so buy a yard of charity shop wool with that 25p!

It’s not even enough to buy a loaf of bread!
As to garden waste, ours went up to £60.00 per year, so we now buy compostable paper sacks, at £1.00 each. They hold an awful lot, and then they get taken away, once a fortnight.
Suits us as we don’t have a lot to go.

I have been getting mine for 18 months now and by the two year mark I will have enough for a decent bottle of gin (which will last about a month) so I don't believe in looking a gift horse in the mouth ?

Begging letter en route to your husband allule such generosity from DWP.

Seriously does your MP realise that amount is being distributed when one is 80 years old? I would inform him/her and see if anything could be done about it because as someone said, it costs more to administer the money.

We pay £75 here so count yourselves very lucky re garden waste.

Well if you save it untill you get your telegram from the ?.
You will have the princely of £260.
However if you choose to invest your pennies then with the interest rates as they are at present, you could add to the pot, em, well...
about half ?. ?
But taking inflation into account my advice to your DH would be to throw caution to the wind and spend it on

We have to pay for garden waste now since the latest council cuts Marydoll
25p. Gosh. A couple of tea bags and give the rest to charity?
It is insulting.

Ours was free until last autumn, then we were informed that if we wanted to continut to have it collected, we would have to sign up, pay £25 a year, and put a sticker on the wheelie bin to show that we had paid up. It is another £25 on the council tax by the back door.

You'll be next, Marydoll I would imagine.

Our LA take our garden rubbish away every week for free.
I didn't realise how fortunate we are and how we just take it for granted.

Elegran you’re lucky I pay £45 to have my gardenrubbish taken each fortnight

Bet you can't wait Elegran. Oh the excitement.

That'll be my treat too in a few months time. I am beside myself thinking of all the luxuries I'll be buying with it !

I'll start with getting the council to empty my garden rubbish once a fortnight - Oh no, that is £25 a year, or £1 a time!

Sending a letter, even 2nd class, would cost around two weeks extra pension! Just how is £1 a month supposed to be useful to someone?

Don't spend it all at the same shop !

I'd be sending a stiff letter saying that maybe their need was greater than mine so stick it up your jumper. What a bloomin' insult.