How much can you save?

gelato_cat

Thanks Bit frustrated I'm only able to save enough to service my Regular Savers though!

Suze

save-a-lot wrote: »

Hi Suze - nice going with the saving!

save-a-lot

Suze, are you going to remain an MSE faithful when you emigrate? Are you off to Oz or NZ or somewhere like that?

gelato_cat

I'm off to Canada, where things aren't going to be much cheaper (if at all) so I'll need all the moneysaving tips I can get

Suze

save-a-lot wrote: »

Suze, are you going to remain an MSE faithful when you emigrate? Are you off to Oz or NZ or somewhere like that?

slowlyfading

:hello: everyone! I finally managed to get past the £800 milestone - i'm so pleased x

moneysavingwannabe

Hi,

Well done Slowlyfading and Suzey!:beer:

Nice to see you on hear again Suzey. You have done really well!

My savings are going the other way to everyone elses now!:D Oh well!!
I think I'm still going to be able to officially hang out here cos planning on keeping some of the savings and stoozing for a while! :eek:

gelato_cat

Yay! I love reaching milestones. What's your next one and when do you hope to reach it?

Suze

slowlyfading wrote: »

:hello: everyone! I finally managed to get past the £800 milestone - i'm so pleased x

gelato_cat

Cheers!

Don't be despondent - savings are meant to be spent at some stage and it's not like you'll have nothing to show for it. With any luck you'll get loads more back when you sell the house too

Defo hang out here and let us know how you get on!

Suze

moneysavingwannabe wrote: »

Hi,

Well done Slowlyfading and Suzey!:beer:

Nice to see you on hear again Suzey. You have done really well!

My savings are going the other way to everyone elses now!:D Oh well!!
I think I'm still going to be able to officially hang out here cos planning on keeping some of the savings and stoozing for a while! :eek:

slowlyfading

Suzey wrote: »

Yay! I love reaching milestones. What's your next one and when do you hope to reach it?

Suze

Think the next one is the big £1000 and I'm not sure when I'll reach it - hopefully before the new year!

save-a-lot

Hi Suze

Well my next milestone would have been £40K but, very soon, next month we are hearing the pitta patta of little feet, so some of our savings will go towards feeding the joint account for daily living and to keep my wife at home for as long as possible rather than having to go back to work. That aside, the current available savings totals around £37K, so our ambition during the next couple of years is to keep the savings at the very least maintained at over £30K, I cannot foresee that accumulation of funds will happen, only maintainance of the £30K level. But I am happy with that because when my wife does start to work again in 2 or 3 years time we will be able to pick up the savings batten again and really get some money put away.

The overall goal at the end of the day is to pay off the mortgage.

zag2me

Just to give some people the motivation to carry on saving those house deposits, here is what I just spent 20k of my savings on It was all worth it for the last 2 years.