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  • JimLad
    JimLad Posts: 950 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    LucyTheDwarf wrote: »
    Also, I'm putting £10 on the national lottery tonight. I'm stupid! :D But I have decided I can afford to throw away £10 in the very small chance that I might win a million. (Or a hundred, that'd be nice too).

    I do it online, they take £5 out of my account every month and enter me each week automatically :)
    Mortgage Free 22/03/17
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  • briona
    briona Posts: 1,454 Forumite
    LucyTheDwarf wrote: »
    Also, I'm putting £10 on the national lottery tonight. I'm stupid! :D But I have decided I can afford to throw away £10 in the very small chance that I might win a million. (Or a hundred, that'd be nice too).

    If you haven't already got an online account, go through Quidco for £5 cashback! :D
    If I don't respond to your posts, it's probably because you're on my 'Ignore' list.
  • LucyTheDwarf
    LucyTheDwarf Posts: 880 Forumite
    Lol, been there done that! Just blew £5 on their instant win games. Stupid. The other £5 is on tonight's Thunderball. £250,000 could come in VERY handy!

    Anyway, it's been nice knowing you all. I'll have £250k tomorrow, so will probably spend a few months at least being too busy to come online, as I'll be spending. See you in a year or so :D
    Target Cash Net Worth: £25K by January 2012
    Progress     May-08     19.0%; May-09 40.0%; May-10 63.0%; May-11 58.4%; Jun-11 58.5%; Jul-11 58.9%; Aug-11 58.7%; Sep-11 59.0%
  • wiggly
    wiggly Posts: 292 Forumite
    100 Posts
    I've been putting £100 a month away into a savings account but feel that I still spend far too much money on stupid things - as some of you may have seen I'm back being a DFW :( so I'm going to re-start my £2 jar and try to see how much I can save per day. I'd like to try and get as much money together as possible as I'd like to buy myself a new cooker - but the one I want is around £600 fitted so lots of £2's to find!
    Trying to get on top of finances one step at a time
  • dippykitty
    dippykitty Posts: 1,138 Forumite
    I'm very pleased at the moment because Mum has just told me that she's repaying the £1500 I lent her at the end of this month so I'll be able to add to my savings. I didn't think she was paying it back until summer so that's a nice surprise!

    Lucy -Remember us when you're rolling in it! :D

    wiggly - Good luck with the £2 jar! It does tend to mount up quite quickly ... not sure about the £600 though!
    ISA savings: £25,139 Other Savings: £1750 (tied up in bond)
  • briona
    briona Posts: 1,454 Forumite
    dippykitty wrote: »
    wiggly - Good luck with the £2 jar! It does tend to mount up quite quickly ... not sure about the £600 though!
    It took me around two years of saving every single £2 coin I got to get to £600 so it can be done.

    For the past year or so my friend has been collecting them for me as well – he gave me £10-worth today! – so my stash grows quite quickly! I tend to accumulate around £30-worth a month. Currently I've got £104 waiting to be banked... :)
    If I don't respond to your posts, it's probably because you're on my 'Ignore' list.
  • dippykitty
    dippykitty Posts: 1,138 Forumite
    briona wrote: »
    It took me around two years of saving every single £2 coin I got to get to £600 so it can be done.

    For the past year or so my friend has been collecting them for me as well – he gave me £10-worth today! – so my stash grows quite quickly! I tend to accumulate around £30-worth a month. Currently I've got £104 waiting to be banked... :)

    That's handy! I'm currently relieving my Mum of her coppers and 5ps but I could do with persuading a few more people to collect them for me (especially £1s and £2s)!
    ISA savings: £25,139 Other Savings: £1750 (tied up in bond)
  • Masomnia
    Masomnia Posts: 19,506 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Yeah I've stopped caring about account interest rates. There's no point in moving as the new account is only going to fall later. Oh well!
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse
  • briona
    briona Posts: 1,454 Forumite
    Masomnia wrote: »
    Yeah I've stopped caring about account interest rates. There's no point in moving as the new account is only going to fall later. Oh well!

    It's not the (already pitiful!) interest rates falling that I'm worried about – it's the banks collapsing! And the KE/Icesave fiasco only reinforced this. Like many other people I was chasing the best interest rates and look where that got us! Now I'd choose security (albeit perceived!) over a high interest rate every time!
    If I don't respond to your posts, it's probably because you're on my 'Ignore' list.
  • LucyTheDwarf
    LucyTheDwarf Posts: 880 Forumite
    I didn't win a penny :(
    Target Cash Net Worth: £25K by January 2012
    Progress     May-08     19.0%; May-09 40.0%; May-10 63.0%; May-11 58.4%; Jun-11 58.5%; Jul-11 58.9%; Aug-11 58.7%; Sep-11 59.0%
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