How much can you save?

Saver-Rob

You people would make good candidates for the 'Saving for a Deposit' Thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=789675

Vixstar

Looks like I'll be in good company then!

Masomnia

Welcome aboard Vixstar

Yeah I just check the balance every month to see where it's up to, I don't plan on paying it off any quicker than I have to either but it does give me a good incentive to save as much as I can. Need all the motivation I can get!

Rose_Crow

Vixstar wrote: »

Can I join you? I'm saving towards a house deposit as I don't think the equity in my current one will go far. I currently have about £3700 saved and would like to set an initial target of £10000. I'm aiming to save about 40% of my monthly income eventually with a little help from the forum.

Welcome to the 10k Club Seems like £10k is the target to go for on here

Since everyone else is doing it, I'll do a savings update too. Managed to save a whopping 38% of my net income this month. That's £440 I've also managed to make a bit from Quidco over the last few months which is filtering into my account and going straight to the car insurance fund.

Lokolo

I paid £45 for train tickets to bath and forgot to do it through quidco :(:( could have got myself 80p there! argh. :mad:

Rose_Crow

I keep signing up for the bingo / gambling sites. Have a look through Quidco, there's loads on there. Obviously only go for the ones where you make a profit. For example, Jackpot Joy were offering £25 cashback for a £10 deposit, so that £15 profit straight away. I'm keeping a list of the accounts I've opened and close them once Quidco's cleared.

JimLad

£12.36 interest on my ISA today!

It turns out interest is paid annually on the 1st of march no matter when your account was opened! Ive only had it in there for a month!

Wanttosave_2

Just had a pondering moment - thinking how nice it would be to have accrued a big stash of wonga (LOL) and be able to almost live off the monthly interest. :rolleyes:

I am sure I am not the only one.

Ps. Still up for that challenge Lucy?

:A
Money Angel

LucyTheDwarf

Yes of course! Sorry, I missed your last post, I've been a little bit less active the last few weeks.

In the first few weeks of January, I set myself a mini target, of hitting £10K by the end of March.... well, one thing after another has happened, and that's now impossible. Will make it by end of April if I'm lucky. I think I am going to make my first loss since May 2008 this month, which I'm not happy about! Oh well, can't be helped.

Still, according to my predictions, I'll hit £20k by August 2010, so I'm trying to focus on the bigger picture - winning the race!! Haha!

Anyone here tried Dooyoo??? It's my new moneymaking toy.

Lokolo

Is that where you get paid to write reviews of products?

I was always tempted to do stuff like that but I never buy anything so would be pointless lol.