How much can you save?

Driving_Soon

Savings total is now - £20,690.25

dippykitty

Driving_Soon wrote: »

Savings total is now - £20,690.25

Well done!

gien

ljaneyr wrote: »

Dumb question: do you live in France? If so you are very lucky! I dream of having a house there one day!

Just over the border in Switzerland where they haven't adopted the euro (the Swiss and the Brits have a lot in common actually). It is outrageously expensive here and you get nothing for free, especially if you're not a citizen.

jamesd

98% of the total of my net pay and gross pension contributions is what I've accumulated for the tax years from 2006-7 through 2009-10.

A place to live, bills, food, holidays, all effectively at no cost. Saving most of my income then switching to investments in 2008 and 2009 let me gain nicely from the stock market lows and subsequent recovery. Stoozing and investing the stooze money during the recovery helped, with gains greater than most of my core living costs last year.

LucyTheDwarf

ljaneyr wrote: »

Let me know if you find out, my ISA interest has been paid on 28th of the last 3 months but not today so I was wondering why too. I wasn't expecting to get interest on my A&L account, not monthly anyway, but I got my £100 opening incentive the other day and ...wait for it...4p interest:rotfl:

It was paid on the 30th, for the period 25th March to 29th April. I don't know why their month suddenly got 4 days longer, but I got the right amount of interest for that long month, so I'm OK with that :P

partlydave wrote: »

Probably a computer error which wont happen unless you ring them:)

I didn't get around to calling them.. but thankfully it sorted itself out. I guess I"ll give them a week or so in future... but it is hard to trust them

minidannii wrote: »

so i went on the insurance compare site and got the cheapest quote £555, so i phoned up they asked which company i was with before and told me it is actually a joint company so they would transfer me to my insurance company and price match - so got it for £555 really happy

I love beating the insurance companies at their little game. Half of them are the same companies, it's not fair that there can be such a difference between quotes for an identical service.


I don't know where I am with last month yet... but I did well on the interest front. £43 as opposed to an average of £30 over the last 6 months. This is the first time in months that I earned more interest in one month than the month before. It's just been dropping and dropping and dropping, as bonus rates expire, even though my savings have been growing. This is thanks to A&L 6% and transferring my paltry HSBC ISA (1.75%) Happy!

tara747

gien wrote: »

Just over the border in Switzerland where they haven't adopted the euro (the Swiss and the Brits have a lot in common actually). It is outrageously expensive here and you get nothing for free, especially if you're not a citizen.

Ah right, Swiss francs, oops!!! :rotfl:

dippykitty

Glad it got sorted, Lucy!

ljaneyr

Driving_Soon wrote: »

Savings total is now - £20,690.25

Well done! That's a great amount :T What's your target?

gien wrote: »

Just over the border in Switzerland where they haven't adopted the euro (the Swiss and the Brits have a lot in common actually). It is outrageously expensive here and you get nothing for free, especially if you're not a citizen.

Aah! My uncle is Swiss and he says pretty much the same thing :rotfl:

jamesd wrote: »

98% of the total of my net pay and gross pension contributions is what I've accumulated for the tax years from 2006-7 through 2009-10.

A place to live, bills, food, holidays, all effectively at no cost. Saving most of my income then switching to investments in 2008 and 2009 let me gain nicely from the stock market lows and subsequent recovery. Stoozing and investing the stooze money during the recovery helped, with gains greater than most of my core living costs last year.

That must be so satisfying! Well done! :T I wish I had the money/time/knowledge/guts to do that! Stocks and shares are like a foreign language to me!

Sylvia1982

Hiya everyone,
Happy to to see everyone is getting closer or have exceeded their chosen goals. Cheers to Hostie, Dippykitty and Save a lot for your post, just got the bad news that the gasket has gone again within 11 months. It may cost £350 to fix, hmm good thing I have an emergency fund
Sylvia

Lokolo

I have no moneeeeeeeey.

I say I have no money, I have £25!

But I get paid on Thursday. I think its going to be a very tight month.

Also realised I get kicked out of the house I'm in in a months time! And I haven't got anywhere to live after that! Uh-oh.

Starting to look now, work can be done after