How much can you save?

tara747

March payday update from me!

I saved £1,005 in March, which makes £3,378 so far in 2018 and £125,111 overall.

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tara747

Belated April payday update (I couldn't get into my TSB account)!

I saved £399 in April. That's £3,777 so far in 2018, and £125,510 overall.

tara747

Forgot to post my May payday update :rotfl:

I saved £820 in May, which is £4,597 so far in 2018, and £126,330 overall.

:beer:

tara747

June payday update!

I managed to save £1,435 in June, it was a fairly low spend month. That's £6,033 so far this year, and £127,766 overall.

:beer:

zag2me

Its been 12 years since I first posted in this thread on page 1 Since then I've bought a few houses, built an extension, bought a camper van and been on lots of nice holidays.

I'm back saving again now, to afford a nice garden room for next summer. Those things cost 20k! So far I've got about 4k saved up.

Cotta

tara747 wrote: »

June payday update!

I managed to save £1,435 in June, it was a fairly low spend month. That's £6,033 so far this year, and £127,766 overall.

:beer:

Is this money tied up or just sitting in cash?

swindiff

The rates in the 3rd post of this thread, if only :rotfl:

12% at A&L
10% at Barclays
8% at HSBC
8% at LLoyds (especialy good as this is a 2 year account)
You need current accounts at the above to open their regular savers.
8.25% at Ipswich BS (with some windfall possibilities thrown in).
7% at Halifax
6.5% at Yorkshire BS (and no 12 month rule here, either - a good option).
6.5% at Principality BS.

poppy10_2

swindiff wrote: »

The rates in the 3rd post of this thread, if only :rotfl:

Got to wonder why anyone would have invested in the stock market in those years, when the returns from cash were so good

zag2me

poppy10 wrote: »

Got to wonder why anyone would have invested in the stock market in those years, when the returns from cash were so good

From memory those were just regular saver accounts with maximum deposits of £250 a month or something. The rates were great, but not much use when you could only put small amounts.

tara747

Cotta wrote: »

Is this money tied up or just sitting in cash?

Cash. Most of it is in bonds earning decent interest, I also have a HTB ISA at 4% (about £7k in it so far). The rest is earning a paltry 1.5-2%.

I have a final salary pension too, I don't count that in my savings.