The 'Save £12k in 2012' thread!

trixie4

Nothing for me for July

Have been spending my excess money on dollars and hotels for a trip to California. I daresay I won't be able to save anything to add to this challenge until November so I won't be hitting my targets - boo!

It'll be June's pay on dollars, July and August's pay on hotels and travel and September's pay as extra spending money in the account in case I need it.

But on the plus side I'm back to ebaying and it really is absolute junk to me but have so far made £92 profit. Switched my current account for £100 and will be selling my cross trainer for at least £100 profit hopefully. And work owes me a little bit of money (possibly cancelled out by an increase in % I'm paying to my pension). So that might cover car hire in CA at least!

trix x

girlatplay

£500 for me again this month. Nearly at the half way target!

Catslovelycats

Hello
Sorry not to have been updating on here.
#86 I have saved £2400 so far towards my £3k total for this thread.

EDIT: have just updated details (I think). Please let me know if I've done it wrong!

Sylvia1982

Hello everyone,

I have managed to save £1,550 this month:j towards this challenge.
I will go and update the first page.

Sylvia

TDPIX

Hi all,
Congrats on the July savings

We managed to save £839.00 this month.

londoner01

TDPIX wrote: »

Hi all,
Congrats on the July savings

We managed to save £839.00 this month.

Close! I'm reporting £837.83 for this month, still on target

Congratulations on the wedding Justin, and sorry to hear about the looming redundancies. Sounds like it was an eventful month as we got notice on our flat and will need to move by mid-Sept! Looks like we have found a place where rent will be the same / only marginally more, but we will have to share with flatmates this time. Which could be a good change!

I expect there will be a lot of expenses relating to the move, probably buy a few pieces of new furniture etc., and the thing that worries me the most is getting our deposit back.

Thankfully I am visiting my family for most of August which means no food expenses and no £112 travel card! Yay

PrincessLou

Thought i better post an update as i haven't posted for a while. I will regrettably have to leave this challenge as the past few months have taken some unexpected twists and turns. My husband and i have decided to buy our first house :j and so understandably we are ploughing all our money into that for the time being. I know this will be much better for our financial future though, as through renting we have been effectively throwing away £7000 a year for the past four years :eek:

So very excited to be investing our money and having a home to call our own. Looking forward to the future and will definitely be back for the save 13k in 2013! Congrats to all who are continuing, you are doing an amazing job! :T

fizio

Not sure if i'm doing something wrong but my updates since april are not appearing in the 'totals' spreadsheet even though I submitted as per normal instructions...

londoner01

haf63 wrote: »

Not sure if i'm doing something wrong but my updates since april are not appearing in the 'totals' spreadsheet even though I submitted as per normal instructions...

I have the same problem actually, I assumed it was because I had posted them late.

slowlyfading

haf63 wrote: »

Not sure if i'm doing something wrong but my updates since april are not appearing in the 'totals' spreadsheet even though I submitted as per normal instructions...

londoner01 wrote: »

I have the same problem actually, I assumed it was because I had posted them late.

If you've updated the thing properly, I have updated your totals. If your savings are £0 for the month, nothing changes on the spreadsheet...

ETA - Londoner01 - your totals have been updated on the spreadsheet every month, right from the word go. Have you looked on the spreadsheet? The first post hasn't been updated yet, but the spreadsheet has.