The 'Save £12k in 2012' thread!

Kittenkirst

I'm no 98 and declaring my total as £4017.32 which is short of my 5k target but im pretty pleased as it was out first full year in our house plus we spent a lot on our holiday to Mexico (paid for with gift vouchers :-D )

Have signed up to the new thread but with a target of £9k as have an additional £420 a month due to my car being paid off (wahooooo!) & our sofa too!

Thanks for everyones support & for Slowlyfading keeping the thread goin!

tara747

(copied from deposit thread as I'm lazy lol)



Hi all!!!! Good to see some old faces and lots of new ones too!


I haven't been on here since about the start of 2012 - lots has happened, including me getting engaged and married! Sooo, the savings took a hit, but we did it as cheaply as possible and I am still on course to save almost £12,000 in 2012! I've been totting up and still have one a/c to access (Santander - their ebanking is crap) but so far I'm on (DRUMROLL) £65,339, which is £11,000 more than I had at the start of 2012! I didn't save *that* much pre-wedding, but I've been in saving overdrive since then! :money:

Also, my eBay sales are currently £4,559.89!

OH has about £17,000 in savings atm... so together we have over £82,000 saved :beer:

I must update my sig when I've got my Santander balances!

snowgo

I love reading these posts. I get a real sense that "life balance" is alive and well here.

Lealea What a lovely post. It's like being on a 12 month journey with fellow travellers in this thread. I too am grateful for everyones support and have saved more than I would have done without this thread.
Kittenkirst I'm with you that holidays are important. My savings were dinted by a couple of breaks abroad with my family - but those times away were really worth it to me.
Tara Congrats on getting married!! And also on the savings you've achieved.

freezspirit

Sorry have just ammended dec amount as I forgot to add interest earned.

I now have only missed the target now by £56

Total stands @ £5944 out of £6000

tara747

snowgo wrote: »

I love reading these posts. I get a real sense that "life balance" is alive and well here.

Lealea What a lovely post. It's like being on a 12 month journey with fellow travellers in this thread. I too am grateful for everyones support and have saved more than I would have done without this thread.
Kittenkirst I'm with you that holidays are important. My savings were dinted by a couple of breaks abroad with my family - but those times away were really worth it to me.
Tara Congrats on getting married!! And also on the savings you've achieved.

Thanks very much snowgo! You've done so well too, look how much you've saved over and above your target! Woo hoo :T

tara747

tara747 wrote: »

(copied from deposit thread as I'm lazy lol)



Hi all!!!! Good to see some old faces and lots of new ones too!


I haven't been on here since about the start of 2012 - lots has happened, including me getting engaged and married! Sooo, the savings took a hit, but we did it as cheaply as possible and I am still on course to save almost £12,000 in 2012! I've been totting up and still have one a/c to access (Santander - their ebanking is crap) but so far I'm on (DRUMROLL) £65,339, which is £11,000 more than I had at the start of 2012! I didn't save *that* much pre-wedding, but I've been in saving overdrive since then! :money:

Also, my eBay sales are currently £4,559.89!

OH has about £17,000 in savings atm... so together we have over £82,000 saved :beer:

I must update my sig when I've got my Santander balances!

*ahem*

I overestimated what was in my Santander accounts, my end of year total is actually a nice round £62,200 - so I saved a total of £7,858 in 2012! Way less than £12,000, but we did have the unexpected wedding expenditure and we also had to change our car, so that explains it. I will make up for it in 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!

That makes just under £80,000 in savings between me and OH. :beer:

schreiner

count me in!

25000£ in 2013

Wurly

I'm declaring my last amount for this year. I missed my target of £12000 by just over £1000.
Looking back over my declared savings for the year, i had less to add to my total during the summer months(which is hardly surprising). I'm really pleased to have saved as much as i did.
Thanks for starting this.
I'm in for next year but it's going to be even tougher (might have to adjust my total).
Happy Christmas.

lula_moneybaggins

Just popping on to a) congratulate everyone on doing so well!! and b) update my own totals. November was £1300 and December was £1500 bringing me to £11,403 for the year - just shy of my £12k total but I don't care - it's the most I've ever saved in my life!! Truly motivational thread!

Had been expecting a bonus at work, but sadly things have taken a turn for the worse there. Keen to join the 2013 thread, but not sure if £12k is going to be realistic given that my job may be no more from April...but we'll see, eh?

Well done to all who've declared already; good luck to those still saving!! :T

slowlyfading

Next year's thread:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4315923

Go on, you know you want to join!