The 'Save £12k in 2012' thread!

girlatplay

Ooooh I like it Desperate H

Think I will go and amend my spreadsheet for the rounding up ready for January.

I have been saving Mr M's stamps over the year. They give you £1 when you save £49 and £3 when you save £97! I spend loads in there anyway, especially at Christmas so aimed for the £97 and will be at the target on Wednesday :T

Congrats on the £30 from JL

Gap

Nikadi

I wish I could bulk buy, it'd make things so much cheaper! We have a shelf in the fridge and one cupboard for kitchen storage at the moment and have no space in our room Need to find a bigger room for the next houseshare so I can bulk buy [grin]

rictus123 wrote: »

Should be working 70 - 85 hour weeks, done it before and i absolute love it!!

If you were two years older I'd think you were an old house/work mate of mine. He managed to save well over £20,000 last year doing exactly what you plan to on min. wage!

Catslovelycats

I'm due a refund for various bits I bought for work. Would I be cheating to ask them not to refund me until January (so I can put it into my 3K account)? it's about £30 plus £40 travel expenses. So it would help me with my 3K efforts!!

Currently doing battle with myself to work out whether I can/want to scrimp more next year (while I can) to increase on my £3K target. Think I'll just take each month at a time for now - too many variables to consider to be able to make a once-and-for-all decision at the moment.

Catslovelycats

PS: meant to add: Am so enjoying this challenege already! I like reading people's comments here and it's exciting to have a figure to aim towards, compared to the VSP where it's a case of save what you can (not that I don't enjoy doing that as well!). I feel like I'm obsessed with money at the moment!

redbull5

£6.85 added to the pot today!

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

redbull5 wrote: »

£6.85 added to the pot today!

oops, naughty naughty! no adding to the pot until 2012!

slowlyfading

redbull5 wrote: »

£6.85 added to the pot today!

We've not started yet! :rotfl:

downs523

Sign me up please mate

I aim to save £4000 in 2012. Would be more but I am getting married in feb 2012 and will be pretty poor for a few months

Great idea/thread

rictus123

OOOOOOH someone cheating allready!!!

redbull5

redbull5 wrote: »

£6.85 added to the pot today!

LOL sorry wrong thread, ment to be on the virtual pot challenge, did it on my iphone so im not surprised its wrong.

No cheating here, my mistake.

Cant wait for this though i have to say.!