The 'Save 12k in 2013' Thread!

tara747

Well done, cydney65! That's something to be proud of.

tara747

OK, I've been paid early so I'm declaring for the year.

I managed to save £1,030 in December, so that brings my yearly total to £11,927 - and my overall savings total to £74,127.

I'm disappointed that I didn't save the full £12,000, but hey - I did ok!

Good luck to everyone who still has to update, let's get over the £900,000 mark!

Merry Christmas and here's to a super-saving 2014. :beer:

girlatplay

Well done cydney :T

Well done tara :T

I have also been paid early so moved everything around and am ready to declare December (the SO won't go until 28th but the money is there ready for it).

£359.14

This means my total for the year is £4,806 on the nose!! :j (it was actually £4,805.99 but I scrabbled around and found 1p) Beating my target by £806. One very happy GAP here

Thanks so much for everyone's encouragement and to slowlyfading for all your hard work.

Nearly there everyone

ManPants

Had a bad, bad month!

Went on a ski-ing trip to a posh expensive resort and as a result of that have had to withdraw £3000 to put on my credit card!

SPS!

lippy1923

I didn't think I would be adding to the figures for the rest of the year but somehow managed to scrape another £500 which has been moved into my savings bringing my total to £8,324.79 in 2013!!!

Over £3k more than my original target which I am very happy about!
Now just waiting for LO to arrive (due on Sunday) then I doubt I will ever be able to save again

Well done everyone and Merry Xmas x

SusanneCape

Good morning everyone,

Payday today:j!

I have just added another £1,200 to the pot, taking me slightly over my R12,000 target. I am very happy with that as I also managed to reduce my mortgage by some £16,600 this year :D!

Have a great X-Mas everyone and a very Happy New Year whereafter we will meet to start all over again.

Best wishes,

mintedmatty

December payday and as always during December we get paid a bit earlier, this has created a 6 week month until January payday! We will be able to manage no worries but I want to dip into my savings as little as possible.

I have bought a new kitchen for the house we are moving into and the £750 Christmas Bonus I have received has been swallowed up by that, I am also having some plastering done (mates rates) and I'm also redecorating all the rooms. Not ideal over the festive period but it is what it is and needs to be done.

Also frustratingly the cooker in the house we are selling, so that will need fixing before moving out in a few weeks (fingers crossed)

Ending the year on a lower amount than usual but still happy with £750 saved this month, £500 into the new house fund and £250 into my regular saver.

January onwards should kick off with an almighty bang as when the house sale is completed we will obviously wont have a £750 mortgage payment every month so during months where we could usually save £1250-£1,500 we should be able to save £2,000+

I'm heading straight over to sign up for the 12k in 2014 Challenge!

Merry Christmas everybody!

matttye

Done!!! £7k woo!

Well done everyone.

Wentthedaywell?

Final update; £1000 in December. Overall £11,500 this year, with a target of £10,000, plus £6000 of furniture etc spends which I hadn't planned.

I'm sure I wouldn't have done so well without the motivation of this thread, so thanks to you all, and especially slowlyfading. It's been really interesting reading how you are all getting on.

All the best to you all, and here's to meeting up on the new thread next year. Merry Christmas everyone! :beer:

Wilkos

December pay day has arrived :j

I am declaring savings of £10,610 for this year!

I, like everyone else, have things to pay out for as it's Christmas. I also need four new tyre's for the car in January and have a trip to the dentist coming soon!

Thanks to Slowlyfading and everyone else for contributing to this thread, it has been really motivating to read everyone else's story.

I have already signed up for 'Save £12K in 2014' and the full amount of £12,000 this time.

Have a fantastic Christmas people, see you in 2014:T

Wilkos