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The 'Save 12k in 2013' Thread!

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  • quintwins
    quintwins Posts: 5,179 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I added £159 to the savings this morning, but i was slightly short of the £7,000 i wanted last year so to make counting easier i'm not going to include anything under the £7k.

    So my savings so far are £2.36 :rotfl:
    DEC GC £463.67/£450
    EF- £110/COLOR]/£1000
  • kels11
    kels11 Posts: 18 Forumite
    Hey,
    Can I still join? I'd like to save 7k this year again with cutting down on spending a lot more this time
    Total saved in 2013 - £12k.

    Wins for 2014 - *Yet to come*
  • Tales17
    Tales17 Posts: 257 Forumite
    Woohoo! After about 4-5 years of collecting the money, I have just reached £40 threshold for payment on my onepoll account!

    Money should be in my account within 28 days so I will put it straight into savings! :)
    Grocery Challenge 2019 YTD-£820.46/£7200(11%)
    Grocery Challenge Feb - £93.10/£600(16%)
    £12k in 2019 #: Monthly Saving Accounts £500, Cashback & Competition Sites £2.59, Shopping Saving £152.09,Selling £121.26, Interest & Dividends £43.93, Surveys £0, 365 Day Penny Challenge # £103.44
    Total Saved - £923.31/£12000(8%)
  • Starbrite
    Starbrite Posts: 960 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Tales17 wrote: »
    Woohoo! After about 4-5 years of collecting the money, I have just reached £40 threshold for payment on my onepoll account!

    Money should be in my account within 28 days so I will put it straight into savings! :)

    It's taken me a year and 3 mths to get to £32!

    Well done :)
    Aspiring to be financially independent.... from my parents!
  • Tales17
    Tales17 Posts: 257 Forumite
    Starbrite wrote: »
    It's taken me a year and 3 mths to get to £32!

    Well done :)

    You've done really well then! I used to do it during lunch break at work but then stopped for a year or so when I had my daughter then got back into it last summer!

    I was lucky enough to do 2 taste test baby foods and got £5 for each which gave me a good boost! :)
    Grocery Challenge 2019 YTD-£820.46/£7200(11%)
    Grocery Challenge Feb - £93.10/£600(16%)
    £12k in 2019 #: Monthly Saving Accounts £500, Cashback & Competition Sites £2.59, Shopping Saving £152.09,Selling £121.26, Interest & Dividends £43.93, Surveys £0, 365 Day Penny Challenge # £103.44
    Total Saved - £923.31/£12000(8%)
  • Starbrite
    Starbrite Posts: 960 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Tales17 wrote: »
    You've done really well then! I used to do it during lunch break at work but then stopped for a year or so when I had my daughter then got back into it last summer!

    I was lucky enough to do 2 taste test baby foods and got £5 for each which gave me a good boost! :)

    I also do mine at work! went through a phase of being addictied, now I've clamed down a bit!

    You did really well with the £5 boosts :)
    Aspiring to be financially independent.... from my parents!
  • HW29
    HW29 Posts: 4 Newbie
    Well done everyone who has made a start saving!

    Still waiting for pay day but have received £72.12 cashback on my cc so putting that amount into my ISA to get me going. Much as the cashback is a nice bonus think i need to try and stop using the cc as seem to be spending more and more on it now - not just the essential food and petrol spends. Might try to use a weekly cash budget instead to see if i can be more strict with my spending that way?

    £72.17/10,000
  • alja
    alja Posts: 838 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Onepoll is awful! I keep saying I'm going to quit doing it after each time I finally reach £40 but seem to think 'oh it might be better this time' and start it again...

    Just logged in......no surveys for me to even TRY to qualify for. Maybe I really should quit this time when (if) I get to £40!! I'm sure there's more I could be doing with the time I waste on there seeing if I qualify for any surveys! lol!
  • Robin_TBW
    Robin_TBW Posts: 497 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Starbrite wrote: »
    It's taken me a year and 3 mths to get to £32!

    Well done :)
    7p per day... I'd quit now if I were you before you waste more time.
  • nikki2804
    nikki2804 Posts: 2,670 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I'm currently at £30 with OnePoll so I'm sticking it out to get my money. After I hit the target I will quit though.

    Managed to save £190 from my current account. Was going to see how much was left at the end of the month and then transfer but this way I should hopefully not be tempted to spend.

    College bursary goes in on the 18th, that will pay for my car insurance (Admiral quoted almost £1000 for 2 cars at renewal, I can get two seperate policies for around £700 so will pay OH's upfront and mine monthly (very little interest on mine))

    Received £9 in luncheon vouchers from a survey company so they are in the voucher tin, will use them in Tesco's or such and then put the money over that I've saved.
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