The 'Save 12k in 2013' Thread!

Scottish_Lassie

Starbrite wrote: »

Update from the worlds worst saver!

Due to two holidays being booked, then moving out AFTER the hoildays where booked. I have been able to save the grand sum off..... Drum Roll Please..... £15!:rotfl::eek:

Roll on April when the serious saving will commence

£1985 to go until my target:o

Yeah its better than £0!

Saver88

1st update for me. Haven't done as well as I wanted due to various things cropping up, car tax £135 for 6 months!!!! Also DH off work with tonsillitis so lost a week of money :-(( and today the car has decided to give up, god knows what's wrong with it I think it's either the steering or wheel? Either way I'm sure it's gonna cost me a small fortune.
But I have managed to save £160 all from eBay! Not bad but hopefully next month will be alot better.
Keep up the good work everyone!

Starbrite

Thank you everyone, I'm just feeling deflated and like my money is going eveywhere and I'm seeing none of it (Gas, council tax, rent, Elec etc etc etc)

Joys of living on your own right?

TDPIX

Some good updates everyone And every little helps Starbrite. To look at the positive, even in a very expensive month (where some people would have drawn on their savings) you still managed to save.



Pay day Thursday so will be updating then. :beer:

alja

Well it was payday on Friday and I managed to work out that I can put at least £700 in savings. Going to double check to see if I can add to it at all!

nicedream_2

Love all the updates so far :money:

January update from me:

I divided my target (£7,300) by 12 and worked out that I need to save £608 a month. I spent the first week depressed I had set myself such a high target (:(), the second and third week achieving the target and then some (:D) and then the fourth week being all lazy and not doing anything (:rotfl:). As I start the second month off, I'm back to being daunted by such a high target but hopefully I'll be back to productivity soon and not get as lazy this time.

I have saved £721 this month by:

Freelance - £516
Halifax reward - £5
Salary - £190.16
Ebay - £9.84

I am another one saving for a house deposit and these are just based on my own finances.

As an avid reader of the thread, I thought the whole concept of 'pay myself first' was very interesting. So am off to do just that for this month (but first will update the spreadsheet).

Well done everyone

alja

..ooh forgot to add that I'm pretty pleased with some old clothing items that have sold over the last few weeks. I haven't made a lot but sold some items I've had for sale for months that weren't budging and thought I'd never sell! So I'm very glad I didn't take them off and use them as rags! ..every little helps!

Herbyme

Saver88, my car too! Nasty warning light came on :eek:which dealer said made it unsafe to drive. Turned out boot was full of water, no idea how, not down to excessive washing:rotfl:. £220 for 2 hours worth of diagnostics later...
Starbrite, you're not the world's worst saver because you have SAVED SOME MONEY!!! :DWhich is much better than the alternative ie GETTING INTO DEBT. So be proud!:beer: The longest journey starts with a single step etc etc

Tales17

Just catching up on the thread, really good to see how well everyone is doing, well done!

I've managed to get more grocery savings, keeping a spreadsheet with all my shopping and savings on it! Also made a small sale on a local for sale Facebook page, hoping to get some more sales over the next few weeks, saves on postage as they come and collect!

Will do final total on 31st once I've gone through accounts to see if there is any extra left over at end of the month

JustinCredibleGillespie

Managed to add another £100 to the pot this morning as well as the £200 I had accounted for! YIPPEE

Time to go update my sig

Happy Saving My Little MoneySavingExperts :P

JCG

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