The 'Save 12k in 2014' Thread!

Twiggy_34

ShootForTheMoon wrote: »

We've also done the "Easyjet Roulette" game for our Oct half term trip... Copenhagen for 5 nights for under £200 for both of us!! :cool: so that ate into the savings a bit too... Travelling is one thing I'm not prepared to cut back on!!

Easyjet Roulette... is this a real thing or something you've devised yourself? Just wondering as a friend & I are planning a holiday in October and are quite happy to have a random suggestion (or two...) which falls within our price range, but couldn't find any tools to help us with this!

slowlyfading

Spreadsheet updated looking forward to lots of updates over the weekend!

Living_proof

I am not hopeful of a good July as June's performance at work means a poor paycheck, mainly due to holiday. Also I have a bodywork bill on the car (eeek!) and will have to have the marble flooring in the kitchen polished due to using a Milton-soaked cloth on it. These things happen, but I seem to be having an accident-prone summer. Then there's the decorator's bill to paint the house exterior planned for July. A very expensive month!

nomemory

I found this month incredibly difficult! Felt deflated putting so much away..it felt like so long since I bought anything. Ended up wasting a good bit of what I was supposed to save this month on things that, on looking back, were an entire waste of money! :sad:

That was a lonnnng month.

I feel good that today is payday though..the balance isn't where is should be but its still much healthier than what I had at the start of the month. It's good that we are now in the second half of the year...hopefully itll be a little easier from here knowing theres less than half the year to go :cheesy:

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N1AK

Twiggy_34 wrote: »

Easyjet Roulette... is this a real thing or something you've devised yourself? Just wondering as a friend & I are planning a holiday in October and are quite happy to have a random suggestion (or two...) which falls within our price range, but couldn't find any tools to help us with this!

I just check on holidaypirates every morning. We're off to California (via Scandinavia) for ~£230 each return because we decided when we could go on holiday and then waited for a deal we were interested in to come up.

There's dirt cheap flights to various places in Europe all the time and cheap flights further abroad (though not reliably to one specific place).

Skippycat

Evening all :hello: I am declaring my June total as £360 :j We are going away to Greece in October so I need to start putting money aside each month for my spending money. Also still have £200-£300 to pay off from my share of the holiday so won't be putting much aside in my ISA for the next few months I have been taking in lunch to work each day so that is saving me a small fortune luckily and am trying to be as careful as possible with my other spending. Will just have to wait and see how I get on over the next few months. Anyway keep up the good work everyone - 6 months down and 6 months to go! :eek:

nat21luv

£114.13 refund from Npower and I have moved my monthly DD from £65 to £37.50! The advisor said that is even too much for the summer months and dead on for winter so I may even build up more credit. While I was on the phone I asked about Warm Home Discount and turns out im entitled to that too so £140 off my bill at the end of the year £114 swiftly moved to my savings


Ive signed the boy up to a intensive week course of 11+ test conditions, he gets the answers right but is terrible at time management so hopefully this will help...but for a £200 price tag. Gotta do what you've gotta do sometimes.


Will give an official update at the end of the month.

Goldiegirl

#007 reporting in for June update.


In spite of some unforeseen expenses, I've still been able to save £1740 this month, which I'm very pleased about

mintedmatty

June payday and its the month when we have to shell out for 2 X Car Insurance Policies, 1 X Car Tax and 1 X MOT so it is always a bit of a tight month! We have also booked to go to Tenerife in mid-July.

Mrs MM & I have both been so busy with work and with house hunting etc that we have got to July and not taken any annual leave! I am looking forward to pretty much having a week off every month until Christmas now! An extra cost this month is paying for the Survey on the house we are buying so some of the time of over the rest of the year I'm sure will be spent moving etc.

Aside from that we have still managed to save £1,528 this month so feeling much happier about how much we have in savings once we have put the deposit down and paid stamp duty etc.

tara747

Here's my end of June tally

I had a very cheap month, so I saved £1,403.

That brings my 2014 total up to £5,346...

...and my overall total up to £79,473. :beer:

Soooo close to £80,000 now!!!!

Love seeing everyone's updates, you're all doing great