The £1,000 emergency fund challenge.

Digging_2

#125 checking in here. A small total of £9.25 but getting there.

patman99

Welcome B17c. You are member #131.

Just been singing our praises on 'Dave Ramsey's' FB page.

[Deleted User]

Member #43 dropping in to say that I've nothing new to report:rotfl:

Nothing added for a while but nothing spent either so it seems like a bit of an achievement as far as I'm concerned:j.

Keep at it, everyone. Happy September:beer:

Snorkypants

Thanks Patman,


£1.84 added today, the interest on my savings account. So I'm now at £56.84 or 5.68%.

cybertortoise

I have added a bit to my emergency fund and now stand at £18.51. That is actually the most money I have had in savings for years! Says a lot about my past behaviour with money.

Tinkerbelle2000

Hi Patman. Not sure if you've seen my other posts but can I have a number please

Tink xx

Snorkypants

cybertortoise wrote: »

I have added a bit to my emergency fund and now stand at £18.51. That is actually the most money I have had in savings for years! Says a lot about my past behaviour with money.

Up until about 6 years ago I would have said the same. Then all of a sudden I got addicted to saving. It always get's spent (house deposit, new bathroom etc) but I love that I can save it up in the first place and it's thrilling seeing a saving account grow!


You'll be hooked now that you've started. It's all the milestones, the first £100, the first time you save and don't take any out for 2 months in a row and so on. There's always a new milestone to be chuffed about.

patman99

Welcome tinkerbelle2000, you are #132.
You have me intrigued, so I will be checking out some of your other postings when time permits.

Cybertortoise, I can safely say that when I started this thread, I was 3 months into what turned-out to be a 5 month Agency placement (I impressed the company enough that I returned 5 weeks back for another 12 week (min) contract) and needed to make sure that when the SHTF and I had to go sign on, I had enough cash to actually make it to when my benefits dropped in to my Bank account.

At the start I was weekly paid, so every Friday I would check my Bank account and transfer the odd pennies above the '£' in to a savings account. I think that by the time mind job came to an end, I had amassed the grand sum of £18.98.

Digging_2

I added the £5 reward received from my current account, 31p interest received from savings account, £1.00 just because it was an odd amount in my account, 45p from tcb payout and £4.42 from CoS.


#125 now at £20.43

amber03

No 108 reporting in. An unexpected sale of a exercise bike that was gathering dust in the bedroom takes my total upto £529.06. Waiting for a cheque for so dvd's I have sold to arrive, to be added as well.x