The £1,000 emergency fund challenge.

Effyb4

Things are tight at the end of this month, but I have managed to put another £20 in my EF. It now stands at £390.


From now on it should be a little easier, because my hours have increased from 20 to 30 hours a week.

patman99

Welcome lcc86. You are #178.

To put everyone out of their misery. A coin counting jar has a slot on the top with 2 bars across it. One bar is fixed and the other slids to accomodate the coin. The mechanism is linked to a readout which can identify the coin by the size indicated by the sliding bar. It then adds the coin to the running total so you know how much you have in the jar at any one time.

Anyway, have got a contract extension until 22nd April, so 3 more months of work ahead.

January2015

patman99 wrote: »

Welcome lcc86. You are #178.

To put everyone out of their misery. A coin counting jar has a slot on the top with 2 bars across it. One bar is fixed and the other slids to accomodate the coin. The mechanism is linked to a readout which can identify the coin by the size indicated by the sliding bar. It then adds the coin to the running total so you know how much you have in the jar at any one time.

Anyway, have got a contract extension until 22nd April, so 3 more months of work ahead.

:beer: :beer: Thank you Patman :beer: :beer:

I am officially 'put out of my misery'

For your sake....hope the battery doesn't run out because then it would just be........wait for it............a jar with a slit in the top:eek:

Huge congratulations on the contract extension

LittleMissDetermined

Added £30 to my EF today as it was pay day yesterday

Total now stands at £125

LMD x

positivelypunked

I'd like to join.
I have £110.00 In my EF already.

patman99

Welcome to member 179, positivelypunked who it appears is off to a good start already.

Pay day for me is Friday so not long to wait.

Dandytf

Pushing finances to the limit from Jan wages.

129 car service yesterday (excellent service almost 18k miles to next service)

As I resist temptation to purchase new technologies such as parrot bluetooth system (£400 inc installation), Sky Q (249 box price as I cancelled sky sports+movies prior to xmas)

What I have done is swiped £60 to this challenge

New current amount 230.78

mrs_motivated

Hi Folks, great to see everyone doing so well and those EF's growing!


So, its payday for me and that means the start of Feb's spend spread sheet ....and £60 added to the Vets EF (which I have started instead of paying pet insurance) and £200 added to the EF, making a total of £800.


Usually Feb is a short 'pay' month for me, however the way the weekends have fallen and the fact it is a leap year means I have an extra weekend to survive, so need to keep a tight reign on the spends again.

twiggy86

Yeah! I've just reached my £1,000 target! Think I'll keep adding to it each month anyway - even it's only £10-£20. So that's #31 declaring that she's very proud of herself!

Calling14

Adding 20.00 to mine today. Thanks Patman.:j

Glad to hear about your work extension. Laughing about January 2015 comments re your coin jar. Sounds an amazing device:D