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The £1,000 emergency fund challenge.

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  • 12_month_challenge
    12_month_challenge Posts: 2,419 Forumite
    Chutzpah Haggler Car Insurance Carver! Rampant Recycler
    Have managed to add some back to my EF today

    Will keep at it till its back up to target
    SP 9#531=£620/SP 10 # 531=?PDBX 2016 #2 = £16,766.67/£12,000
    PDBX 2017 #2 = £1,200/£12,000

    ''If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain''
  • 12_month_challenge
    12_month_challenge Posts: 2,419 Forumite
    Chutzpah Haggler Car Insurance Carver! Rampant Recycler
    A little more added today. Keep rounding down accounts.

    I don't like odd numbers so it goes into my EF :D
    SP 9#531=£620/SP 10 # 531=?PDBX 2016 #2 = £16,766.67/£12,000
    PDBX 2017 #2 = £1,200/£12,000

    ''If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain''
  • Effyb4
    Effyb4 Posts: 258 Forumite
    I put £30 in my EF today, so it is up to £480 now. Getting there slowly.
    £1000 Emergency Fund #175 - £598/£1000
    PAYDBX 16 #134 - £2139.00/£6961.85
    Roadkill Rebel #22 85p
  • BelleBelles19
    BelleBelles19 Posts: 6 Forumite
    Hi, please can I join in? We are just starting our DFW journey
    starting out on our debt free journey:j

    £0/£1000 emergency fund challenge number 181
  • patman99
    patman99 Posts: 8,532 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Photogenic
    You are welcome to the fold. Your number is 181.
    Never Knowingly Understood.

    Member #1 of £1,000 challenge - £13.74/ £1000 (that's 1.374%)

    3-6 month EF £0/£3600 (that's 0 days worth)

  • amber03
    amber03 Posts: 1,360 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Photogenic
    Kept slowly adding to my EF, rounding down bank account and a little bit of overtime, balance now stands at £545.28. Thought I had another OT shift that should have been paid, will check when I am back in work next week. You have to be on the ball in my works otherwise OT payments can go astray. :(
    :j Debtfree and and staying that way.:j3-6 month emergency fund, No.61 £140.00
  • little_library_lady
    little_library_lady Posts: 23 Forumite
    Hi there. Can I please join the EF Challenge. :beer:
    LBM: December 2015 | Debt at Highest: £24,815 | DFD: March 2029 | Current Debt: £24,661 :eek: <---- all interest frozen
  • patman99
    patman99 Posts: 8,532 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Photogenic
    Welcome. Your number is 182.
    We are slowly creaking towards the 200 mark. Not bad considering I thought we would be lucky to get 25 of us in the challenge.

    Anyway, onwards and upwards. Got to find out how much time I can get as compassionate leave as my employers have no policy on this.

    I guess that I am going to have to work a few Saturday mornings in order to make up enough hours to allow me to take time off for 2 funerals as unpaid leave. So far am going to need to make up 5 hours for my M-in-L's funeral.

    A Saturday morning 4 hour shift equates to 6 paid hours when o/t rates are applied, so I reckon 2 - 3 Saturdays will cover both nicely *and if I get the funerals as CL, the extra cash will go partly towards my 3-6 month ef and to pay for my Silver Wedding anniversary holiday next year).
    Never Knowingly Understood.

    Member #1 of £1,000 challenge - £13.74/ £1000 (that's 1.374%)

    3-6 month EF £0/£3600 (that's 0 days worth)

  • Calling14
    Calling14 Posts: 3,498 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Sorry to hear your sad news Patman hope you and Mrs P are coping best you can.

    Pinched a bit from my EF last week but hey ho now up to 230.00 another 20.00 pounds added today and borrowed bit paid back.

    Have a lovely weekend folks. x
    LBM 13039 1.1.13 Now £0 Finally Debt FreeMortgage free Oct 2019:)EFund/savings £25000 10/11/22
  • BabyBetty
    BabyBetty Posts: 196 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi everyone,

    Managed to get my EF up to £1,000 on Friday and feel really good that I have finally achieved this.

    My next goal is to complete my big emergency fund.

    I will be dropping in from time to time on this forum.

    BB
    Original debt at LBM July 2008, £47, 654.34. Debt at January 2016, £21,443. Barclaycard [STRIKE]£9,000[/STRIKE]£8,756, Tesco cc [STRIKE]£3000[/STRIKE]£1,136. Debenhams storecard [STRIKE]£350[/STRIKE]£263, OD [STRIKE]£3,500[/STRIKE] £3,000, Corp Tax £3,036, Study loan £1,750, Smaller debts £2,000.

    Since my LBM I have not been fully committed so now I have had a 2nd LBM.
    Aiming to be debt free by December 2016:D
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