The £1,000 emergency fund challenge.

patman99

Pinkwhisk is member #201.

Apologies for my absence, but am house/dog sitting and the homeowner has no broadband. I am popping back to mine every other night to check emails.

PennyJar

Hi all,

#198 checking in with £219 to add to my EF fund.

Will adjust my signature.

Pleased with progress so far...NSDs and envelopes helped big time.

PennyJar

claire1a

I've hit a bit of a brick wall now. Have £525/£1000 but I will have no more rent from my lodger as he is moving out in a couple of weeks and now only have two more paydays until I am redundant... I was really hoping to be at £750 at this point, however a few things have come up so at least I had the money there to buffer!!!

I really need to get my bum in gear and start eb4ying!!!!

amber03

No. 112 checking in and pleased to report my total is currently £327.00 , hit a wall with my savings but now seem to be on the up again. Next payday have abit of O/T which will be put away.Hoping to curb my spending now my little holiday is out of the way. Give myself a target of new years eve to reach the £1000. Fingers crossed.x

tibbles209

Hello everyone!

I have been catching up with this thread over the past week (all 111 pages of it!) and I would really love to join if you don't mind

I don't have an emergency fund at all at the moment and its something I've been thinking about setting up for quite a while now but there always seems to be some reason or other why I can't start yet... time to stop making excuses and get on with it

So here I am starting off with the princely sum of £2.85

Dobbibill

Welcome tibbles- of course you can join - Patman will be along soon with a number for you.

Welcome aboard

[Deleted User]

A big welcome to all new members and returners. Congratulations or commiserations (whichever fit the bill) to the regular contributors.

Just popping in to report that my £1000 is still intact but may not be for much longer:eek:. A couple of years ago my faithful old desktop PC became more trouble than it was worth and I bit the bullet and bought a laptop. It was a refurbished one as that was all I could afford at the time:o. It's a fairly old model but has served me very well. This past couple of months it has developed a few very annoying and frustrating faults that need fixing by an expert. I'm not sure it's worth the expense given its age and lack of capability:(

I may have to replace it (with a refurbished one again, sadly:o) but am not sure whether it constitutes an emergency as such. I'd dearly love a MacBook this time but even 2nd hand ones are very expensive:eek:

patman99

Welcome to member #202, tibbles209.

Not much to report other than that I will be unemployed as of this coming Friday (unless I get another last-minute contract extension).

EF is sitting just below £600 (must get around to updating my sig).

Unlike previous times, this time I am financially ready for surviving on benefits. I have stuff to sell (once the benefits have started to come in) and as I haven't been spending my wages, I will have a good amount in the bank to survive.

[Deleted User]

Sorry to hear that your job is coming to an end soon, patman. We know you don't let the grass grow under your feet and if past occasions when you've been jobless are any indication you'll have a new job in no time. Good Luck with it (if you want another job straight away):beer:


It's thanks to you and this thread that a lot of us are in a much stronger position to weather life's storms than we were before. You're an example to us all:T

angelicious

Another £5 added, payday this week so hoping to add a few wee pounds then too