The £1,000 emergency fund challenge.

MessyBetty

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Sorry to hear that too MessyBetty. Will it be expensive to have fitted properly?[/QUOTE]

Hi Stiltoncheese thanks for asking the chimney sweep gave me a number for a fitter and advised I call him for a quote, a guy at work said he had a top of the range liner fitted and it cost him £1000 :eek: we don't use the burner much so will go for a middle of the road liner, the burner needs removing then re fitting and some made to measure steel sheet which will take me close to that figure if not more:(

On a slightly better note I requested a refund of £300 from my energy supplier today so that will boost my EF I shouldn't have let it build up that high:o

Well done youngbusinessman you are well on your way, £500 before Christmas would be fantastic best wishes with that goal.

Well savers I'm off to sort some items to sell :wave:

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That's really tough, MessyBetty. I hope you can get it all sorted soon.

There have been several posters on this thread who have had emergencies this past week or so, with cars (as in my case and that of several others) and more serious events like your chimney and patman99 losing his job. Just goes to show what a brilliant idea it was of patman99 to start a thread about building up an emergency fund. We've all learned the hard way how essential one is:(. Getting the money together to build up an emergency fund is another matter though, it's just so hard to do.

Good Luck:beer:

patman99

Thanks for the support folks. I got told Tuesday and within an hour of getting home, managed to apply for 6 jobs.

Tonight I only applied for 2, but also applied for one for MrsP as she has all the skills they require, so hopefully one of us will be back in work soon.

pozza_73

Went to the credit union and made my first deposit of £14. Feeling quite positive about it. Have promised myself to put in some money each week, even if it's only a couple of quid.
Hope that you manage to find work soon Patman xxx

Hoipolloi

Banked my first £10. Only another £990.00 to go!

Calling14

Well paid it all back and added another two pounds so now at 65.00.

stiltoncheese

Just checking bank accounts and noticed my emergency fund was at an uneven £367.25. Hate uneven numbers so have transferred £2.75 from my main account to round it up to £370.

Silly I know, but I won't miss the £2.75 as it's such a small amount so may as well have a nice even number in my savings.

Debt_Free_Desires

patman99 wrote: »

Thanks for the support folks. I got told Tuesday and within an hour of getting home, managed to apply for 6 jobs.

Tonight I only applied for 2, but also applied for one for MrsP as she has all the skills they require, so hopefully one of us will be back in work soon.

Good luck with the job hunting pat an !!
Sorry to hear of all the other emergencies this week.

I have managed a few more tills tidies bringing the EF to £98.61
Almost at that 10%

pozza_73

I put another £3 in my emergency fund account which takes it up to £18 now. I have got another £5 which I have to put in the credit union tomorrow which will take it to over 2%

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pozza_73 wrote: »

I have got another £5 which I have to put in the credit union tomorrow.......

I've noticed you've mentioned the credit union before, pozza. I keep meaning to check out my local one, I like the idea of saving without the banks getting a cut from my efforts;).