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The £1,000 emergency fund challenge.
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Can I join too please, I'll be focusing on debt but want to build up a EF, so far I have £150 but would like to get to £1000 by the end of next yearPennies starts again...........2022 - £13,579.220
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Managed to add quite a bit to my emergency fund recently and it's now sitting at £660 which is making me feel a bit better.Emergency Fund: £500/£1000
Christmas fund 2023: £94.60/£500
House fund: £ 11188. 321 -
Please can I join too?? Really need to sort out a ef as dont want to use cc anymore. I have been paying off my cc . I've got £70 in ef now. Better than nothing. Must leave it in there!!1 /10 nsd 😀1
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£500/£1000
What a year!
Happy Christmas.Penny wise pound foolish. 366 days 1p challenge 2020/21/22/23/24/25 completed.
No.12 52 week envelope challenge 2026
No.12 1p a day savings challenge 2026.0 -
No.112, just sorted out my EF and now have £67.00 in it. Hope to add weekly to this total. Merry Christmas everyone.x:j Debtfree and and staying that way.:j3-6 month emergency fund, No.61 £140.000
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No. 123 calling in, I will be drawing out of my ef next week as I have a white good needing to be replaced, but Im so glad there is enough in there. Then the saving starts again!!!
Nannyg
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Have been paid and EF now at £500/£1000Debt Free as of December 2020 👏
Save 12k in 2025 #6 - £300 / £3000
MFW - 26 months shaved off the mortgage0 -
Please can I join. Starting at zero
£2 Savers club £0/£150
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Hi just on here with a quick update, while I am starting the month with an EF of over £500 it is with fingers crossed, as car is having wobbles and there is a bus pass that will need purchasing.Isa help to buy: 1000/3000 33%
Emergency fund: 100/1000 10%
Weight loose 8.6 kg - while having fun. 0/8.6 0%
Focus debt to clear HSBC £10/1111, 0% updated May 251 -
Can I join please, not being paid this week from work and having no spare money to see me through until next when when I receive double wages has given me a light bulb moment! (something about two bank holidays in one week and happens every Christmas apparently)I have an 'empty' savings account, which I have renamed EF and it has £3.54 already in it so starting at £3.54
3.54/1,000Aspiring to be financially independent.... from my parents!3
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