The £1,000 emergency fund challenge.

grassgirl

Added £86.71 yesterday
Makes total up to £149.75

It was about £300 before Christmas..hoping to get it up there again before Feb

CountingPennies

£7.35 added today bringing my total up to £10.48. Once i've done my shopping this weekend I should be able to put a higher amount away.

CP xx

kdalwayskint

Managed a little Tilly tidy and put a little into my EF today

grassgirl

Another payment, £10.25 I'm now at 16%

October_Starter

Managed to put another £200.00 into my EF! :j

Only 10% to go.

October xx

CountingPennies

£26.06 transfered over today, so bringing my total up to £36.54p (baby steps)

CP xx

bmma

HI another £5.60p in the pot = £20.80/£1,000 x

[Deleted User]

Well done, everyone. Some great amounts being added and EFs building up nicely:beer:

Have now managed to scrape together every extra penny I could find/save from anywhere else and my EF now stands at £420. Have transferred across most of the profits from stuff I've sold recently (which I always used to spend on groceries etc as I have an unrealistically low amount budgeted for this and always totally ran out of cash halfway through each month:eek:). Am determined to make ends meet somehow this month as must get car fixed asap and will need every penny that's in my EF.

Have also reached cash-out level on a couple of survey sites(at long last) plus have had some very small refunds and other little one-off payments. Rounded it all off with a tiny Tilly Tidy to give a total of £420 but alas it will soon be back to zero:(.

Any news on the job front, patman?

patman99

Keep up the good work folks. I am expecting a cash-out from Pureprofile to drop into my EF later this month.

I have amassed £40 worth of Sainsburys gift cards from doing ValuedOpinons surveys, but am undecided as to whether or not these should be counted as part of the EF.

On the up-side, MrsP. has bagged herself a job interview for Wednesday, so fingers crossed for that one. She will earn enough to take on the food bill & contribute towards the household bills, allowing me to look at lower-waged jobs and still being able to live as a household (I haven't told her yet though!!).

redlaces

My fund took a battering the other day due to car repairs... BUT this is the first time I have ever used actual money rather than resorting to credit to sort these crises. So there is a silver lining...

Also since then I have added £7.52 which now brings me to a lovely total of £112.74. More car repairs needed soon though