The "Save 12k in 2015' Thread!

Merrylegs1

Update for May is £500- not too shabby! About to take a hit though as had a bit of a wages blip, its been fixed now but will take a while to even out. Also my geriatric laptop is looking a bit terminal so may have to invest in a new one!
Slowlyfading I hope your feeling better now- be kind to yourself please!
Happy savings everyone

mummytummy

My update for May is £0 again, I had to "borrow" from savings in early April due to a family emergency so until I've paid that back in I won't be declaring should be back on track very soon...


Will go and fill out update form...

edinburgher

Also my geriatric laptop is looking a bit terminal so may have to invest in a new one!

I'm not sure how techie you are, but you may be able to save money with some quick improvements. A new battery, some extra memory and a thorough clean with compressed air etc. may work wonders.

Throw in the removal of unecessary software and a few free programmes such as CCleaner, Spybot-S&D and Malwarebytes (as well as the Windows options such as defragmenting the hard drive), and your laptop could become a bit more sprightly.

You might be past that, but £30-40 could see you soldiering on for a while yet if you'd rather not spend on a replacement.

That said, laptops do seem to get cheaper and cheaper for basic functionality :beer:

[Deleted User]

slowlyfading wrote: »

Sorry for the slow update. Had a bit of a horrendous day yesterday (see my mfw diary for more information) regarding bump, so not felt like doing much.

Anyway, spreadsheet updated

Sorry to hear about the scare with bump SF, totally understand why you didn't feel like doing much. Take care of yourself. As always thanks for your efforts running this challenge and on your blog (which I love and have subscribed to). xx

slowlyfading

Moenyadmin wrote: »

I have just joined money saving experts and was interested in joinning "save 12k in 2015' Thread!
Is it too late to join to this one. I would I've to save £5000 at end of this year if possible. It would of great help if you could put my name down.

Welcome aboard! Your challenger number is 94

slowlyfading

[Deleted User] wrote:

Sorry to hear about the scare with bump SF, totally understand why you didn't feel like doing much. Take care of yourself. As always thanks for your efforts running this challenge and on your blog (which I love and have subscribed to). xx

Thank you for reading and subscribing to my blog much appreciated!

slowlyfading

Thank you for your kind words everyone; I'm trying to take it easier and focus on resting more and not trying to do everything.

Spreadsheet and front page updated

Westie983

Think Im going to post for May, not sure I will save any more this month, I have just paid of a few pennies to each of my CC to balance out their balances, (I like them to be round numbers)

So I will declare...... £1125, Keeping up with the last months totals...

been very frugal this month, not sure i will be able to keep this total running as I have a few birthdays to pay for next month and I have one maturing CC debt to pay off, as the 0% finished on weds, but I paid it off and then used it for petrol (as I get cashback) so need to pay this of before the next bill comes in....

I have made it halfway without adding the coin stash - lets see if I can make it to the end of the year.....

abba1772

I'm declaring £580 this month into my mortgage deposit account so I'm happy with that.

Been a long and expensive month xx

Lomcevak

edinburgher wrote: »

I'm not sure how techie you are, but you may be able to save money with some quick improvements. A new battery, some extra memory and a thorough clean with compressed air etc. may work wonders.

Throw in the removal of unecessary software and a few free programmes such as CCleaner, Spybot-S&D and Malwarebytes (as well as the Windows options such as defragmenting the hard drive), and your laptop could become a bit more sprightly.

You might be past that, but £30-40 could see you soldiering on for a while yet if you'd rather not spend on a replacement.

All good points, but one I'd add is a solid-state hard drive - I put one in my 2008 macbook, reinstalled OS X, and it has given it a complete new lease of life. Rather than grinding to a halt when asked to do anything, it now boots up in seconds and is perfectly good for day-to-day tasks, email, browsing the web, etc.

Cost was £40 from Amazon and replacement took about 15 minutes with instructions on ifixit.com, much better than almost a grand for a new Mac

If you're not happy taking a screwdriver to your laptop, a local computer place will do the upgrade for a fairly reasonable fee, but although i'm generally fairly hopeless at this sort of thing I found it straightforward to follow the instructions to do it myself