The "Save 12k in 2015' Thread!

ajdj

Gosh, 31 pages already and I've barely contributed anything so far this year!

Declared £300 for January which really doesn't do the month justice. Spent the best part of £2,000 on wedding related items and spent the rest of the month frantically selling on eBay to recoup the money for my savings! Did it + £300 of new savings to be able to add to the pot.

Will be starting to book hotels for honeymoon at the end of this month, so I can already foresee the next 2-3 months being low figures. The real aim though is to get through the wedding without hurting the savings pot too much and then topping it up to £20k afterwards. Hence my lower target this year than previous.

Sorry to hear about the job lalman, hopefully you'll get something very soon.

And a big congratulations to slowlyfading, exciting news

cathybird

hi slowlyfading, I've just seen that the main table has been updated, but my amount for Jan has been put at £625 - it's actually £875 - could I ask you to kindly update again? ...

AlexLK

slowlyfading wrote: »

Haha not at all! I haven't updated your total fully, as I'm going to wait til the end of the month to do a monthly update

That's great.

I should clarify I have my own spreadsheet I update whenever I put any cash away, that one I am particularly transfixed by the moment.

slowlyfading

cathybird wrote: »

hi slowlyfading, I've just seen that the main table has been updated, but my amount for Jan has been put at £625 - it's actually £875 - could I ask you to kindly update again? ...

My apologies - it has been corrected now

cathybird

Thank you slowlyfading!!! Now I can wear a big grin while looking at the spreadsheet too

missthrifty

Another week started.. another £125 transferred into the savings account.

boglehead

lalman wrote: »

I'm v commercial focused and my technical skills have room for improvement so might just take time to find the right role...

:-)

Before moving on to the commercial side of my business, i used to be the FD... Can't count the number of technical people are available on the market, but also cannot tell you how difficult it is to find commercial minded finance person... So I'd actually say you stand even better chances

tara747

First update of 2015!!!!!

I started 2015 with savings of £84,839. :beer: :beer:


But then I had a very expensive January (dental work and paying the balance of a holiday), so my total for the month is -£931 :eek: - which brings my overall total savings to £83,908. Strangely, the same thing happened last January!


I'm hoping for a better February lol. Roll on payday!!!!

ViktorOnopko

tara747 wrote: »

First update of 2015!!!!!

I started 2015 with savings of £84,839. :beer: :beer:


But then I had a very expensive January (dental work and paying the balance of a holiday), so my total for the month is -£931 :eek: - which brings my overall total savings to £83,908. Strangely, the same thing happened last January!


I'm hoping for a better February lol. Roll on payday!!!!

Wow :beer:

secondtoughest

#65 checking in with my February total of £800

Might have a couple of other bits and pieces before payday but I'm going to overpay my mortgage with that.