The "Save 12k in 2016" Thread!

Wentthedaywell?

I've had a very expensive month, with car service/ MOT/insurance/tax, annual night school fees, a membership subscription, a weekend away for a wedding and tree surgery.

I'm reporting £500 on the assumption I will get a refund on something an will reconcile it all next month.

Phew, glad every month isn't like September!

Ashers92

Number 157 for September.

Another consistent £700 for me. Taking me to £9850. Getting there...

Thanks

scratched

bsms1147 wrote: »

I really want to give you 17p.

Haha, yes so near!

Put the cheques in the post please folks...

copperjar

I never have round numbers! Declaring £515.62 for September. On track for the £6k target, although we've just had an offer accepted on a house so it could be a very expensive next few months/years!

geoffers4

I always work to the exact penny.... But weirdly this month the spreadsheet says exactly £2353.00 gone into savings!

Exactly 3 years until FIRE

Happy saving everyone.

[Deleted User]

I'm afraid I have a -£300 - I got whacked with an £800+ bill, which had to come out of savings. I did manage to replace some of it, but still left a deficit. I doubt whether I will be able to make the 12,000, be lucky if I can make 10,000, but I'm mentally gonna try for £10,000 - would be pleased with that. Anyway £6,700 for end of September.

There_Is_a_Light

Hi folks

Everyone is doing so well and I can't believe we are moving into the final 3 months of 2016!

I had a good month of September and have managed to save £1635.50 which was boosted by selling at a car boot sale and some fb selling.

Lomcevak

Declaring £1925.78 for September, for a total of just over £24k for 2106 - although i'm a bit ahead of the curve at the moment, October and November are a bit tight, but December should hopefully see me home to hit my target.

On a different note, there's another nice savings milestone for me this month too. Prompted by MSE, my new-year resolution in Jan 2014, just coming up to my 40th birthday, was to start looking at pension planning seriously - I've always contributed to a pension to the maximum DC employer match (2:1 up to 10% of salary) so I did have something in place, but never really thought hard about whether it was enough and running the numbers back in 2014 gave me a wake-up call. I opened up a SIPP to supplement my work pension and between work and SIPP this month marks £100k of pension contributions since my wake-up call 33 months ago. Still not quite where I'd really like to be yet, but on a good course and a few more years will start to put me in a place where I have some interesting options ahead

Hantsman

Had a regular saver I'd forgotten about mature this month so my total was £3875.73!! This means I have reached my goal of saving £80,000 by Jan next year 3 months early!!

As always thank so much SF and everyone on this thread, you inspire me and keep me focused on saving for the future

cathybird

Afternoon all, declaring savings of £1,037.57 for September, bringing my yearly total so far to £17,210.20. Next month will be tricky - MOT time, not sure what my car is going to cost, plus a holiday. But we'll see.