The "Save 12k in 2016" Thread!

FlareStar

Congrats all!!


congrats on the new job frasersmum!! :T


#063 Declaring (whoop whoop!!) a total of £344.37!!! :j :j


After a terrible Jan....a much better Feb !!...cant wait for March!


thanks for all the advice/support guys!!


keep up the good work!! :beer:

sofarbehind

Payday at last and I can report a respectable £1400 for February. I'm so happy I have passed the 40k deposit saving point!!! 45k here I come..

tempus_fugit

£850 saved in the fund for February, making £1,650 so far.

ViktorOnopko

Hi all

I didn't declare for January as it was a bit complicated with the way my paydates landed over Xmas so I'm declaring £2592 for February which is great.

I've spent 2016 setting up my own business and have my first clients coming on board which is really exciting and I hope means I can exceed my savings goal quite comfortably. However, I really want to buy a Macbook Pro which isn't really in keeping with the theme of this topic so I'm wondering whether I should duck out :-)

Anyway, a good start. As last year - I find Feb - June great for saving then I seem to struggle from then on!

Darksoul

Bit of a rocky month this month but still pleased that I managed to save £521.06 for February. Shuffled my money about a bit so hopefully will be better over the coming months. This brings my total to £1304.02 / £6600 for the year so far.

george4064

george4064 wrote: »

February Update so far - £200 saved into HTB ISA.

£500 out this month to pay for skiing holiday end of Feb. (so excited!)

Will have to check balance, and see how much I can transfer over to Nationwide RS. I might be able to stretch to the full £500, if not it'll be nearer £400 or something..

I have just transferred £500 to my Nationwide RS account. So this months total is £700 again. Woop!

I need to re-think my strategy, because each month my salary is paid into my TSB Classic account. Of which £200 goes to HTB ISA and £500 goes to nationwide RS each month. So i havent actually been treating my TSB account as savings, mainly because the balance keeps changing as I use it as my active/spending account.

My TSB balance is currently below the £2k mark, but Ive kept the Nationwide flex balance to the max, as well as paying max monthly into htb and RS accounts. I recently cancelled my work's sharesave plan (share price has gone down below my option price so I dont believe its worth it anymore), so I will be receiving a cheque for approx £1,200 next week! That will tip my tsb balance over the £2k mark which i should be able to maintain, which means I'll need to start thinking about squirrelling some money either into a TSB RS or put some more into the old S&S ISA.

So yeah, declaring £700 again for this month!

[Deleted User]

Just filled in the form to declare this months total savings - £665 saved this month. New total in savings is £1245.

Ashers92

#157 declaring for February.

Had quite a good month!
Saved £750 from wages, £150 from my First Direct switch and £100 from my Halifax switch. So thats £1000 into my TSB Classic Account.

Then sold one of my cars to a friend for £700, so thats £300 into my FD Reg Saver and £400 split between mine and my girlfriends Help to Buy ISAs.

So £1700 total for the month. Very happy with that.

Noticed the other day after closing my Lloyds accounts for switching that I have £800 in an old eSaver that I cant take out online now so next months plan is to go to a branch and get that cash out and add that onto next months save. As well as the £100 my girlfriend owes me!

Buffythedebtslayer

Had a surprise PPI pay out and so have put 3000 in the ISA account(plus the normal 200), was a total shock and I urge everyone to apply, I thought I had 0 chance!

xxx

Westie983

Total for February is £1600, I have just made an additional payment into my Kent Regular Saver, making the most of it before its matures next month.

Westie983