The "Save 12k in 2016" Thread!

geoffers4

Hi everyone, March has been a pretty good month for us savings-wise, and only a couple of very small unexpected expenses to deal with. One being car parking costs at the local hospital as OH had to have a series of tests done (all clear thankfully!) ... but why is hospital parking so expensive??

Anyway, declaring £2666.59 for the month. Happy saving everyone.

diamonds

tara747 wrote: »

Thank you I wonder if I can get to the magic £100k in the next two months!

What will be will be, no matter how long, making a whisper off a £100,000 hit is amazing!

Your pride must be so much more inflated than your savings accounts

Hantsman

Hi everyone, posting a total of £1167.56 this month, got an amazing trip booked in April so numbers could be a little low next month but I promise to try my best!

Thank you everyone as usual for motivating me and thank thank you to SF for all your continued hard work (and amazing blog!)

Hantsman

Oh, also a small goal for me achieved, broke the £70k savings ceiling! Not as impressive as Tara's 100k but I would never have dreamed 3 years ago how much I would have stashed away

darkidoe

There_Is_a_Light wrote: »

Light checking in on a very special day as of today I am officially DEBT FREE:beer:

As the CC was on a 0% I felt that I could start my savings journey until the term ends on the 0%

Declaring my savings figures for March £1725.94 making a total to date of £5154.40

I am starting a diary on the DFW as of tomorrow to track my journey to total financial independence which I am aiming to achieve before I am 50 (2022).

Well Done! And good luck in your journey to FI.

I promise myself I will never get into debt. Don't ever want to ever start on the back foot on the FI journey.

darkidoe

tara747 wrote: »

March update from me:


I saved £1,454 in March - that's £2,557 so far in 2016, and my overall total to £97,764.

Nice! How long did it take to go from 0 - £100 000, assuming you meet your target in 2 months time? That's very impressive!

bobobski

Another quick story. Having had a long conversation with a trusted friend last night about how hard I'm working and how much I'm paid, I decided to have the dreaded conversation with the boss about my salary and proposed pay rise in July. It went much better than expected! Turns out we're more on the same page than I thought we were going to be. All that remains to be seen is the test of time, how well he convinces the other bosses I should get this payrise and the next few months of solid hard work from me and financial success of the firm.

Phew!-ish.

Westie983

bobobski wrote: »

Another quick story. Having had a long conversation with a trusted friend last night about how hard I'm working and how much I'm paid, I decided to have the dreaded conversation with the boss about my salary and proposed pay rise in July. It went much better than expected! Turns out we're more on the same page than I thought we were going to be. All that remains to be seen is the test of time, how well he convinces the other bosses I should get this payrise and the next few months of solid hard work from me and financial success of the firm.

Phew!-ish.

Fingers crossed for you :-)

benbenandme

#116 March update = £1000, bring on April

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A relatively disappointing (but still positive) £551 for me this month after a £280 car service and £103 off a credit card that needed paying.

£19 interest
£21 mileage claim
£50 birthday money
£123 cashback (mostly £120 from HSBC)
£20 Ebay sales
£318 savings from salary