The "Save 12k in 2016" Thread!

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cathybird wrote: »

hi all and for March am declaring £4,964 - now am going to go and have a lie down! I had a very frugal month and the eBaying, Amazoning and matched betting all went well, plus I got some cashback. I'm happy.

I'm literally turning into the hulk now


:T

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darkidoe wrote: »

Some of it is back pay from my previous job. Been hard work. Need a break to be honest, maybe do a short weekend away trip in the hill/mountains would be nice.

Hard work or not it didnt kill you nor your savings

Camping or Glamping ?


Hint: The correct answer is MSEstyle

:rotfl:



Enjoy the break when you get it

freezspirit

reporting £600 for April however savings might go down from now on as I have to pay for home improvement I can't do myself, garage roof and bathroom as starters.

gwyneth_valiant

Two really crappy months in a row. 200 in savings for me this month (April).

Mainly because I've had massive expenses going out (new phone, new laptop, paying for flights and waiting for expenses to be paid out). Hoping I'll be able to make up for it in the next couple of months.

Hope everyone else is doing better! I haven't been able to go through all the posts - new job/no time.

abba1772

Need to bow out of the this challenge I'm afraid as I've just bought a house so every penny is going towards this thank you for this thread wouldn't have saved so much in two years without it xx

Aliliva

Hi all! Can i join you little merry club? I'm trying to save up for a house deposit (so a veeeery long term plan,atm) and I could use a bit of peer support :beer:
I already have allocated pots for holidays, shopping, health and extras (although in worst cases scenarios they can be cut down and used to survive unemployment), so my target is on top of them. That said, this year I am trying to save £5300 and, so far, I've already put down £1900 :j For this month I'm quite ambitious and I hope to save at least some other £500, getting my total savings to £2400

Westie983

Aliliva wrote: »

Hi all! Can i join you little merry club? I'm trying to save up for a house deposit (so a veeeery long term plan,atm) and I could use a bit of peer support :beer:
I already have allocated pots for holidays, shopping, health and extras (although in worst cases scenarios they can be cut down and used to survive unemployment), so my target is on top of them. That said, this year I am trying to save £5300 and, so far, I've already put down £1900 :j For this month I'm quite ambitious and I hope to save at least some other £500, getting my total savings to £2400

Welcome Aliliva,

You will be allocated a number soon, welcome to the family,

hope you have fun, have a read the first page, what you can include in your savings, how others do it and the almost thing, keep up with updating it tends to keep you motivated..

;-)

tara747

Aliliva wrote: »

Hi all! Can i join you little merry club? I'm trying to save up for a house deposit (so a veeeery long term plan,atm) and I could use a bit of peer support :beer:
I already have allocated pots for holidays, shopping, health and extras (although in worst cases scenarios they can be cut down and used to survive unemployment), so my target is on top of them. That said, this year I am trying to save £5300 and, so far, I've already put down £1900 :j For this month I'm quite ambitious and I hope to save at least some other £500, getting my total savings to £2400

Welcome to the thread, Aliliva!

Tea&Biscuits

I'm still hanging on in there.

Wish I could muster up a bit more cash to save each month.

Hoping to bump up April's contribution a bit more yet.

Aliliva

I've just doublechecked my budget spreadsheet and realised my formula for the savings was wrong: it wasn't taking into account the monthly savings into the shopping pot :eek:
So, I'll have to revise the total saved only for the sake of saving, and take it down to a meagre £1250 :mad: Well, nevermind, my target is still unchanged and I'll try hard to meet it anyway!