2016 mfw

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norfolkdream wrote: »

OP'd another £250. So total for Jan is £869/£2070 42%

This looks like a lot (to me) but I had saved a bit last year and decided to put some on the mortgage. so close to the end now argghh!

Excited for you :T

bunty109

#24 checking in with an OP of £63.61 so Jan total is now £389.61

jb_lord

MFW#60 - OP of £116.97. :j

MoneyMission

Number 39 here and declaring January at £589. Very pleased with that.

emg

No 42 again, reporting another £215.05 which makes my January total £640.67

Also, sorry to be a pain but I think I've played it a bit safe and should raise my target. Can I aim for £5000 instead please.

Lomcevak

Spreadsheet updated, well done for all the OPs in what's often a tight month.

Welcome to the challenge Nsc-68, you have number #69 (i'd have given you #68 but skaps already has it!). Best of luck for March!

Haven't quite figured out what all your signatures with the figures mean! If someone could explain I'd be mos graceful.

For this challenge people usually track their number (see the spreadsheet or the list on post 1), their current progress, and their target - e.g. I'm number 12 and right now I've made one £600 OP against a £12k target for the year, so I have

2016 MFW#12 £600/£12,000 (5.00%)

You don't have to have one, but I find it very useful so I encourage it I can use it to double check that i've not missed anything when doing updates.

There's another longer-term three year challenge called 'mortgage free in three' that many of us do so you'll see that too (although you don't actually have to get mortgage free in that time, that would be a bit much for most of us) - it's just starting its fourth iteration tomorrow so is known as 'MfiT-T4' ('take 4').

Finally, there are lots more other challenges over the other boards so people often track those too - quite often i've found interesting ones from seeing other people's signatures and thinking, mmm, that sounds fun...

norfolkdream - great progress! and shangaijimmy and emg - I've updated your targets, good luck!

Lomcevak

shangaijimmy wrote: »

We should do a sub-thread for daily TT's!

I was planning a personal February mini-challenge to get some extra off the mortgage - TTs, cashback (if it finally turns up!), skipping the daily Starbucks and putting £1.75 in the pot instead, maybe a little ebay, etc. I'm not expecting much, £100 would be a good result, but it's more about the intent than anything

It's always easier with company so if there's any interest then I could spin it out into a separate thread - not a formal tracked thing with numbers and a spreadsheet, but a place to swap ideas and encouragement, etc.

A_Frayed_Knot

Sue P19 has a thread Tilly Tidy 2016 //https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/69967355#Comment_69967355

is this what you were meaning? - by the way can never get links to work corrrectly somehow:(

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Lomcevak wrote: »

It's always easier with company so if there's any interest then I could spin it out into a separate thread - not a formal tracked thing with numbers and a spreadsheet, but a place to swap ideas and encouragement, etc.

A_Frayed_Knot wrote: »

Sue P19 has a thread Tilly Tidy 2016 //https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/69967355#Comment_69967355

is this what you were meaning? - by the way can never get links to work corrrectly somehow:(

That seems to be the one that SueP and Shangijimmy were talking about. Thank you for the heads up A Frayed Knot as I didn't realise they'd actually got it up and running.

shangaijimmy

All the credit to SueP I was an innocent bystander!