The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

Twiggy_34

Just submitted my October update which takes me to £150 past my £2500 target - I had an unexpected boost at the beginning of the year which helped quite a bit. 2 more regular saver payments to make this year, so I expect to clear £3k by the end of December

GTR_King

I will join next year.. I think I did have a target but brother got married, so that went out the window..

I wanna have target next year and stick to it

tara747

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

next month Tara747 - you will smash it!

Thank you

enomis

enomis wrote: »

Have managed to save £1201 for September, bringing really close to my target. However, I have a very large credit card bill coming in October so know I will be dipping into my savings to pay for it. But with 3 months left off the year I think I will be okay.

As predicted for October I have had to dip into saving so reporting a negative of -£348.43 (form submitted). I'm okay with this as i'm still on target thanks to this thread and part of it is owed to me but I won't count it until I get it back.

Well done everyone!

bobobski

Hi all, £840.07 for me this month. Although this number is disappointing, I've spent £618.25 on house buying stuff (survey, solicitor costs etc), so if I add that to the total (because it would have been savings otherwise) I would have saved £1,458.32, which is a great number!

Two months left to go - not sure why I'm looking forward to next year's challenge already?!

CouponClipper

Made some slight adjustments to my savings in August and September so that's all correct now.

I'm going to wait until my October interest on my Nationwide account comes through to declare my savings for this month but should be looking at a healthy month of savings which is positive!

cathybird

hi all no. 38 reporting for October and for the third month in a row I've not managed a cent, alas - this month I've had to book a sojourn to the other side of the world to see the family and have had some repairs to the house, all necessary but expensive. Sigh. There are no huge expenses coming up for November or December so I'm still confident of meeting target, still only a tantalisingly small amount away. This will be the smallest amount I have saved for three years.

Suffolk_lass

cathybird wrote: »

hi all no. 38 reporting for October and for the third month in a row I've not managed a cent, alas - this month I've had to book a sojourn to the other side of the world to see the family and have had some repairs to the house, all necessary but expensive. Sigh. There are no huge expenses coming up for November or December so I'm still confident of meeting target, still only a tantalisingly small amount away. This will be the smallest amount I have saved for three years.

That may be so cathybird, but you are still saving! You reference having to book your trip to the other side of the world. We can only imagine how few people would be able to accommodate that and still save a bit of money. Well done I say! :T

I have also had a very testing month and savings are the lowest this year, at just over £360 for October - partly because I "borrowed" £250 to see us through so I have knocked this off our total. I am amazed there is any, to be honest!

CrabbitDutchie

Number 46 reporting in for October.

Managed to save £852 this month with the credit card paid off in full from last month's holidays, so pretty happy with that. Should manage to just about hit my target by the end of December with hopefully a good November and an average December.

Also finally getting my pension sorted at the new job.It turns out it's a salary sacrifice scheme which is great, might need to up the contributions a little to take full advantage! No doubt the investment options the company has gone for on my behalf are average at best with high management charges, but I'll deal with that when the full information comes through.

As for November, no big spends planned apart from booking flights for christmas and hoping to start decreasing the petrol costs by carpooling to work. Have identified 2 people who have to drive pretty much past mine, so very keen to get something going and split petrol costs. Will also try to keep up an average of cycling once a week, but now that the clocks have gone back it might be a slightly optimistic target!

Keep up the good work everyone, we're nearly there!

geoffers4

Hi Everyone

Oof life has been expensive recently - the dog had to have a short stay at the vets so that's 600 quid gone onto the credit card. Hopefully it's on the mend now though. We've also paid for most of our break in the Canaries coming up in 2 weeks. So reporting £1826.23 for October.

Just 2 months to go now... if the dog will just stay well perhaps I can still hit my target for the year, we'll see!