The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

bobobski

A small victory over here that I thought some of you guys might appreciate. My car broke down yesterday, which aside from being really bad timing and generally annoying had the potential to mess with my budget. Fortunately, I've been stashing £10-£20 per month into a car maintenance fund in my budget (not part of my savings) just in case something like this happened. So instead of chucking it on the credit card, or reducing my savings for the month, the repair was fully covered Just need to build the fund back up now!!

Wobblydeb

Ooopsy - another negative month. Hubby is renovating a flat, and needed to borrow £2k of the savings.

So minus £756.44 for me this month.

Wobblydeb

bobobski wrote: »

So instead of chucking it on the credit card, or reducing my savings for the month, the repair was fully covered Just need to build the fund back up now!!

That is a great outcome bobobski!! :T

Rhys37429

smashed my £4k target in October with £371.39. Taking my total to £4,030.50 with two months still to go.

slowlyfading

Spreadsheet updated

darkidoe

Slow month for October. £1383.96 for month of October.

It's the last stretch guys for 2017. 2 more months with huge potential for bigger expenses with the holiday season. I myself am going on a 5 day holiday to Prague the following week. You can't avoid what you can't avoid.

Stay tight.

EC12345

Gosh guys. First time I have updated since May of this year. Time has flown. Anyway have kept up with my saving and have updated the spreadsheet for the last five months - where has time gone!!!??!!


Another £300 before I hit my target which is doable.

Keep going everyone.


EC

kittenkicks

Hi all ,
Sorry I haven't posted since August! We bought our very first home and it has been a bit crazy and COSTFUL! Not sure If I'll be on track for my 15k in 2017 plan but don't mind as buying a home was what we've been aiming for!

So, since I last updated in August I haven't really been able to contribute anything.
My full savings pot in November is 53,375.46- which was less than I had in August.


So nothing to report, savings this year stand at £5,555.54 Fallen quite a bit short of my 15k goal but have a lovely new home which is more important

george4064

george4064 wrote: »

September's figures:

HTB - £200
Sharesave - £223
P2P - £269

Total - £692

Figures are a bit messy because Ive been mega busy after having just started a new job in London and moved from Southampton to London.

After only a week of living in London its really urging me on to save to buy my own place, in Southampton rent wasn't as high so it was more manageable. Unfortunately (or maybe not so) I need to complete my probation period at work before I can get a mortgage on my new salary, which is expected to end April/May 2018.

HTB ISA - £200
P2P - £1,016

Total - £1,216

I've now saved over £11,000 this year and reached 92% of my £12k target!!

Keep up the great savings everyone!

Suffolk_lass

Just submitted my update for November. I need to keep £500 back to pay off the CC in full at the start of December - it is almost £2000 so I needed to sub it a bit (may have to move some back too). In the meantime we are looking at just over £800 instead of £1300 and my total target for 2017 is looking a bit precarious now