The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

imajica37

I am finishing off with £736 for December which brings to a total of £11,759 for this year.

Bit gutted that I changed my target to £12,000 and didn't quite make it but I smashed my original target of £6,000. :j:j:j:j

Congrats to everyone who is still going with the challenge :T

black_taxi_2

ive had a bad year , saved 0

only good news , no debt

health sickness , an being self employed is a bad mix

all the best 2018 everyone

Suffolk_lass

I have just lodged my final figures for the year and I am just a smidge under £300 short of my £11,000 target. While this is disappointing, I am still pleased with over £10,000 saved, and if we add "invisible" savings in our pensions and overpayments to our mortgage, we have balanced at just under £25k for 2017

Jazee

Morning all. Popping in to declare final totals for the year as I won't find any more to save tomorrow. My target was £12k. I have saved £13449.71 and although we had to use just over £1k of this towards DSs wedding, there is still £12416.68 in the bank.

In useless accounts I might add, so I really need to get it into accounts with decent interest rates.

This thread has been amazing, I've never saved like this before. Thanks everyone for the encouragement.

Xenon

Xenon The Earth Destroyer if He Could Get Off His Lazy Backside And Get On With It

Alrighty then

Dec £ 2061

2017 £ 9464 approx

A large smidge under the £12k target but paid the council tax mostly in one go and increased pension AVC payments - so would have made it.

Either way a happy cosmic alien being

A slow year in the blowing up planets business but not bad in the saving some coin business

cathybird

Morning all, no. 38 reporting for final figure of the year, this month I can declare savings of £1,131.66, bringing my final total to £12,978.51.

I made target, and I'm happy about that, but it's not as good as previous years and while a lot of that was unavoidable expenses it's also true that there was too much careless spending on some things so that's basically something I have to bring more under control in the coming year, something to aim for.

Happy New Year everyone and many many thanks once again to Slowlyfading for all her hard work running this thread, much appreciated.

george4064

george4064 wrote: »

£785.12 saved for November.

HTB ISA - £200
Nationwide RS - £500
P2P - £85.12 (this is purely from interest)

£597.41 saved for December. Largely paid for skiing holiday in January and Christmas costs, which means I have saved £12,427.51 in total for 2017 and beat my target!!

2018 will start tough as I incur costs for my holiday in January, but from February onwards it should be looking good especially with my new (higher!) salary which started in December 2017.

Breakdown as below:

HTB ISA - £366.19
Nationwide RS - £500
P2P - -£268.78 (withdrew some money)

Well done all! Happy saving and all the best for 2018! :beer:

Buffythedebtslayer

Congratulations SlowlyFading

I kind of disappeared from the challenge, sorry about that my savings stand at 1346, it ended up being a very strange year.

Hope all goes well with the new little person

Happy New Year XXXXX

slowlyfading

Clare43 wrote: »

Hello. Does the December amount have to be reported on the 31st ( or before ) or can I do it on 3rd Jan for example - would only count savings up to 31/12/17. I'm really busy at work over Christmas and new year so may not get a chance to do on 31st

You can do it after, no problem

slowlyfading

Thanks for all the good wishes - life with two is definitely interesting

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