The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

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Sorry I dropped out mid way, I am #132 and my total for the year was £2,000. It was a combination of things , buy hey. I saved £8,000 last year, so I am hoping to get somewhere near that in the new January challenge.

JAMIEDODGER

Another £850 for me this month bringing my total for 2017 to 7150 (form update sent). A little short of my target but a figure I am happy with nonetheless:)

Good luck for 2018 everyone, off to visit the new thread!

geoffers4

slowlyfading wrote: »

Spreadsheet is updated

And if you fancy seeing the totals saved over all the years since SlowlyFading started this thread back in 2012, I've updated my

totaliser spreadsheet - Click here to view

- over £6.7 million saved in total, wow!

Wilkos

Hello all,

No. 88 declaring £900 for December (I've completed the form). Managed to squeeze the last £900 to meet my target for this year - just!

Thank you to SlowlyFading for running this (congrats on the little one) and wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Wentthedaywell?

geoffers4 wrote: »

And if you fancy seeing the totals saved over all the years since SlowlyFading started this thread back in 2012, I've updated my

totaliser spreadsheet - Click here to view

- over £6.7 million saved in total, wow!

Nice one, Geoffers, thanks. I'm impressed how much I've managed to save .

Thanks again to SlowlyFading for running these threads; I'm sure I'd have fallen off the savings wagon without them, and without everyone else's contributions which are always motivating.

enomis

enomis wrote: »

Very happy to report saving of £1163.30 this month, reaching and exceeding my target! I feel like I can spoil myself this Christmas with my December pay check, but I still aim to save as much as I can from it.

I've also decided to over pay my mortgage with my pay rise but will start that in the new year and feel comfortable doing so now that I have rebuilt my nest egg.

Thank you slowly fading and all the contributors to this thread.

I didn't do as I said and decided to spoil myself as well as other this Christmas and slightly dipped into my saving to the tune of £37.36. But i'm ecstatic to end the year having saved a grand total of £15,500.

Well done to everyone!

cathybird

Looking at the final results a fair number of people seem to have fallen away in November/December which is a bit of a shame If I had the time I'd go back over all the challenges so far and work out things like the percentage of people who finish compared to the number who start. It would be interesting to see. Not meaning to knock those who stop because there could well generally be good reasons for it.

Karen's_girl

#28 declaring £556.72 for December, bringing me to a grand total for the year of £6,746.34. That is £253.66 short of the £7,000 I had aimed for but I am very happy with it, as it is still a decent amount. I am looking forward to this year's challenge.....

CrabbitDutchie

#46 reporting in - £1474 saved in December and £13184 in 2017 overall. Beating my original target of £12000.

Looks really good on paper, but my considerable wage increase since setting the target means that £12000 should have been a complete walkover (and wasn't).
Having said that, holidays in Greece, Italy, France and long weekends in Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium were definitely worth it and without this thread I may have frittered away much more of the extra instead of restricting additional spending to 'just' holidays so still pretty pleased with what I've achieved. Onwards and upwards in 2018!

darkidoe

#9 Reporting for £1848.47 for Dec 2017. First year that I tracked my savings rate which is at just under 50%. Total of £15848.84 which is about £4k less than the previous year. I believe lifestyle inflation is creeping up on me through the cracks of daily living. I am not terribly impressed with the numbers but hey ho, I am still in the positive balance which is something to be grateful for. We take what we get.

I shall be taking part in the Uber Frugal Month Challenge for the month of January 2018 to see if I can improve things on the expenses front and also on take some responsibility for some of the choices I am making on a daily basis. Very useful exercise for the financially intrigued person.

On another note, we seem have fewer people completing it this year in 2017 compared to 2016, collective savings have fallen. I hope we can pick this up in 2018 and see more people join. Reach out and encourage others to join this useful exercise.

Hope we all achieved some of our targets in 2017 and even if we didn't, learnt why or how we failed, and try again in 2018! See you all in the 2018 thread.

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