The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

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

Spreadsheet is updated

[Deleted User]

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!