The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

Fruittea

Hi Guys
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who got lucky with Ernie this month.
The savings prompt has also focused my mind on decluttering - so I'm clearing out, ebaying etc lots of stuff and adding any funds I make to the savings pot. So I've just asked for a refund on a very old oyster card £9 and Amazon sold a book for me £11.22. My totals are up to £344.62.
Good luck everyone

frugal90

how do you sign up for this ?

my wife and my aim is ambitious this year at £36000

we want to save £3000 per month for 12 months as we move towards retirement date- this would be a 67% saving rate from our monthly salaries- we managed 57% last year

Bonfire_Bride

Can I please be added too? We've just purchased a lovely 4 bed family home so savings are looking a little thin.

We are aiming for £8000.
Good Luck Everyone

Considering Christmas has just been and gone...I am hoping to add £2000 into the pot on 25th of this month.

Bonfire_Bride

frugal90 wrote: »

how do you sign up for this ?

my wife and my aim is ambitious this year at £36000

we want to save £3000 per month for 12 months as we move towards retirement date- this would be a 67% saving rate from our monthly salaries- we managed 57% last year

That IS impressive! Good Luck

Westie983

Bonfire_Bride wrote: »

Can I please be added too? We've just purchased a lovely 4 bed family home so savings are looking a little thin.

We are aiming for £8000.
Good Luck Everyone

Considering Christmas has just been and gone...I am hoping to add £2000 into the pot on 25th of this month.

Good luck and sounds like you are well on the way, how lovely to have your family home

Westie983

rjrs0510

just put away my first savings of the year, £2000. I was so happy to make my goal last year!! Good luck everyone!!

bsms1147

Sign me up!

If all goes well I'm in a job until the start of August when I'll probably take a couple of months to do no work whatsoever before looking for another job at that point. So earning over 10 months instead of 12 means it might be harder to hit my target, but I'll set it the same as before at £15,000 since I managed to exceed it last year.

Among all this there is the possibility of buying a house and/or car, so we'll see how that goes.

Good luck all

Suffolk_lass

frugal90 wrote: »

how do you sign up for this ?

Slowlyfading will be along in a while and add you to the list in post 1, then you post your money updates using the update link, and she maintains the googledoc of everyone's progress, month by month. She likes you to put your challenger number in your signature (she will allocate it) so she can keep up without being on here all the time.

HTH - Good luck!
SL

darkidoe

Right everyone! Other than your personal target, the overall number is to beat is last year's total amount saved: £1,972,832.69. Do your best!!

kitjos

darkidoe wrote: »

Right everyone! Other than your personal target, the overall number is to beat is last year's total amount saved: £1,972,832.69. Do your best!!

That's an awesome challenge! Game on!



SF, will declare Jan savings now as rest of months money will go towards bills (boooo!). Can my Jan figure be put down as £1,300 please (#73)

Many thanks x