The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

darkidoe

#9 Reporting for March 2017. Sorry haven't been around much. Total of 2159.30. Things are looking abit healthier.. Well done Xenon for almost reaching your 100k milestone! That's alot of cash tho!! Beware inflation!

Wish everyone a Happy Easter!

Jo_Blogs

slowlyfading wrote: »

Spreadsheet updated

Thank you slowlyfading

Great going with all the saving folks :T Keep up the great efforts .

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter :easter::EasterBun

kitjos

Happy Easter everyone

Thanks SF for updating - the spreadsheet is having some good % colours on it now :T. Well done to all on your savings!

Half way through month, saved £850 at the mo. Might be able to go over 1k if wages/bills allow. Got quite few trips to hospital at the end of this month (DH needs heart surgery) so need to put some money aside for the extra Diesel and childcare for our two young kids etc. Joys!

DH & I have signed up for extra work over next 3 months so will increase our wages quite a bit - all will help!

Good luck to all! xx

Ruthy1604

A paltry £115.75 to report for me for March (form submitted)

We've just had a bad month expenses wise - DS is learning to drive, holiday deposits needed paying etc etc.

Must try harder next month

kittenkicks

April update for me at #075.

Still a bit of the month to go and a holiday to pay for, so by May I'm sure this will have dropped!

Really motivates me when I update on here so thanks to everyone for keeping this going strong.

Saved £1,465.39 for April so far

Lomcevak

I've been terrible at updating

Going through the spreadsheets, it is £1817.68 for January, £1609.88 for February, and £2110.10 for March, for a total of £5,537.66 for the first quarter of 2017. Still a fair bit of work to go, but starting to pick up the pace so onwards and upwards

Suffolk_lass

Just had to buy a new lawnmower... so this month and next month won't be great as it is on the credit card for May

kitjos

kitjos wrote: »

Happy Easter everyone

Thanks SF for updating - the spreadsheet is having some good % colours on it now :T. Well done to all on your savings!

Half way through month, saved £850 at the mo. Might be able to go over 1k if wages/bills allow. Got quite few trips to hospital at the end of this month (DH needs heart surgery) so need to put some money aside for the extra Diesel and childcare for our two young kids etc. Joys!

DH & I have signed up for extra work over next 3 months so will increase our wages quite a bit - all will help!

Good luck to all! xx

What a difference a week makes! We brought a new TV for our living room (beautiful 55" Samsung - our last one was 7 years old so did us well). That was £430 (managed to get some discount!). Didnt expect to spend this quite yet so my figure this month is down quite a bit .

Ill declare April now SF as nothing will change for rest of month.

#73 April = £200.

Push on for May now xx

RichyRich

I fear that I might need to duck out of the 2017 challenge

We recently secured a new mortgage deal and after lengthy discussions and debates over the relative merits of how to put our money to best use we are going to focus on overpaying the mortgage instead. We have an incredible interest rate of 1.19% so really have a golden opportunity to pay down the debt.

On the plus side, we've finally made our final big purchase for the flat (a sofa) and got all the decorating done, so financially we should be on a firmer footing now.

I will do a calculation at end of month to see whether I might be able to do the 12k as well, but it's not looking promising....

Cheers!

bobobski

Well look at you all making good use of your money!! Savings are to be used for something at the end of the day so no more unhappy faces please!