The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

CheBee

Hello! Reporting 1300 for last month (April). This month nothing so far as I need to get my teeth done!

CheBee

justwingingit wrote: »

Evening everyone - newbie here!

Just a few questions, what does everybody to for extra income / savings? I'll be putting wages aside, selling a few things on eBay and I've signed up to quite a few survey sites to see how that goes. What does everyone else do?

Hi. I am a nurse so when I can be bothered I will work a extra agency shift. Thats the only way I can generate more money. What survery sites have you signed up to:T

Wobblydeb

I've added £919.90 in April, and not quite happy with that. It should have been at least £1,200 what with £200 reward coming in from opening a new account. We had rather a spendy month, and May is not shaping up much better

I've got £9,633 to raise from the remaining 8 months, so £1,204 per month and that includes Christmas!! Time to put some of our clutter on eBay, make lunches from scratch and shop smarter!

jacci45

£620.53 this month..good luck all!

Suffolk_lass

justwingingit wrote: »

Evening everyone - newbie here!

Just a few questions, what does everybody to for extra income / savings? I'll be putting wages aside, selling a few things on eBay and I've signed up to quite a few survey sites to see how that goes. What does everyone else do?

I save extra by spending less - over five years I have taken our housekeeping down to less than a third of what I was spending. If you are interested, check out the monthly grocery change in the "Old-Style Moneysaving" part of the forums. There are lots of top tips for planning and spending less over there (and they are lovely helpful, supportive posters too)

[Deleted User]

Hi Everyone

Well I have had my savings wiped out last month through yet more service charges on my flat so Im regrouping and now need to save £556 a month for my target of £5k by Dec.

So Aprils savings are £556

Hope everyone else has a great month.

[Deleted User]

It's been a difficult month, with easter and lots of birthdays, plus me spending too much on booze - oh well, onwards and upwards to May. Saved £500, bringing my total up to £1,400 #132

[Deleted User]

Monthly update for April - £2150 saved this month. Update form has been submitted.


Great to see everyone's updates. It's so helpful in staying motivated.

laura84gr

Just updated for April. Another £1k added bringing me to £4k for the year.

My April wage (and all from now on) will be slightly less by around £125 as my work has changed around a little so losing this each month will mean a bigger payout in March 2018. My plan is to try to continue to save at the same rate (if it's possible!), then hopefully the payout will go straight to me deposit fund next year. Will see how it goes. I have a little bit extra in my current account to play with.

I really am desperate for a holiday but I'm trying so hard to keep focused and on track. I know a decent holiday will set me back around a month and I just wanna keep to the plan of reaching my target for the year.

Thank you to everyone who posts on here for keeping me motivated and focused on the end goal.

bobobski

Laura, I totally feel you - especially with this rubbish weather it would be so easy to "slip" and book a holiday but we must stay strong!

A bumper month for me this April: £1,500.37 (just to annoy the OCD'ers). I've had income from Onepoll, Quidco and Prolific, and of course new tax year so automatic rise in net salary, but together these account for less than £100. I think I'm just getting extremely stingy - there was only one category in my budget I went over this month, and I could easily cover that with the categories I stayed within. Also I've quit smoking, which so far hasn't saved me a lot of money due to the cost of stocking up on e-cig supplies but it means I've saved £200 from May's budget!

Can't wait to see how much we can all save in May