The "Save 12k in 2017" Thread!

tara747

July payday update!


Pretty good going this month, I saved £1,347. That's £7,070 so far in 2017, and £116,192 overall.


Hoping I can break the £120,000 mark this year!


:beer:

TallGirl

Yeah I'm back working again full time more money than last one. Only a year but could be more and looks perfect and people are nice. Able to save £1000 in July as my tenant paid up even if they have split up. Need to see if I can now save more to replenish the savings I spent being out of work for the last 4 months.

Cottage_Economy

#129 declaring £420 for July.

Again, managed to put aside £50 for Christmas in there.

As expected, July was a hard month and didn't think I'd get in more than about £50 for Christmas, however, I then had an unexpected £500 one-off bonus and a 2% pay rise.

:dance::dance::dance:

Went to the cinema a couple of times and had a meal out _party_ then stuffed the rest in savings.

Lolly88

Not a great month, only saved £264.90 this month. I also resigned from my job without another one lined up because it was making me so miserable so I'm even less likely to meet my target now and will probably dip into my savings taking me back into negative figures again! This year is a total nightmare financially.

Suffolk_lass

Lolly88 wrote: »

Not a great month, only saved £264.90 this month. I also resigned from my job without another one lined up because it was making me so miserable so I'm even less likely to meet my target now and will probably dip into my savings taking me back into negative figures again! This year is a total nightmare financially.

On the other hand, if you had not built a small savings cushion you might have felt you had no choice but to stay in that job that was making you miserable and you could have ended up making yourself ill about it. This year's target is secondary to your wellbeing and having established the habit of putting a bit aside for a rainy day. It just happens that 2017 is your rainy day

Suffolk_lass

Well done TallGirl, we knew you could do it. It doesn't seem like four months (I hope that is the same for you)

TallGirl

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Well done TallGirl, we knew you could do it. It doesn't seem like four months (I hope that is the same for you)

Thank you very kind no it doesn't feel like that long it's actually 5 months from the day I left to I start new one but I've had three weeks holiday and did get a weeks notice so I'll say it's actually four.

Well done on all the savings amounts and good luck with the job hunting Lolly88. I don't know what field you're in or where you live but agencies are a right pain never got anywhere with them. Glad you were able to quit rather than have to stick with a job that makes you feel like that.

excelwizard

#186 reporting £803.52 saved this month! Extremely (and pleasantly) surprised at this month - I was more frugal than I thought :j

SF - I've backdated a few changes via the google form as I miscalculated originally

Year total to date: £7078.94 :j I'm holding on to the hope that I can reach the 12K target by the end of the year - it may be more realistically more like 10-11K...

Xenon

Xenon The Mighty calling in

A little less than usual this month £948
I decided to increase my employer AVC contributions to £100pw...costing me about £68pw

So £7004 in total this year

poohbear59

I have still saved nothing at all. But I certainly meant to save this year. All is not lost. We still have another four months to try to save something.