The "Save 12k in 2018" Thread!

sonas_baby

52 reporting in with £666.25 for this month. Quite pleased with the amount as I'm having to buy a car a year earlier than expected, but that's what I get for running it until it's only scrap value. Thank goodness some dealers still have the £2000 scrapage scheme.

Gem-gem

Hello, had a couple of regular savers mature - some money was used to have tha new fencing ( 3 panels came down this winter) and raised bed put inI to the garden. Also paid for more of hubby's birthday trip away.
£250 saved this month.
£1880 so far this year

JAMIEDODGER

Update form submitted thanks Slowly x

Ella_

Hi,
I'm number 114.
My savings for March is: £937.81
I sent a huge amount for a relative, I used more petrol as usual due to some longer extra journeys, there was some essential maintenance on my car and taking it to an MOT. I also a paid a Mother day's lunch, and bought some new clothes.

Martinslovechild

stoozie1 wrote: »

Well done you!

What are you invested in?

As half our savings are in stocks and shares and we've had a bad month, everything we've actually saved is likely to be wiped out by the losses this month.

Good job we're in it for the long haul

I'm in a mixture of investment trusts and stocks. I've moved out of unit trusts pretty much entirely now as investment trusts and stocks are more flexible and more transparent. Yes there have been recent falls but you're absolutely right to take a long-term view - and stay away from headline-grabbing "investments" such as Bitcoin. The herd mentality won't win you any prizes in the long-term. Buy only companies/stocks which you understand.

macdady29

Very happy with my efforts in march. Exceeded my target of £600 for the month with
£300 going into my s&s isa and £500 put in to my nationwide regular saver. With my car insurance, mot and any maintenance work needed, it could be a challenging month for saving in April.

cathybird

hi all, no. 15 here reporting £1,036.04 for March, bringing the yearly total to £1,232.59 so far. I'm incredibly happy with that because I had to replace the boiler in March and was expecting a much worse result as a consequence, but I also got paid a bit more than usual and to an extent the one balanced the other out (hooray!)

stoozie1

Martinslovechild wrote: »

I'm in a mixture of investment trusts and stocks. I've moved out of unit trusts pretty much entirely now as investment trusts and stocks are more flexible and more transparent. Yes there have been recent falls but you're absolutely right to take a long-term view - and stay away from headline-grabbing "investments" such as Bitcoin. The herd mentality won't win you any prizes in the long-term. Buy only companies/stocks which you understand.

Absolutely! Am invested entirely in VLS 100 acc.

Xenon

Xenon

£1243 March

£3552 2018

bioboybill

No. 119 reporting on the face of it a measly £177.91 for March, with update sheet filled in. Although a very small total, I am extremely pleased, because we had a two week walking holiday in Spain to pay for, and we built up a big credit card bill during the 2 weeks, which I paid off as soon as we got back. I expected a large negative figure this month, but fortunately I got some rare overtime and some other extra pay, which helped bring in a small positive instead.


I am expecting the next 2 months to be quite tough too, as we're doing the Coast to Coast walk in May and that has to be paid for, but my wife stopped working at the end of last July, so should be owed about £600 in tax back. It depends when she gets that.


Anyway, Happy Days for now!