The "Save 12k in 2018" Thread!

HustleGang

Not sure if it has been updated but £922.25 for July please

Number 145

bobobski

A very expensive month over here for July, with things like parts of the holiday to pay for as well as organising and starting to pay for a friend's stag do. Looking on the bright side, I still managed to save something - £580.18 for me for July.


August and September will be hard for me with a changeover of jobs coming up with several weeks' gap, a change in pay day and a holiday coming up - realistically my target for August is not to dip into savings rather than actually to save something!


Will re-assess once this bumpy part of the road is cleared.


Thanks as ever to SF and all the Save 12k-ers for keeping me accountable!

darkidoe

Reporting £2415.10 for July! I realise doing this challenge that from month to month, your savings rate can vary a lot depending on holidays, big once off expenses, etc, etc. It is not easy to keep a steady constant figure monthly. Erratic numbers are perhaps not a best sign for a saver. I might just be a binge spender after all.

darkidoe

george4064 wrote: »

Is Sussex in London? :huh:

Does it have to be London?

And I think you shouldn't be re-calibrating. Having a target we fail to achieve might be useful to learn about how awkward plans might screw up our own ambitious plans or perhaps overestimating our abilities to save. Perhaps we might learn more about why people fail to achieve targets than about people easily achieving their targets.

As Charlies Munger once said, Always Invert!

george4064

darkidoe wrote: »

Does it have to be London?

And I think you shouldn't be re-calibrating. Having a target we fail to achieve might be useful to learn about how awkward plans might screw up our own ambitious plans or perhaps overestimating our abilities to save. Perhaps we might learn more about why people fail to achieve targets than about people easily achieving their targets.

As Charlies Munger once said, Always Invert!

It doesn’t HAVE to be in London, but things would have to change if I moved out of London. My social life, sports I play and would mean longer commute to work.

Karen's_girl

#70 declaring £225 for August.....

slowlyfading

Sassysaver7 wrote: »

Hi,

I think I initially signed up but life happened and I wasn’t able to save/update. Can I please have a second chance and start with the aim to save £6,000 by 31 December 2018?

If so, then I’ve managed £1,050 in July !!!128588;!!!127998;

Not too late! Your challenger number is 147

slowlyfading

Spreadsheet updated - sorry for the delay

Gem-gem

Good morning one and all,
Amount saved this month:
250 into a regular saver
500 into an easy access isa (will need this money early next year)
16 interest
Total £766
Total for the year: £4096

Dura

Can you sign me up please?