The "Save 12k in 2018" Thread!

tara747

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

You could check out geoffers' spreadsheet of savings since this started in 2012 - you are one of the star performers BTW! :T

Savings to date

Why, thank you very much Just had a look! I'm very proud to be the longest-serving member along with slowlyfading (although others have saved more) :beer:

I've also updated my sig with my new savings total. Just realised that I've saved £41,358 in the last 3 years :beer:

slowlyfading

We definitely had more people drop out during 2018

cathybird

slowlyfading wrote: »

We definitely had more people drop out during 2018

I do wish people wouldn't because over time even small amounts saved can build up impressively and if you have to have a couple of months, or three or four, or however many, where you can't manage saving at all, well that's fine - just keep trying, is my thought. It's just such a shame

bioboybill

Well I have just got round to entering the final info for 2018. Had a reasonable November, but a disastrous December. My wife was driving the car when somebody hit her side on and wrote our car off 2 weeks before Christmas. Thankfully my wife wasn't killed or seriously injured. The other driver admitted liability, but we still needed to get another car, so £2K had to be taken out of savings as a deposit. This meant we fell well short of our target, but still saved more than we ever have before.

darkidoe

Just looking through the numbers. Cumulative total of £877,179.14 in 2018, down from £1,294,396.35 in 2017. Nowhere near our cumulative target but good effort everyone especially from the regulars. Continue chucking away in 2019! You never know when the rainy day might come.

I remembered someone posted a link to a summary of the savings we managed over the years, wondered if we can attach that to the main post as well. Might be a good reference for motivational purposes.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." T Roosevelt

Suffolk_lass

darkidoe wrote: »

Just looking through the numbers. Cumulative total of £877,179.14 in 2018, down from £1,294,396.35 in 2017. Nowhere near our cumulative target but good effort everyone especially from the regulars. Continue chucking away in 2019! You never know when the rainy day might come.

I remembered someone posted a link to a summary of the savings we managed over the years, wondered if we can attach that to the main post as well. Might be a good reference for motivational purposes.

It was geoffers4 over on the 2019 thread - the totaliser spreadsheet link is here. You could PM slowlyfading - not many of us popping in on this one any more

webjaved

I got all confused when entering this thread, quickly realised it's for last year! Haha!