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How much savings interest and cashback have you earned in 2017?

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Hey guys I haven't posted on here in a looong time, but today I was trawling and couldn't find any similar posts so thought I'd start a new thread.
How much has everyone managed to accumulate from savings interest, cashback, etc this year? I would be curious to know as I've o my recently start paying attention to my own and it's quite interesting.

I'll start with mine:
£76.89 interest from a Halifax savings account
£3.13 interest from Nationwide
£16.31 cashback from Halifax
£10.00 other cashback
Total: £100.04

I know it's not a lot but like I said I've only just started to pay attention to my savings options and cashback opportunities, so next year should be a lot better! I'm keen to see how well all you guys have done this year :D

All the best for 2018! :beer: :T _party_ _party_ :T :beer:
:happylove
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  • jimjames
    jimjames Posts: 18,664 Forumite
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    For savings I think I'm averaging around 4.5% this year on around £15k
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • YorkshireBoy
    YorkshireBoy Posts: 31,541 Forumite
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    Not as much as I made in 2016 (or 2015 for that matter)!
  • Savings income is WAY down, because it's being moved into S&S ISA and dealing
  • B_G_B
    B_G_B Posts: 502 Forumite
    This will be the first year in a while where savings interest is behind inflation for me. This is on a fairly large balance of which ~£30K will be spent on home improvements in the first half of 2018.
  • Unfortunately my interest spreadsheet works April to April for each tab!

    Can I take the opportunity to wish everyone a Happy and very Healthy 2018.
  • Alexland
    Alexland Posts: 10,183 Forumite
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    Not much in savings just the various 5% small accounts for rainy day cash and some from the joint Santander 123. Probably a few hundred quid interest certainly below my personal savings allowance.

    Cashback has been much better we have probably made a couple of thousand each. In particular Nutmeg and Moneyfarm signup bonuses, bank account switching, credit cards and insurance cashback.

    Alex
  • surreysaver
    surreysaver Posts: 4,814 Forumite
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    Over the last 12 months I've earnt about £2,700, but that includes switching bonuses, interest saved on my offset mortgage and interest on ISAs and normal savings accounts, as well as cashback and mucking about with the higher-paying current accounts
    I consider myself to be a male feminist. Is that allowed?
  • LXdaddy
    LXdaddy Posts: 693 Forumite
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    Between my accounts, my OH's accounts and our joint accounts during 2017 we've been paid a little over £5,000 in interest.

    ~ £1,600 tax free (from National Savings)
    ~ £3,400 gross (from a range of interest paying current accounts, regular saving accounts and a P2P account)

    My OH won't need to pay tax on hers but my share will probably be over £1,000 so some tax to be deducted.
  • Sea_Shell
    Sea_Shell Posts: 10,025 Forumite
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    Between us we've managed £2950 in interest, and £550 in Cashback etc. That's a little low, as we've been moving quite a bit into RS's, which only pay out interest annually, so not accounted for yet.

    I could get really technical and accrue it monthly on a spreadsheet, but I'll just wait until it's payable.

    March 18 should be a bumper month!!!!
    How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 2.60% of current retirement "pot" (as at end May 2025)
  • Wow some of you have done incredibly well compared to my measly £100! Thanks for all the responses, it's really enoutraging me to try much harder this year :T

    And again, a Happy New Year to you all! :beer:
    :happylove
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