The "Save 12k in 2019" Thread

bobobski

Hi all, a very similar month for me to last month - savings of £345 plus my little mortgage overpayment of £6.12

I'd also set aside £100 for some house work and promptly got a bill yesterday that will wipe that out :rotfl: Oh well, at least I was prepared.

Coming up for half way now - I wonder how the warmer weather will affect our savings :cool:

alja

alja wrote: »

Thank you Wanna Bee Free!

I'm very pleased to say that I've saved £900 in May, which is incredible for me and definitely reassuring whilst I'm going through redundancy!

Turns out I actually saved £992 thanks to interest made on one of my accounts! So pleased with that

Suffolk_lass

geoffers4 wrote: »

Off-topic: does anyone know where tara747 has gone? I've noticed on the
totaliser spreadsheet going back to 2012
that tara is 1 of only 2 'ever present' savers from the very start (along with slowlyfading herself)
but she hasn't reported any savings yet this year, despite setting a target.
Tara - please come back!

I noticed she is awol too and has not been in to even look under her userid since 14th Jan

KeepOnKnitting

My savings have been minimal again this month, but in other news I handed in my dissertation! My final essay is due on Monday, and the end of my degree seems to be coming up fast. I am just waiting on some invoices to be able to put in an expenses claim of over £300, which can then go into savings.

geoffers4

Wentthedaywell? wrote: »

we've signed-up to a VPN as I'm increasingly aware of cyber-security risks
Originally posted by geoffers4

Geoffers - could you give a link to that please? I'm interested in finding out more. Thanks!

I went for the 3-year option on this one:
https://nordvpn.com/servers/uk/

Wentthedaywell?

Thanks Geoffers!

bsms1147

Getting there. I've had a much better month than last (I'm not sure why, can't be entirely down to lack of car repairs!?), which takes me to 59.2% of my annual target so far, with 41.7% of the year gone, putting me well on track.

Hope everyone else's savings are going well also!

AlexDee

Reporting £608.35 for May.
Had a very good month of pay with a bunch of overtime which meant I’ve been able to completely replenish savings I spent booking a holiday for later in the year.
So actually managed over a grand this month.

Keep going everyone!!

slowlyfading

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

this is the 7th year I’ve been meaning to ask this so I’m finally getting round to it...

As I understand it this started in 2012 and at the time I assumed the 12k was selected because the year was 20...12. Since anyone could save any amount they wished.

So I thought in the years that followed it’d be save 13k, save 14k so on & so forth .... or any amount you wish (but the title would relate to the year).

So what is it about 12k that stuck?

Initially it was going to do that - go up with the years. However, I had quite a few messages from people saying that saving £13k a year would seem impossible, so I kept it at £12,000 so it's an even £1000 per month. No other reason really!

slowlyfading

Spreadsheet updated