The "Save 12k in 2020" Thread!

delta13

£937.84 saved for October, form updated.
I've beat my £10k target (!), so increased it to £11k. I know Christmas is coming but I'm going to be optimistic and hopeful that I'll achieve it before the end of the year

Marina1506

Number #52 declaring £4973.07 for October (these are actually my savings for July-October), form updated. Went off the boil savings-wise for a few months due to house spends and a couple of mini breaks in the UK.  However, I have continued to add to my regular savers and received a tax rebate from HMRC last month. Probably won't meet my target with Xmas coming up, but never mind.

Thank you Slowly for running this challenge! 

geoffers4

Reporting £949.15 for October. This month we've had the expense of unblocking drains - lovely. And the dog was under the knife at the vets. The car's annual MOT and service. Signing up for a mindfulness course - to try to stay sane during these unusual and worrying times. And a rare trip out to a cafe during a weekend away in Scotland. So taken together, that's put a dint in the savings for this month. 
We're off to Devon now for a cosy week away from everything - I haven't had a proper break from work since February, so I'm looking forward to it!

Karen's_girl

#48 declaring £200 for October. Will definitely be doing next year's challenge, as it is a great motivator to save as much as I can.

Gizmo70

Number #25 reporting for October. Thankfully my weekly rolling work contracts is still rolling, so I have managed to save £2,510 for the month. It also means I've bumped my target from 10.5k up to 12k.

Merlin's_Beard

£267.15 for this month.
Combination of the car breaking and the cat needing a tune up (though very grateful it was that way round!), plus holding deposits for new rented home.

george4064

george4064 said:

#21 reporting £1,414 for September

Nothing major to announce other than OH and myself bought a car! Cost an arm & a leg but its nice to (what feels like) finally putting your hard earnt savings towards something tangible that you can feel proud of. We (okay mainly me!) put a lot of research into which car to get, especially since this was our first big purchase together (I currently own the flat we live in, we plan to buy together when we decide to move up the ladder).

I stopped my AVCs because as part of my company being acquired I will be moving to the new company's benefits system sometime next year which includes better DC pension terms (hooray!), effectively the employer matched contributions is better and there is no age restrictions as per my current (soon to be old) pension arrangements. Once I move onto the new pension system I shall be setting my contribution accordingly to yield the best employer contribution, I'll be able to get the same overall contribution rate in the new system but it will cost me a lot less as the company will pay a lot of it which is good news.

No new S&S ISA contributions, however I am very much enjoying watching the dividends being re-invested particularly in my UK holdings. Snowball effect and all that! 

I also launched my own financial wellbeing website, welcome any users on here to check it out and I hope you will enjoy reading my content; https://www.amorge.co.uk/

#21 reporting £1,098 for October.

Nothing major to report, just continue to shuffle savings around to run away from rates dropping everywhere!

slowlyfading

Spreadsheet updated - on time for once

Happy Halloween

ForestBluebells

slowlyfading said:

Spreadsheet updated - on time for once

Happy Halloween

Sorry 🙈 late again. Reporting a bit of a disappointing £1,397.34 for October.  I took off the money I spent from my savings to pay for vet bills (some more due next month but thankfully my dog is ok) I had been putting money aside for unexpected bills anyway so it was always there for this if needed. Just generally disappointed as I spent over budget in a few areas, I’ll try better next month although ive started buying Christmas gifts now so probably will be an expensive few months. 

juststuff123

#47 Reporting a saving loss this month of £287 - a tumble in the stock market has caused the dip. I'll just have to cut back next month to make up for it.