The "Save 12k in 2021" Thread!

robadger

#55 submitting forms for April and May. Apologies for the late response. April was unexpectedly spendier than planned so a bit demotivating! June's looking expensive, but at least I know in advance. 

*little.squirrel*

Hi everyone, I don't post every often but I've been following this thread for the last few years and it has helped immensely with motivating me to save. I'm having to drop out this year though, because we have just had an offer accepted on a house! I am intending to have some savings again by the end of the year but nowhere near the 13K I was hoping to achieve. I'll be back for 2022 though, I'll need to get that emergency fund filled quickly.

george4064

Moneybear said:

I purchased my first ever car this weekend so sadly will not have any savings to add to this month.
Do I need to report £0 on the form? 

It’s down to you really, but I would think the spreadsheet would look slightly different if you reported £0 vs not reporting anything for May.

If you didn’t submit the form for May, your May figure would simply be blank. Whereas if you submitted £0, it should show £0 in the cell for May.

If you do decide to submit £0, might be worth adding a note to your submission form confirming that you are indeed confirming you saved £0 that month. 

All in all, it doesn’t really matter since it’s either blank or 0!

Jellybaby

Morning all, #9 reporting in with £1,513.00 for May.  A good bit less than I planned but had forgotten three birthdays were 'big birthdays' this month so involved a good bit more for gifts and eating out!   I'll submit form now so I don't forget

Karen's_girl

Good morning, am a bit early reporting this but I have got paid today, so I (#22) am declaring £1,000 for June. I am saving hard towards a deposit/purchasing costs for a property - a great motivation.

EeeJay

£1150 for me in May... unfortunately, I smashed my induction hob, so will have to get a new one and have it fitted, hence the slightly lower figure than normal 😭.

Keep going everyone! X

Sandyra

Earlier post than usual because payday falls on bank holiday, plus my side hustle has paid. So I spent half 😅 and saved half. £1500 for May.

Thanks for updating slowlyfading

#32

SuperLooperSaver

Thanks @Suffolk_lass!
I'll submit the 3 forms today. It's looking like about 200 for March, 700 for April -  which includes some ever decreasing interest! - and 300 for May.  Finances are a bit different with a baby!

Keep up the savings motivation everyone.

Xenon

# 37 Xenon
May £1084
Mortgage Deposit/Costs £144,862

ForestBluebells

#21 reporting £1072.18 for may. Disappointed with that, I did withdraw £300 to get a fence built so total is lower and the actual growth of my accounts doesn’t reflect the amount saved, I guess a drop in stock value perhaps as my savings are currently targeted a lot on boosting additional pension savings. 

I have more earnings from this month to save but will lump it into next month’s total as I haven’t worked out the balance to move yet. 

Hopefully back on track next month to boost savings more.