The "Save 12k in 2021" Thread!

Sandyra

#32 here, reporting £500 for June. I need to reign in the spending and eating out. 

sonas_baby

No. 41 with £521.18 saved for June form submitted 

md458

#49 here have reported £1000 for June, also filled the forms for the previous months where i hadn't entered info 😳

Wentthedaywell?

£4,000 saved (including shares increase) in June, bringing my total to £17,000. I had a target just till June of £12,000 as I thought I might fully retire then. I'm still plodding on and I think I'll still be working till the end of the year, so I'll unofficially increase my target for all of 2021 to £24,000.

It's more of a subject for the pensions thread really, but I do need to seriously consider when to let go of work. I don't even enjoy it now, but the irreversibility is scary and lockdown and WFH have further muddied the waters.

greent

£3000 in total added to regular savers/ Prem bonds/ S&S ISA/ Share plan. Seems to have been a decent growth in value of S&S ISA and our SIPPS this month, too but I might take account of such things at year end. 

Form sent

slowlyfading

Spreadsheet updated

kev2009

Hi,

#003 declaring £500 for July.

Form has been submitted also.

Many thanks

Kev

Merlin's_Beard

£2342.20 thanks to LISA bonus. Happy with that, back on track for my total this year

becky_rtw

Thanks for updating @slowlyfading really appreciate the push this challenge has given me this year. 

Suffolk_lass

Wentthedaywell? said:

£4,000 saved (including shares increase) in June, bringing my total to £17,000. I had a target just till June of £12,000 as I thought I might fully retire then. I'm still plodding on and I think I'll still be working till the end of the year, so I'll unofficially increase my target for all of 2021 to £24,000.

It's more of a subject for the pensions thread really, but I do need to seriously consider when to let go of work. I don't even enjoy it now, but the irreversibility is scary and lockdown and WFH have further muddied the waters.

I really sympathise with this @Wentthedaywell? - I think I defined myself by the work I did and felt a real responsibility for it and what I delivered. It used to wake me in the early hours and it was all consuming. I was amazed. I was quite ill for a month imemediately after stopping as the adrenaline I had been running on disappeared and I caught a nasty virus (not Covid) that left me in bed for nearly a fortnight. It took me very little time to stop feeling like that. The freedom that retirement offered us was huge. We are both active in our community and have a range of hobbies (some long established and independent of each other, one joint one is new). We can also live on a lot less than I was expecting. I still save, because we can, but we also spend when we want to.

We have a second hand motorhome after carefully considering for many years whether to convert a van ourselves (we are both quite handy), it popped up and we took a look, and bought it. Not everyone's thing but a revelation to us. We have done a lot of work to make sure it is dry, safe and all works as it should - at the moment it's a god-send, popping into the not- too-far countryside and taking our bikes we are exploring the countryside in a way we never have. Our big trips are not possible or desirable for the timebeing but this compensates and is a joy. 

I cannot stress how much I recommend stopping work too much - you won't regret it, honestly. Life is too short, and can change in an instant. You have worked towards this, I really urge you to go for it. The benefits are huge