The "Save 12k in 2022" Thread!

EeeJay

#35 with £1,170 for March. Had to take the kitty to the vet after he picked a fight with Godzilla (our name for the big bad tomcat who invades our garden).

Hoping for a better month in April with no feline disasters.

Wentthedaywell?

£4,500 for March, but three grand of that was shares creeping up again after a big fall.

I have spent over £300 on supermarket shopping though. I live alone and I haven’t bought any alcohol or much meat. My usual monthly bill is just under £200; it really does feel that prices are shooting up

madhatter83

£1700 for Feb, £1900 for march. 

60 hour weeks at work - living at home with parents with minimal costs to help us save.

Savings might dry up a bit soon as we are in the process of buying our first time home (well flat) offer accepted, and 3 weeks into mortgage application with property valuation booked for the 4th of April. 

Will still report figures, and hope too make overpayments on mortgage from these savings. (122k mortgage fixed for ten years @ 2.59%)

TallGirl

Been keeping up with my £1000 savings this years. Ditched my two regular savers Santa and 1stDirect in favour of £500 into Premium Bounds. Recon I'll chance it as the interest was so small on those it could no longer see the point. 

george4064

Reporting -£689 for March.
 
Figure is negative this month because I had a lovely week's skiing earlier in March, and paid for another mini trip for April, so its nice to know its going to things that make me happy! (holidays) 

Few (some big) milestones achieved through March:

• Student loan is finally paid off, I was a lucky one in a Type 1 plan. My partner has Type 2 and I know how crazy the sums are!
• Stoozed credit card is paid off in full, as planned which was good!
• Improved the interest rate on emergency fund from 0.84% to 1.5%, every little helps!

Off to submit my form now!
  

Merlin's_Beard

£1522.98 for March, with the caveat that I've been spending out of other savings because I reserved a newbuild house that's due to complete in July.

How I'll deal with that going forward I don't know - at the minute I have designated "deposit" and "fees" pots that costs are coming out of so it's staying separate, but I'm likely to have a quite poor year savings-wise once things really get swinging. (but  that's fine, this is what I've been saving for and once house is in with the basics I can start cracking on with long term savings!)

Also - has anyone else dropped off the accumulated totals excel sheet? My 2022 totals are still on there but my 2018-2021 progress has disappeared!

enthusiasticsaver

Dreadful month for savings.  Declaring only £250 into my regular saver for no 36.  My husbands car was written off earlier on this month by a crazy driver who did not see the traffic coming to a standstill in front of him so wrote off our car and his own due to our tow bar destroying his  engine due to him ploughing into us at god knows what speed. My husband and his friends in the car at the time were lucky to come away without injury.   We had planned on replacing the car anyway in the next year but still ended up using £14k of our savings  in addition to the insurance payout which came really quickly thankfully.  We also had two birthdays, mothers day and three weekends away so our holidays and gifts budget and eating out budget went over this month. Of course we have been saving for those things so cannot really grumble as the money was there so much like @Merlin's_Beard we are spending from designated savings at the moment as we had a car replacement pot and pots for gifts, eating out and holidays. 

george4064

Merlin's_Beard said:

£1522.98 for March, with the caveat that I've been spending out of other savings because I reserved a newbuild house that's due to complete in July.

How I'll deal with that going forward I don't know - at the minute I have designated "deposit" and "fees" pots that costs are coming out of so it's staying separate, but I'm likely to have a quite poor year savings-wise once things really get swinging. (but  that's fine, this is what I've been saving for and once house is in with the basics I can start cracking on with long term savings!)

Also - has anyone else dropped off the accumulated totals excel sheet? My 2022 totals are still on there but my 2018-2021 progress has disappeared!

Still showing fine for me… Assuming you the mean the last link the the OP?

enthusiasticsaver said:

Dreadful month for savings.  Declaring only £250 into my regular saver for no 36.  My husbands car was written off earlier on this month by a crazy driver who did not see the traffic coming to a standstill in front of him so wrote off our car and his own due to our tow bar destroying his  engine due to him ploughing into us at god knows what speed. My husband and his friends in the car at the time were lucky to come away without injury.   We had planned on replacing the car anyway in the next year but still ended up using £14k of our savings  in addition to the insurance payout which came really quickly thankfully.  We also had two birthdays, mothers day and three weekends away so our holidays and gifts budget and eating out budget went over this month. Of course we have been saving for those things so cannot really grumble as the money was there so much like @Merlin's_Beard we are spending from designated savings at the moment as we had a car replacement pot and pots for gifts, eating out and holidays. 

Most importantly glad to hear that your husband and his friends are okay. 

I always find those situations very dangerous, especially if the traffic keeps speeding up and down again, like a slinky. I always try to remember to put my hazard lights on in those situations, maybe your husband did but still doesn’t change the fact that the person behind was at fault.

lantanna

#9 £235 for March, moving house is keeping my real savings low this year

delta13

Late for February as well, sorry been very busy and have had Covid on top of that.

February total - £961.97
March Total - £1959.00

A much strong March thanks to a pay increase and bonus from work, despite spending a lot on mine and OH's anniversary. I expect it to be the most I save in a month for the rest of the year.