The "Save £12k in 2023" Thread!

Suffolk_lass

enthusiasticsaver said:

Van_Girl said:

Declaring £2339.72 for August due to savings accounts maturing. Next month will be higher as I have a missed SalSac pension payment due in. Looking like I'll be about £175 short of target by Dec though. I'd like to think I can make it up but honestly, all renewals are coming in higher than predicted, even though I thought I'd left plenty of slack in the pots- e.g. car and home ins are rocketing. But it is what it is, I know I'm lucky to be able to save what I do.

Just thinking - is there anyone else who could volunteer to update the spreadsheet for SF while she is still trying to get back on top of things? I'm not sure how it all works? If there was a way of transferring everyone's previous monthly updates to me, I'd be happy to get the spreadsheet up to date?

I have messaged SF to offer to take over as she has a lot going on at the moment. She would need to add me as an editor as at the moment I just have viewing privileges. Will see what she says. 

@Van_Girl and @enthusiasticsaver I have done the same, and messaged her to remind her on another platform. She is moving house at the moment so I don't want to ask again for the timebeing. The other thing we three could do is take a copy of the google sheet so far and share it (privately) and take about 9 pages each and go through them and pick up all the reports. It would miss everyone who only submitted a form but would pick up many, and make the task of picking up the residual forms much less daunting. None of us can see the forms without her sharing them of course. We could only share the google-sheet by sharing someone's drive unless we set up a dummy one (unless one of you knows otherwise)

enthusiasticsaver

Suffolk_lass said:

enthusiasticsaver said:

Van_Girl said:

Declaring £2339.72 for August due to savings accounts maturing. Next month will be higher as I have a missed SalSac pension payment due in. Looking like I'll be about £175 short of target by Dec though. I'd like to think I can make it up but honestly, all renewals are coming in higher than predicted, even though I thought I'd left plenty of slack in the pots- e.g. car and home ins are rocketing. But it is what it is, I know I'm lucky to be able to save what I do.

Just thinking - is there anyone else who could volunteer to update the spreadsheet for SF while she is still trying to get back on top of things? I'm not sure how it all works? If there was a way of transferring everyone's previous monthly updates to me, I'd be happy to get the spreadsheet up to date?

I have messaged SF to offer to take over as she has a lot going on at the moment. She would need to add me as an editor as at the moment I just have viewing privileges. Will see what she says. 

@Van_Girl and @enthusiasticsaver I have done the same, and messaged her to remind her on another platform. She is moving house at the moment so I don't want to ask again for the timebeing. The other thing we three could do is take a copy of the google sheet so far and share it (privately) and take about 9 pages each and go through them and pick up all the reports. It would miss everyone who only submitted a form but would pick up many, and make the task of picking up the residual forms much less daunting. None of us can see the forms without her sharing them of course. We could only share the google-sheet by sharing someone's drive unless we set up a dummy one (unless one of you knows otherwise)

That sounds like a plan but I wasn’t aware we could make a copy of a sheet we only had viewing rights to? We could give it a go. 

enthusiasticsaver

Suffolk_lass said:

enthusiasticsaver said:

Van_Girl said:

Declaring £2339.72 for August due to savings accounts maturing. Next month will be higher as I have a missed SalSac pension payment due in. Looking like I'll be about £175 short of target by Dec though. I'd like to think I can make it up but honestly, all renewals are coming in higher than predicted, even though I thought I'd left plenty of slack in the pots- e.g. car and home ins are rocketing. But it is what it is, I know I'm lucky to be able to save what I do.

Just thinking - is there anyone else who could volunteer to update the spreadsheet for SF while she is still trying to get back on top of things? I'm not sure how it all works? If there was a way of transferring everyone's previous monthly updates to me, I'd be happy to get the spreadsheet up to date?

I have messaged SF to offer to take over as she has a lot going on at the moment. She would need to add me as an editor as at the moment I just have viewing privileges. Will see what she says. 

@Van_Girl and @enthusiasticsaver I have done the same, and messaged her to remind her on another platform. She is moving house at the moment so I don't want to ask again for the timebeing. The other thing we three could do is take a copy of the google sheet so far and share it (privately) and take about 9 pages each and go through them and pick up all the reports. It would miss everyone who only submitted a form but would pick up many, and make the task of picking up the residual forms much less daunting. None of us can see the forms without her sharing them of course. We could only share the google-sheet by sharing someone's drive unless we set up a dummy one (unless one of you knows otherwise)

I have managed to make a copy of the sheet as @Suffolk_lass suggested.   If either of you want to give me a hand send me  a PM as I think I need your email address to share it?  In the meantime I will try and update as best I can over the next week or so and then post a link on the first page.  

@slowlyfading I do hope you are ok with us taking it over.  It is done with the best of intentions and hope you are doing ok. 


THE LINK TO THE COPY OF THE NEW SPREADSHEET COPIED FROM SF  IS  BELOW. @Suffolk_lass and I will share the updating and thankfully as only 30 pages to the thread it should not take too long to catch up.  

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ziSTjqdoHZXi0yo3qq6SvVfShhaO8hSd_h0-YTfDfrg/edit?usp=sharing

enthusiasticsaver

Morning to  all savers.  

As SF hasn't been able to update the spreadsheet for savers since February @Suffolk_lass and myself are going through the thread page by page between us and have set up a copy of the spreadsheet (link in post above).  Please be patient while we catch up and if you have not been posting due to the lack of updates please feel free to do so now.  Just a reminder we do not have the form updates so all we are relying on are the posts on the thread. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ziSTjqdoHZXi0yo3qq6SvVfShhaO8hSd_h0-YTfDfrg/edit?usp=sharing

Merlin's_Beard

enthusiasticsaver said:

Morning to  all savers.  

As SF hasn't been able to update the spreadsheet for savers since February @Suffolk_lass and myself are going through the thread page by page between us and have set up a copy of the spreadsheet (link in post above).  Please be patient while we catch up and if you have not been posting due to the lack of updates please feel free to do so now.  Just a reminder we do not have the form updates so all we are relying on are the posts on the thread. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ziSTjqdoHZXi0yo3qq6SvVfShhaO8hSd_h0-YTfDfrg/edit?usp=sharing

Is there anything other savers can do to help? e.g. collect our own updates into one post? Or would that make it more confusing?

Suffolk_lass

Merlin's_Beard said:

enthusiasticsaver said:

Morning to  all savers.  

As SF hasn't been able to update the spreadsheet for savers since February @Suffolk_lass and myself are going through the thread page by page between us and have set up a copy of the spreadsheet (link in post above).  Please be patient while we catch up and if you have not been posting due to the lack of updates please feel free to do so now.  Just a reminder we do not have the form updates so all we are relying on are the posts on the thread. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ziSTjqdoHZXi0yo3qq6SvVfShhaO8hSd_h0-YTfDfrg/edit?usp=sharing

Is there anything other savers can do to help? e.g. collect our own updates into one post? Or would that make it more confusing?

@Merlin's_Beard That would be great - we will still go through the pages but it is a great way to check

enthusiasticsaver

The copy Spreadsheet has been updated and should be up to date now. 

I don't have any of the forms submitted so have gone through the thread updating from posts.  Please let me know if I have missed anything. 

Van_Girl

@enthusiasticsaver @Suffolk_lass - you've done that in record time, sorry I've only just picked this up!

Thanks so much for sorting, it's very much appreciated

Gem-gem

No. 5 reporting £354 for August. 

This is made up from interest. 

Had a big medical bill this month, so happy to have a positive amount saved. 

@enthusiasticsaver and @Suffolk_lass thank you for picking up the reins to this challenge. 

Merlin's_Beard

Thanks to all three of you for taking this one, and that was some speedy typing to get everything sorted in one day! Looks fab to see everyone's progress so far.