The "Save £12k in 2023" Thread!

enthusiasticsaver

Macsidia said:

What do you get if you win the challenge?

We are all winners here 

enthusiasticsaver

george4064 said:

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george4064 said:

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#7 declaring £4,907.51 for February.

Bonus was paid this month which was the main contributing factor, also recently got engaged with my girlfriend so now have a wedding to plan and budget for. Finally, also landed a new job which means (hopefully) more interesting work, decent pay rise and more opportunities in general!

Deployed some new money to my S&S ISA early in March, but need to keep a relatively high cash balance to account for future expenses mentioned above (plus renovations on the horizon).

Happy saving all!

#7 declaring £356.58 for March.

Wedding costs are starting to take a dent in the savings and have a honeymoon to sort as well! S&S ISA contributions will almost certainly be zero for the foreseeable future, at least the pension conts will keep ticking along in the background.

Here's my April to July's updates - massive thanks to Suffolk_lass and enthusiasticsaver for picking this up!

New job started in June which has been going well so far. Decided to up my pension contributions when sorting out the new one, so that combined with new salary means a sizeable extra amount going in the pension each month.

April - £1,679
May - £1,866
June - £2,093
July - £668

August update will follow in the next few days.

#7 declaring £1,522 for August.

Wow, you are so close to your target.  99.99% with just £1.91 to your £15k target.  Well done. 

enthusiasticsaver

It is pension payday for me so I have shuffled £800 over to my savings accounts for September making a total of £11400.  #8

Spreadsheet updated up to here @Suffolk_lass.  Hope you are doing ok @slowlyfading

Lots of big numbers here and hopefully I will meet my target in October.  I will keep going though. Have a nice day everyone. 

Merlin's_Beard

£861.72 for number 4 for August.

For me this is low, I do not know where the money went - the danger of dribs and drabs!

george4064

enthusiasticsaver said:

george4064 said:

george4064 said:

george4064 said:

george4064 said:

#7 declaring £4,907.51 for February.

Bonus was paid this month which was the main contributing factor, also recently got engaged with my girlfriend so now have a wedding to plan and budget for. Finally, also landed a new job which means (hopefully) more interesting work, decent pay rise and more opportunities in general!

Deployed some new money to my S&S ISA early in March, but need to keep a relatively high cash balance to account for future expenses mentioned above (plus renovations on the horizon).

Happy saving all!

#7 declaring £356.58 for March.

Wedding costs are starting to take a dent in the savings and have a honeymoon to sort as well! S&S ISA contributions will almost certainly be zero for the foreseeable future, at least the pension conts will keep ticking along in the background.

Here's my April to July's updates - massive thanks to Suffolk_lass and enthusiasticsaver for picking this up!

New job started in June which has been going well so far. Decided to up my pension contributions when sorting out the new one, so that combined with new salary means a sizeable extra amount going in the pension each month.

April - £1,679
May - £1,866
June - £2,093
July - £668

August update will follow in the next few days.

#7 declaring £1,522 for August.

Wow, you are so close to your target.  99.99% with just £1.91 to your £15k target.  Well done. 

Thank you! I’m also getting married later this year so been cutting down on holidays (but honeymoon soon!) and saving up for the future expected costs, I expect some lower numbers for the rest of this year and into next as we make the final payments etc.

Owen1991

Seen that you've created a new spreadsheet and I was only submitting via the form so here are my savings if you could update thank you!

#47 - Owen1991

Feb - £1150

Mar - £1400
Apr - £1900
May - £500
Jun - -£1000 (Expensive month)
Jul - £1000
Aug - £800

James240

Well I can save £402 this month.............If the car makes it through the MOT without any problems!  Wont add to figure just yet as MOT is on the 14th! lol

Suffolk_lass

£436.70 for me in August

Spreadsheet already updated (thanks @enthusiasticsaver) so just added mine.

kev2009

Hi,

#003 declaring £500 for September.

I have submitted the form also.

Thanks

Kev

SuperLooperSaver

Thank you enthusiasticsaver and Suffolk_lass for updating the spreadsheet.  I hope you are OK SlowlyFading.

Number 60 here.  Updating for March-August.

March - £408.84
April - £1099.33 (includes interest on savings)
May - £382.30
June - £173.32
July - £286.17
August -  -£801.09 (some unexpected costs and a holiday)

Target is £2,500, so about £200 to go to reach it.  Got some more holidays coming up, and Christmas of course, but hoping to reach my target.