"The Save £12k in 2024" challenge

KeepOnKnitting

After a couple of years of absence, I'd like to return to the fold please. Put me down for £3k please, which must be on top of my normal mortgage and loan repayments. 

James240

Hiya could you put me down for £10k please

D0lphine

Hi, please put me down for £12k

steves_uk

Thanks for setting up a new thread for 2024 @enthusiasticsaver and @Suffolk_lass. Please sign me up for £20k which will be more than I’ve saved before but will give me something lofty to aim for!

Something I’ve been pondering - I work in software engineering and could potentially make this reporting process much more self sufficient if it would help? I kept meaning to message @slowlyfading to offer my support as I bet the original process was quite a time hog! Please do message me if it would be any help.

Stanleymp

Hi, first time doing this. Can you put me down for 12k please. 

CreditCardJunkie

Hi can you pop me in for 12k again please? I was well on target last year until july/Aug where we decided to get rid of our lease cars and use our savings to buy cars outright. This pretty much depleted all of our 2023 savings and we haven't been good at saving since so can't wait to get back on track!

george4064

steves_uk said:

Thanks for setting up a new thread for 2024 @enthusiasticsaver and @Suffolk_lass. Please sign me up for £20k which will be more than I’ve saved before but will give me something lofty to aim for!

Something I’ve been pondering - I work in software engineering and could potentially make this reporting process much more self sufficient if it would help? I kept meaning to message @slowlyfading to offer my support as I bet the original process was quite a time hog! Please do message me if it would be any help.

I think some automation could be applied here to make things easier. Something like;

1. People enter their username, challenger number, which month and the amount saved in a Google form.
2. That info gets dumped in a non-editable and/or hidden tab
3. Another sheet contains a list of all the people and uses a VLookup formula (or something similar) to grab the respective monthly saved amounts from the data in the hidden tab.

Manual updates can still be made, but that would make updates automatic 99% of the time

enthusiasticsaver

george4064 said:

steves_uk said:

Thanks for setting up a new thread for 2024 @enthusiasticsaver and @Suffolk_lass. Please sign me up for £20k which will be more than I’ve saved before but will give me something lofty to aim for!

Something I’ve been pondering - I work in software engineering and could potentially make this reporting process much more self sufficient if it would help? I kept meaning to message @slowlyfading to offer my support as I bet the original process was quite a time hog! Please do message me if it would be any help.

I think some automation could be applied here to make things easier. Something like;

1. People enter their username, challenger number, which month and the amount saved in a Google form.
2. That info gets dumped in a non-editable and/or hidden tab
3. Another sheet contains a list of all the people and uses a VLookup formula (or something similar) to grab the respective monthly saved amounts from the data in the hidden tab.

Manual updates can still be made, but that would make updates automatic 99% of the time

That sounds quite complicated to set up and beyond my capabilities I am afraid without some serious reading up of how to use Lookup etc. When SL and I took it over last year we just read the thread and edited manually and with two of us I didn’t find it too time consuming as I have two monitors so the thread on one and spreadsheet on the other. It also means we read and comment on the thread which may not be the case if totally automated. 

MrFrugalFever

Slowfading had a google sheets doc for this years, is there one for 2024?

#32 - £5,000 for 2024 for me please, some big expense next year so £12k is going to be out of the question

enthusiasticsaver

MrFrugalFever said:

Slowfading had a google sheets doc for this years, is there one for 2024?

#32 - £5,000 for 2024 for me please, some big expense next year so £12k is going to be out of the question

The link is on page 1.

I have had a number of people requesting sharing rights to the sheet which I am refusing. People  can use the link on page one to view the sheet. The only editors will be myself and Suffolk Lass.