The Save £12k in 2025 challenge

steves_uk

Hello all, happy April! 

Number 53 here to report:
- £4,670 for March
- £2,455 for April

March was a bumper month as I've been stoozing a credit card into premium bonds and got to scrape out the winnings plus some surplus (£2,165) into my ISA before the tax year end.

KeepOnKnitting

Coming in to post my April savings. I'm being stricter going forward and only counting actual savings, not the things that would be saved if they weren't being spent on a goal in the same month, as I have declared myself a cheat over the special holiday.

So #33 declaring £324.46 for March.

April should be better as I will have 2 overtime days paid, plus a couple of weeks of holiday that is already saved for, so I won't be spending on supermarket or petrol to and from work.

Suffolk_lass

I have just updated the conditional formatting on the spreadsheet - just to explain - 

• dark green if you are at 1/3rd of the year (end of April) and at or ahead of your total for this stage
• light green if you are at or ahead of 25% of the year (for those of us who post the month in arrears)
• amber if you have posted anything above £0 but under 25% of your target, and
• red if you are at £0 or have not posted.

The remaining 5 who have not updated at all will be removed when I get back from my (shorter trip) for the weekend, if there is still radio silence.

So also to clarify, neither of us are updating the spreadsheet now until next week, due to hols!

Cassingtonbear

Just made the down payment on a new house. All my savings have gone towards that. 

We will need to pay two mortgages for a while. Roughly £600 per month on our current place and now £1500 per month on the new place. The new place will be ready to move into summer 2026. We will sell our current place hopefully spring 2026. That will provide money to help bring down the mortgage on the new place and decorate it.

So there will be about £2100 per month going towards mortgages for a while, and varying amounts extra per month to start rebuilding retirement savings.

TallGirl

Update for March

#49  £832

penny_less

#60 recording £240.48 for March please 

t2rry

#50 t2rry reporting £1,570 for April please

Thriftymissus

#46 Thriftymissus £216

this is my monthly pension payment and it needs to go up, big time. 

bsms1147

#16 - £300.81 for March

Went on a UK holiday to the sea this month which was planned, but on top of this some big and unexpected costs meant this was a much more expensive month than expected - car needed work, and then it broke down for an unrelated reason and needed a new battery. Some urgent healthcare-related costs too, and combined with losses on my investments means I was lucky to end the month with a positive.

New month, new tax year too - hopefully better!

Sandyra

#48 here, March savings are £1600. Thank you for updating.