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Fiver Friday Challenge 2025

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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,754 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    £10 paid to my Christmas savings today. 
    I won’t manage to pay £5 every week but something is better than nothing. 
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • BadBookkeeper
    BadBookkeeper Posts: 848 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 500 Posts Debt-free and Proud! Name Dropper
    #8. Payday today so sent £20 for 4 Fridays in Feb total in pot now £45 ☺️
    Lightbulb moment - 17/08/2017 £17,033.  DFD 31/7/24 🥳. 

    Round 2 - 8/12/25 £3,660 
  • Coxy11
    Coxy11 Posts: 6,018 Forumite
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    edited 31 January 2025 at 5:44PM
    Hi Friday Savers!

    Well done to everyone for sticking with it through January which seemed to have eleventy billion days.....
     
    I put my final January £5 away today so have a total of £25.
    Well done @beanielou for getting off the mark and to @BadBookkeeper for getting ahead with February's £5s already saved. Great stuff.

    I've been updating the list on Page 1, of everyone's totals. If anything is incorrect, please let me know.
    By my reckoning we have, as a group, saved £268.64 so far which is fab-u-lous.

    Well done everyone and keep going!
    Coxy
    Cross-stitch WIP: Haberdashery Shop Fiver Friday challenge 2026 founding member 😊 Read 26 books in 2026 1/26 Currently reading The Trial by Rob Rinder
  • Matron_Midge
    Matron_Midge Posts: 840 Forumite
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    #2 - another £5 transferred 
  • sams247
    sams247 Posts: 1,367 Forumite
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    #13. and another £5, this time sent to bank savings account.
      To those who are given much, much is expected
        Fiver Friday #8 £5
      1. Coxy11
        Coxy11 Posts: 6,018 Forumite
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        Hello everyone and happy Friday!

        Another £5 in the pot for me today so that’s £30 so far this year. 

        Totals updated up to here 😊 Well done all. 
        Coxy

        Cross-stitch WIP: Haberdashery Shop Fiver Friday challenge 2026 founding member 😊 Read 26 books in 2026 1/26 Currently reading The Trial by Rob Rinder
      2. beanielou
        beanielou Posts: 97,754 Ambassador
        Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
        £5 today. 
        I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

        Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
        "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
        ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.         ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
        One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
      3. Coxy11
        Coxy11 Posts: 6,018 Forumite
        Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Homepage Hero
        Yay! Go @beanielou!

        Cross-stitch WIP: Haberdashery Shop Fiver Friday challenge 2026 founding member 😊 Read 26 books in 2026 1/26 Currently reading The Trial by Rob Rinder
      4. Makingabobor2
        Makingabobor2 Posts: 4,548 Forumite
        1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Photogenic Name Dropper
        #10  £5 added today. This is a great challenge, as its making me remember to save the money every week for my DGS's spending money. Without this, I would probably suddenly realise it is time for their holidays in July, and not have enough money for them.  Then there will be a bit more for the 2 eldest when they get their GCSE results in August. 
        Making the debt go down and savings go up

        LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £27,644....its going down

         Mortgage Free December 9th 2024!          18mths ahead of schedule.  

        Challenges

        EF  £1100/£3000
        .

        Studies/surveys January £14.84

        Decluttering items 1402/        2025.  7/2026
        Books read    23 in 2025.  2026- 1 (target is 52)  
        Jigsaws done  20 in 2025.  2026  

        My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up


      5. Matron_Midge
        Matron_Midge Posts: 840 Forumite
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        #2 another £5 added.
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