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#10 declaring £287.37 for March.
Less than I hoped but I paid holiday balances.
Declutter 2024 :277
Save £12k: #47 £4757.58/£12000
Grocery challenge: £2080 pa, bulk buy £520 pa1 -
#17 t2rry coming in very quickly with an additional £140 please (for April)
Saved from car insurance budget so straight into savings!
Debt Free I FFEF I Building Savings I 2026 Plan:- 25/26 Pension £3,100/£3,100
- Regular Savings £3,690/£6,900
- Slush Fund £5,550/£10,000
Save £12k in 2026 - #17 - £12,340/£20,000 (62%)1 -
only £170 needed to do that @t2rry!
Save £12k in 2026 #2 I have banked £2870.61 so far, against a £10k target The 2026 Save £12k in 2026 thread is here
OS Grocery Challenge in 2026 I am sticking with a £3000 annual budget for 2026 - currently £568.34 and most of my March purchasing made
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the grow your own in 2026 discussion thread
My keep within our budget diary is here0 -
I've updated the conditional formatting a bit, so dark green is 25% or over, light green if you are within a twelfth of that, amber for anything positive up to a sixth of the year and red for zero. Only two of these but @Guinnessdrinker and @James240 I will remove you at the end of the month if no word (zero due to a difficult start is all I need to keep you in)
Save £12k in 2026 #2 I have banked £2870.61 so far, against a £10k target The 2026 Save £12k in 2026 thread is here
OS Grocery Challenge in 2026 I am sticking with a £3000 annual budget for 2026 - currently £568.34 and most of my March purchasing made
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the grow your own in 2026 discussion thread
My keep within our budget diary is here2 -
#19 reporting for March
-406.54
More vet bills….😕 But, on the bright side, at least we have the savings to pay for it 🙂
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#7 reporting £799.29 for March. Thanks for running and updating this thread.
It is the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish. Tolkien.Save 12k in 2025 No 18 365 1p challenge 2025 No 21 -
Hi savers and apologies for my absence but I have been in China for a few weeks and only just got back. I have jet lag so up at some ungodly hour and thought I would pop on to the forum. As always @Suffolk_lass seems to have kept on top of everything anyway. Some great savings updates on here for the first three months of the year.
I have a reasonably healthy update for April mainly because of interest plus because China is now over and paid for I can look forward although we have another holiday mid May. Not so far as China though 😀
So Aprils update is £2500 making it £5000 saved so far.
This £2500 is made up of £450 for regular savers as usual plus £50 for my personal savings account. Interest on my internet saver and cash isa is paid out in March so this amounts to £1265 in total. I have also moved over £735 to even the amount up to our joint savings account. There is still a healthy surplus in our current account so this may be added to later on in the month or I may leave until after our May holiday.
Good to be back.
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Save £12k in 2026 Challenge £12000/£7500
365 day 1p Challenge 2026 £667.95/£296.46
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#24 reporting £1500 for April
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#26 reporting £1386.04 for March
Nurse striving for financial freedom2 -
#36 reporting an additional £150 and 80p for April. I recently switched back to nationwide and opened their new 4% single access ISA. I popped the rest of my original savings I had in my DRS with NatWest and decided to add an extra £150. The 80p came from roundups that nationwide offer! 😊
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