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Fiver Friday Challenge 2026

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  • Dizzycap
    Dizzycap Posts: 2,065 Ambassador
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    # No.5 Declaring £25 for January - 5 Fridays for January 2026  <3YTD Total: £25 / £230
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       Personal MSE 2026 Money Saving Challenges:
    ~ NSD 2026 Challenge May 12/20 (6)
    # Regular Savers 2026- New 9/12 - Total: 31 (6)
    # No.12 Save £2 a Day 2026 £364.98 / £730 (6)
    # No.2 Save 1p A Day Challenge 2026 £355.02 / £667.95 (6)
    # No.4 Save £12k in 2026 - £8492.37 / £12,000 (6)
    # £10-a-Day Challenge 2026 - £710.56 / £1825 (6)
    # No.8 Sealed Pot Challenge 19 (22/10) 426 / £400 (6)
    # No.27 - Top Up EP 2 £1255 / £2880 (6).
    # Make £2026 in 2026 - Completed
    Motto: 'SAVE before you spend on Non-essentials' 
  • Suffolksue
    Suffolksue Posts: 2,094 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Please may I join again 
    I joined v late in the year and kept forgetting,
    aim to do it properly in 2026 
  • lastbigspender
    lastbigspender Posts: 213 Forumite
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    edited 30 December 2025 at 10:38AM
    Coxy11 said:
    Reserved for list of participants:

    1. Coxy11
    2. Matron_Midge
    3. greent
    4. outofthevisciouscircle
    5. Dizzycap



    Hi Coxy11

    Would there be a updated list so I can include my number in my sig?

    Thanks

    OD £2,500 cleared onto Money Transfer

    MT 0% 20 months Jan26 £1,700 / £2,575

    No. #20 - Save 1p A Day 2026 £315.96 /  £667.95

    No. #6 - Fiver Friday Challenge for 2026 £270 / £260 - COMPLETE 

    Invested £310 into Vanguard FTSE all world
  • Coxy11
    Coxy11 Posts: 6,613 Forumite
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    Hi and welcome to @lastbigspender and welcome back @Suffolksue - you are numbers 6 and 7. 

    Great to get started already @Dizzycap x

    I lost yesterday in bed to a migraine - at least I didn’t spend any money 😂

    Have a good day all
    Coxy xx
    Cross-stitch WIP: Haberdashery Shop Fiver Friday challenge 2026 founding member 😊 Read 26 books in 2026 15/26 Currently
    reading When we were silent by Fiona McPhillips (16)
  • lastbigspender
    lastbigspender Posts: 213 Forumite
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    edited 30 December 2025 at 3:00PM
    Coxy11 said:
    Hi and welcome to @lastbigspender and welcome back @Suffolksue - you are numbers 6 and 7. 

    Great to get started already @Dizzycap x

    I lost yesterday in bed to a migraine - at least I didn’t spend any money 😂

    Have a good day all
    Coxy xx
    Thank Coxy11

    Hope you are feeling better today 😄😄

    £5 added today - that's the start of it 👍👍

    OD £2,500 cleared onto Money Transfer

    MT 0% 20 months Jan26 £1,700 / £2,575

    No. #20 - Save 1p A Day 2026 £315.96 /  £667.95

    No. #6 - Fiver Friday Challenge for 2026 £270 / £260 - COMPLETE 

    Invested £310 into Vanguard FTSE all world
  • sams247
    sams247 Posts: 1,431 Forumite
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    Hi, please may I join?  I did this for a while in '25 but life n stuff derailed so I am back here hopeful once again.  First pay - 2nd Jan
      To those who are given much, much is expected
        £2026 in 2026. Total thus far. £7.30
      1. Coxy11
        Coxy11 Posts: 6,613 Forumite
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        Welcome back @sams247 👋

        Well done for getting started @lastbigspender. All totals are update on page one each week. 

        Unfortunately I don’t feel any better - think it might be Covid - we are meant to be going out to the pub later with friends so I’ll get a test ☹️ 

        Happy New Year to you all
        Coxy xx
        Cross-stitch WIP: Haberdashery Shop Fiver Friday challenge 2026 founding member 😊 Read 26 books in 2026 15/26 Currently
        reading When we were silent by Fiona McPhillips (16)
      2. lastbigspender
        lastbigspender Posts: 213 Forumite
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        Happy New Year everyone.

        Really looking forward to this challenge - at the end of the day a fiver is 1 less coffee a week mad the cost of things now.

        @Coxy11 I have had that bug over Christmas so may not be Covid lot of stuff going about 

        OD £2,500 cleared onto Money Transfer

        MT 0% 20 months Jan26 £1,700 / £2,575

        No. #20 - Save 1p A Day 2026 £315.96 /  £667.95

        No. #6 - Fiver Friday Challenge for 2026 £270 / £260 - COMPLETE 

        Invested £310 into Vanguard FTSE all world
      3. Spendless
        Spendless Posts: 25,399 Forumite
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        Can I join please too? I dithered about doing this at the beginning of last year, thought it doesn't matter, I'll just catch up then lost my job in March and it took me till late August to find another, so never started.

        This time I'm prepared to not let 'life' get in the way. I have already moved £5 across into a savings account today.  
      4. greent
        greent Posts: 11,105 Forumite
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        I brought forward a balance of £5.57 left in the account from last year and have now transferred £25 for Jan, so #3 now has a balance of £30.57. 
        I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
        Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
        Net sales 2024: £20

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