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Fiver Friday Challenge 2026

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  • Dizzycap
    Dizzycap Posts: 1,602 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Second Anniversary Photogenic Debt-free and Proud!
    # No.5 Declaring £25 for January - 5 Fridays for January 2026  <3YTD Total: £25 / £230
    ~ NSD 2026 Challenge February 22/20 (2)
    # No.12 Save £2 a Day 2026 £121.66 / £730 (2)
    # No.2 Save 1p A Day Challenge 2026 £118.34 / £667.95 (2)
    # No.19 52 Week Env Challenge 2026 £260 / £1378 (2)
    # No.4 Save £12k in 2026  £3635.93 / £12,000 (2)
    # No.4 £2 Savers Club 2026 - (25/12 - 24/10) £50 / £200 (2)
    # No.8 Sealed Pot Challenge 19 - 2026 - 24/12 - 24/10 £60+ / £400 (2)
    # Make £2026 in 2026 £1063.98 / £2026 (2)

  • Suffolksue
    Suffolksue Posts: 1,925 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: 149 Forumite
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    edited 30 December 2025 at 9:38AM
    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 £175.00/£2,575 (£2,400)

    No. #20 - Save 1p A Day 2026 £16.53/ £667.95
    No. #6 - Fiver Friday Challenge for 2026 £45/£260

    Invested £175 into Vanguard FTSE all world
  • Coxy11
    Coxy11 Posts: 6,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Homepage Hero
    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 4/26 Currently reading The Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill
  • lastbigspender
    lastbigspender Posts: 149 Forumite
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    edited 30 December 2025 at 2:00PM
    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 £175.00/£2,575 (£2,400)

    No. #20 - Save 1p A Day 2026 £16.53/ £667.95
    No. #6 - Fiver Friday Challenge for 2026 £45/£260

    Invested £175 into Vanguard FTSE all world
  • sams247
    sams247 Posts: 1,368 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Homepage Hero Photogenic
    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
        Fiver Friday #8 £5
      1. Coxy11
        Coxy11 Posts: 6,191 Forumite
        Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Homepage Hero
        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 4/26 Currently reading The Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill
      2. lastbigspender
        lastbigspender Posts: 149 Forumite
        Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
        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 £175.00/£2,575 (£2,400)

        No. #20 - Save 1p A Day 2026 £16.53/ £667.95
        No. #6 - Fiver Friday Challenge for 2026 £45/£260

        Invested £175 into Vanguard FTSE all world
      3. Spendless
        Spendless Posts: 25,075 Forumite
        Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
        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: 11,000 Forumite
        Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
        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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