The 'We're saving for a deposit' thread

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Added £32 to my house savings taking me a little step closer to my £5K target which once my monthly saver money comes out my account on monday I will have reached!:j:j

Louba

Palema wrote: »

Added £32 to my house savings taking me a little step closer to my £5K target which once my monthly saver money comes out my account on monday I will have reached!:j:j

Congratulations, that's great! We've just had confirmation that we should be able to borrow what we will need to buy so now we can start looking properly. very excited!

butterfly72

purplevamp wrote: »

I've been doing quite well on amazon and ebay these last few weeks, but I'll be stopping that for my annual "christmas break" (I don't sell things between mid Dec and Feb as most people have hardly any money left after Christmas :rolleyes:)

I've been selling my old books and CDs on amazon for a few years now and find every January to be one of my best months!! I know, it is strange. I wondered if it was because people are programmed to buy in the jan sales!!?

purplevamp

butterfly - that's quite surprising! But well done for doing well (sprinkle some luck my way please:D) I only started amazon last September so I don't think I had a huge amount of feedback or stock last January.

I've just added my latest amazon payment onto my totals, but it's not enough to bring me up to my target this month ~ I'm £142 short and next month I doubt I'll save much at all, what with Christmas, my works party/dinner, panto and taking my DD to see miley cyrus, but luckily the tickets are paid for. I just need to buy travel, food, t-shirt...:eek:

sugarpants_2

YEY just updated my signature! We now have £1000 in our savings for our deposit on our first home! Just need another 9k! LMAO!

Is there anyone out there just started to save? Reading all the posts by ppl who have 5k+ in their savings are making me feel depressed! I know Ill get there soon but my god its gonna take time!

little_star

Dont worry sugarpants your doing better than me! Weve been 'saving' for a while on very very low wages, now my partners got a new job were hoping our savings will go up alot more quickly, It will take us ages but it will be worth it in the end :j

Bufger

little_star wrote: »

Dont worry sugarpants your doing better than me! Weve been 'saving' for a while on very very low wages, now my partners got a new job were hoping our savings will go up alot more quickly, It will take us ages but it will be worth it in the end :j

Best of luck to you little star. I think you will feel a much bigger sense of accomplishment than most others from saving from a low income. You keep going and make yourself happy by seeing the end goal and none of the temptations between now and then!

Good luck to you and well done to everyone else.

little_star

Thank you bufger! It does feel good knowing we are managing to save some money :T

sugarpants_2

Thanks littlestar. Good luck to your dh with his new job too.
BTW how do you work out the percentage of savings? Im a blonde cant you tell?:rolleyes:

little_star wrote: »

Dont worry sugarpants your doing better than me! Weve been 'saving' for a while on very very low wages, now my partners got a new job were hoping our savings will go up alot more quickly, It will take us ages but it will be worth it in the end :j

purplevamp

sugarpants wrote: »

BTW how do you work out the percentage of savings? Im a blonde cant you tell?:rolleyes:

Sugarpants - I'm a blondie as well . I work out my percentage as follows (using littlestars total as an example):-

539 divided by 10,000 times 100 = 5.39

Basically divide the amount you have with the amount you want to save then times it by 100 which is the percentage ~ I sound brainy, but I'm not :rotfl::rotfl: