The 'We're saving for a deposit' thread

quintwins

Starbrite wrote: »

Only saved £100 this mth

Having to pay out £430 for the car to be fixed, so wish £100 was going onto the car and £430 into savings!

Also have redundancy looming (Find out Mon/Tue) Not the best of mths for me......:o

Oh I did win £25 on premium bonds, Can't complain

Oh how stressful for you Hope mon/tue goes well.

Try to be positive atleast you added some better than staying stagnant or even worse dipping into your savings.

No change here until monday.

J_i_m

In even more pessimistic mood from my previous post I've actually managed to save £0 this month.

Must do better next time.

pop_gun

This has undoubtedly been the worst two months of this year. The bank takes £732 from my account over a disputed debt. I had to renew my license at the cost of £220. I also had to pay £120 for court fees in a claim I've brought against my bank. My landlady has informed us all the rent has to go up by £30 and my company has informed me, all agency staff have to go direct with the company or look for alternative employment. It works out I'll be £60+ a week worse off. There's more, but it deserves it's own thread.

Current total £12,413

Jaybo10

Just a quick sig update from me.

Starbrite I wish you all the best next week.

Kind regards

misscoupon

Quick sig update on payday.
Hope things get better soon for Jim and Starbrite :www:

[Deleted User]

Sounds like it's been a bad month for quite a few people!

I won't be able to update until Monday, but thinks should be slowly plodding along as normal for me!

Hope next month is better for everyone, esp. those who've had a bad August.

D9

nat21luv

Oh no, so sorry to hear you guys are having a bad time. Best of luck starbrite.

Next month will be tough for me.

YoungBusinessman

Been a shocking month for me aswel. Put everything I had at start of August into an account as emergency fund and started afresh with deposit saving...I'v just hit £3,040 for the month. Great amount but been a terrible month. Took today and tomorrow off as was starting to get to me.

Aim is £10k by the end of year at minimum...so carrying that saving rate on I will be at £20k come April! Then time to take the plunge.

seriousDFW

Would appreciate your opinions.

We have challenges over on DFW to become debt-free by a certain date and I'm looking for similar for saving my house deposit.

This tread is fantastic, but it would be great to have a first page that listed everyone who was saving for a deposit, along with how much they'd saved, the date they were aiming to save it by and the % they'd saved up to that point. Do you think this is something people would be interested in? It's like a summary of people's signatures in one place! e.g.
#001 seriousDFW £ 100 / £10,000 by 1st June 2013 - 1%
#002 ...

If it is, could it be added to this thread, or should I start a new thread? I don't want to hijack someone else's, but would love to turn the house-deposit thing into a challenge to motivate me and others.

What do you think?

nat21luv

I'm on board! I love seeing the numbers rise but then quite like this chit chat thread. I'd join though, count me in