Atrixa's Saving Diaries

atrixa · 27 February 2019 at 7:00PM

Update, it feels like it's been a while. Here is what my savings look like:
Sinking fund for new Laptop: £61/£300 ish
Sinking fund for Holiday: £300/£300
Help to Buy ISA: £1845/£7000
Mortgage and Moving costs: £1250/£3600
Emergency Fund: £500/£500

Everything is on track, including my running! Another 10k next month, I'll see if I can beat my time from November.

savingwannabe · 28 February 2019 at 9:26PM

Hurrah for savings. Well done.

atrixa · 3 May 2019 at 5:59PM

Savings are still on track. My Lloyds savings account matured last month earning a paltry £14ish. I've opened another savings account (1.5% interest) and transferred my Mortgage and Moving savings to that.

savingwannabe · 4 May 2019 at 1:28PM

Well done on moving your savings account. Savings rates are so low at least you are shopping round!

atrixa · 28 September 2019 at 2:02PM

I've not updated in a few months, mainly because work has been a disaster. I was placed at risk of redundancy along with my entire department at the end of July and then had some of the most stressful few months of my life until they lifted it. I have a 'safe' job again (whatever that means) and I'm still on track with my savings, luckily.
I've shifted my savings around so I'm saving less each month but my end date remains the same. I've been struggling to keep within my food budget each month, so hopefully that will get easier if my promotion ever goes through (this saga has been ongoing for ages now). I'm nearly halfway to my mortgage deposit goal

savingwannabe · 28 September 2019 at 3:17PM

I am so glad your job is safe. It is so hard to feel secure in this job climate. At least you are saving that is great. I hope you get the promotion and you will feel better. I wish we could go back to the days of jobs for life. Have a good month atrixa and stay strong.

[Deleted User] · 29 September 2019 at 8:51AM

Hi atrixa, I've been through a similar thing with work over the last year or so, and it's just so stressful. Hope you can relax a bit now. Well done on your savings.

bln

atrixa · 28 October 2019 at 9:18PM

Thanks both, things are finally feeling much better. My promotion has gone through and it was backdated so I had a lot extra in my pay. I siphoned a load of it into my moving expenses fund so that one is almost full. I'm going to start saving for a proper emergency fund with 6 months worth of expenses so I have that safety net in place. The help to buy isa should be full by June 2021, but I could save the amount I need a lot quicker than that, but due to the £200 per month limit I can't get the 25% bonus on all of the deposit if I do that. Since I'm losing money by renting, saving on the rent is definitely worth more than some of the bonus though.

Skint_yet_Again · 28 October 2019 at 11:36PM

Well done on your promotion and topping up savings :T

atrixa · 19 March 2020 at 7:15PM

What a strange time we're living through! My house savings are going through fine as usual but the pandemic has made me worry that I don't have nearly enough of an emergency fund. My company have just announced that they're effectively scrapping company sick pay for the next fortnight and doing SSP only (I'll be looking into whether that's even ALLOWED since the sick pay is in my contract), so I'm a bit worried. Obviously I'm not planning on getting ill but you never know. I'm going to go through next month's budget with a fine toothed comb and chuck any money I don't need to be spending on non-essentials into my savings. I've found that groceries are becoming more expensive as all the budget and own brands are clearing out of the supermarkets first. I picked up a kilo bag of rice for about £4.50

(luckily I had some nectar points to spend) because it was the last one on the shelf. I usually spend about £1! I hope this doesn't carry on for much longer.

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