How much do you have in your savings account?

[Eurydice84]

Just that, really. I am trying to save up for some big expenses (house renovations) but I am worried about blowing up the majority of my savings and starting from scratch again.

Half a deposit for a decent size house.

£50
Yes. Really.

Just short of my annual salary. I'm making a conscious effort to save and not fritter money away on utter rubbish. I wish I'd saved properly from when I started working I'd be laughing hut sadly I lived the good life

Are you saving for anything in particular? If not it sounds like not a bad idea to have fun for a while at least rather than just save money.

I have enough saved for anything that might crop up but definitely would have a lot more if I had had less fun in life.

£4.75.

Just over £3k in my personal account. In our joint savings I think we have £10-15k. However, the cost of living is so high at the moment that we keep dipping in to it!

£1000 but that will be spent on ground rent and service charges in April

Deposit and fees for the house we’re trying to buy, plus another £8.5k. Some of that is going on moving costs, furniture etc. We are continuing to save to build up an emergency fund.

Our finances were a mess for years so it’s a big deal to be able to say we’ve reached this point, albeit at a comparatively old age. I feel a bit embarrassed as so many people already have it all sorted.

£1 that I had to deposit to open the account

Nothing and £10k of credit card debt which I’m slowly clearing (interest free credit cards)

I used to have a few thousand but then I got a divorce.

£13k, however boiler is on the fritz and need various plumbing, building and electrical work so not for long.

Around £45k

About sixty grand. I recognise my good fortune everyday and feel grateful for the buffer.

3 months expenses is what my financial advisor says you need. So I keep that as a buffer and have some savings but thats for my house purchase.

46p.

25k

£82. This was my help to buy Isa but I had to use it to pay something off. There wasn't that much in there though. Hoping this year there will be.

£28k, mostly due to a very fortunate belated "inheritance" (selling of a shared family property).

Just as well since I'm quitting my job to retrain.

My mum did snark at my savings when I mentioned that my husband and I had 60 months of bills money saved, but I retorted that she should be glad her daughter had the money to quit a job that had me so ill I was signed off for 7 months.

Sometimes you just have to take the attitude that money is FOR things.

About 10k. A third is going soon and it's making me twitchy.

Approximately half my annual salary, give or take. Some earmarked for a new (to me) car when my old ‘09 plate becomes uneconomical to repair. The rest is just accrued cause I don’t spend money I don’t need to.

£212.22
i was very ill last year and ended up out of work for quite a few months. Also with a bit too much debt so my savings account was drained. However I have cleared that debt now and I’m back in work so that should rise considerably this year.

How is this thread going to help you OP?

14k, but have had to get a roof repair done, Roofer can't get same tiles so have different ones patching roof , it looks awful so may have to look at replacing them all,

£0.00

They're actually shutting the account as it hasn't been used in so long because I have no money to save. Happy days.

11p. Sad but true.