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What are you saving for?

We're already starting to budget for our next big trip later next year. It's been a while since my wife and I have gone on a big packpacking adventure (Eastern Europe about 4 years ago!) so we're planning on making up for that unacceptable gap by taking 6-8 months off in 2010 to trek through a few continents and knock a few more places, sights and activities off our checklist. Lots of planning and so forth but so worth it! Really looking forward to it already... :cool:
 
Just saving for nothing in particular.

I'll probably use some of it when I move in a year for grad school (not sure where I'll end up though).
 
I am currently saving to buy my hubby a MBP for his birthday/Xmas present this upcoming November/December. The poor dude has been drooling over mine for a year-and-a-half while he taps away on his whitebook, so I figured I'd be a nice wife and bring him up to the same specs as me :p
 
jecapaga said:
Me, I'm saving for a possible/eventual layoff emergency fund. Have been doing so for the last 1.5 years. If I still retain my job it will go towards a house or sit in the bank.
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Same here I am saving more than half of my paychecks for a possible layoff. If I don't get let go its still going to down payment for a house. Sadly my sister a real estate agent told me what I saved so far can only get me a house in Souther California worth 100K.......I have a long way to go.
 
kitki83 said:
Same here I am saving more than half of my paychecks for a possible layoff. If I don't get let go its still going to down payment for a house. Sadly my sister a real estate agent told me what I saved so far can only get me a house in Souther California worth 100K.......I have a long way to go.
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Yeah a house in So. Cal for 100k isn't possible obviously. But good that you are saving for whatever happens or doesn't. You won't consider it a mistake either way..especially if you lose your job. Carry on!
 
The Zombie apocalypse.

So far I have plenty of food, batteries, a long wave radio, transport, easy access to a shopping mall, a first aid kit, some survival equipment and a cricket bat.

Just need to get one of these:
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I'm not too sure on what I'm saving up for. In another 2-3 years I'll probably be saving up for a new computer. But right now it's just the little things like some PS3 games, Nike Air Max shoes and I also have some spare money reserved for Snow Leopard.
 
I was saving up for either a PS3 or a UWA lens for my Canon XTi. But I started to notice that there have been few times that I've needed a wide angle lens, and since God Of War III and Dante's Inferno don't come out until the end of the year, I'll get the PS3 in Nov-Dec.

Right now my priorities have changed. I am definitely saving up for a trip to the US to visit some friends. I don't know how much I'll be able to save, but I want to go in late November or early December.
 
Round-trip tickets to Seattle from Chicago and then spending money for 2 weeks. Have about $900 so far and that is good for the tickets, car, and shelter. Should be able to double that by the trip in August.
 
I'm saving for a rickenbacker bass which may take some time and then just save because there will be other cool stuff around as well
 
A new bike. Hopefully a Giant road bike which would be awesome, although I wouldn't mind a nice mountain bike as well/instead of :p :cool:
 
For the future. I was saving to pay the £10,000 fee for my Master's in January but I've got that now thanks to my bonus at the bank. But now I'm just putting money aside to dip into while I'm doing my Master's as I won't be able to work as much as I do now while I'm studying and so I don't have to ask my parents for any either [hopefully!]
 
I have tons of things that i would like to save my money for, but right now all goes to saving up for renovating my bathroom. At the moment, spending money on other stuff besides normal costs makes me feel bad and postpone the inevitable even more. I'm going to rebuild it myself and i really, really hate renovating/building stuf. I can do it pretty good, but i just don't like doing it.

The good thing is that i'm pretty obsessed with saving money once i have a goal, and if everything turnes out without too much extra costs, the money left will be spend on a trip to the USA. I go about every two years for the last 16 years :)
 
A house. Well, half a house. The girlfriend is saving the other half. Or rather, would be if she'd stop spending it in TopShop.

Edit: wooo, thread revival. Wonder if anybody's achieved their goal yet.
 
jknight8907 said:
How the heck do you not 'know' about the selective service? :confused:
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year later reply. In washington its not tied to your drivers license, school or anything. My parents paid my undergrad tuition so I never needed loans. Also nobody in my family is in the armed services. Finally I never got a letter or card saying I needed to enroll, as we moved a lot.
 
Saving for the down payment on a condo downtown. The neighborhood I'm looking in is a nice, safe 2 out of 5 stabs on the SF Safety Scale.
 
I'm saving virtually nothing. With the wife finally back to work after being unemployed for 17 months, our finances are a disaster. Compound that with the fact she took a significant pay cut for this job only makes things more difficult.

We're making ends meet (barely) and so saving money is a luxury we are having to do without. I do stash a little bit away each week, but it pales in comparison to what's looming on the horizon for us. College for my children (who are 4) and retirement but day to day living seems to wipe us out when we're just trying to get back on our feet.

For example, our fridge began failing a while back and while its been limping ahead, we had to take the plunge and buy a new one this past weekend. That's a very large unexpected bill. I chose not to charge it, so my savings account took a major hit
 
R94N said:
Yeah, that would be pretty interesting. What about a follow-up thread?
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Let's see: Car paid off in Feb, got the Dell 2209WA monitor for the Mini. In fact, I sold said Mini and replaced it with a late 2009 model refurb, and I'm thinking of getting a second 2209WA or the U2211H. Student loan payoff has been delayed, as I decided to upgrade some stuff in my life. I got tired of sitting on 10 year old furniture that was used when I got it, so I saved up and bought some new living room furniture, and now I'm looking at a new HDTV.

I think I'm going to start saving for a possible move/job change. I've been here 2+ years, and it's time for a change. :)
 
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