How much do you save a month ?

Currently nothing, in fact losing money due to paying for flights, visa, and packing up contents of house for shipping eek. I personally managed to build up £2k in preparation for my move but that was very tough going and is a drop in the ocean.

Normally, very little at all :-( (It used to be £500 a month many years ago before I had kids).

You want to be saving as much as possible, even if that's small amounts, you need to be making progress towards saving something.
 
I save about a 1/4 of my salary every month. Any overtime also goes straight into savings. 5% goes into my pension also.

When I was at home I was easily doing about 75%. Sadly buying a house put an end to all that.
 
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I save as much as I can but it varies month to month. Once I've paid my share into the joint account for bills, I have a regular saver set up so a proportion of what's left goes into a separate savings account on pay day. I usually find I can manage my funds better this way knowing how much left over I have to spend until the next pay day.
 
I normally save £500 a month. But at the moment I'm paying off my car so saving is not as much any more. I already have £2,000 saved just on the back burner encase I need it for an emergency.
 
Not as much as I'd ideally like but at the moment I guess a little over £1k a month (excluding pension savings), however that said most of what I've been saving will hopefully soon be spent on a house extension so the fund will be wiped out.
 
Having kids is generally the last nail in the coffin for saving. My wife and I used to spend money freely before kids and still save £1k+ per month (She earned very good money in the city as a commercial mortgage securities specialist for a private bank, I'm an electronic engineer). But once we had my little boy she stopped working the bills went up and we (I) really struggled to pay the bills every month (we do have a rather large mortgage). This situation only really just started getting better 5 years on through promotions etc.
 
I try(being the operative word here doesn't always happen well due to **** happening!) to save £100 a month plus I've got my pension at 3% Monthly "sacrifice" and the company pays the same amount in so technically I'm getting 6% of my monthly salary paid in, in a month.

Edit: Oh and £950 toward the Mortgage.
 
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£1100 towards a house deposit and £164 into my pension.

Should have a house soon so i'll all that will be mortgage/bills.
 
Currently nothing. I am however paying £150 to pay my dad back some money, I have had an expensive year but once Christmas is over I am going to start saving hard. Aiming for £500 a month. I really want a house in a nicer area and bigger. Also my car is probably going to pack in soon. I don't want to have to get a loan or finance for a new one.
 
We've done some swapping around just this week, we should save around £1300 a month now.
Thats worked out against basic pay with no overtime/commission/bonuses included.
 
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