June 2024 Savings, plus other updates
June was a mix of work, social activities and work social activities. Oh and watching lots of football on tv (and not always enjoying it, in the case of England!)
I also celebrated my birthday this month – another year older, maybe or maybe not another year wiser!
I still don’t feel my age, although the occasional thing does make me consider how ancient old I’ve somehow become:
- Attending a colleague’s (the bride’s) wedding and finding out that I’m older than her mother by a number of years;
- Watching the youngsters knocking back their free drinks at work’s summer party, whilst I nursed my second pint and sloped off early, my thoughts on how I needed to function the following work day without a hangover/late night;
- Overhearing a colleague sitting behind me ask her neighbour, “What’s a fax machine?” I felt compelled to explain to her and felt so old as I quipped “It’s how we sent documents before the internet…”.
- Finally being able to draw down on my SIPP – I won’t yet, of course!
For my birthday, I had a day out at the races (Haydock) with friends, which was followed by a Pete Tong Presents Ibiza Classics gig. Not sure that was a mix which really worked that well, but it was a fun day/night out nonetheless.
I had some family stay with me this month, and we had a day trip to North Wales. Weather was beautiful for a bit of walking.
Anyway, halfway through the year already, how did my numbers look for June?
I saved 15.8% of my net salary. The above includes £40.63 from doing Prolific surveys, £5 charity lotto win and the £100 which Nationwide Building Society paid out to all its members.
Shares and Investment Trusts
I just topped up existing ones, no new investments, aside from an addition to my One Share Portfolio where I bought 1 share (using the above-mentioned Nationwide payout) in Novo Nordisk – I can’t ever see me needing to take a fat-busting drug but seems a lot of people do so for a variety of reasons, so now I got a bit of skin in that game!
This month, I also ditched my single share in Starbucks and jumped back on the Nvidia bandwagon. I had intended to only have 10 shares in this fun portfolio, yet now I have 11 – might just have to make it a sweet dirty dozen at some point…thinking about it!
Current share/IT portfolio can be found here.
(Entire portfolio here)
Future Fund
The rocket continues its upwards journey! At the end of the month, my Future Fund was up, at £272,964.64.
Dividends and Other Income
A record-breaking month (for me) for dividend income:
I received £1,150.97, of which £515.84 was from my ISAs, the rest from my SIPPs. First time I’ve breached the £1k monthly mark! All dividends were reinvested.
Here’s what my ISA dividend income graph looks like: