Saturday Savers 2025 Progress Report - Week 26

It's Saturday, and time for my weekly #SaturdaySavers update 😁

Also, week 26 means we're exactly halfway through the year, so I'll do a quick recap of how things are looking at the halfway mark.

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Here's my table of progress for the week;

I've shown three weeks of history for once, because I was away on holiday last week without access to my spreadsheets, so wasn't able to do a full update. This way, you can see what 2 week's worth of growth looks like (although HP and HBD were reported last week).

How Did The Week Go ?

It's been a slightly patchy week in terms of posting. When I came back from holiday there was quite a backlog of work to catch up on, although I'm happy to say that most of it was donkey-work rather than hyper-stressful things.

An area I need to focus on a little is comments. When I'm wandering around Hive in a half braindead state after finishing work, it's easy to surf through and upvote posts, much harder to make meaningful comments !

Although I was unable to stake BBHO on BPUD (BBHO Power Up Day) because my holiday laptop doesn't have the active key installed for security reasons, I did power up 500 when I returned. I've been using the SWAP.HIVE that turns up in various drips or is converted from tribe tokens I'm not interested in to buy a mix of BBHO and EDSI. It's not massive purchases, but just gradually builds up the stack a bit at a time, and is especially effective now when the prices seem to have dropped a little.

Half Year Review

It's week 26 and halfway through the year, so a good opportunity to do a half year review.

Overall, I'm reasonably happy with most of the goals.

I've met two goals; LEO and BBHO, both of which I'm continuing to stack. It'll be interesting to see if switching to a non-inflationary model will push up the price of LEO. It would be nice if it would end up eventually growing to more than I actually spent buying tokens !

Most of the other goals are over the 50% mark, although I need to make sure I stay consistent with posting and commenting to ensure they both sty that way.

HBD is on 57% of target, so 7% up on the benchmark, and I've set myself an additional unofficial goal of getting to 40HBD interest a month. At that point, I might start pulling 50%| of the interest down and converting it to fiat (or gold) to balance my investment portfolio a bit better. Right now, with both the US dollar and HIVE dropping in value, the growth in my account value is almost entirely being cancelled out by exchange rate changes. Pulling a little of the investment back out will improve that ratio.

The only goal which is failing is Hive Power. In retrospect I was far, far too ambitious when I set my initial goal. But I won't change it, I'll just keep pushing to see how close I can get.

If you're not familiar with SaturdaySavers, it's a fabulous initiative run by @shanibeer writing as @sally-saver on the @eddie-earner account, where we all support each other in getting to our savings goals.

If you are one of my friends reading this (or just someone who tripped over one of my posts), I really recommend this as a great community that's well worth joining.

I'm normally very disorganised about saving, and the support of the wonderful people in #SaturdaySavers has been invaluable in keeping me focused. I can honestly say that without it, my HP would probably be half what it is now.

So join ! You don't have to wait until the start of the year. The best time to start saving is ten years ago. The second best time is right now !