Hundred per day10 over 100 days1,000 over a year3,650

UK and Ireland · deposit, not down payment

A hundred-day challenge for the house deposit

Rents are paid monthly, the deposit is measured in years, and between the two sits a stretch of ordinary days where the whole thing is quietly decided. This programme is about that stretch.

The deposit is a years-long number on a monthly budget

why the deposit stalls

Rent and the deposit are drawn from the same accountOne is unavoidable and immediate, the other is distant and voluntary. Left to a monthly decision, the distant one loses.
The research phase never endsAnother evening reading about what first-time buyers do produces a better-informed saver with an unchanged balance.
Nobody is keeping the countThere is no reporting line on a personal deposit. Months pass without anything marking whether they went well or badly.

now and next

The flat you rent, the flat you are saving for

now · rentingnext · your own

Drag to compare.The daily log is what moves the line.

01

Three tasks in the morning, one report at night

how it runs

3 1 ∞ tasks, morning report, night people reading it
  1. 01 Tasks written before the day begins Three of them, small and specific to your week. You choose them; we set no amounts and name no products.
  2. 02 The night report closes the day Two lines. Over a hundred days it becomes the only accurate account of how the deposit was actually treated.
  3. 03 A group counting the same hundred Some in the UK, some in Ireland, all with the same problem and the same dates. Your log is read, and theirs is too.

the shape of it

What the hundred days usually look like

1of 100 days

Working out what a realistic day looks like, which is almost never the plan made on a Sunday evening.

A hundred days at that pace comes to 1,000. Twelve months of the same habit: 3,650.

Arithmetic in whatever unit you count in. It is a sum, not a forecast.

Day 1–14

Working out what a realistic day looks like, which is almost never the plan made on a Sunday evening.

Day 45

The novelty is gone and the routine is carrying it. That transfer is the actual product.

Day 100

A hundred logged days against a multi-year goal, with a clear view of which weeks worked and which did not.

day 100

A hundred logged days against a multi-year goal, with a clear view of which weeks worked and which did not.

First-time buying has got harder, and it is measured

where this sits

21%

In the US, the closest measured market, first-time buyers fell to 21% of purchases in 2025 with an average age of 40 — National Association of Realtors. We have no verified figure of the same kind for the UK or Ireland, so we quote none.

source

Numbers come from the linked source and are labelled by market. Where we have no verified figure, we show none rather than estimate one.

Three tasks each morning. One report each night. A hundred days of down payment.

before you join

Questions from this side of the Atlantic

Do you cover UK or Irish buyer schemes?

No. We do not discuss government schemes, savings accounts, tax treatment or anything of that kind, in any country.

Is the programme in my time zone?

It is written rather than live, so the morning tasks and night report fit whatever your day looks like.

Does it work outside the UK and Ireland?

Yes. The mechanism is the same everywhere; this page simply uses the word deposit rather than down payment.

Will you tell me how much deposit I need?

No. That belongs to your situation and to qualified professionals. We give no advice on mortgages or affordability.

What if I miss a few days?

Report the gap and continue. The count is days you showed up, not a perfect run.

The next hundred days for the deposit

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