jam jar challenge!!!

cady

ive never saved up really, wen i was little i never had a money box / piggy bank and ive never used a savings account just to save up so i thought id start small ive noticed a lot of money box clubs on here but the 20p/£1/£2 savers club woud take me ages as i have very little money and very rarley take cash out (all bills DD and money for papers and window cleaner taken out at the beginning of the month.) i dont have cash on me because i dont buy anthing (its really that tight:eek: ) but we sometimes have small change that lives on the side board so i have made an empty jam jar my silver jar cut a hole in the top taped the lid on and im going to put all the silver i find in it and when its full i will pay it off my EGG CC!!!

So this challenge is great for people who dont have loads of change lying around and want to save up - maybe when the next jam jar is free i may start a copper one and if all goes well even a gold one for £1 coins but ill start small for now.


People joining the challenge below!!! feel free to join in and ill add you to the list!!!

Cady
angeldiva
GreenmanGO
Barginfinder
Tinkabell25
Little Pickle
**MissL2**
The Sparkly One
doelani

Horace

Well done cady - I have stacks of jars all filled with varying bits of change:

2p, 1p, 5p (I cant stand them), 20p, £2

Everything else gets spent.:rotfl:

cady

i dont have that much change and that many jars lol but im hoping to save all my silver by xmas and make a payment to my CC to help clear it (evil egg) lol i had to tape the top shut or ill dip into it lol

Barny1979

Horace wrote: »

Well done cady - I have stacks of jars all filled with varying bits of change:

2p, 1p, 5p (I cant stand them), 20p, £2

Everything else gets spent.:rotfl:

Yeah, I only spen 50p and £1 coins. Save the rest up hehe

angeldiva

Im going to join you, what a great suggestion.

I have an empty jar I was about to recycle..I will start with only silver and see how it goes...

andrinaperry

this is a great idea well done you will use that when my tin is full and it will save the cost of the tin, well done you the best ideas are always the simple ones.

Andrina

cady

wow thanks for joining in, and good luck to everyone!!

doelani

I already have a jar bottle for change, put 1p 2p and 5p in it , my aim now to to fill it lol unfortunelty biggest problem I have it once filled getting it changed.

going to try and fill it before I count it

Buzzbox

Whooooo, I love change jars! I've got one I take to HSBC when its full as they have those new machines that allows you to deposit the change without sorting it out first! I tend to save 5p's and below... the rest I use but I'll change that rule to 10p and below!

cady

just put the washing on and found 20p and a 10p in the wshing basket going im the jar woo hoo

Bargainfinder_3

lol - love it when I find money in pockets etc! We have a jar on our mantle peice, it's open incase we need to use it, but we're quite good at just chucking change in there (up to 20p, everything else gets spent!)

Where do you guys 'change' your change?? I used to use the machine at my supermarket, but they charge you a %...