The "Loose Change Pays Your Debt 2009" Challenge

piranhalikethat

Well, finally got round to counting up the change in my pot for my silvers (50s, 20s and 10s) and got £38 Going to pay it into the bank tomorrow am and put it towards some food shopping later in the month.

I gonna wait until my 5s bottle and the coppers box are full before I count those. Almost up to half a Bombay Sapphire bottle with the 5s!

pjays666

just seen this thread, usually spend mine as i can but will start to put away and use it to clear my cap 1 card so could you count me in please

rosepink1984

Hi pjays! Welcome to the challenge! As you have probably read, we think our illustrious leader has a problem getting online at the moment, but hopefully he/she will be along to welcome you too.
In the meantime, happy saving!

I've got £40 in my pot, will pay it into the bank soon and put it on DH's highest interest card. I also applied Abbey as per Martin's email, so hope to hear from them soon. Would be great to do a BT.

rosepink1984

Have actually paid th money in today, to rescue our account. A cheque hasn't cleared and the rent has gone out making us overdrawn. When the cheque clears, I will be able to pay the money to the CC's. It's quite exciting!

How are you all getting on? Put much in your pots lately?

xx_Jo_xx

Hi all, and welcome to the newbies.

Am getting there with the loose change, but havent been spending much - which is good for NSD's but not so good for my loose change pot!!!

I havent counted for a while but have been saving my change while ive been away, so will add that when i get back and have a count up and see whats there. xxx

lizzyshep

I'd like to join please! I've been registered on this site for ages but hardly ever come on here, probably because I'm not a very good money saver:embarasse But I'm here now because I had a bit of a wake-up call today when I had to fork out over £500 for a new water tank and pipes, and because I have no savings it went on my credit card. So the next couple of months will be very lean indeed (though I do have a low APR on purchases so at least the interest won't be much).

Anyway, it seems like a good idea to start small, and I've actually been collecting my loose change for ages. Normally I just change it for notes at the local shop and spend it, but from now on I'm going to pay it into my savings account, which will be my emergency fund.

At the moment I have £32 all packed up in money bags, it will get paid in tomorrow!

focus888

Can i join this challenge aswel please? ive just asked to sign up to the virtual seal pot challenge. want to save up 1k for dec so that xmas doesnt get out of hand but seeing as all my other money is planned away for savings and bills it be nice to save any silvers i have spare for a treat for myself when its full. cant afford to get a counting jar but i will clean out a empty 2ltr bottle and use that and only count it when its completely full . quite excited lol

rosepink1984

Hi Focus and Lizzy, nice to see you. As you may have seen the OP has gone missing but we are hoping he will be back soon!

I've paid about £40 that I'd saved and have paid it towards a CC. I'm now working on accumulating some more! I think I've got about £10 in my cupboard now. DH is a good source of revenue, he leaves all his loose change lying around the place and I 'relocate it.' LOL! The wierd thing is that he never seems to notice! It's going to pay off his debt so it's a worthy cause!

focus888

Hi rosepink, thanks for welcoming me to thread. Not gonna have much change until payday now am so broke until then. But im really excited to be joining this challenge. sounds like everyone is doing great on here and the small stuff slowly mount up.

It must feel like such a achievement to see it and use it to pay off some debt great stuff!

lizzyshep

Yes, thanks for the welcome! I found 6p that someone had dropped in the local shop today, so that went in my pot :j

I work in a college and students are always dropping 1p and 2p coins on the floor, I'm going to start picking them up and saving them (I don't care if they think I'm weird)