March '06 - Pin Money Savings Challenge

jackiegibbo

hello everyone i would like to join the pin challenge if thats alright with you.I have also joined the grocery challenge for the first time so any money i save under my budget i am going to put into a bank account that has about 2p in it so far.Also from the end of the month i wont be a home carer anymore but will work in one place all the time so will TRY to put away any money i save from petrol, and i have a £6.50 voucher to use on my internet shopping at the beginning of next month so will hopefully save that also

Yorkielass

Really good start for me this month, sold a few things through work, 1 book an amazon and have 2 things listed on ebay, 1 of which had a bid within 1 hour :j

Just need to keep up the effort with it all all month - I will get £50 :money:

chardonnay_2

hi, i've never done this before either but think i'll join in also.

i'm selling clutter on ebay + amazon and intend to do at least two car boots this month - more decluttering.

thought i'd list some of the things i've made some pin money from.

since the start of the year We've made :

Media transfer: £16 amazon voucher 1/ 2/06

Quickwise: £9 cash to bank 1/ 2/ 06

Pigsback : free blockbuster voucher 4/2/06, free blockbuster voucher 4./2/06
worth £3.50?????? each

Blockbuster 60day free trial. 4/2/06 = £30

Shop & scan - £10 amazon voucher

Juicy brains £5 amazon voucher

ebay =£61.20

amazon = £77.43, 13.83, 38.78, 6.12, 4.88, 5.25, 24.24, 18.20, 1.71, 9.22, 5.44, 7.57,

car boot in feb = 90 approx

total till march = £440.87 wow didn't realise it was so much!!!!!!!!!!

so far in march

Test & vote £10 amazon voucher

pinecone £4 luncheon vouchers

ebay = sent £78.04 to bank account yesterday

Shop & scan £10 amazon voucher

total £102.04 off to a great start if i do say so!

we also used coupons in tesco today so need to check how much we saved there.

aliyah

hi all, new at this as its my first month with pin and grocery challenges.

my march tally has started bizarrely with my great aunt insisting on giving me 15 pounds for ironing 10 pairs of her huge knickers!!! :rotfl:

it was one of those "take it, I insist" "no, really, I cant" "yes, I want you to have it" etc etc conversations

oh, well. 1.50 per pair of knickers cant be bad! :T

plus, i exchanged a pair of curtains today for an identical pair 3 pounds cheaper, so got that back...does that count?!

love hearing how everyone is doing - please keep posting

aliyah x

by the way ... i have never, ever gone 3 days and only spent 28p on groceries!!! wooohooo!

cha97michelle

I had a good february, and made slightly over my target.

I'm going to set March's target at £20, and see how i go. I've joined a few different cash back sites, although i think i won't include these until i've got them, as i've been moving small amounts into my savings account without noticing, but the larger amounts may hurt a bit this month as we have the two kittens at the vets to be neutered.

Total in savings since January now £60. :T

Queenie

Firstly,

:hello: Extending a warm welcome to jackiegibbo & chardonnay :hello:
Delighted to have you both join us

jackiegibbo - I'm looking forward to reading how you nurture that 2p Bank A/c and I just know that with your planned petrol savings and the coupon already that it will soon grow and be a solitary 2p no more Best of luck!

chardonnay - WOW!!! What an impressive listing! :T Very well done to you and wishing you every success for the future too! That's BRILLIANT and very inspiring indeed.

aliyah - :T :T :T You're doing very well! £1.50 per 1 pr of HUGE knickers sounds like a great deal to me!! Bless her heart! As for the curtains, if you have regained £3 via a refund then yes, I would count that too - because you had already paid out the full amount and calculated that as part of your budget outgoings anyway.
Very, very well done on you 3 day grocery total of only 28p So you should feel excited and proud of yourself!

omega - (Aww, thank you, for your kind post above )
yes,:D it really is almost our 1st Anniversary of PMS the initial concept and putting the "feelers" out, were begun 09 March 05. (oooh, 1 year ago tomorrow! :j LOL )
The start of the Challenge was set up to coincide with the beginning of the Financial Year 2005-06 last April.

09 March '05 - (putting the "feelers" out)
11 March '05 - (new challenge details - unfortunately in the Index this has been listed as the April challenge )
April '05 Pin Money Challenge ( includes a brief history on the origin of "pin money" LOL and the official beginnings)

Crikey, time certainly does FLY BY!!! LOL

jackiegibbo

i hope ive got the right idea or i will feel very silly, today i was out window shopping with my hubby (we both had a day off work which is quite rare) and we went into wh smiths and he decided that he wanted to buy a jeffrey archer novel (the glossy hardback one) i duly coughed and spluttered so he agreed to look on ebay were we got the exact same book for £7.75 inc postage. Which in my mind means that ive actually saved £10.25 to put into my pin account, well ive done it anyway as i felt soo good about not spending £18 on one book

Queenie

jackie :T :T That is exactly how to calculate your pin money!! Very well done to *you*! :T :T

Yorkielass

don't want to tempt fate but i'm half way towards my pin money or rather selling stuff target already. almost everything i've put on ebay were freebies so thats pure profit and i wouldn't use the other items. have 4 more ebay auctions on now and planning a few more for sunday this site has given me the encouragement and confidence to try ebay and amazon marketplace :money: :j

omega_2

Sounds good Yorkielass, good luck!

Before I forget, need to count in £38.50s worth of savings on a recent Tesco wine order. Made use of generous discount posted recently on Grabbit, + an eCoupon , + some of our Clubcard Vouchers (I know, I know, could have converted them to Deals and got 4 x face value, which is what I did with 75% of the vouchers) and ended up paying £24.95 for 18 bottles of wine, delivered.

Struck lucky with reductions/offers yesterday in Tesco: saved: £2.30 on reductions; £1.09 BOGOF deal, and £3.25 with coupons.

ALSO, saved about £5 by raiding my present stash (had squirrelled away some books bought in January sale). And, finally (PROMISE!!) saved c. 75p by homemaking a card.

All these amount to vPMS, so I calculate new total to be £81.18.