May '06 - PMS Challenge

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Just a reminder that I will be unsticking this thread sometime tomorrow, and it will be featured in our Monthly challenge collection which you can find in the blue bar at the top of this board.

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SoScrooge

Oh! This is a great idea! I am going to give a go.

Queenie, thank you so much for your post spelling it all out for those like me.

I will set myself a target of £10 and subscribe to the tread.

Good luck everyone!;)

Queenie

savinup - good luck with your target As you say, it soon adds up.

SoScrooge - welcome aboard! Delighted to have you join us

Pink - thank you

Yesterday, while gardening, I divided some plants for the more barren looking areas in the garden. I didn't make any *actual* cash savings but nor did I go out to the garden centre (which seems to be where everyone is flocking to around here) and spend money on filling the gaps.

So, I'm going to do a bit of window shopping in the garden centre after the holiday and calculate how much it would have cost me to buy those plants to fill the bare areas and add that amount to my *virtual* pin money for this month.

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jaybee

I'm really quite excited because I've got £41.26 coming from Amazon for two weeks worth of book & DVD sales, £50 coming from YouGov for surveys (taken nearly 2 years though!), and eCashBack are sending me a cheque for just over £24. PineCone have sent me a booklet of £4 vouchers which I can use at Sainsbury's or Asda etc. and Staples have sent me 2 x £1.50 vouchers.

If only every month could be like this!

auditbabe

I've just found you here and if it isn't to late I would like to join. My new years reolution was to make my computer paid its way. That is I want to make £30 per month on average. So far I've been sucessful I count savings at boots and Tesco points plus what I win it competitions. Last week I got £3 fro American Surveys that was the fist time I 've had cash. I also do Pigsback so do I qualify. I did think I was alone

melancholly

well i set myself a goal of £20 for my first month, and with a week down, i'm not doing too badly. Got 2.31 in BOGOF at tesco, with an extra 50p for buying reduced bread, then managed a 2 for the price of 3 at boots to save another £1.39. so £4.20 isn't bad..... i never normally add up what i save and put it away, so this is novel, but really useful!

melancholly

and i almost forgot - i decided to stop getting highlights done at the hairdressers and dyed my hair myself, back to something like my natural colour (not that i know what that is anymore) - so £3.79 instead of £50.......... i won't put that money in my jar, but it was a very big step for me (somehow i've justified getting my hair done at the expense of other things!) and i'll pay it straight into savings instead!!

SoScrooge

Hi all

I realised that I was already so tight with my spending, it is almost impossible to make any cash savings, but…

I am saving a few pennies virtually, as Queenie suggested .

Instead of getting a lift to the station, I now walk there and back knowing exactly how much I am saving on petrol! This is how I have done it:

1. At http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp?database=B I worked out the distance between my front door and the station.

2. Then I worked out cost of a mile in pence (took the cost of petrol bought and divided by the number of miles on the clock since my last trip to petrol station, it is 20p, by the way)

3. miles walked times 20p = virtual saving on petrol.

And I have saved about £4 for in the last two weeks :T :T :T .


Yours SS