"Sealed Pot Challenge 3"

ceebeeby

Hello everyone, please may I join in. I'm brand new to saving / budgetting, so anything that counts.

I would love to be saving for Christmas 2010, and need about £500 for it, based on weeks until the end of November, I make that approximately £11.90 per week required in the sealed pot. Anything extra will be a bonus!! I've based it on Thursdays, as this has morphed itself into target days.

I have a teramundi pot that I got for Christmas last year, so can easily use that (although would love to know the secret of not having to break it!!)

Thanks for having me on board.

terri72

Hi all :j

Don't think I've updated yet this year, but the small change has been going in the pots (keeping 20p in a different one).

The digital displays are showing a total of £25.79 - not sure how correct they are as the 20p jar is showing an odd 1p :doh:

Sue-UU

A warm welcome to the thread coffee-break and ceebeeby! Great to meet you. Enjoy yourselves with us and have great fun saving. You'll find your numbers at the bottom of the list on post 2 of page 1. If you haven't already done so then read through posts 1 & 2 as it'll help you with any queries and let you know exactly what to do with the challenge. Please put your number on your sig, it helps so very much For those unsure how to: Go to the top of the page, click the "User CP", next look for the option to "edit signature", click that and add it to your signature.

Hiya ceebeeby! Good to see you here saving the puffing cash! I've got 2 Terramundi pots and you DON'T need to break them to get the cash out at the end of the year. Use a knife and tilt the pot at an angle, that's the secret and I used mine all last year and won't be smashing either! It's just a way of getting you to keep on buying them - not for we wise ones though!

Glad you had a great time sparky! Great to get your youthful years back now and again eh!

Nicki_Sue wrote:

Nearly keeled over on Friday lol - DS's preschool are giving everyone a tube of smarties for free - when the choc is finished, we are supposed to fill the tube with as many 20p pieces as possible and then all tubes will be entered into a prize draw - no idea what the prize is but it wont be pretty 20p pieces lol as they are for funds. Is it bad that my first reaction on reading the newsletter was "Are you joking???!! Don't you know they are supposed to go in my sealed tin??".

I don't blame you Nicki_Sue, they're always on the cadge at our lass's school with her little ones, but sometimes it goes a bit too far - unless they're giving away a full sealed pot as 1st, 2nd & 3rd prizes!!! :T

savingmummy, you be as excited about your sealed pot as you darn well want!:j

Thanks a lot Kerfuffle & Hales! Much better now ta. Love to the Rockies Kerf.

Hi hermum, a great start to your pot!

Well done fishcakes! £31 is a great win!!! :T

Hope you're soon feeling much better stunty. I can put up with most things but I hate sore throats.

£2 for me in the pot today. Have a good day folks, keep safe and healthy.

Sue New friends wishing to join us, please just ask below and I'll be with you ASAP.

dentonemma

£2 in the pot for me today, found it in oh pocket before putting in washing machine.

sparky0107

theunknownstuntman wrote: »

Some shrapnel in the jar for me. I'm a bit of a sick Stunty this evening. Got a raging temperature and a cough going on. So I've eaten half a Vienetta. It's brought my temp down quite nicely! lol.
And on the subject of the whole money attracting money thing. Had a call off a lovely lady from the Financial Ombudsman who said she's almost at a decision about my PPI claim off the TSB. Nice!

Hope everyone is well

Stunty.

Morning Stunty
Don't you just love it when that happens? They say things come in threes, so lets hope that happens for you . Hope you're feeling better soon mate, but I don't think half a viennetta is proper medicine though

ceebeeby wrote: »

Hello everyone, please may I join in. I'm brand new to saving / budgetting, so anything that counts.

I would love to be saving for Christmas 2010, and need about £500 for it, based on weeks until the end of November, I make that approximately £11.90 per week required in the sealed pot. Anything extra will be a bonus!! I've based it on Thursdays, as this has morphed itself into target days.

I have a teramundi pot that I got for Christmas last year, so can easily use that (although would love to know the secret of not having to break it!!)

Thanks for having me on board.

Morning ceebeebee
I'm following your DF diary, so welcome to sealed pot challenge, whenever you get a bit disheartened or feel down, just pop in here and the guys on here will give you a lift and encouragement to carry on

Morning Sue
We had a fantastic day out, the downside was, not being able to get my foot from behind the crash bars and toppling over to the right, at a right hand junction, never mind, no harm done and everyone had a good laugh at me when they realised I was OK :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Hope everyone has a great day, keep saving and wrap up well it's cold outside

Hales

Hi all,

Put another few coins in my pot today, i try not to count them as i put them in otherwise it makes me want to count the whole pot!!!

Hope everyones well
xx

raven-333

I hope your feeling better Stunty
another 3p for me.

poorandindenial

A few quids in the pot for me today, and lots of one and two pees that I seem to have had rolling round the bottom of my handbag

JaneLiz

£2.40 in mine today

smnb08

hi can i join please.
i have brought myself one of those tins you have to open with a tin opener and im collecting £2 coins in it.
im the worse saver in the land and never have any spare money for xmas so feeling quite excited x