If My Pennies Were Pounds...

mummy2mygirls

Yeah you just put collection only when you select the postage and its the same price etc.

Good news on the car boot. Hope you get lots of pennies

I stopped doing the £5 a day challenge as I couldnt keep up with working out everything after charges etc so im just trying to make as much as possible now....

If_My_Pennies_Were_Pounds

£9.50 in Tesco Clubcard Vouchers for me, have added them to my August challenge as I keep them all year and use them for Christmas presents!

Total for the challenge is now £70.04/£155 Halfway there and only the 11th of August, feel quite confident this month for some reason!

I'm waiting on a few transactions tracking from PayPal:
£3 from p!nec0ne
£5 from MySurvey
£3.23 from eBay sales (after fees and postage)

So that's another £11.23 that I'll have shortly

Really need to get on track with savings, I've decided that any money made in the make £5 a day challenges will be added to Target 1, that way I'm adding to that fund without really realising if that makes sense?

Then I can start to focus on Target 2, as the way this year is flying in we will be going to Florida before I know it! Lol Need to get my but in gear although the total for that fund is including what I predict for park tickets and spending money too so if I don't quite reach the target then I'll just have less spending money!

Of course I don't plan not to reach my targets!

Kepp

I'm sure you will reach your targets

If_My_Pennies_Were_Pounds

I hope so Beccie, really hope to complete Target 1 by my deadline but that is going to take some work! I worked out that if I can complete £5 a day for the rest of the year (from tomorrow) then I'll have already found £710 of it and will only need a further £199.80

On the other hand I might just start a countdown of the running total that I still need to find! Only £909.80 to go! That might spur me on actually, seeing the figure coming down, it worked with the debt busting after all!

I do think it's doable, especially with the VSP Challenge and £5 a Day Challenge too, the number just seems so big at the moment!

Hopefully I'll be updating both Targets at the end of the month as I really hope to have money left over this month

Kepp

Definitely - hit it like it's debt and see the figure come down would be very motivational

If_My_Pennies_Were_Pounds

Yeah the total remaining to save coming down but the actual total in my savings going up - if you get what I mean?! Lol

Kepp

If_My_Pennies_Were_Pounds wrote: »

Yeah the total remaining to save coming down but the actual total in my savings going up - if you get what I mean?! Lol

Only on MSE would we get that!

If_My_Pennies_Were_Pounds

Lol definitely!

£8.66 transferred for the VSP today, bringing the total in Target 1 to £2098.86

Total left to find for Target 1 is £901.14

Will soon be under £900...so much more motivational seeing the numbers come down of what's still left to find!

Now to start budgeting for Target 2, I think I will need to be strict and put money in to it at the start of the month and then just be careful with my spending on take aways etc! Will start properly from next payday (2 weeks today!) although like I said yesterday I'm hoping to have money left over from this month's pay that can be transferred in there too...

If_My_Pennies_Were_Pounds

£3 from p!nec0ne came in to account today, so total for £5 a day challenge is now £73.04

Still waiting on the following hitting my bank:
£4.08 from crowdology
£5.28 from eBay sales
£3.23 from eBay sales
£5.00 from MySurvey - hasn't even come in to paypal yet so will be a while before it hits my bank!

Total of £17.59 to follow...

Total remaining to save for Target 1 is £898.14

If_My_Pennies_Were_Pounds

£3.23 from eBay sales (after fees etc) so total for £5 a day challenge is now £76.27, started sorting some stuff for a car boot sale with my mum last night so we might be doing that either this weekend or next...hopefully that will boost my total.

Total for Target 1 is now £2105.09 (£1835.09 if I don't count the money I leant my parents).

Total for Target 2 is still at £300 - will need to start adding to this more now!

Total savings still to find for Target 1 - £894.91