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"Sealed Pot Challenge 4"

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  • pinkfluffybabe
    pinkfluffybabe Posts: 2,989 Forumite
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    31p in for me today!
    Not buying unnecessary toiletries 2024 26/53 UU, 25 IN
  • Bebs
    Bebs Posts: 233 Forumite
    VALM wrote: »
    Am not sure I'm following this challenge very well as I only have £1.30 in my pot however it is making me budget a lot better which has got to be all for the good right? I tend to only draw cash out when I know I need it and am not spending it the way I used to. It just seems to go constantly on bus fares for my daughter!

    Is it not possible to get a weekly ticket for your daughter? I have done this and it works out cheaper and better!
  • VALM
    VALM Posts: 5,954 Forumite
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    Bebs wrote: »
    Is it not possible to get a weekly ticket for your daughter? I have done this and it works out cheaper and better!

    Not really. She only takes the bus home from school when she has stayed late for play rehearsals (at the moment three times a week) and two of those nights MrM was able to collect her. If she was regularly riding the bus I would.
    Back for the No Buying Toiletries challenge. I pledge to only buy when I run out of a product that is not already in my stash no matter what wonderful emails land in in my Inbox or threads I read on MSE re: glitches!

    SPC Member 046
    £2. Challenge member 55
  • sweetpeas_2
    sweetpeas_2 Posts: 2,237 Forumite
    Evening all :hello:

    Potted my daily pennies... 50p today :D

    xx
  • Bebs
    Bebs Posts: 233 Forumite
    VALM wrote: »
    Not really. She only takes the bus home from school when she has stayed late for play rehearsals (at the moment three times a week) and two of those nights MrM was able to collect her. If she was regularly riding the bus I would.

    Sue suggested having a seperate bus money pot - that may work for you :p
  • jakes-mum
    jakes-mum Posts: 4,642 Forumite
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    Hubby just returned from the post office for me (body just wasnt allowing me out the house :mad:) and I heard a very heavy thunk go into his tin so I reacon the crafty begger has nicked a quid out of my change for his pot :eek: Then gave remaining change to miss lily who happily popped it on her gadge (which we had tried to decipher half an hour ago and it turned out to be her cash register :rotfl:) and ive had to spend 10 minutes wrestling it back off her for my pot!

    Compromise was mummy had to sit and make her money for her gadge out of paper, so 24p now safely in the pot, though think i need to use a knife on hubbys pot to see if I can get that stolen quid back :T
    SPC No 002 SPC(3) £285/£250 (4) £519.84/£500 (5) £768.32/£500 (6) £911.30/£600 (7) £913.23/£600 (8) £1184.82/£750 (9) £2864.04/£750 (10) £3846.25/£1000 (11) £1779.72/£1000 (12) £1596.55/£1000 (13) £1534.70/£1000 (14) £775.60/£1000 (15) £700.20/£1000 (16) £2081.34/£1000 (17) £1691.15/£1000 (18) £225/£1000
  • rubytuesday
    rubytuesday Posts: 22,383 Forumite
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    Six Pounds in the pot today. Haven't put any in for a while but then I haven't been spending much either so there's two ways of looking at it I suppose!
    Here dead we lie because we did not choose
    To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
    Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
    But young men think it is,
    And we were young.
    A E Housman
  • circus_48
    circus_48 Posts: 74 Forumite
    I have been sticking to this sealed pot challenge..I have been putting spurious sums in it every day, it is sealed, hidden and none of my family know about it!!:D

    I have no idea how much is in it but come December I will open it and hopefully be very surprised :j

    I love secret stashes!! :D

    11K challenge also going very well.
    £11K in 2011 :j cold hard cash !!!

    [STRIKE]£324[/STRIKE] / £826 with more to come £11000 7.5%

    "Sealed Pot challenge" member No. 1263 ( it's a surprise) :)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,843 Forumite
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    Hi Everyone
    A little 9p into my pot today :)
    P
    X
  • Kerry_Woman
    Kerry_Woman Posts: 3,155 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    £4.90 in the pot today.
    Frugal Living Challenge 2025 Mortgage free as of 1st August 2013
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