"Sealed Pot Challenge 4" ~ Part 2 ~

jakes-mum

oh sue i felt so bad about that coat, me and my mum were well embarassed :embarasse least the supervisor was nice about it, but she would have been within her rights to be narky :eek:_pale_

Anyway money . . . well miss lily has decided AGAIN that the best place for our body wash is down the shower drain, this makes 6 times, so she has had to open her money box and contribute toward a new one. It has cost her roughly 1 icecream from the icecream man (thats what she saves her pocket money for). She wasnt happy about handing it over but then again I wasnt happy about loosing another bottle of body wash.

so 47p into the pot today, and i'll be out tomorrow buying yet more shower gel. I reacon our co-op thinks ive either got 100 kids or we really smell as im in there every week near enough getting a new bottle :eek::rotfl:

Kerry_Woman

Welcome to the new people on the thread.

Have put in £10.26 into my pot. Change from the last few days.

Decluttering

susie-sue wrote: »

Thanks Sue, I attacked it with a kitchen knife yesterday with no joy (knife's probably too blunt),,,I may be able to stab it with a screwdriver :eek: or find one of those old fashioned tin openers that you sort of hack into the can with a sharp edge??? I was kinda hoping someone else on here had one of those tins and knew what to do with it! I guess I'm the first to crack! Ah well, at least I should have the answers by December when everyone else tries to open theirs

Have you tried one of those tool things that people use to crack open paint pots with? I hope mine isn't the same come 1st December - please don't say you have a spongebob tin!

Decluttering

jakes-mum wrote: »

Oooo footie, I forgot to tell you!!! I have a confession!!

My names jakes-mum and I am a tea leaf!! My mum took me to debenhams to get DS's school uniform on saturday, we're wandering round and I see a really nice coat for him (he hasnt had one for 4 months!!) so I have a rummage and find one in his size. Carry on round, get him some trousers, shirts and a couple of jumpers and pop them in my scooters basket. Then im looking round, where have I put the coat? mum starts looking round the school stuff, cant find it so I pick another one up.

Anyway off to the till I go, pay for all my items and out the shop we go. Decide to pop into primark to have a look, and I find DS's coat on my lap . . . . oh mum must have put it there after she paid, so I pop it into the basket on top of the bag of shopping. Mum finds some nice trousers for DD and goes to put them in my basket . . . 'whats that coat doing there?' she says, 'you gave it to me you daft woman' I reply, thinking shes lost her marbles. 'No I didnt, DS's coat is in this bag' and out she fishes it . . . . and then it dawns, its the first coat I found and i've stolen it!!
Oooo didnt I feel bad!! so back to the shop we go and speak to a supervisor, amid huuuuge apologies I admit i've tea leafed their coat, she was very nice and said it does happen and seemed a bit surprised id brought it back!! Then she admitted they had 3 store detectives in that day and she was a bit annoyed that NONE of them had noticed me!!!

I done a similar thing in Mr T's, I wandered in, picked up a magazine to go in my basket, wandered around a little further and decided to try another shop for the things I needed. It was only when I was trying to squeeze through the narrow doors of the shop down the road that I realised I still had the magazine and the basket in my hand!

I was about 10 at the time and I ran back and paid for the magazine. I've never kept a receipt for so long, I had it for about 8 years as proof that I didn't steal it just in case the police came knocking regarding the great TOTP Magazine Theft of 2001!

sparky0107

Good morning everyone.
Sue what's all this talk about me being Scrooge (It's a poor excuse to rob a man's pockets every 25th of December!) How are you hun? hope the shoulder is coming along OK I also see you've enrolled some more pocket raiders to the SPC gang.

Decluttering thanks for the help with the calculations you were right in how they work and in the last month thanks to all the overtime I've managed to knock a whopping 17% off the outstanding debt

Still working silly hours and feeeling really tired but I'm working to be debt free by the end of the year and also saving for a trip to New York & Chicago

Welcome to our newest members enjoy being on here with us and enjoy saving.

I'm keeping up my regular £2 a day into the sealed pot and also popping any £2 coins and 50p's into the Poland spending fund which is now only 10 weeks away.

Have a great day everyone, stay safe and keep saving

Lost2

Morning all it's the last day of summer today


I put £10 in my money box it's coming along nicely

squeeeek

Sue- definitely right bout keeping fit, walking worse than my nana this morning....may need to borrow a stick lol

SuzytheFloozy

Putting some money back in the pot today - took out £72 to pay into the bank for my summer hols which was a lovely surprise (about 3 or 4 dinners-worth if I think about it!).

£3.41 going back in for Christmas spending!

(I also have a euro pot that I keep from holiday to holiday - 95euros in cash sitting on my shelf, plus 380 in the bank on a euro card. That should do me for next year's holiday!)

Smart_Guy

Hi All, been a longtime reader of this forum and thought i'd get involved. Already started a pot not sure how much is in so far but added £3.70 today. Have'nt got a look term target amount. Just gonna use the cash towards xmas

DorsetGirl_2

Hello Smart_Guy :hello:

Its so cold here. I am sat here in a fleece because I refuse to put the heating on in August, but its just so cold and miserable. My washing has been out all afternoon and its not dry either.

Put a nice shiny £2 coin in the pot today, which has cheered me up a little.