"Sealed Pot Challenge 5"

CoffeeCup

Yes must sort pot!

Dosh in a dish at the mo...

samtoby

starnac wrote: »

I don't blame you. He is scary. :rotfl:

When Mr Tumble used to come on the tv my son used to turn it off. :j

But when the Night Garden Series began I had to watch it continually. :eek: The blinking Tombiboo's.:eek:

EverTheOptimist

A very Happy Birthday tomorrow :bdaycake:and YES, spend some and save the rest of the money in your pot! Save us a bit of cake!


Thanks for the birthday wishes Sue.


Well i have done extremely well out of this birthday lark. I have decided to pot £10 for now, debating whether to pot anymore, don't want to waste it on day to day stuff, so will give myself a couple of weeks to spend it on a treat for me, then will pot whats left.

Right off to read the last few pages so much to keep up with.

Hope everyone is well. Keep potting.

ETO
x

RedGoose

Have made my pot out of a clean golden syrup tin (I struggle to throw them away as they're so pretty) and have topped it with a disc of card cut from an egg box (didn't trust myself to cut hole in the tin lid of a weekeday evening...)

Think I'll put in the money I save not having lattes at work every day (down to one small one a week and bringing my own disposable filter coffees in) and/or anything I've saved as a result of a "MoneySaving choice" (e.g. smarter shopping, "no, I don't need a magazine" etc).

I might give myself a target next year but want to see how much I save first.

System

I found a lovely blue and white striped bicuit jar with no lid, lurking in my kitchen. So I sealed the top with sellotape and it's now sitting proudly on the windowsill with 22p in :T

My cunning plan is that my daughter might throw her change in too... but then I'd have to share it in November! Not so cunning then. I made £5 at work today selling some old Christmas lights - which bought my lunch and i still have some change to pot. Good times

mlbarrett

Just a quick question as I haven't got enough to have a good search through the posts...

As we have a couple of months coming up where we are council tax payment free, can this be added to the sealed pot also? It'll stop the temptation of spending it

mfmaybe

I think this could get addictive. Buoyed by yesterday's amazing cash finds, I am already wondering how to maximise my pot! Found £3 in my coat pocket this morning and instead of thinking Oh good I can buy a coffee, I thought Oh good that's going in the pot.:j Then when I was buying lunch I paid with as much shrapnel as I could muster so that the leftover £1 coins could go in the pot! So should have another £4 to put in today.

I worked out to reach my target I need to put in £10/week approx, and I've already done that in 2 days this week, albeit I don't think it will be so easy going forward.

luckycharlie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETO!!!

:bdaycake::bdaycake::bdaycake::bdaycake:

AlternateMe

RedGoose wrote: »

Think I'll put in the money I save not having lattes at work every day (down to one small one a week and bringing my own disposable filter coffees in) and/or anything I've saved as a result of a "MoneySaving choice" (e.g. smarter shopping, "no, I don't need a magazine" etc)

Hi RedGoose, a few years ago I set myself a news years resolution of not having my morning Starbucks (a tradition i'd been doing for the previous 2 years!) and taking in a flask with herbal tea instead, in an attempt to save money and cut down my caffeine. Every day, Monday to Friday, i'd get to work and before I did anything else i'd open the internet and transfer £2.25 to my savings account. I did that so it felt worth it every day to have sacrificed the coffee and so I didn't get complacement. I

I did it for literally the entire year (from my birthday in Jan-birthday following Jan) and guess how much was in there at the end... £535!!!! :j

redbull5

Another £5.45 in my lovely tin today! I can't wait till end of the year to find out how much will be in it....