£2012 in 2012

SueP19

aliwali wrote: »

Hi, can I just ask then are you putting that £2.50 aside in a separate account, or are you just counting it as a saving and adding it to an abstract total? I'm asking as I am actually trying to make £2012 in actual cash, so I guess if I'm going to count savings like yours I would have to put the cash in my savings account. The only problem with that being that often I have to make savings otherwise I wouldn't be able to get through the month!!

I know I'm waffling just interested in how others are approaching the challenge.

I get you, me too on the making ends meet :mad:

I am putting the savings into a separate account but because my budget is tight on everything I am adding it as an expense to next weeks budget, that way I can stick to what I have this week and can "pay myself" first next week.................hope that makes sense, it seems to work for me

I don't save when I get a reduced item, I don't think I would be able to cope with that, just the coupons

SueP19

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Won £25 on the lottery so added that to my total

Raine_E_Day

aliwali wrote: »

Hi, can I just ask then are you putting that £2.50 aside in a separate account, or are you just counting it as a saving and adding it to an abstract total? I'm asking as I am actually trying to make £2012 in actual cash, so I guess if I'm going to count savings like yours I would have to put the cash in my savings account. The only problem with that being that often I have to make savings otherwise I wouldn't be able to get through the month!!

I know I'm waffling just interested in how others are approaching the challenge.

Not waffling at all - I'm with you here! Looking for bargains is, by necessity, a way of life with me. For instance, yesterday I bought £8.99 gammon joint for 50p in M & S and enough 10p soap powder and fabric conditioner in Superdrug (thanks Grabbit Board!) to last me a year. A massive saving, but I'm not counting it.

alliboy03

I already saved £500 in 2011 is it cheating by adding that to the start of my saving balance for the 2012 challenge?:o

pdnw

Have been following this thread from the start and have been saving, but now am jumping in.

£100/£2012 4.9%:money:

chelmsfordgirl1

Raine e day - can you post the link for the gammon? I have looked but can't find it

CompletelyLost

Everyone's steaming ahead of me... I've added a couple of tiny ebay sales to my sig. I'll be lucky to hit £100 this month.

CrazyRatLady_2

After my recent success selling to webuybooks, I went to the library today and browsed their for sale shelf, picked up two books for 50p each that are worth £1.97 and £3.51 to webuybooks - now just got to find enough more books to get that up to £15 and I'll make a worth while amount out of that!

CompletelyLost

CrazyRatLady wrote: »

After my recent success selling to webuybooks, I went to the library today and browsed their for sale shelf, picked up two books for 50p each that are worth £1.97 and £3.51 to webuybooks - now just got to find enough more books to get that up to £15 and I'll make a worth while amount out of that!

What sort of books are you selling to them?
I've tried loads of titles and they never accept any of them!

LisaJane

CompletelyLost wrote: »

What sort of books are you selling to them?
I've tried loads of titles and they never accept any of them!

Hi completely lost...the best prices I got were for old uni textbooks. Most of the paperback novels in my bookcase weren't accepted. Most of them were accepted on Zapper, however only for around 30p per book most of the time. That sounds like a great idea to look library for sale sections and I suppose charity shops...must get on to that one, could be an easy way to make some cash!