Give yourself an xmas bonus for christmas 2012

philmts

Hi guys im fairly new here on the forums, this is my first post but i browse them alot.

I have seen a few posts about people setting targets for saving for 2012.

Now these are great ideas for other to use but my idea of for those on a lower income like myself.

The idea is simple, save £1 a day from now untill xmas 2012.

Either put it into a savings account or a box that you will hide away out of the reach of any temptation.

When xmas comes you will have over £350 saved up tax free to spend on those all important pressents.

For me £350 is more than enough to give myself, my partener and my 3 children a great day.
If i get her involved then it will be a £700 xmas bonus

I hope some people will be joining me on this saving journey

Remember it does not have to be £1 a day it could be £2 or even £5 if you can

Good luck all
Phil :rotfl:

p.s.

I decided to setup a little facebook group to make it a little more fun and easy to track/share ideas on how we have helped to not dip into it or how close we were to temptation

Since I cannot post links yet just search '£1/$1 a day' on facebook

dell-boy

Phill......a simple but great idea, nice one.

ScarletRaven

That is a really great idea! So simple, can't believe more people don't think like that! I may join in on this one myself

gill37

Why didn't I think of that such a simple idea. I'll be doing that. Piggy bank at the ready!

Abbafan1972

I will have to try this again. Tried it a couple of years ago and ended up dipping into it!

Money_maker

Already has a thread https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3693237

philmts

Glad to see people are interested in this idea

JennyJewell

I'll join in please
I'll join you on facebook too if that's ok
Many thanx and Happy New Year
Jenny x

Shezz

Hi All

I'm with you on this, I am going to put a 1.00 a day into my bottle till christmas next year

I got one of those water bottles from a drinks machine and have it standing in the bottom of my wardrobe, outta site outta mind

GL to all who are joining in on this

Denzel09uk

This is a great Idea, and I have started this today too. I was going to make a seperate post about something im doing to save for next christmas.
I often shop in Tesco`s and if you do, save up your clubcard vouchers. They are valid for 1 year. Keep them safe till next christmas and use them for your shopping. We saved them for 2 months and had about £20 worth. now over the year thats £120 for food.

Happy saving peeps.

Denzel

jackomdj

Denzel09uk wrote: »

save up your clubcard vouchers. They are valid for 1 year. Keep them safe till next christmas and use them for your shopping. We saved them for 2 months and had about £20 worth. now over the year thats £120 for food.

Happy saving peeps.

Denzel

We do similar but exchange them for goldsmiths vouchers at 4x the value for the last two years and use for/towards presents. Last year we had £300 towards Oh's watch and this year £180 for my lovelinks bracelet.