Starting again, 1% at a time. 100 ways to make £80!

Decluttering

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt wrote: »

Well done Crafting! So what's the plan then! New target on the horizon? Will you be starting from zero or heading into the hundreds of percent? I've added a little star to your number in the list - first saver to reach their goal! Amazing!

Not that I'm jealous or anything but do I get a star too for finishing my first challenge earlier this month?

Hehe, sorry this feels so petty. It's like when my brother would be told he could have a biscuit and if my mum didn't immediately say "you can have one too", I'd be like "can I have one?!?!?!" I just like stars a lot, that's all

happytails

Morning! Another 2 bids on my Ebay things

Also this might be of use to some - http://www.argos.co.uk/static/ArgosPromo3/includeName/argos-toy-exchange.htm?!!!!!ar:cat:gamesandpuzzles:gamesandpuzzlescontenteditorialblockone:slot3:promosbarnardos

Argos are doing a toy swap. Donate your kids old toys to Argos (They then pass these on to barnardos) and you get a £5 voucher to spend off a £35 toy purchase at Argos (thinking if you are getting rid of some stuff anyway and still need to buy Xmas presents its basically £5 off )

Not much planned today in the way of Money saving but will see if i manage anything! x

fedupandskint

Another 2 items listed on ebay - lots of watchers on the other things too, so here's hoping they sell. If they all sell for the minimum that's 0.5% reached.

Used up my monthly selling total - this is new to me as wasn't on last time I used ebay, its been a while!

Decided as I need to pop to the shop today to call into town and see what kind of price I can get for the phone.

daveinliverpool

Decluttering wrote: »

In my local bank it's the Business Banking desk that you need to go to (it's behind glass and backs onto an office usually). If you go to the front desk when you walk in someone should be able to point you in the right direction

I just tried paying in my coin bags at the Halifax, they are now only accepting 5 bags per customer per day.

craftingmad

Hi everone,

Thanks for the star Little Miss (but I have a feeling I was not actually the first to reach the 100% traget) - but please don't take it away now - it looks amazing

Well I thought it was time I added an update seeing as I managed to pay more money into the savings.

I have just transferred £53 into the savings account from sales of my handmade items from facebook / private sales :j

So I am now declaring:-

Member 17 = 10% :j

I can't belive I have reached 10% of my second traget already. This challenge is certain just what I needed to kick start my bottom!!!

I hjave also carried out a couple of mystery shops today so have £17 waiting to be paid to me from these and signed up for another two next week (on top of the two I have to carry out tomorrow) so altogether I should have a couple of % entering the pot later.

Keep % ing everyone xxx

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt

Decluttering wrote: »

Not that I'm jealous or anything but do I get a star too for finishing my first challenge earlier this month?

Hehe, sorry this feels so petty. It's like when my brother would be told he could have a biscuit and if my mum didn't immediately say "you can have one too", I'd be like "can I have one?!?!?!" I just like stars a lot, that's all

:eek: Oh Decluttering! I'm SO sorry! Yes, of course, I'll add it on now! Fantastic news!

I've found your post from the other day when you had completed it! Doh! Silly me! You should be shouting from the rooftops in size 78 red letters

Decluttering wrote: »

...officially made it past the 100% mark!

1% = £5
Target = £500
Total So Far = 100%

This is fantastic news for me, I thought it would be impossible to have this money together by the beginning of Feburary and now it means that I can consider doing another module towards my degree sooner than I would have been able to.

Would it be okay if I joined again with a new target? The rest of my degree will come to about £2500 if my calculations are correct, I'd like to get this money put aside as quickly as possible so I can start saving towards other financial goals. That would make my new goal £2500, with 1% being £25.

So now both 1st & 2nd are on the board!

Decluttering

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt wrote: »

:eek: Oh Decluttering! I'm SO sorry! Yes, of course, I'll add it on now! Fantastic news!

I've found your post from the other day when you had completed it! Doh! Silly me! You should be shouting from the rooftops in size 78 red letters



So now both 1st & 2nd are on the board!

Haha, don't worry about it, personally I think craftingmad has done better than me to get her target so quickly but I do like the star

Decluttering

daveinliverpool wrote: »

I just tried paying in my coin bags at the Halifax, they are now only accepting 5 bags per customer per day.

Argh, how annoying. I went to Bank of Scotland with about 10 bags at the end of last year and they had no issues with paying it in. It was literally a weight off my shoulders because the were REALLY REALLY heavy sitting in my bag on the way to the bank!

happytails

Afternoon. Nothing saved. Spent actually but its an investment purchase for DS' birthday. Used the Argos toy donation scheme and got my £5 off. Previous to going i checked online and the toys i wanted for him were £5 off already on 1 and £30 off on the other (50% saving!) so i bought them both, would be £75 without discount and voucher, was £38 all in :j Thats his birthday sorted now!

Really made progress this month Xmas wise without getting further into debt, and actually getting out of debt at the same time Feels good!

Sarah x

fedupandskint

Good afternoon everyone, thanks to this thread it prompted me to see how much I could get for an old phone. Have just sold it for £40.07, £10 more than offered instore in town.

I'll pay the check in when I get it and use it to pay off some more of CC instead of frittering it away merrily like I would have done in the past

Another one who counted out some change this afternoon! l counted out £45 of 1p and 2p and 20ps