"Sealed Pot Challenge ~ No 6"

dinglefoot

Welcome whizzybee! I love the username

I've potted £2.50 today (£2 of which was from the claimed scratchcard win!) and am planning to raid my OH's change stash in the car tomorrow. How dare he hoard pennies he's not going to use when we have a pot to fill :rotfl:

Trying to get more optimistic...thinking about family and friends who might be able to help and how we can do things more cheaply. My OH even went with the possibility of a registry office, which I was shocked about, as I thought he had his heart set on the church where his Mum is and didn't think he'd budge on that. I'm also looking on ebay at dresses...could take me a while to find something as there's never much on there in my size

new_leaf_88

Hi everyone

A nice £3 potted for me today :j:j have not been potting recently as have not been spending much cash. I suppose that is a bonus though. Happy potting everyone :)

dinglefoot

Well done new leaf 88 It all adds up in one way or another after all

Oooh, because it's funny I thought I'd mention something weird happened earlier (that wasn't very MSE really, as it ended up in me spending money I didn't really need to spend at that moment in time).
I went to Asda and my OH told me over the phone that we needed crisps and sandwich filler. So I end the call and walk around doing the shopping. I recall that my OH asked me to buy some cat litter. When my OH arrives at Asda and I get in the car, struggling with the heavy cat litter bag, he says "why did you buy cat litter?"
I said "you told me to!" and he replied, "no, I said we needed crisps and sandwich filler, but not cat litter. We've still got about a third of a bag".
I said "I know you didn't ask me to get some on the phone, but you did ask me to this morning. You asked whether next time I was in Wilkos or a supermarket I could pick up a bag of their cheap cat litter. I thought it was a bit strange asking me to, as I'd have to carry it home on the bus and it'd be a real pain, but I thought this would be a good time as I knew you'd be around to collect me"

He didn't ask me to buy cat litter at all, even this morning apparently.
So what's the verdict...am I losing my marbles...or dreaming about cat litter...or both?

mossy

Hey all you lovely peeps!!

I'm just so excited I needed to share this. Some of you may have read that I'm doing an online English Composition course via a university in America. There are 67k students signed up to it (a lot of it is peer reviewed in case you wondering how the professor could mark all that work lol).

Anyway, we've just submitted our first project, a draft of a critical review about a book. They have done two online group workshops where eight people got to take part. They were doing another one where only four people could take part, so I thought, hey why not put my name down!! Out of the hundreds of people who applied I have been picked as one of the four people to have an online workshop with the professor and we'll be reviewing each others work....eeek!!! I'm so excited and a little scared!! :eek: :j

Wish me luck tomorrow, I don't want to end up having a youtube video of me talking like a plank so I'm hoping it goes well and is really useful for my writing! One very happy Mossy!! :dance:

p.s DH says he's going to dress up as a giant rat and prance around behind me lol!!! :rotfl:

ToniLiz

Wow, well done Mossy - sounds brilliant (and a bit scary!!). Good luck tomorrow.

Just popped on to say another handful of coinage added to the pot. MIL brings over a bag of spare change every two weeks which the kids have happily donated to the pot (bless em). Pot getting really heavy now, hee hee.

Lynsey

Morning all, I've not had anything to pot for a few days.
Welcome to the "newbies" - good luck.

DreamerHelen - well done, you are getting back on track.

Potted 1 x £2, 3 x £1 and 3 x 20p coins = £5.60 potted and hoping for more today.

£213+ and desperate to get to £250 - my half-way mark and the top of my "mental hill" - all downhill from there. lol

Take care all.

Lynsey

DreamerHelen

Lynsey wrote: »

DreamerHelen - well done, you are getting back on track.

Thanks hun....It really feels like I'll get there and that I AM getting there slowly....

out_of_debt_at_last

Opened my tin as buying a house and want to make sure i stay debt free apart from the mortgage, and there was £115 in it very pleased as it went towards a solictors fee for searches! The tin is now resealed! yay!

crimson.addict

whizzybee wrote: »

Ooh, could I please be counted into this challenge? Although I have only joined the forum, I already have a sealed pot so I have a total so far of £85.50 this year, which I am very chuffed about! I have been guilty of dipping in, in the past however I feel inspired to properly seal it and do my very best to save save save!

Welcome to the thread Everyone here is very friendly so post often my mummy and her family are Wisbeys so your name reminds me of her lol.

mossy wrote: »

DH says he's going to dress up as a giant rat and prance around behind me lol!!! :rotfl:

Well done on being chosen. If your DH genuinely does do that be sure to send me a link HAHA

out_of_debt_at_last wrote: »

Opened my tin as buying a house and want to make sure i stay debt free apart from the mortgage, and there was £115 in it very pleased as it went towards a solictors fee for searches! The tin is now resealed! yay!

Well done on all you've saved so far. Could you add your amount to your signature so you don't forget to include it in November Good luck on the new house and the move also x


Ruth

mishmogs

dinglefoot wrote: »

So what's the verdict...am I losing my marbles...or dreaming about cat litter...or both?

BOTH, cos I do this as well... ummm not with cat litter but wif t'other stuff! I have what I call my DOH moments.

DH took a crate of CDs into work to sell and split the money 3 ways, me, him and as he is a community first responder, with them. My takings of £33 has gone into my pot, only have about 50 more to sell and left overs I think we will either try and sell at a car boot or I think, magpie???

Think we might have a go at the DVDs next.

Cold but sunny day in Suffolk, bed stripped, washing on the line flapping away and... the first Mrs Blackbird sitting on her nest! No frogs spawn yet, must be too cold for them!