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"Sealed Pot Challenge" ~ 7

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  • mooomin
    mooomin Posts: 13,703 Forumite
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    Oh well, THANK YOU POSH M&S LADY! and thanks for calling me sonny lol despite looking like a tramp at the moment...

    At least you're a youthful tramp :D
  • sams247
    sams247 Posts: 1,365 Forumite
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    Had two days off work so no spend days and no change days.

    Today I am hoping for a shiny £1 to make it to the pot
      To those who are given much, much is expected

        £2025 in 2025 = £680.60
          Food Budget £180/9.30.
            Fiver Friday #13 £35
          1. 3 days of lunch money not spent therefore £18 in the pot, £1.39 from purse, 65p from husbands pockets and 2x1p road kill! £22.04


            Poor hubbie! ;)
          2. Potted 1p found on the counter in the kitchen earlier x
          3. Been to an ASDA, a smaller one near me rather than the massive (I need to fill my trolley with bargains one!) Being smaller I bought less, especially junk food (on a diet again!) and out of £20 I got £6.99 change, so in the pot it goes! Then I found 20p outside the gate of where I live!

            Total Potted £7.19

            :T:j:T:j
          4. Lynsey
            Lynsey Posts: 9,486 Forumite
            I've been Money Tipped!
            Afternoon all, glorious sunny day here for the time of year.
            skilly wrote: »
            not much spending at mo as still got cold and sore throat which granddaughter kindly give me at Xmas .

            I bet you'd rather had a box of chocolates. :D
            Sorry, hope you recover quickly. Hubby has had that sore throat thingy that's going around for over 4 weeks (on and off). Lots seem to be having the same problems throughout the country!!

            Done a little sales shopping and did well.

            Potted a £2 coin (change from Ikea breakfast) and 2 x 20p coins = £2.40 potted.

            Lynsey
            **** Sealed Pot Challenge - Member #96 ****
            No. 9 target £600 - :staradmin (x21)
            No. 6 Total £740.00 - No. 7 £1000.00 - No. 8 £875.00 - No. 9 £700.00 (target met)
          5. cattysmum
            cattysmum Posts: 1,263 Forumite
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            Afternoon, a good couple of days for my little pot, I found £1.60 in a coat pocket that I had not had on since last winter which went streight into my pot and today just a cheeky 20p piece that should have gone into hubbys 20p jar but I mistakenly popped it into my pot.... whoops;)
            SPC No. 295 - SPC No10 target £350
            #1603:staradmin/
            SPC 2014 £150/SPC 2015 £256SPC 2016 £324
            Saving for Florida 2018 :j
            Matched betting toe dipper.
          6. Indie_Kid
            Indie_Kid Posts: 23,100 Forumite
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            just don't hide it so well that you can't find it come November haha

            Ruth x

            I did this a few years ago.:o I now have £30 of silver in my room somewhere.

            41p potted today.
            Sealed pot challenge #232. Gold stars from Sue-UU - :staradmin :staradmin £75.29 banked
            50p saver #40 £20 banked
            Virtual sealed pot #178 £80.25
          7. 3431Anna
            3431Anna Posts: 363 Forumite
            Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
            Another 24.35 potted today !!!!! Its really starting to mount up
            20p savers club 2013#23 83.00 (2014 numer 6,70.00 pounds) 2036SPC No 6(2013) 182.34
            2.00 savers club no 159
            SPC No 7 2036(2014) 369.[2[ SPC No 8 197.45 (no 114)
          8. Indie_Kid
            Indie_Kid Posts: 23,100 Forumite
            Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
            mooomin wrote: »
            My local RBS also has a machine which takes loose coins - I love the noise it makes when you pour in a bag of them!

            I broke one of these machines.:o It doesn't tell you that you have to take the coins out of the bag (I'm Autistic; so take many things literally) and I put the bag into machine as well.

            A friend replied with: "it doesn't tell you not to poo in those machines. Most of us know not to".:rotfl:
            Sealed pot challenge #232. Gold stars from Sue-UU - :staradmin :staradmin £75.29 banked
            50p saver #40 £20 banked
            Virtual sealed pot #178 £80.25
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