"Sealed Pot Challenge" ~ 7

Sue-UU

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sparky0107 wrote:

Good Morning everyone
Fantastic trip to New York, had every kind of weather you could imagine, -15 to -20 degrees upto 50F rain, snow, clear blue sky's & the icing on the cake, snow last Friday as we walking to Central Park to go ice skating. Also took a day trip to Washington DC. Totally jet lagged for the last couple of days but it was sooooo worth it.

Hiya sparky! :hello: It's so good to see you both safely back again. I'm not a bit surprised at the weather you've had, but as you say, the snow had to be the creme de le creme! I just LOVE ice skating though haven't been for a year or six now. What a homecoming it must have been for you both thus time with the old dragon GONE!!!!! :mad: Great to see you and say hello to J for T & I, please. BTW, I'm fine thanks, just one of those bouts.

I'm hoping you'll have a sizeable chink to pot, moomin. Fingers crossed.

Good for you, lynnsey30, the caravan will be happy about that.

Oh, very well done, siju! A great sum. :j

Hollygym wrote:

Had a quiet couple of days, but out spending for DS2's birthday party on Saturday. I saved 60p to pot today by parking further out of town and walking into the centre, so into the pot that's gone. I've also done another pocket raid in DH and this time only managed 50p, but its better in my pot than his pocket! :rotfl:

I love to hear of folk doing that, Hollygym, far better in your pot than lining the bus company's pockets. :j Ah, your DH will be happy with his pocket rummages having mounted up come November - if he knows! BTW, DD means Daughter......but I think your Birthday boy is exactly that! I hope he has a lovely one and all the best with the cake, rather you than me!


Good for you on the shoes sale, samtoby.

Yay.....you finished the cake, jakes-mum, and what a good job you made, well done you!!!! Wherever was your head when making that appointment????! Poor lass.

A good pot, Broke Kitty, though that sounds a bit like snooker! :undecided You did well anyway.

If you're weird in shaking the pot to hear it rattle, skyblueshez, then we all are.

It's still darned good, Vicky.

Well done with the cash, Ruth, but surely you're not having rice alone are you???! :eek:

Ah...not so bad then, mossy, helped you out of a hole maybe. All the best with the running, it's always worth keeping fit, after all, why not. :j

Fingers crossed for you with the £5er, Saver88.

Meowhouse wrote:

Also had broken tooth refilled at the dentist this week and they said it was a freebie!! I know how good was that:j:j:j so in celebration when I have been to the bank tommorow I am going to feed my pot a big fat £20 note :T:T

Meowhouse, I am so very, very happy for you - what a fantastic saving!!!!! :j:T:j

Hi gottogo! Good to see you and well done on the saving.

1p roadkill for me today!

Have a great day, everyone, and let nothing interfere with your saving!

PLEASE NOTE everyone: It's time to change your numbers! You'll see there are LOADS less names and numbers now, but it's useless having folk on the list that no longer save with us. However, if old members return then you'll be made very welcome and can still have your name added and be given a new number. Please change numbers ASAP folks.

If you've already updated your No, please could you kindly make sure it's correct as I made a blunder to start with!

Very many thanks indeed.

Sue x

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mooomin

Sue-UU wrote: »

I'm hoping you'll have a sizeable chink to pot, moomin. Fingers crossed.

Let's tot it up, shall we?

£10 left in my purse, but I'm potting £6 (with the other £4 going in my £2 jar)

I walked home again (and don't my legs know it?!) so that's £1.50 and I had a spare £1 left in my bus fare purse, so that's going in the pot too.

Finally I've got £2.08 left in my office tea fund, so that's going in as well...a grand total to the Sealed Pot of £10.58 :j

Not bad for the night before payday!

jakes-mum

Ty ladies, im no cake boss but I was pretty happy with the result, Miss Lily came up to me and whispered 'mummy can you make me another cake like that next year?' so I think she liked it but I was a bit :eek: ive got to do that AGAIN!?!?! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Mums birthday in 10 days so am thinking of doing another cake with the left over icing ive got, not a minecraft one though :eek: I dont think she would appreciate it quite as much :rotfl: oh and I didnt photograph them but I covered a couple of jakes gluten free toffee slices with left over icing and had a TNT on one and a green monster on the other so he wasnt left out I was going to make him buns but after 4 hrs id seriously had enough :rotfl:

samtoby

Planning a NSD tomorrow as the weekend will have to involve money spending boo

glassy2010

jakes mum your cake was really good im a chef but no good at the baking side lol

nice to see you back sparky glad you enjoyed your holidays

sue-uu if you had seen the size of the jiffy bag and sealed plastic bag i had a rubber washer sent to me in youd never belive it it must have been 1000 times bigger than the washer what a waste (well not really ill reuse it)

£9.85 potted today change from petrol for my bike and i took my own lunch to work so put that money in too

its our anniversary on tuesday been together 2 years now been friends for 20 years so its all good a nice meal is in order but will let some1 else cook for a change!

happy potting all

minmac

Had a £5 off Tesco shopping voucher.... so put the £5 in my bottle

I never thought to save all the money I save on buying things.... I literally never pay full price for anything because i'm a tight git lol - from now on its going in the bottle!

Saver-upper

Oooohhhh,thank you for my shiny new star,Sue: off to find some coins for the pot to celebrate :rotfl:.
I hope you are keeping well,Sue.Thank you for looking after us so beautifully.

AlwaysHappy

Morning folks, emptied out my purse yesterday (after paying cash for my shopping which is the first time EVER) - £3.64 for the pot. I still am amazed how liberating this challenge is.

DreamerHelen

I think the Cake is WONDERFUL Jakes-Mum....but can I confess at being REALLY old because I have NO IDEA who or what Minecraft is!!

Adding another 71p to the Pot this morning....From next month I plan on putting MUCH more in!!

samtoby

When will this rain ever stop! It will deffinatly be a NSD as I am not going out apart from the school run!