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"Sealed Pot Challenge" ~ 7

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  • Has been a slacker this week. Ended up working 30 miles from usual all week so quite exhausted but awake for a shower so will get that purse tipped out....... if not remembered see you all Saturday have a good friday all; keep safe

    Hicks
    SPC#19 - 7-£666.54, 8-£489, 9-£264 10-£376 11- £305.8p 12 £329 13 - £315 14/£214 15 £177 16 £253 SPC 17 £0 of £250

    Swaggers - 2015/£285, 2016/£270, 2017/£460, 2018/£420, 2019 / £183, 2020 / £226, 2021/£135, 2022/£
  • Hi everyone, hope you're all well.
    Potted 4 x £2 coins, :j

    Night all

    Lynn
    SPC7 #367
    :j
  • Indie_Kid
    Indie_Kid Posts: 23,100 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Have potted nothing since Tuesday. May be a bit low (for me anyway) on the amouny I'm potting this week. No swimming tomorrow; so no change from that.
    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
  • e4rub
    e4rub Posts: 720 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Banked another £30.00, so total banked is £180.00 :j

    Emily x
    Debt Free Date 1st August 2016 Sealed Pot Challenge #14
  • Saver-upper
    Saver-upper Posts: 2,348 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 13 February 2014 at 11:25PM
    perhaps I should take it out tomorrow for valentines day.
    haha[1].gif
    Absolutely priceless.Still sniggering at the image of you having a cosy candle-lit meal with your pot,haha.
    Brilliant!:rotfl:

    Oh,yeah,forgot to mention I potted 68p,found around the house while tidying up today and yesterday.Those coins DO make the house look sooooo untidy!
    SPC #36 :staradminx 8.SPC7=£751.10 SPC8=£651.04 SPC9=£843.00 SPC10=£872.76
    Pinecone £301,Valued Opinions £10.50





  • Hope78
    Hope78 Posts: 755 Forumite
    Yes, unless they are doing a separate challenge with £1 or £2 coins. Any that I have get dropped into a separate pot but are all included at the end. I just keep them separate so that they are easy to count in November :)

    Thanks, I'll keeping dropping mine in my other pot but not keep 'count' of them then hopefully a lovely surprise when I count in November.

    It's great to see I'm by the only one who gives their pot a 'shake' I swirl mine round to 'hear' how its filling up my wee niece has a pot at my house too and she (at 16months) rattles hers to hear her pennies!
    LBM 03/07 £44k:eek: DFD 31/12/17 :A 12/17 £2545.50
    Credit Card £2500.00 & Next £45.00
    Savings = £81.21 & Help To Buy ISA = £4700.00
  • mooomin
    mooomin Posts: 13,703 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    A nice handful of change in the pot yesterday and I counted up my £2 coin jar (not for this challenge as the funds are allocated) and had £240 available to bank :j

    I'm going to count up my Sealed Pot this weekend and bank it. Someone on MSE mentioned how their friend lost £600 when they got burgled and I realised how much money I have just sitting around in coins :o

    I've set up an account and called it Sealed Pot, so all my savings from this will go in there and I will add any bankings to my signature :D
  • So another £1.60 Potted this morning....Slowly Slowly...I know I will get there...just have to keep Potting the Pennies and the Pounds will take care of themselves :j :D :j
  • Good morning all, had to nip to the shop last night to get some change for little ones school dinner today so changed a £20 note, got a lovely £2 coin and lots of £1 which I potted straight away, still have £25 in my purse for the weekend..
    #350 - £215
    The 1% Challenge #76 - Debt 1 = £620 - 1% = £6.20 - 4.3%
    Debt 2 = £1600- 1% = £16 - 0%
    Debt 3 = £1012 - 1% = £10.12 0%

    Pay all your debt by Xmas 2016 #130- £465.86/£7636.46 - 6.1 %
    Make £10 a day ~ Jan £182.49, Feb £373.65
  • Counted up my shrapnel today and changed it into $2 (I'm only saving $2 coins) they are now tucked away in my sealed sweetie jar :) total today so far $16 :beer:
    MFiT-T7 #17 (Jan 2025) £193k (Apr) £177k (July) £159k (Oct) £139,900 (Jan 2026)

    SPC 19 #6 £29.50
    Regular Saver A/C (24/25) £2800 (25/26) £

    SPC’s (1)£27.19 (2)£728 (3)£1471 (4)£357 (5)£435.18 (6)£1114.92 (7)£1492 (8)£392 (9)£1952 (10)£1866.65 (11)£1177.74 (12)£1445.39 (13)£1608 (14)£603.30 (15)£672 (16)£2563 (17)£1300 (18)£353.50 (19)£
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