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  • Lynsey
    Lynsey Posts: 9,486 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Morning all.

    mumofthetwins - welcome and good luck with your savings.
    We are just into the 2nd half of this years challenge, so still time to get a decent pot in time for Xmas.

    mummytummy - nice potting and enjoy the UK. Don't forget your brolly. lol

    Potted £6.70 which included a 20p road-kill (first in ages!!).

    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)
  • AlwaysHappy
    AlwaysHappy Posts: 1,506 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hello everyone, still plodding away on the first tin (well not quite true - I have 3 on the go - one for the £'s, one for £2's and one for the rest) so perhaps that's why none of them are full.
    Anyway, £5.30 to the pot today, so must be getting there.
    I'm not a failure if I don't make it, I'm a success because I :tried!
  • siju
    siju Posts: 691 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Haven't put much in my pot recently - must try and remember! However, yesterday the car park machine gave me a whopping £18.20 back in change so I've put the lot in my sealed pot. Whoohoo :)
    SPC 19 - #009
  • ModestyB
    ModestyB Posts: 1,574 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hi Everyone

    GD passed her driving test 1st time :T She visits every day now :rotfl: :roftl: but its good to see her.


    XLC2

    Congratulations to your GDLC2.


    £3.01 potted last night.

    Hugs to all.
    S.P.C. 9 2016 No. 062 Banked £337.50
    My Gold Stars off Sue. :staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin :staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin :staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin:staradmin :staradmin
  • atolaas
    atolaas Posts: 1,143 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    10p potted today...I thought I'd found 5p roadkill earlier on. It turned out to be a rather grubby piece of chewing gum...:(!! One week till my hols :T Hopefully this time next week I will be sunning (ever the optimist!) myself on the south coast beach with Master ato (my son), Nana ato (my mum) & Auntie ato (my aunt & mum's sister) :p
    SPC7 ~ Member#390 ~ £432.45 declared :j
    Re-joined SW 9 Feb 2015 1 stone lost so far

    Her Serene Highness the Princess Atolaas of the Alphabetty Thread as appointed by Queen Upsidedown Bear
  • mumofthetwins
    mumofthetwins Posts: 1,111 Forumite
    managed to find £1.15 between the washing basket and the jean pockets :)
    and I even have the washing on the line so saving on TD too ;)

    lisa x
    DFW
    January £0/£11,100

    NSD
    January 1/31
  • katsta1
    katsta1 Posts: 35 Forumite
    Afternoon all

    £1 potted for me today

    Have a fabulous weekend
    New Debtbuster and Saving Fiend :D
    Sealed Pot Challenge 8 #327 Target £500
  • VickyA_2
    VickyA_2 Posts: 4,634 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Afternoon everyone :hello:

    20p potted today. I've also banked £20 worth of £1 coins which I had lying around. Better in my savings account than lying around! I've duly added it to my signature. :A

    My £2 coins are saved through the £2 savers as they have traditionally gone towards my road tax every October, otherwise my sealed pot would be burgeoning! :)

    Happy saving! :beer:
    Sealed Pot Challenge #021 #8 975.71 #9 £881.44 #10 £961.13 #11 £782.13 #12 £741.83 #13 £2135.22 #14 £895.53 #15 £1240.40 #16 £1805.87 #17 £1820.01 #18 £2021.83 declared
  • Wow, everyone is doing amazingly well with potting and brilliant potting dear Sue-uu :)Glad you're feeling a little better.

    DH gave me 2p to pot today but, bless him, has offered me £20 a month towards my petrol as I take him to work and back every weekend :A I gratefully accepted, of course :D So I am now back on an even keel, thank goodness.

    Hope all potters are warm & dry after a pretty miserable day x
    Sealed Pot Challenge #012
    SPC #5 £111 SPC #6 £175 SPC #7 £151 SPC#8 £78 SPC#9 £72.50 SPC #10 £23.50 SPC #11 £276.18
    SPC #12 £108.56 SPC 13 £127.89 SPC 14 £113.62
  • e4rub
    e4rub Posts: 720 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Hello potters!
    Just thought I would pop on while I have a few spare minutes and apologise for not posting for a while :o
    Well, the husband is now officially unemployed :mad: and things have been horrendous. He is unable to work at all and spent the last 6 weeks of his job on sickness. Not the best news, it is looking very likely that he is going to have a knee replacement, at the tender age of 40!
    So, I have had to return to full time employment and am not going to lie, I am finding it very hard and tiring.
    I hardly see the kids and am pretty miserable at the mo :(
    I am still potting but money is pretty tight.
    I hope you all are having better luck than us :D

    Take care

    Emily xx
    Debt Free Date 1st August 2016 Sealed Pot Challenge #14
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