£2.00 Savers Club 2015

Gem-gem

Hubby did his duty and came home with 2 x £2 coins yesterday.
I enjoyed hearing the sound as they plopped into my pot.

scotmumof3

Hi everybody I am so glad to be back online. My laptop died and I had to save up for a new one I have been potting away but will have to count it and update my siggy. Hope you are all well and collecting lots of coins

Gem-gem

scotmumof3 wrote: »

Hi everybody I am so glad to be back online. My laptop died and I had to save up for a new one I have been potting away but will have to count it and update my siggy. Hope you are all well and collecting lots of coins

Welcome back online Scotmumof3.


5 x £2 coins collected today. woo Hoo!

Twiggy_34

Swapped a coin with my OH last night bringing me to a total of £158 (it may be higher in reality as I lost track of which coins I'd logged on one or two occasions but decided to play safe and not declare them!). According to my tally so far I'm only one coin away of equalling my achievement from 2013 but still a little way to go to beat last years total.

I bought a sealed money tin a couple of weeks ago which I plan to use in 2016 to save my coins in - I don't know how many will fit in it, but intend to use the contents to treat myself to something nice once it's full. I've also been thinking about christmas gifts for friends & family this last few weeks and have pretty much decided to buy everyone terramundi pots. I thought it would be a great thing to incentivise my friends to stash some cash away so they can treat themselves to something special once they've filled them up.

scotmumof3

Ok I have added my stash up and drum roll please......... there is £632 in the pot :j:j. I will be using some of that when I go on holiday in October but there will still be some left for xmas :)

Gem-gem

scotmumof3 wrote: »

Ok I have added my stash up and drum roll please......... there is £632 in the pot :j:j. I will be using some of that when I go on holiday in October but there will still be some left for xmas :)

Wow! Well done scotmumof3 £632 that is a nice amount for your holiday and Xmas.

scotmumof3

Gem-gem wrote: »

Wow! Well done scotmumof3 £632 that is a nice amount for your holiday and Xmas.

It will come in really handy. Wouldn't have saved it if I hadn't been doing this challenge so thanks

Gem-gem

Twiggy_34 wrote: »

Swapped a coin with my OH last night bringing me to a total of £158 (it may be higher in reality as I lost track of which coins I'd logged on one or two occasions but decided to play safe and not declare them!). According to my tally so far I'm only one coin away of equalling my achievement from 2013 but still a little way to go to beat last years total.

I bought a sealed money tin a couple of weeks ago which I plan to use in 2016 to save my coins in - I don't know how many will fit in it, but intend to use the contents to treat myself to something nice once it's full. I've also been thinking about christmas gifts for friends & family this last few weeks and have pretty much decided to buy everyone terramundi pots. I thought it would be a great thing to incentivise my friends to stash some cash away so they can treat themselves to something special once they've filled them up.

That's a good idea for a Christmas present. Are you going to put the first coin into each of them?

triple_choc_chip

Gem-gem wrote: »

That's a good idea for a Christmas present. Are you going to put the first coin into each of them?

Oh, that takes me back. My Nan and Mum would never give a purse as a present without a coin in it otherwise superstition would dictate that the recipient would always be poor. It didn't work though - we were always poor anyway!:rotfl:

Twiggy_34

Gem-gem wrote: »

That's a good idea for a Christmas present. Are you going to put the first coin into each of them?

triple_choc_chip wrote: »

Oh, that takes me back. My Nan and Mum would never give a purse as a present without a coin in it otherwise superstition would dictate that the recipient would always be poor. It didn't work though - we were always poor anyway!:rotfl:

Thanks guys, that's a nice idea to include a coin with them as well (although I do wonder if the rattle will either give the game away or keep them nicely perplexed as to what on earth the gift is lol). I had no idea there was a superstition about gifting purses without a coin - I'm not superstitious mind you

I intend to identify how many £2 coins can be held by the pots I choose to get and include a message in the parcel as I think this would help to add incentive to use £2 coins instead of smaller change, however, can I part with my beloved £2 coins to start them all off?! I mostly jest as I do bank my coins rather than holding on to them throughout the year so it's not really an issue for me! I might even do smaller pots for the kids in each household as well instead of the usual toys or clothes...