coupon/lotto savings pot challenge

mrsmortenharket

I could try this.

Today I got £12 off my shop and also another £5. Plus do I count the food savings? For instance 3 multi bags if crisps for £3, so that saved me £1.20.

Tia.

Horace

I would like to join in if I can. I don't get many coupons but when I do they all go on groceries. Until Friday I was at MnS as a Christmas temp and had been given a discount card well when I was told to go home as I was working beyond my contract (they gave me the extra hours - ho hum) I went and had a spend on it before handing it over. All in all I saved £28 on my grocery shopping - my freezers are now stocked with goodies that I would not normally afford.

I have an old toffee jar that I use for putting money in - I shall have to start using it again.

[Deleted User]

Very similar to my late mum's way She had Happy Cash .basically she had a set amount of money this she divided up.All bills due were paid on the nail.the rest left over were set out like this one third for food one third for saving and one third was Happy Cash.

So say you had £6.00. £2.00 food, £2.00 savings and £2 00 happy cash.This happy cash you could do what you wanted with save it spend it buy a treat or just tuck it awy until you had enough to buy a bigger treat It was seperate from your normal saving as it was for you to treat your family or yourself with so the 'rainy day savings never got touched.

I still do this today over 55 years later .I always have a little bit of Happy Cash stashed for treats that have nothing to do with general expences.

There have been times when I have stashed only a small amount but its always there as a bit of a cheerer -upper when things look gloomy.When my children were small back in the 1970s and the mortgage rates were 15% and everyone was struggling I still managed to have a tiny bit of happy cash to treat the kids to something even as small and a bag of doughnuts.Totally useless, and probably very unhealthy, but it cheered us all up when the power cuts were on, and we were sitting by candlelight with no t.v. and there were so many shortages

I can remember walking around two miles one very wet Monday morning pushing two small children in the pushchair to a local depot to buy a bag of coke for the fire The bag went on the pushcahir, and a small child was perched on top of it we stopped on the way home, and bought some cream doughnuts, and two little beaming faces forgot about the cold and wet.
They still talk about that day over 40 years later :) its the small things that kids remember not always the big expensive ones.

Nowadays my happy cash usually buys treats for my grandsons or a book for me but I still like to have a bit of happy cash to just spend on something nice to cheer us all up when its cold and wet and things look grim

Tillytrotter1

This is a great idea, think I'll steal the Happy Cash title as well, if you don't mind Jackie O! Doubt I'll be able to save a lot but I suppose however small it will soon add up for a small treat. Jackie O, I love the story about the doughnuts, like you say so simple but still remembered. It's definitely about the simple things in life.

Horace

Thanks for sharing your doughnut story JackieO - I am also loving the idea of Happy Cash so I might too use the title for my spare change. At least then I can look forward to some treats - it might be a book or something else.

Butterfly_Brain

mrsmortenharket wrote: »

I could try this.

Today I got £12 off my shop and also another £5. Plus do I count the food savings? For instance 3 multi bags if crisps for £3, so that saved me £1.20.

Tia.

I didn't do that last year but I think that I will incorporate it this year, I saved £20 in December buying six months worth of coffee while it was on offer. I can only drink decaff because of a hiatus hernia and it is usually very expensive, so any savings are a bonus.

So £20 is going into my pot today

Butterfly_Brain

trailingspouse wrote: »

I've never bought a lottery ticket, thus saving a minimum of £1,000, and only slightly reducing my chances of winning big. Tax on the daft, in my humble opinion.

I buy a lottery card a week and average £5 in winnings, sometimes I win more, sometimes I don't win, but at the end of the year I have usually gained a tidy sum

Frugal_Fraggle

Can I join in please? I'm trying to get back into the habit of saving properly, which I've fallen out of horribly, and this seems like the sort of smallish way to start that I could get on well with
I'm going to try and get the Daily Mirror for coupons, I've signed up for Math & More (so could put the equivalent savings aside), and have clubcard points. Also going to try and start doing surveys regularly, so I can get vouchers (so put that cash value aside too)

Butterfly_Brain

The money that I have this year is going towards a new bathroom, I was planning to use it on a new mobility scooter, but we had a pipe leak just before Christmas, so not only do I need a new floor in the bathroom after they ripped it up, I was also left with a huge hole in the kitchen ceiling So we have decided to just do the whole thing from scratch and at least it won't need doing for another 20 odd years hopefully.

1of3

Can I join to please?

This is a great idea.I used to do something similar a few years ago but got lazy and started to use cards but this is an incentive to use cash and limit my spending.Normally we would spend approx 50 quid on shopping per week for 4 so I will take out 50 every week and the balance can go into my little savings box and go towards a new tablet/computer as mine has previously given up and I have to use the work computer or my phone