"Sealed pot Challenge" ~ 9

horseygirl2014

Don't Worry Dizzy Imp - If it wasn't for the fact that I do a couple of sales a year, I could just about live without cash - I work from Home, and everything goes on the card (for the cashback ) I'm lucky if I see pennies on the floor when I go to the post office!

Saver-upper

I am here!!Here I am!!

Blimey,it is nearly two months since I have visited :eek::eek:.Bet Jake's mum has pinched my chair 'n everything-probably traded it in for a couple of £2 coins,I s'pose .

Well, it has been a funny couple of months.Lots of money going out: our car hobbled from Cornwall to Bristol after our summer holidays-we were stopping every motorway services to fill up the radiator!By the time we arrived back to Bristol,with what we thought was a split radiator hose,the whole car was deemed a write-off,so we needed to buy another.(All this was 10 days after an MOT!)
Our other car also cost £450 for a clutch.
Had to buy school uniforms for 4 children.
Holiday was too much fun.
I don't work much over school hols.
So it is only now we are catching up financially,phew.

Mind you ,while we were away for the week,I did collect £14.02 roadkill from the penny arcade.It is all ready to be potted,along with £29.27 in coinage: some from OH,the rest from just "around".Aaaaand,there is also 15x £2 coins to go in as well.Total £73.29 :eek:.I knew how much roadkill I had there,but didn't realise until I emptied my handbag just now,how many £2 coins I had accrued.

So,when I am able,will pot all this (don't want to wake the kids by dropping 6,780,465,112 coins into various pots now :rotfl:.)

Off to catch up on more of the thread,and promise to keep up now until pot-opening day.Off to check what my roster is for that day-wonder if I can swing a day off for pot-counting :cool:.

siju

£2.93 to add to my little pot tonight. Looking forward to opening day.

Chutney86

£2 potted for me today

TheCatsandDogsMother

Just potted 8 $2 coins
I would have had some notes but I bought the puppies a massive pool now that the weather is hot again.

Sue-UU

Hello all Potters, some amazing savings going on here!! :T By golly isn't the time just whizzing past.....and we're getting soooooo close to declaration day!!! :j

To those of you poorly or with any problems, here are some special {{{hugs}}} to help you get well soon. We're all thinking of you. :grinheart

All the very best to you with those sales, Horseygirl, let's hope they bring you in a fair bit extra! :j

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

I think I'm going for the smallest amount potted this year Just another penny to add. I literally never have any cash. Lots of online shopping and home deliveries paid by card for me as I live a 20 minute drive from the nearest cashpoint. Rural life, eh!

I'm so sorry to hear that, Dizzy Imp, have you any local shops or a post office that you can get a certain amount out each week simply for the sole purpose of saving? If not why not join the Virtual Sealed Pot her on MSE? You can still include the savings from that here on SPC.


WOW Saver-upper something seems to have been mighty wrong with the MOT folk to have missed whatever was wrong,:eek: though I know they don't check everything on a car but......! What a blow!
By golly you were amazingly lucky with that £14 odd roadkill - talk about some you win some you lose!!! :dance:Altogether it sounds like a fantastic some that you've been able to part, brilliant work!!


Well saved, siju! I'm so looking forward to declaration day too, not much longer to wait!! :j


You're nothing if not regular with your amounts eh, Chutney!!


You be careful where you're talking about summer having arrived, CatsandDogsMother, as we're fast approaching winter here!! :mad: Apart from that...good saving!

Another £15 for the pot this week, it's all mounting up!!

Have a brilliant weekend folks. Keep up the potting whatever you do!

Sue xx

3rd November is the opening date for 2016.


Anyone wishing to join us, it's NEVER too late, so please just ask, you'll be made very welcome.

MrsShazbat

2 x £2s potted tonight.

Off to London tomorrow till Sunday. Hoping to see Mr Cumberbatch (at an event, not stalking him despite what people think of I do :rotfl:) but main thing is treating my friend to a night out who has recently had 3 brain surgeries (well, 1 main op and 2 follow-ups due to infection). He will just be an added bonus if he does indeed appear. Plus coincidentally it's almost a year (on Monday) since we saw him in Hamlet!!

#066 £389.49

lynnejk

Evening all

TheCatsandDogsMother wrote: »

Just potted 8 $2 coins
I would have had some notes but I bought the puppies a massive pool now that the weather is hot again.

Gosh - how lucky are you It's freezing here and blowing a hooley. Had to have the heating on this week

Potted my usual £10 today.

Dizzy - I'm the same as you, but always keep a couple of tenners in my purse in case of emergency such as a taxi. Maybe you could do the same

Hope you all have a super duper weekend
Lx

Westie983

Still here, no potting for me as I'm currently in hospital after a operaton but good that I haven't spent anything, as meals are included,

I hope to escape tomorrow my £1 & £2 coin pot needs feeding, nearly opening time.

Florence_J

Potted a £2 coin and lots of mixed silver and copper coins