Pounds and Pence

datlex

I am combining two challenges I have seen:

1) Pounds to week challenge - £1 in week one, £2 in week two and so on until £52 in week 52

2) Pennies to day challenge- 1p on day 1, 2p on day 2 and so on until 366p on day 366.

Saving the pounds to weeks gives £1378-£1431 (depending on whether you count as 52 week year or 53 week year, then pennies challenge gives £671.93 in a leap year.

Total saving in a year over £2000.

Tjh1412

I'm doing both of these in jars,however I'm doing the 52 week one backwards instead

SailorSam

I use to save all my pennies in a tin when i was little, but as soon as i heard the ice cream man in the street, the money all came out.

Cerenia

Good luck! I'm doing the penny challenge - started backwards, but had bills this month, so my sheet is a bit haphazard - printed out the chart and crossed one out a day, got £54.07 in it already - i'm really amazed!

MrsC....tobe

Penny challenge here too. Doing it randomly by emptying out my purse at the end of the week, splitting it up into 7 amounts and then scoring them off a sheet. Total amount so far is in my sig as doing it as sealed pot challenge.

prosaver

what is doing it backward ..you put 2k in a jar and take a little bit out every day?

glentoran99

these challenges sound easy until you get to say October and need to find £160 approx a month to save

positivelypunked

I'll try the pound challenge but i may have to do some monthly rather then weekly,
i missed out the beginig

Cerenia

glentoran99 wrote: »

these challenges sound easy until you get to say October and need to find £160 approx a month to save

Mix it up a bit, I printed off the penny day chart, and started from the bottom (wrote £3.66 on it as its a leap year), and as I got to the end of the month, marked off some low value ones - balance it all out throughout the year (plus i'm paying ahead)

jenny+luke

Hi, can I join please?

I'm the the £1 week 1, £2 week 2 etc. I'm doing it randomly though. for example, week 1 I put £2 in, week 2 £20. I made my box that I'm saving in as tried to buy another tin but 3 shops were sold out so thought I'd make my own. I've wrote on the box weeks 1-52 and tick the one that I've put in. weeks that I have more spare money, I will be doing the higher weeks and when I'm short on money can do the lower weeks.

Queen.Bess

Hi everyone!

I started the pennies challenge in January, but have decided to do it slightly differently in that I will start from 1 penny again at the beginning of each month. Far more achievable for me personally and I've worked out that if I save each month to 30th November, that by 1st December (so I can use the money for Christmas) I will have saved £52.71!

That's ideal for me as that will certainly by some aspect of Christmas - some presents, some food some drink - whatever is required on 1st December!

£4.96 saved for January, so starting again today for February!

Good Luck everyone, in whatever challenges you take part in!