Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 12

Homegrown0

£3.50 potted yesterday. Itching to see inside the tin! Next time, i'm buying a transparent tin...

Loz2018

I had to empty my pot the other week as I’d gone into my overdraft
The good news is that I have booked flights to visit my friends in Spain this summer, luckily I can stay with them which will make it a very cheap holiday!
I’m going to start using cash for my food shopping again and build it back up though.
I switched one of my current accounts to a different bank so I can use part of the £50 free cash to replace some of the money I emptied from my pot at least. I might also be getting a bonus in my March pay so I can add some of that back into my pot as well.

Sue-UU

A very happy Wednesday SPCers! I hope you're all well and looking after yourselves and your.... pots!
For those who are not well or who are low in spirits, take great care of yourselves. Get well soon and {{{{hugs}}}} from all the SPC family. :grinheart



You're doing just great, Hettyhound, keep it going!! All the best with your budget, and I quite agree about your little one learning the value of money! 5 year olds having a school disco eh!! 😲 I wish my kids would cast their minds back to their childhood meals. You really are doing brilliantly!! :j



You've become a really wise saver, Iheart, very sensible indeed!! Stay in that same frame of mind and keep looking forward!!!! :T


Very well done, Raggle!!


You've definitely got someone looking over you, Dreamworlded, anyone must have to be getting £1 coins flung their way!! There was me thinking it was just jakes-mum!!! All the very best with the Etsy shop....and more £1s!


Well done Homegrown! Be patient now



Great saving, siju!! I hope your weekend with the family is a wonderful one! I had a real giggle at the nick name your DS has earned himself. How fortunate he is, doesn't it make you sick! 😖


Don't belittle what you've saved since last time, weenapoops, it really is still good saving - and far better better than spent!!! :dance:


Free money always gives us a kick, Saving Glut, nothing insignificant about that!!!



Good saving, Chutney!!


Thanks 32b3, I'm not too bad. I've really missed you, but so very sorry to hear you too have lost a dear friend. My sincere condolences to you and all her/his loved ones. Take great care of yourself and have a wonderful time away.



Excellent thinking, Loz!!! Very wise with the £50 too!!!! Now you can look forward to your holiday in the summer!! :grinheart


£15 in the pot now that shopping's done with!!!! :j

Havey a lovely ande super Thursday, folks! Don't forget to feed your pots ....well!!

Sue

NB folks: Opening date for SPC 12 will be 31st October 2019


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

Iheart

Another £2 coin potted - change from the car park at our local country park. Got my son's wheelchair stuck in the mud and am going to have to clean my car out though but I love a £2 coin so it was worth it!

Iheart

Went out last night to a pub quiz at my local social club - we go every week. They have a free drink raffle and I won so a friend gave me £3 for the ticket so have potted that this morning.

Have a great day everyone.

MrsShazbat

Potted 6 x £2s tonight, bit slow with the change at present as I'm trying not to spend much money!

babs_103

2.48 potted today, change from some photocopying I had done.

jakes-mum

Morning pottersssssssssssss

DH had his weekly pub visit last night, crafty so and so has finally worked out if he is just under a £10'er in change he makes money out of our swap! hmmpf! So He gave me £9.27 and I gave him a £10 note did include 2 x £2 coins though so £5.25 in the tins last night and the 4 x £1 coins and the random 2p in my purse as otherwise I would have been brassic :eek:

Have been playing around with my lovely embroidery software this week, spent too long down the office testing and now my hips and back are screeeeeeeeaming at me so today will be a sit in the recliner day to calm them down again. I firmly blame DH for this as I was all set to come back up after a couple of hours when he popped his head in the door and said 'don't forget Georgie needs a cover for his cage!' (he got bored and has destroyed George's bedroom under the stairs to make a computer area which means poor George has no longer got his nice dark, quiet room to sleep at night). So another hour+ was spent crawling round the floor cutting large pieces of fabric and sewing them together to make a cover whilst swearing at Sally Sewing Machine as she decided to have a bobbin fit halfway through and took 20 minutes to trouble shoot what had happened to her!

Anyway, I think I might make a cake today, I feel a bit bakey!

Oh and as an FYI, anyone else who gets this great idea that I had to have a chocolate free february! don't do it!! we managed 17 days before we all cracked, who knew that 1) we were so addicted to chocolate (cravings sooo bad!) and 2) how many things contain chocolate! it was an eye opener thats for sure, and we have said we are going to be more aware of what we buy, but never again will we make such a soul destroying pact :rotfl:

Loz2018

I added £10 to my pot this morning. Instead of using my see through jar I’m now using a terramundi pot that I was given so hopefully I’ll be less tempted to empty it as I won’t be able to see the money building up.

datlex

I ended up with £20 extra cash last night. I was going to use it to pay for the weekly take away. But I got an email from Just Eat with a 15% discount code after I had taken out the cash. The discount code only works with card payments. I used to order food directly via the takeaway as they had an app with a 10% discount on it. Recently they have removed this so I have changed to ordering via Just Eat (reached via Top Cashback).