Sealed Pot Challenge!!

jazzyjustlaw

I want to join. Need something to put it in. Already got two pigs, one bank savings thing and a jar and a wooden tin - sorry am obsessive little saver now got to have a 6th thing to put my money in!!

mrsmortenharket

I'll join!

Dunno what I'll save in though as have no money to buy a terramundi thing.

I may seal up a roses tin & somehow make a hole in the lid.

I save everything apart from notes & 50ps & £1 coins.

This should be good!

Lisa

mumzyof2

I will make a list tomo of who has joined and post it

SarahNeedle1872

mrsmortenharket wrote: »

I'll join!

Dunno what I'll save in though as have no money to buy a terramundi thing.

I may seal up a roses tin & somehow make a hole in the lid.

I save everything apart from notes & 50ps & £1 coins.

This should be good!

Lisa

A very DFW idea.... of course u have to suffer the *hardship* of eating all the sweets first

pennyfrog

Count me in, mumzyof2!
When I go into town on Tuesday I'll head to the £1 shop, 'cos I've seen large the sealed tins in there. I think I'll pick up a couple (optimist!).
We already save every coin going in different containers (we've got one of those wooden 'century savers'- with the plastic tubes that you put 20ps, 50ps and £1 coins into- when full it holds £100, and we save other coins too), so I'm planning to put mostly notes (and 'bigger' coins) away in the sealed cans- probably the odd fiver- something I wouldn't miss too much. Hopefully over a year, there'll be a nice amount in there in time for next Christmas.
It'll be good discipline- I can think whether I really need/ want certain things or could I put the money in the tin instead.
Ok- 1st Dec it is (though I can't see me putting an awful lot in till Christmas is over!!).

Candy0107

Hi,

I am up for the challenge - I was going to start at the new year, but there is nothing wrong with starting earlier.

I will save 20p and under, and will not count it til December 1st 2008. I am not going to track what I am putting in, and my container of choice will be a huge pig that I have seen in Clinton Cards.

Just a quick question - how is everybody going to change this money up? I guess that there is going to be a fortune, the Coinstar machines take 7%, and the bank will allow X bags per day.

Thanks

jo1972

Oh, now I want a terramundi really can't justify spending £20 though considering I'm meant to be saving money!

Does anyone know where they are cheaper?

Shoey1610

I'd liek to join in please, it will be another way of saving for xmas 08 and I do love that feeling when you open up the pota nd find out how much you have. I did this with two terrimundis, one for my wedding (saved £300) and one for my daughter's birth. Terrimundis are gorgeous, I still have both my previous ones, if you stick a flat headed screwdriver in the slot and then lever the top off by knocking the handle of the screwdriver with the palm of your hand they are designed so the top "pops" off. Both mine are now plant pots.

I think I might go for a cheapo tin this time though, I always feel guilty about the £20 I spend on the terrimundi that I could have put in the pot!

babes21

Candy0107 wrote: »

and my container of choice will be a huge pig that I have seen in Clinton Cards.

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I have the pink one from Clintons, it's fab and holds quite a bit in. I have £30 in mine at the moment, all coins under 50p. I'd estimate it can hold at least a couple of hundred or more.

babes21

If we all don't keep track of what we put in then it'll be pointless the thread carrying on won't it? Unless you just note it down daily without actually counting it throughout.I update mine to my sig each time i put an amount in, i find this way it motivates me more .