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Sealed Pot Challenge!!

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  • skylight
    skylight Posts: 10,720 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Home Insurance Hacker!
    Bought a sealed tin today for £1.99 and chucked in my £2 coins I had put away - its a start!!

    Its a big tin, so I am aiming for £700 - GIMME A NUMBER!!!!!!
  • Bought a sealed tin today for £1.99 and chucked in my £2 coins I had put away - its a start!!

    Its a big tin, so I am aiming for £700 - GIMME A NUMBER!!!!!!

    hi, charlotte664. mumzy should be along at some point tonight, she will give you number. let me be the 1st to welcome you to the mad house of the sealed pot challenge. :beer:
    Back on MSE again! to take control of my finances and not let it control me. :T May grocery challenge £41.96/140
  • Di-Dough
    Di-Dough Posts: 306 Forumite
    Piggy's looking a little empty at the moment (tried to peep in through the hole at the top:o ) put a couple of coins in today to keep the others company:rotfl:
    Sealed Pot Challenge # 007
  • bit more in the pot today. Was a pathetic 4 pennies so I shoved £1 in there as well!

    Well it's pay day tomorrow ;)

    Lisa
  • Rabbit
    Rabbit Posts: 146 Forumite
    I've been wondering about just chucking any coins in my sealed pot, I started off wanting to put £2 coins in but don't seem to get many, also dd has 50p's and £1 coins for dinner money, the rest I need for my food budget.

    20p and under pig is now my 5p pig (I've told dd she can have our coppers to put towards hers for an animal charity) and 20p's go in the sealed pot.

    So I am changing my rules now and only a few weeks in to the challenge, oh dearie me.... maybe I'm just settling in to what works for me (she said hopefully :undecided ).

    On a happy note, it's good fun to be part of this and knowing we are opening them on 1st Dec, makes me stick at it. Good job it's sealed or it would have been counted a dozen times by now. :wave:
    A penny saved is one you don't have to earn! :wave:
  • Just posted on live on £4k but just thought I would post here too!! My sealed pot has caused me some problems ;) I had to go to hosp and stay overnight due to preg problems and we had no change for parking :o which DH blamed all on me coz I won't let him have any money :rotfl: so we had to get money out and now I have no idea what was spent or what is left in his pockets......

    ;)

    Hope everyone is well and I will try and catch up on posts at some point so I apologise if I have missed something HUGE ;)
    Sealed pot Member target £200 - No. 151
    GC Yearly £3k so far £1097 May£220/£300
    £1k in 100 days so far - £235 :p
    Snowball debt free calculator says DEC 09 - lets hope we can do it!

  • mumzyof2
    mumzyof2 Posts: 3,343 Forumite
    charlotte664 i will give you a number now
    Sealed Pot dec 08 - dec 09 so far £27.67, Live off £4k Spent £330.20 GC £1,200 for 2009 Spent £50.78 PaD so far £650.07
    Debts: L/woods £154.00 C/One PAID O/D £649.90 Next £299.95 O/D PAID Gas £72.60 Electric £155.73 Mum £640.00 Orange £490.32
  • Mollymop5
    Mollymop5 Posts: 2,095 Forumite
    I put some money in my pot.woohoo :) I had a day out shopping today and finally had some change so promptly stuck it in my pot.Then ds wanted some tuck money for cadets.Oooops.We had to search all the drawers ect to see what we could find.I bought him and his sister a sealed tin for xmas and all their spare change go in there lol.we're getting so good at saving we never have any money when we need it.Anyone else having these problems lOL
    lost my way but now I'm back ! roll on 2013
    spc member 72

  • sparky0107
    sparky0107 Posts: 3,496 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Morning All,
    Extra £2.50 going into the "Pot" due to the newspaper delivery man being late all week, so I haven't bought a morning paper, I suppose every bit helps doesn't it?

    Have a good day everyone & take care
    Sparky0107
    Sparky0107 - Sealed pot challenge member #002. Total for SPC3 £1,030.57 Total For SPC 4 £2247.00 Total for SPC 5 £2574.62 :T Total for SPC 6 £4552.91:T
    :rotfl:LC2 & Jakes-Mum are off their heads :rotfl
    :j DEBT FREE AS OF 20/01/2012 :j
  • huxley
    huxley Posts: 296 Forumite
    Hi not much going in the pot at the moment :o DH is a selfemployed gardener (need I say more!)so spare change is called essential money at the moment:rotfl: never mind not giving up, will start adding again as soon as mother nature allows him to work.:j
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