Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 16

AntoMac

I’m afraid @Sue-UU is once again having problems posting on here 
Hopefully we can see her back on here again before too long.
Well done @sams247
Sometimes the biggest challenge is actually getting started. Look forward to you being “in profit” very soon! 

Sue-UU

 

sams247 said:

Well, first thing I have to do is start using real money again!  I started my SPC with the grand sum of 25p, its all I had left, but its a start!  Bought a Terramundi from charity shop for £1 to put it in, so technically I'm 75p down.....

Happy New Year to all.

@lucyhope I truly hope you find your tin and that no one has taken advantage in a weak moment.

Hi sams247, I'm afraid you're not a member of Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 16!!  I've put your name on the thread and given you the No 029 just in case you wish to join, but please let me know either way! Looking at your signature, it appears you may have joined a simarly named thread. Good lucky!

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Hello SPCers!! I hope you ALL have a really Happy New Year!!

Have a lovely day today and a good day tomorrow!

For any one poorly or low in any way, do take very great care and get well soon! From us all, best wishes

So sorry to hear you've had Strep A over Christmas, RavenRover, I hope it wasn't too bad for you and that you've recovered now.

I'm pleased to hear you saved a fair bit virtually! Very well done. I think everyone is very wise to cut back on unnecessary spending. It's going to be another very tough year financially. A very Happy New Year!

Oh it wasn't what I'd known via living through it, Ant, I'd looked it all up on the browser. 😉

Very wise in potting what you saved not spending on your bus ticket! 

A very Happy New Year!

BTW, where are you, little_sweetie,    I wonder?? Not ill I hope!

A very Happy New Year to everyone!!!

My condolences to you, Westie, very sad indeed, and all very close events. One thing to be so very grateful for is his great gift of such a long length! A very luckly gent. BTW did you notice that all potting, however it's done, is to be declared on or before 26th October, thanks a lot. A very Happy New Year!

Very well done with the £3 potted, Hummingbird!! 

Oh my gosh, Lucy! What an amazing sum to have potted by you, excellent for you.. However, if the key is usually always with the pot, I agree, it doesn't sound at all good!! Are you absolutely positive there hasn't been anyone else upstairs??!! If the answer's a positive NO then I think you've got the unenviable task of having to very tactfully needing to approach the family about it, preferably with them all there together!! Maybe something similar to "I've called everyone together to help me with a dilemma!" Tell them exactly what's happened and the amount, then.."Can any of you throw any light on it for me as I'm worried sick?!! I don't envy you at all, but think you've little alternative, especially given the COL Crisis!!   

I do so hope there's another alternative for it to be missing, truly I do! All the very best to you, Lucy.

A VERY Happy New Year whatever.

Beware of the Flu, Covid or any other viruses, potters please

Sue

NB folks: Opening date for SPC 16 is 26TH October 2023! BEFORE if you wish BUT NO LATER PLEASE!

Anyone wishing to join us, it's NEVER too late!  So please just ask and you

will be made very welcome.

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Frogletina

Hi Sue...Happy New Year!

I have money sitting in a bowl waiting to be transferred to my sealed pot...I missed opening one last year having gone to only having a virtual one, and therefore no big surprise and a disappointing total. 

It is harder now I rarely spend cash, but I'm potting where I can.

I spend Christmas with my daughter who put 2 £1 coins in my stocking. Every little helps even though it's a fraction of the money I gave her for Christmas (She asked me to transfer it straight into her mortgage account). However, as all my sealed pot money goes towards Christmas and Birthday presents it goes a full circle!
 

LittleMissDetermined

Hi all 
£35 to the sealed pot today
LMD x

AntoMac

That’s very good advice from Sue @lucyhope
Keep remembering YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WORONG HERE so have nothing to feel bad about that. No one likes having awkward or difficult conversations so it will likely be out of your comfort zone, but all you can do is deal in facts, in that your pot has gone missing. You don’t have to make any accusations - just state the facts of what has happened. One positive I find is that these conversations rarely turn out as bad as you build them up to be. 

@Frogletina and might well reignite your enthusiasm for actual potting. I think nearly all of us use a lot less cash these days so have had to adapt how we pot.

sams247

Oh........ my bad!  haha.  Yes please I wanna join.  

AntoMac

Welcome along @sams247
Ive just potted a pound coin - change from my haircut

MrsShazbat

Welllllll nothing is ever straightforward in this house.  Unfortunately we didn't make it to the in-laws for Boxing Day because DH spent Xmas Day being ferried between our two main hospitals due to his recent op wound becoming infected.  He woke me up at 1.40am on Xmas morning and whilst it wasn't gushing, it was producing too much fluid for either of our liking (fortunately, not that he had a choice as I said straight away that I was calling 111 after re-dressing it).  They asked us to be at A&E for 2.30am, which we were, then we were sent over to the out-of-hours GP centre as they would see us more quickly, and from there he was admitted.  I was back home by 4.30am so they weren't messing around.  I still had to be up early to make sure I cancelled our hotel booking before we had to pay and phone SIL to let her know we wouldn't be joining them, and then take him a bag of stuff thinking that he was going to be staying in.  He was due to have a CT scan when I got there and then they were transferring him to the other hospital for the Urology dept, so there was nothing for me to do and I ended up going over to my sister's and spending the day with my family instead.  He was discharged at about 5pm so the dog and I went straight to collect him from my sister's.  He's still on antibiotics and we've been having the district nurses coming every day to re-dress the wound.  Tomorrow he has a clinic appointment so we'll see what happens there.  We did get the results of his recent op as well during the week, and there are no signs of anything nasty (although the consultant added in that this was a "surprise" to him!!  Not sure what to make of that!) so that was relief as I've spent far too much catastrophising since the first infection a month ago

And to add insult to injury, our colds did a full circle and came back last week, although not as bad as the week before Xmas - we could've just done without it on top of everything else.  We've gone through so many paracetamol!!

Dfw38

So sorry to hear of your missing tin Lucy. Same thing happened to me 5 years ago. I had £230 saved in a tin in my bedroom. Unbeknown to me, when my sister visited at the beginning of December she went upstairs to use the toilet and detoured into my bedroom. Found the key, opened the box and took the lot. I didn't discover it until I went to go Xmas present shopping for my young children a week later.
Thankfully I had enough in savings to cover the cost of my own children's presents. Confronted my sister and she denied it. She finally admitted it in the February and said she took it because she wanted to ensure her kids had Xmas presents. 
The heartbreaking thing is that if she would have told me I would have given her some money to help her out - no need to repay. She apologise and eventually paid the money back but the trust was broken and has never been able to be rebuilt to be honest.

Found 70p in the car when I cleaned it out so potted that.

Keedie

Happy New Year all, just catching up on everything.

I'm very sorry and you have my condolences @Westie983 and happy belated birthday to you and heavenly birthday for your Grandad. Sorry to hear about your husband's ordeal @MrsShazbat, but hopefully the antibiotics kick in fairly swiftly and he'll be on the mend.

I really hope your tin has simply been accidentally misplaced by someone @lucyhope, as it's a tough position to be in to have to ask about it, but that is so much money and I really hope it's returned/turns up. And I'm sorry @Dfw38 that you went through that with your sister, and I can understand why the trust has been broken 🥺.

I cleaned out my purse and potted £8.29 in change. My sister and her husband gave me a digital money tin for Christmas, that counts the coins that you deposit, and it's a see-through jar. I opened my sealed pot and got excited and put everything in there. Then the novelty wore off, as I've had to put it at the back of my wardrobe so that it's not on display, and I realised that I kinda spoilt the surprise, so I'll be going back to Poundland to get another tin that I can't open 😁.