Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 16 28 October 2022 at 12:07AM edited 30 January at 4:34PM in Debt-free wannabe challenges 590 replies 7.3K views

Hettyhound

£2.95 potted so I’ve made a start for Christmas 2023 🙀

Keedie

Made my first pot of the year at £2. Funny how hearing that hollow coins in the tin sound makes me excited - I really need to get out more 😂. I'm looking forward to when it doesn't have that tin sound and it's just coins landing on coins. Roll on the savings... 

Sue-UU

A very warm welcome to you, basketcase  (048)    it's lovely to have you with us. Have great fun saving !!. You'll find your No above in your welcome and on the 2nd Post of Page 1, and please read through the 1st post as it'll let you know exactly how to save with the challenge. We always empty our pots and declare what's in them in October, please make a note of this year's date: 26th October 2022.

Please pop your SPC No on your signature as it's a great help. To do so please go to your profile Photo, top right, click, then go to Signature Settings, lower and on the left, be sure to SAVE before fleeing!

Enjoy saving!

Enjoy your Sunday Folks!!! Those Covid Nos are definitely going DOWN - whoopee!!!

For all those who are poorly or feeling low in any way, do take great care and get well soon. Love and best wishes from us all.

It sounds like you've got your saving well planned, good for you. All the best and don't forget to come to the thread to motivate others and for us to motivate you if it's necessary.

No need to be signed up, James, I transfer you and your numbers across from the old thread to the new one each year so no need to be signed up. 

You save in whichever way is best for you, just don't forget to come to the thread!

Sorry to hear you've got a rotten head due to the Covid vaccination, I hope it soon goes. Take care xx

Talking about a punch in the arm, Ant, T & I had the pain from the flu jab for 3 days after the Flu jab!! 😳 We've never had any headaches after the jabs before, hope we don't next month either as T suffers from migraine although they've gone since he's had to take blood pressure pills! 😍

Hi Lucy, you haven't forgotten to declare your Total from SPC 15 have you?? I don't recall seeing you over there! 🤔 Good luck with this year's potting. 

A good start made, Hetty! Keep it up when you're able. 

Have a wonderful Sunday, folks!!!

Sue

NB folks: Declaration date for SPC 16 is 26th October 2023! 

Anyone wishing to join us, it's NEVER too late! So please just ask and you will be made very welcome.

LittleMissDetermined

Potted 41p in change today 
LMD x

basketcase

Hello @Sue-UU and fellow potters!

Thanks for the warm welcome.  I counted my 'forgot all about them' piggy banks last night and there was a smidgen over £8, so I'm starting with that.  I put them away because there was very little use for cash during lockdown etc then forgot about them.  So the contents aren't this year's, but I'm using them as 'seed money' (if that's allowed?)

My pot's a white plastic bucket repurposed from its former use as a container for 1kg of bi-carb.  It's recycled - so not new plastic - which has got to be better than putting it in the bin and it was easy to cut the slot in the lid.  It might not be big enough, but we'll see!  £3 in pennies take up an awful lot of space!

It looks like I'll have to have physical and electronic pots.  I've got a couple of Save the Change bank accounts, so I'll use 1 of them to, well, save the change on debit card payments, and also to transfer any amounts saved on multiple buys especially when delivered/paid by card.

There are some excellent ideas on here for adding to the cash: surveys, once-off payments and (of course) road kill.  I think I'll need to use my previous piggy banks as kind of holding cells in case I need change for parking meters etc then dump the whole lot in the bucket, maybe once a week.

If I do that, do I need to count it first?  It seemed to me that some people didn't, but those with a specific target were more likely to.  I'm not expecting to pot huge amounts, but I'd like it to be a surprise - the cash bit at least.

Chocolatedrinker

Hi
im back again, could I have no. 13 again please and I’d like to set a £100 target this time
thanks
CD

MrsShazbat

#20 here again.  First £2 coin went in the tin yesterday.  I needed one in order to make up the bag to bank the ones from last year's challenge (although when I'll get round to it, who knows?!) and my mum owed me for a couple of bits of shopping so she gave me 2.  One went in the bag and the other went in the pot.  It's almost pointless saving the coins now, but it's so ingrained, I just can't bring myself to spend them and still only part with them in emergencies!! 

32b3in2013

Good Morning

Thnak you for the new thread @Sue-UU  Lets get going for another year

32b3

Keedie

I don't spend my £2 coins unless it's an emergency either @MrsShazbat. I've paid for plenty of holidays that way. I try not to break 50ps either. I have two tins this year, one for 50p, £1 and £2 and one for 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p. The higher valued coins will go towards a holiday and the lower valued coins will go towards debt. I'm going to start the penny challenge as well and set that money aside in a locked pot within my Monzo account. Not sure how far I'll get with it, but I know it'll be worth it.

I've potted a further £4.15 yesterday but forgot to declare.

peony40

Hello, I’d like to join again, can I have number 003 again if possible? 

Thanks Sue.