The 365 Day 1p Challenge 2023

enthusiasticsaver

Good morning savers.  Just before I depart for my first gym session of 2023 I thought I would put a few suggestions down on reporting our  progress  as the thread is getting quite long to wade through now. 

For new savers PLEASE READ POST  NUMBER 1 TO SEE HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS. 
Just for clarification I have capitalised and emboldened to make the message stand out.  I am not shouting .  For new joiners please comment below asking to join rather than private messaging me. Thanks. 

Please feel free  to make comments as and whenever on here as the whole idea of the challenge is for us to cheer each other along and suggest ways of finding savings.  I am taking @BlueJ94 s suggestion today to check pockets to find any loose change or notes.  When I walk the dog I often put a fiver in my pocket in case my DH suddenly phones to say we have run out of milk and can I pop in the shop while out.  Not sure what he thinks I will do with the dog though  

As for reporting, I will only update the spreadsheet if you quote as per below so as to be clear.  

Enthusiastic saver 001 reporting £4.96 for January (or £108.50 for December or any other month) or £55 (average monthly contribution or £25 for random contributions over January.  

(This doesn't mean you are not welcome to comment as often as you like as to how much you have saved daily but I would prefer to only update the spreadsheet weekly or monthly rather than daily purely because of time constraints.) 

As you see there are lots of ways of doing the challenge and feel free to report or not if you prefer to keep your own records.  It would be great if people do participate in the reporting process too as a way of keeping track as to how much we save as a group too. 

mart1ne

Please can you add me to the challenge? Thank you

Arwen

No #50 at £1.45 so far. I found change in my pockets ( haven't added it up yet), so will use that cash to buy small stuff and transfer what I found into my online savings pot. If that makes any sense at all..🙈🤣

Twiggy66

Hi there, I am a newbie to this and also to the forum.  Can i be added to the list please!

enthusiasticsaver

Here are the numbers for the new joiners today.  

77	mart1ne
78	Twiggy66

enthusiasticsaver

Arwen said:

No #50 at £1.45 so far. I found change in my pockets ( haven't added it up yet), so will use that cash to buy small stuff and transfer what I found into my online savings pot. If that makes any sense at all..🙈🤣

Makes perfect sense

~FlowerPot~

I also found a£10.00 note in my coat pocket yesterday, that literally never happens!
So will use that fur the next few days, trying to work backwards. Im keying a record but will update at the end of the month. 
Keeping track of all 78 of us will be very time comsuming! 


Flowers
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enthusiasticsaver

~FlowerPot~ said:

I also found a£10.00 note in my coat pocket yesterday, that literally never happens!
So will use that fur the next few days, trying to work backwards. Im keying a record but will update at the end of the month. 
Keeping track of all 78 of us will be very time comsuming! 


Flowers
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Wow £10 is really a bonus.  I love it when that happens. Only lasts about 3 days though if working backwards.  

Thanks for updating monthly.  You are right in that it will be less onerous if people report monthly and embolden so I can easily spot them.  I am on MSE most days for about 30 minutes to sometimes much more than that due to ambassador duties anyway so hopefully will be ok for me to keep on top of reports. 

Emmrrr_x

Hello, could I please join too?! 

I am going to go through till 30th November but I’ve put a lump sum in to cover January so I will still complete the full year so to speak! 😊

archiebertie

Hi @enthusiasticsaver, 

I’m a complete newbie to posting here, and to the challenge, but have decided to give it a go this year. I’d love to join please if that’s okay. 

Our daughter is getting married next year and we need to be extremely organised financially, so this way I can at least know that Christmas will be sorted. 

I started on the 1st, have set up mine in HyperJar, and have an alert set on my phone for the same time each day to make sure I don’t forget to pop the money over. 

Hopefully this way it’ll just become habit and I’ll continue it every year. 

😊