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2023 Cash Envelope Saving Challenge

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  • lellybun said:
    Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing ok and have had a good week.

    Another £26.50 for me please LMD.

    I am doing this challenge virtually, which is not quite so exciting as having physical envelopes, but seems to work for me😁

    Saw on your diary that you have a nasty cold, hope you shift it quick and manage to have a good weekend. 

    Lelly 😊


    Thank you so much Lelly, it's bloomin' awful and I can't wait for it to jog on! :D 
    Updated the tracker for you
    LMD x
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  • Filled the #28 envelope today
    LMD x
    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
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    Sealed pot 2025 £5678 | EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £3188/£6000 | Travel savings £1924 | Sinking pots £2126
  • ~FlowerPot~
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    I seem to have come to a halt, hoping to have a betrter few weeks soon
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  • I seem to have come to a halt, hoping to have a betrter few weeks soon
    FLowers x
    There's no pressure, just add what you can when you can. 

    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
    2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
    Sealed pot 2025 £5678 | EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £3188/£6000 | Travel savings £1924 | Sinking pots £2126
  • Keedie
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    Sorry to hear about your puppy @~FlowerPot~, but glad that he's on the mend.

    For those doing the challenge virtually, you can always create prop notes or placeholders to stuff in your envelopes as you transfer the money. So you still get the physical satisfaction of filling up envelopes, whilst having the security of knowing that the money is banked @lellybun.

    I see a lot of cash stuffers on YouTube using prop notes and placeholders (most just make these themselves or write the value on a piece of paper), and put the prop note/placeholder in their cash envelopes when they're doing their budgeting. So I'm assuming the same principle can be applied to this challenge if needed?? Best of both worlds so to speak.
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  • ~FlowerPot~
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    yey 
    managed my £32 envelope today x
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  • IndiJonesi
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    I've been absent from here for weeks as I haven't been to the post office to withdraw the cash for this challenge.  Anyway, got there today and I have stuffed envelopes #48 #34 #47 #46 #45 #37 #44 #30.  Thanks for updating @LittleMissDetermined Indi #09
  • lellybun
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    edited 21 July 2023 at 10:17PM
    Wow! Where did that week go?

    Hope you are feeling better LMD

    Another £26.50 for me please, 

    Happy weekend all, Lelly x


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  • Good morning all, I'm almost feeling human again @lellybun thank you.

    Great tip @Keedie! That may be my approach next year, I might include notes about what has happened that week so it will be like opening a year of memories. 

    Well done @~FlowerPot~ and @IndiJonesi, I will update the tracker with our updates, I have filled #35 today
    LMD x
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    Sealed pot 2025 £5678 | EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £3188/£6000 | Travel savings £1924 | Sinking pots £2126
  • ~FlowerPot~
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    £16 and £18 filled today Thank you LMD

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