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2025 - 52 Week Envelope Saving Challenge

LittleMissDetermined
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Save £1378 in 2025!
Welcome to the '2025' 52 week envelope savings challenge!
This challenge ran the last couple of years and I have been asked to set it up again for 2025. It can really boost your savings pots and help with paying for Christmas, or a family holiday...anything you like really! It can be done wither with actual cash or virtually onlineWhat you will need for the physical challenge:
- 52 envelopes (the small cash envelopes are ideal)
- A safe place to keep cash such as a safe or lock box for example
- Cash
- A dedicated savings account/pot OR
- A spreadsheet/tracker to identify the money in a cumulative savings account
- A means of selecting a 'random' week number if you're adding money randomly
Don't forget to bookmark this thread to make it easier to find!
How it works:
Take 52 envelopes and label them from week 1 to week 52, or a handy tracker like you can find in the link a few posts on.
Throughout 2025 we will be adding money in £'s equivalent to the numbers on the envelopes.
At the end of the year you will have saved £1378 to use for whatever you like.
Each week, add a post with which envelope you've filled and I will update the tracker spreadsheet. It is helpful if you can add it with your number in bold to make it easy for me to keep a track
Filling order is optional!
- Consecutively (forwards or backwards) 1-52 or 52-1
- Randomly by picking an number each week and adding that amount
- Alternately selecting 1, 52, 2, 51, 3, 50, 4 etc which evens it out across the year
- Equally by adding £26.50 each and every week

Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me
2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
Sealed pot 2025 £1924 | EF £1031/£1000 | Sabbatical £2393/£3000 | Travel savings £1264 | Sinking pots £3463
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2025 weekly challenge roll call
#01 LittleMissDetermined
#02 ~FlowerPot~
#03 Doris17
#04 Lellybun
#05 Littletinks
#06 Nintud
#07 Pinkpieuni
#08 Kazzymac_2
#09 Keedie
#10 Rose_Crow
#11 Balancinglife
#12 NeverendingDMP
#13 Coconurtaler
#14 Thistimenxtyear
#15 CraftySquirrel
#16 Newroadahead
#17 Aya2030
#18 Optimistic_saver
#19 Dizzycap
#20 SparFuchs
#21 MrsShazbat
#22 Littlebigmoose
#23 TheKicksterLife gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017Sealed pot 2025 £1924 | EF £1031/£1000 | Sabbatical £2393/£3000 | Travel savings £1264 | Sinking pots £34631 -
Spreadsheet of amounts paid in 2025
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14SiMlrMnnyPKrtyXtGboOqiAPImImBofC_tLt12v2tM/edit?gid=1847636575#gid=1847636575Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017Sealed pot 2025 £1924 | EF £1031/£1000 | Sabbatical £2393/£3000 | Travel savings £1264 | Sinking pots £34630 -
Handy weekly chart for amounts
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18qa3xzk4zQtyQ11i3Gk0ta0tJ8NRFEU_bsNgu3DAFEQ/editLife gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017Sealed pot 2025 £1924 | EF £1031/£1000 | Sabbatical £2393/£3000 | Travel savings £1264 | Sinking pots £34630 -
Oh go on then!
Maybe it will be Third time lucky!,🍀
I will try and do the challenge, but this time it will be virtual, as I'm working a bit less now there is less actual cash coming in, so will try a virtual pot. ⚱️
♥️ Your thoughts are incredibly powerful. Choose yours wisely ♥️ Dr Joe Dispenza ♥️🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸Decluttering 2025 So far 132 / 2025
Decluttering 2024🏅🏅🥇🏅🏅🏅⭐⭐⭐🌸 DS2🏅🏅DD🏅🥇🌸
25 in 25 So far 1 /25
⭐My rambling savings Diary ~⭐2 -
~FlowerPot~ said:Oh go on then!
Maybe it will be Third time lucky!,🍀
I will try and do the challenge, but this time it will be virtual, as I'm working a bit less now there is less actual cash coming in, so will try a virtual pot. ⚱️Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017Sealed pot 2025 £1924 | EF £1031/£1000 | Sabbatical £2393/£3000 | Travel savings £1264 | Sinking pots £34631 -
I am in please LMD. 😊
"Make Everyday Count"2 -
Me too please! Equal amounts again for me.
Thanks for this again LMD
Lelly xx
2023 Weekly Cash Envelope Savings Challenge #04
2024 Weekly Cash Envelope Savings Challenge #032 -
Thanks for running this challenge again, LMD. I’m looking forward to taking part 😊. Can you add me too please - thank you xx
2025 52 Week Savings Challenge (£1378) #5 5/52
2024 52 Week Savings Challenge (£1378) #26 52/52 completed Oct 24
Virtual Sealed Pot Challenge 2023 #2 £305.60/£3001 -
Me please 😁MBNA 111.80/13997.47
Santander 245.19/10550
Nationwide 20/460
Very 943/943 paid off 01/02/25
Santander OD 0/2900
Nationwide OD 100/200
Mortgage 18430/125194
EF 250/1000
Declutterred via Vinted 53/2025
NSD Feb 2/7
SPC2025 #11
52 wk envelope challenge #6 53/cash 6/virtual
Debt repaid 2025 658.65/38650.60
MFW 2025 13.72/107800
Make £2025 in 2025 57.60/2025
Friday Fiver 15/260 virtual pot, 10/260 cash
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What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash. (L Ellis)1 -
Doris17 said:I am in please LMD. 😊Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017Sealed pot 2025 £1924 | EF £1031/£1000 | Sabbatical £2393/£3000 | Travel savings £1264 | Sinking pots £34631
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