*****UK Spending Money Game No1*******

[catherine]

Just added another £120 from a Quidco payment!

 

[GirlDreamer]

Do you guys count everything you put into the savings? Or how is it done? Like we've made a really tight budget to save as much as possible, so it won't be much for me to put in my moneybox. I'll be transferring money to the savingsaccount as the pay comes in.

Anyway, I've started the savings in the moneybox by putting in 59p today

 

[catherine]

Do you guys count everything you put into the savings? Or how is it done? Like we've made a really tight budget to save as much as possible, so it won't be much for me to put in my moneybox. I'll be transferring money to the savingsaccount as the pay comes in.

Anyway, I've started the savings in the moneybox by putting in 59p today

I think that most people just put in loose change, money they save by using a discount coupon, money from Quidco, b'days lottery wins etc. The idea is not to use money that would be considered coming from your salary. So I have my savings account for spending money that's taken from my salary plus I have my container where I put my other money!

 

[baylie666]

Added £100 from eBay sales. Plus another £20 in change.

 

[catherine]

Added another £20 from Quidco and £6 of change.

 

[scoobydooby]

£18 in coppers and 5ps. £80 in 2 pound coins. Nearly half way to the cost of the airport hotel.

 

[GirlDreamer]

I put in £1 the other day, so now I'm up to a total of £1.59

 

[Portugal1000]

$3000 changed up so far, we aim to take $200 a day so that $4600. My husband saves the spending money and I do everything else
Have £310 Christmas money and we won £47 on the lottery this week so £357. This is to go towards park tickets so a long way to go.

 

[torsie24]

Hiya

Joining this a bit late so I hope it's OK.

We've got a terramundi style pot at home that we only put £1/£2 coins and notes in. So I'll be keeping track of that on here, and hopefully we can crack it open before our next trip and have laods fo spending.

I don't know what's in there so far at all, I'm hoping at least £200 as we've been doing it a while and there's a good few £5s and £10s in there. We put £7 in last night as we had change left over from the weekend that we'd have just wasted otherwise.

 

[baylie666]

I have been adding lots of odds and ends for the last few days. so am about another £20 up I think.

 

[GirlDreamer]

I've just added £3.35

 

[catherine]

I've just added another £20 change from the week!

 

[tinkerbells mum]

Well I've just opened my savings tin. I knew I hadn't put much in, just the odd bit of change from here and there I thought there would only be about £3 in there so was amazed when there was over £18 in it. The odds on the dollars i ordered came to just over £17 so I've put the rest in a new tin ready for our next trip which will hopefully be 2015, there should be quite a nice amount in there by then good luck with everyone else's savings and hope you all get 6 times what you expected in you tins lol!

 

[catherine]

I've just counted mine and I couldn't believe that I have £1,156 in there. All I've been putting in is change that I've had left over from the week, some b'day money etc. I was just thinking how much money I must waste on stuff that I've not even missed, if I've managed to save this money since this thread started!

 

[tinkerbells mum]

I've just counted mine and I couldn't believe that I have £1,156 in there. All I've been putting in is change that I've had left over from the week, some b'day money etc. I was just thinking how much money I must waste on stuff that I've not even missed, if I've managed to save this money since this thread started!

Makes my £18 look very sad well done on saving so much that's fantastic xx

 

[catherine]

Makes my £18 look very sad well done on saving so much that's fantastic xx

At some point mine was only £18!

All the time now I think do I really want to buy that sandwich etc. or would I rather put the money in the Disney fund!

 

[tinkerbells mum]

At some point mine was only £18!

All the time now I think do I really want to buy that sandwich etc. or would I rather put the money in the Disney fund!

I think because I had the trip paid for and the spending money put away before I started the challenge the incentive wasn't there, it will be different this time and with longer to save there will be more in their, I was surprised how much was in there though xx

 

[catherine]

I think because I had the trip paid for and the spending money put away before I started the challenge the incentive wasn't there, it will be different this time and with longer to save there will be more in their, I was surprised how much was in there though xx

I've also got the money to pay off the holiday and I have almost all of our $s. So this is extra. I just got into doing this and once I did everybody had to look out for their change!

 

[Magic Megadegs]

OMG!!! Took a load of scrap gold / silver jewellery (stuff I never wear) to a local jewellers and was expecting maybe £300 (have never done this before). I got £1500!!!!! FANTASTIC! Going straight to Disney to part pay our balance! What an unexpected surprise!

 

[scoobydooby]

OMG!!! Took a load of scrap gold / silver jewellery (stuff I never wear) to a local jewellers and was expecting maybe £300 (have never done this before). I got £1500!!!!! FANTASTIC! Going straight to Disney to part pay our balance! What an unexpected surprise!

That wasn't scrap jewellery!!!!