Yesterday started my £1 a day jar.

I will explain put a quid a day in a jar and then use the money for Christmas food etc next year add a little more sometimes if I claim petrol from work or something like that...works wonders seriously even if only a £1 a day thats £360+

what a good idea I waste more than that in a day and wouldnt notice it, If you told me to put £7 a week away I would probably say no lol cant afford that. I think I will join you I have a rather nice piggy money box sitting on my window sill waiting to be fed. I keep meaning to walk to work that would save me a pound each way if I did and I would be healthier :o))

Wendy

It works because it sounds such a small amount....ie you buy a paper....hand over a £1....what left copper...

I do that with all my loose change once every week when i go shopping, it adds up really quick.

I'm going to do it!!!  :)

Go for it in the £ shop I brought my sister a moneybox that you can't get into without using a can opener on the thing.....

I've got one of them that I put £2 and 50p's in and it is really heavy.  i don't get £2 coins every day but have been doing it for less than a year and think it has £3-400 in it so far.  It is nearly full and I've got another one to fill up this year.  Mine is going towards paying for my next dog hopefully.

thats a cool goal!

Right now I am trying to fill a water jug (one of those ones you see if offices, on the coolers) with Just PENNIES.  Dont know what that is in the UK, kinda dense.  But so far I have over 1000 pennies, which makes 10 bucks!!!!! 

Its cool

Go for it in the £ shop I brought my sister a moneybox that you can't get into without using a can opener on the thing.....

I've seen those in our local pound shop!  I'm going to give it a go. 
We put all our loose change into a pot and take it into the bank every couple of months.  Just before Christmas we took £50 worth of coins in.  It mounts up, and it came in handy!

£2 coins are called 'chocolate money' in this house and not counted as legal tender LOL. All go in a pot for a holiday fund. Last one was a terramundi which had (spookily enough) precisely £800 in it when I cracked it open. Current one, which is getting very heavy, is a giant tin can.

M.

Seems we are a board of savers.....:)

Got my tin from the £1 shop!!  :)

I like that idea, shall give it a go!

.............got a £1 in mine!!!  :)  :)

I put a couple of two pound coins in mine earlier. Son gave me some money i didnt expect to get back so thought it could go in the saving pot. We are planning a holiday this year and hopefully this will be our spending money :o))

I wont let on to anyone about it so they are not tempted to borrow some when I am not around lol

Thats it we'll start everyone saving.

Karen

I do something similar as this with other things like holidays and repairs on the house. We put £10 a week in some pots and £20 a week in others. It all amounts up quite quickly! :)

Your all very good, I start off quite well,then end up raiding the jar for a chinese takeaway.

:D I find the best thing to do is write down the days your going to put the money in and cross them off as you do then you know you've definately put the money in! :)

Found a pound in the pocket of my jeans before I put a wash on.  It's gone in the tin....my saving has started :-D

Haven't got a £1 coin ....but just checked the "shrapnel" in my purse ....and it amounts to £1.01 !!!!

So that's going in my tin right now!

Margot x

Ashlee, get the money box from the pound shop, you have to open it with a tinopener!!  :)

Unfortunately, if you're like me and raid the money box regularly (and lose the key ;) ) it's so easy to take the money out again using a butter knife (or similar ) from the way it went in :D I wish I had £1 a day to put in a tin, or money box. Living on benefits means I just can't. What I do though is to empty my purse after each shopping trip of any coins and try not to touch it. Some weeks it works, others it doesn't.... ;)

I know the feeling! Many times I have raided the 'penny jar'!
My OH got me a Terramundi money pot for my birthday in August which I put my £2 coins in, haven't raided it yet. Might try and do the £1 a day as well, don't get many twos.

We all have a large tin which i got from the pound shop, we put pound coins in and if i feel flush ( not often) i might put a fiver or tenner in. when we opened ours in the summer ( we save for the summer holls ) we had about £3oo each and the tin was only a third full. Cool idea

We don't have a £1 shop near to us but when I find one I'll buy one of the tins that you need to open with a tin opener, but in the mean time am going to join you in the £1.00 @ day minimum and will probably empty purse too of loose change at the beginning of the week!  Fab idea!

Well after reading this thread, Ive started mine!! five pound in it so far.....

must not touch...must not touch hehe

I'm using a mini cheddars tub, cut a slot in the top and lots of tape

I've got £4.73 now!  Loose change is going in the tin as well.  We'll all be loaded by Christmas! 

got my tin and started my collecting for next xmas, see you all here in twelve months for the grand opening LOL

Hope there aren't any burglars reading this thread! :D

They will jangle on the way out......if there are...

just a wee word of warning to everyone saving money in a jar.  I hacked mine open last week and it was less than 1/2 full and had £250 in it .  I went to my bank yesterday to ask for bankbags to put it in and took it all down today to put in my account. 

I'm going to name and shame alliance and leicester coz I'm so hacked off with them about this.  Apparently they have a 5 bag rule meaning that you cannot take more than 5 bags in at a time.  I wasn't even allowed to go back later in the afternoon with it so had to carry the majority of it about in my bag all afternoon between meetings which weighed a ton and wasn't very secure.

saviour of the day was the post office who took the money and put it into my A&L account using my switch card.  All hail the post office!

I thought I was going to have to use the coinstar machine in Asda but this would have taken 10% in commission (£25 ).  Anyway just a wee warning (and a rant thrown in for free) for all you would be savers.

My building society is the same, I saved up £250 spending money for crufts one year in my penny pot, it took me two weeks of trips into town to pay it all into my account

I have a teramundi pot at home, it has one £2 coin in it and thats only because I couldnt get it out, managed to get the rest out with a ruler :rolleyes:  Think im going to start the £1  a day thing too :)

So the post Office will take it then...must bear that in mind. I do not worry see I take it into work (BQ) and swop it there :rolleyes: for notes so it does not bother me too much.

the man said that as long as card is a link card they can do the transfer. No fee and no restrictions.

My building society is the same, and i usually change it at the main post office but this time they wouldnt let me and said they will only change it if i am paying bills with it!  :rolleyes:

I took £400 of £2 and £1 coins into the Clydesdale Bank at the beginning of December and they took it all.  This must be the only time that they've come up trumps, cos they're useless for everything else! :rolleyes:

If you are paying it in to a childs account, I believe they have to take as many bags as you have.

Is anyone still doing the £1 per day jar?  I am still doing mine!!  :)  :)

Still doing mine.  Put in all £1 and £2 coins.  It's really adding up. Over £100 already!!

Im still doing all my loose change every week.

Mine is in a money box which has to be opened with a tin opener............can't see me lasting out until next Christmas without checking how much is in there!  :)  We'll all have to say next Christmas how much we have collected!!  :)

I'm not doing the £1 a day savings but I am saving every £2 coin I get :-)

Everyday I have been emptying my wallet and all the coins 20p and under go in a pot its starting to add up.
Mary

I got a "puggy bank" (no that is not one of my usual typos - got it from Battersea Dogs Home stand at Crufts) and all my 20p and £2 coins go into it.  Then every few days all the copper in my purse goes into another box.  It adds up very well, and goes owrads Christmas or special occassions.
bye
Gwen

I've been saving £3 per day, for special treats, used it to get our crufts tickets and still have about £60 odd in there. Fantastic idea! :-D

my best pot is a ariel washing power plastic box,the square one not the bottel

some one told me to cut to hole in the the top tape the side down start filling it up.they did this for their son for the ruby club trip,
plus you not paying out for a money box before you use it,!!!!!

i started in the spring last year and it 3/4 full,i think a good 2 hunderd in there with the short change that left around the house,inculing the boys money if i tidy up thier bedrooms find money on the floor in it gos,

I don't tidy my son or daughters rooms they do it themselves (well that is debateable!) but I often find money they've left on the side and most often in their clothes so I find it in the washing machine!  Goes in my tub, I've been doing the £1@day and also putting the loose change in.  We're going to Manchester in June to see The Police (Sting!) and will use it for that trip. 

crespen

Theres 100 pennys to the pound (:)