Does anyone recall the £1 a day challenge....and has anyone done it? if so how much do you estimate you have saved?

naahh...spent it all on choccies..... I can't help myself :-)

Where do you get the cans from ?
I couldn't find them in Poundland .

If you can't get a can then why not use a large coffee jar, sellotaped to stop you opening it if you must ;-) (I was going to say superglue, but you might cut yourself on the glass after you've broken it to get the money )  Make a hole large enough in the top to put the money through.

I can't afford the £1 a day, but have been putting what I can away in small change. Sometimes it's quite a bit, sometimes just pennies. :-(

Did anyone else used to have one of those very large whisky bottles from a pub when they were a child ? You used to have to get the pound notes out with the help of  a stick or something similar .
I wish i still had mine  !! 

I saw ones in poundland the other week but I suppose each store must be different.  I have still been saving 50p and £2 coins so think I maybe have a couple of hundred which is a start.  it will do towards xmas at least.

Yes, I am still doing the £1 a day!  My tin is getting really heavy now, we have decided to open it on December 1st. so I'll tell you how much we had in it then. :)   I say 'we' because my OH jumped on the bandwagon and is also putting in the odd £1 coin!  You can get the tins from some of the card shops around here.  It was Tracey123 who started us all off on it I think!  :)

another way as well is get one of those washing lig plactic boxs,out a line open the shape of a letter box,
we just fill a large one up over 18 months with 1p 2p 5p 20p 50p got £184,put it away for boxing day meal

> washing lig plactic boxs

You been on the Ribena Briedog??  :)

You been on the Ribena Briedog?? 

Probably been trying to empty one of those large whisky bottles for her savings :) :)

no ,the tub shape washing power liq in little square sharps,

Opening mine on 1st Dec too loads in there I think..also add the odd 50p -£2 coin. And another three tins now ful of smaller change.

Been doing similar with1p,2p,5p, 10p and 20p out of my pocket end of each day, some days its zilch others its up to about £1.40 depends on 20p s.. I spend it on xmas but what goes in from xmas to begining of March is my 'extra' spending money for Crufts to use on stuff I don't really need but that I fancy getting :-)
Chris

I cant really afford a pound a day now but everytime I get a £2 coin I put that in. I've got a sticker on the side of my piggy bank indicating what the money is for. This time round its for a new living room door which is about £50. :)

Only Four more days before we open our tins!!  :)  Anyone excited?  :)

ME......Into 4 tins now......hope that the "money fairy" has not been replacing my £ and 20/50p with bottle lids.

FOUR tins.......WOW!!!  We'll all have to say the amount we have.....bet you win Kazz!!!  :)

I think I have a fair few 2p and pennies in there.............

I haven't been doing £1 a day but every 50p and £2 coin goes in so it should be worth a bit.  I will wait until it is full though before opening it.

I have a couple of these which i have been running, though i got as a present a china jar which cost a wopping £17 as a Xmas present last year. You make a wish and then when you open the jar that is what you get. Though i think with the price of everything these days and the huge credit crunch i'll save from smashing it open for now..

I do have another one which i think i'll start bagging up and getting changed up at my local supermarket..

Its a great way of saving..

I have a large bottle which I put £2 and £1 coins into, I'm opening it the 1st Dec, cant wait, last year I had £400 in it!!

Well....I have opened my tin!  £359.70 I got!!  I have no idea where the 70p came from!!  Must have put 20p's and 50p's in some days when I didn't have my specs on!!  :)  Got to get another tin now ready for next year!

Excellent! What a fab early Christmas present!

The trouble is that I have spent it already!!  :)

Ooops!

Right I have opened mine well 3 of the tins and found
3 lids from glass bottles of coke...;)
A £10 note I put a lucky dip win of £10 in it.
And £503.86 more copper than I though but hey it all counts look after the pennies etc.
I am starting next years now.

Well Done!!  Where is Tracey123?  She was the one who suggested it! :)

Yes St Domingo we have a whisky bottle that we have been saving 5p's in for YEARS (well over 10) it still isn't full we are just going up the narrow part towards the neck, I think they will have changed the coins before we get there, I keep wondering how much will be in it?

£260 in 50p and 20p got to still account the 10p 5p, yet

£1 last count was over £500