52 Week Savings Challenge – Week 3

January 23, 2013 by

52 week savings challenge

52 Week Savings Challenge

52 Week Savings Challenge Week 3, Welcome back!  If you are just joining us, visit 52 Week Savings Challenge Week 1 to catch up with us and get started.

I don’t know about you but I’m still excited about the savings challenge.  Though feel that it’s slow going and would like to pick things up.  However, we can’t!  We need to be patient.  Losing our patience will cause us to give up on the savings challenge.

If you haven’t already, go ahead and deposit $3.00 into your savings fund this week!

What can you give up for $3.00 in order to do this?  Here are my 5 tips of finding a $3.00 to spare.

  1. Rent a book or borrow a magazine instead of buying one.
  2. Say no to one $3.00 item that you would have purchased.
  3. Avoid taking money out from the ATM.
  4. Make a meal from leftovers.
  5. Bring your lunch to work this week.

Plus – Earn your money back!!  Heading to the store?  Grab some printable coupons and take them with you.

My favorite ones this week are:


$3.00 off on any (1) 4 pack of South Beach Diet
$0.75 off one Welch's Light Grape Juice Beverage
$1.00 off 1 Smucker's Jam, Jelly, or Preserve
$0.75 off any ONE (1) Wrigley's Gum Car Cup

Another easy week!  We’ve got $6.00 in our savings…. 49 more weeks to go!

52 Week Savings Challenge

Comment below and tell me if you participated in this weeks 52 Week Savings Challenge?  Are you putting more into your account or just sticking with the plan?

Next week we’ll be adding $4.00 toward our savings fund.

Want to see what’s ahead?  Go here to get the 52 Week Savings Challenge Printable Form.

Did you miss week 2?  Check it out:  52 Week Savings Challeng – Week 2 

52 Week Savings Challenge

 

Gina

Gina is a lifestyle & money blogger dedicated to helping women manage their homes and finances. She is a mother of 4 children which includes twins. When she's not chauffeuring her kids to school and their activities, she finds her sanity though this blog and through social media. Her journey would not succeed without remembering to put Faith first, Family second and Work third.
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Comments

  1. Budget and the Beach says:
    January 28, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    I love how you have tips on how to find the money for the week! It seems pretty easy now, but I’m sure as the months go on it will be more challenging. Totally worth it though!

    • Gina says:
      January 28, 2013 at 9:24 pm

      Thanks! I’m finding it difficult to not be so repetitive with finding the money tips. However, I think it’s the simple things that we overlook that we do daily that we have the most control over. I can’t wait towards the end of the year. It’s definitely gonna be a challenge to find $52 a week. =)


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