Hi everyone. Just wondering if anybody else has a jar that they and H2B put their spare change into. After me and H2B got engaged a lable up a jar as "the wedding fund" with instructions to "put your coppers in here". Checked it this morning and was pleasently surprised to find that there's £62.21 in there.
CommentAuthorKaz
We do this, any change goes in up to 20p! Except we've been dipping in lately for bus fares, so only had @ £7 this month! xx
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CommentAuthorLiza247
I have a honeymoon fund jar that was a present when we got engaged n we only put pounds, two pounds n occasional notes in. It's also one of those that you have to break open to get inside. So am Hopi g to be pleasantly surprised when we evenually open it!!
CommentAuthorx~Hails~x
I do this with £2 coins over the year but usually i spent it all on christmas presents
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CommentAuthorlala "mod" bunni
hi yeah i have several ....... one that is money towards BM dresses ....before mr lala told me that thry can come out of the wedding fund ......another that is labeled ..."la vegas bail fund 2012" was done to bail mr lala and out friend out if they got arrested but i think it has now become the girls coctail fund !!!!
H2B put in place a rule that say if you take anything out of the wedding fund then you have to put more back in, which is great as it really stops the temptation to dip into this.
CommentAuthorKaz
Liza, any idea where it was from, could really do with one that didn't open! The one we have we glued shut for last year and had a brill xmas but the top doesn't meet properly now we opened it! Might use an old biscuit tin and glue that! xx
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CommentAuthorlala "mod" bunni
we have a cheap one from the pound shop that you need a can opener to get into
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CommentAuthorLiza247
Think it was from clintons
CommentAuthorKaz
Thanks guys xx
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CommentAuthorGem
we have a pot that used to be for a treat each month but it has now turned into a honeymoon fund! we have delayed out honeymoon till feb and so any pounds or 2pound coins go in there and we emptied it the other day and there was over £80 in there from just a couple of months so it went straight to the bank to join money we were given on the big day!its amazing how much you can save by doing it!x
CommentAuthorlinzi
we always have a few on the go too! we have a terrimundi each for all of our £1 and £2 coins. Usually we get about £300 each a year out of that. Then we have the joing "greff" jar, which is all other coinage. We empty that just before Christmas every year and usually about £150-£200 in it!
this year they are all getting emptied before the wedding for spending money on honeymoon!
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CommentAuthorKayteeG
We've done this too - I think the first time we got £80ish and the 2nd time we got £60ish! Definitely helps!
CommentAuthorNicsquared
We have a pot - been filling it for about 5 years - anything less than a pound goes in, probably should count it
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CommentAuthorMrsowen2b
Hey weve got one that you need a tin opener to open so we cant get in to it haha! it holds 500 £1 coins.
it says on it "Life is Grand and weddings are many grands"
we dont have much in there yet haha!
xx
CommentAuthorMrs Badger
We have a pot that we put loose change up to a £1 in and any tips from work, my mum also puts money in too. Saved up quite a bit with it. xx
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CommentAuthorKat
My moh bought us a wedding fund money pot when we first got engaged and we put all our £1 coins in. We have collected around £1200 so far
CommentAuthorTinsel
Kat, we've got one like that - my MIL2B and FIL2B bought it for us. We were hoping to put all our £5 notes in and then that money goes behind the bar, but I might us it to pay for my tiara and veil lol!
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CommentAuthorClareS
we've got one but have just emptied it for our holiday. Starting it again in a couple of weeks for the wedding so will have a good year saving up x
CommentAuthorChrissy~MrsFaulds2b
Yes we have a jar but the kids keep raiding it for one thing or another so we'll be lucky to get anything out of it...LOL kids don't ya just love em xxx
CommentAuthorKinkyemo
yeah we have got a squash bottle lol
never much in it though as we use it for bus money lol we need to really give it a go now though got soo much to find money for!
CommentAuthormym72
We've got one of the tins from the pound shop (one of the larger size) that we put tens, twenties and occasionally fifties in (tbh h2b puts more in than me lol) - then we have one of the large plastic 'lager' bottles that are for coins, and put fives and copper in. We've been saving for ages in that and it's still less than a quarter full, so think we've got a long time of saving yet lol.
CommentAuthorJane
i opened a seperate account and what ever i have at end of every day ( £1,50p,20p,10p,5p,2p,1p) all go into that account and as soon as theres enough to buy summit for the weddin i buy that item :)
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CommentAuthorAnnette
we have a changejar but we always end up dipping into it as we are dead broke these days :/
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CommentAuthorMrs*Maria*Louise
i always did this and h2b used to just throw his coppers away until one day we took it down to a machine and got loads for it so now he realises its worth saving but my last lot got spent by the kids in the arcade while on holiday lol but maybe i should start a wedding one!! xx
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CommentAuthorkimmy
We collect £1 coins we have deposited £1000.00 since January in our wedding account!!!!
CommentAuthorJane
it's amazing how much ya can put away with out relizing it ave only been puttin mine away since feb and am nearly done on the wedding stuff bits n bobs just a few small things to get then am done and then what ever goes in will just mount up to pay the remaining bill off :)
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CommentAuthorEnny
i have got a tin where i cant see how much or what is in there... it feels pretty full and heavy its everything from 5p to £20 notes :) so hoping that is already quite good and thats so far only what i put in... dont know about h2b he hasnt saved so far but we trying to do a sort of competition as who can save up more... but i guess he will win that as he has just more income but tbh i speand already like £300 or more only on wedding things from ties, decoration o invites ... and he hasnt put anything towards that so that counts sort of too :D
CommentAuthorbecky -mrs firth
we save £2 coins!!
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CommentAuthorYourFirstDanceBride
I do this and I collect coppers, 5ps and £2 coins and I saved loads doing that. Paid for my dress alterations from that tub. Now using it to save for my ipl!
CommentAuthorvikki977
i save £2 coins, spent my last lot in pontins at easter so have started again now for xmas pressies...... hadnt thought of using as a wedding fund... may have to switch it now! lol xxx
CommentAuthorKaya
My bridesmaid bought as a honeymoon fund jar.... we've been putting only £1 and £2's in it over the past year.... not opened it yet though.... seemed a shame to break into it when it wasn't full.... and by the time it is full we'll be able to do soemthing nice with it... perhaps go back to our wedding night hotel for our 1st anniversary or something x
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CommentAuthorDeeC
We have a tin that we can't see into and can't get the lid off. Only started it last week. We are putting any coppers etc left over at the end of the day. Also anything we win on the lottery etc which came to 52 pound last week.
CommentAuthorlili1988
I have about 4 change jars for the wedding fund dotted around the house that way i hav no excuse not to put the change in them and when the h2b's pockets start chinking with small change i can rattle them a him tee hee!
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CommentAuthorMrsC
we have quite a few lol but dont have any reason for them!!! the pennies generally get used for buss fair but now im thinking it could be put to better use!!
CommentAuthorMrsC2B
We have a huge glass bottle which we add 1p, 2p and 5ps to. We've had it for as long as we've been together (5.5 years). We said we'd count it when it got to the top and spend it on a holiday. Thankfully we're nearly there so it'll help pay for our honeymoon. (Hope we can go somewhere exciting!) xx
CommentAuthorstarlighthunny
we have an old sweetie jar that any spare change goes into, but tbh we are both really good at saving and put a bit aside each month into a bank account that we dont touch.
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CommentAuthorKimi
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Got given a tatty teddy piggy bank for xmas to help and it started off as a basic wedding/holiday/honeymoon fund and we put £1 coins in it. Got over £100 for the holiday we had in June saved up and started again for September - however much will help us pay for other things we need such as spends on honeymoon or clothes for honeymoon, surprising bills for wedding things, etc.
The other thing that would happen would it would be spent on crap or chocolate so at least its being saved and stops me putting on the pounds. :)
Almost forgot also got another jar just for 1p, 2p and 5p coins that's got about £8 in it now. :)
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CommentAuthorWeeMintyMonkie
My H2B and i have gotten those can things that you can only open with a can opener! We put all his tips money from his food deliveries and any spare change we can find in them¬
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CommentAuthorKat831
We've done it for years with coppers and normally get about £80. My bank also does a save the change thing where everytime you use your debit card to buy things they round it up to the next pound and put the difference into a savings account, its brilliant! The other thing I am starting is I get paid weekly on a wednesday so every tuesday night whatever is left in that account gets moved over into the savings account too xxx.
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