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It’s the beginning of a new month and that means the next installment of my Saving on a Shoestring updates and a chance for you to win an Amazon gift card!
In case you aren’t familiar with my Saving on a Shoestring series, it’s my monthly summary of how we are pinching our pennies and tucking some away for a future reward. At this point in life, we have three fun goals:
- To save 100% cash for a cruise next year to celebrate our 10th anniversary (been saving for about a year and a half now).
- To save 100% cash for a mini van to replace our 1995 Camry (been saving for over 5 years for this one).
- To set aside reward points and rebates to cut our Christmas spending out of pocket to $50 or less.
Here are my latest numbers. Remember that you can download your own copy of the Cha-Ching Christmas Club Savings Tracker (click on ‘File’ and then ‘Download’) and then make it all your own.
Project Cruise 2012: We are up to 44%.
Mission Mini Van: We are at 86%.
Cha-Ching! Christmas Club: I am at 68%.
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How about you? Have you been saving and scrimping toward a reward or are you a part of the Cha-Ching! Christmas Club? Then leave a comment or a link below sharing your savings update. And then PLEASE encourage each other by leaving comments here or on the blogs listed. If we work on this together, it will be so much more fun!
AND just to add to all the fun going on around here, I will give a $5 Amazon gift code to one person who leaves a direct link to their savings post or a comment sharing an update on their savings. (I figure it’s just one more way to help you save on that shoestring!)
The giveaway will end Monday, June 6, 2011 at 10 a.m. EST. I’ll randomly select the winning comment or link. Winner will be notified by email and listed on this site.
Note: If you have a blog, here is the HTML code for the Saving on a Shoestring button above:
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I’ve set up a goal for my Christmas fund and we’re about 70% there! Woo Hoo!
For me it’s not as much about savings as getting out of debt. Better to pay as I go rather than worry about that growing interest.
Hi, this is my first time participating and I just update my blog with our savings goals. I just cashed in my swag bucks for amazon gift codes. Love that program!
I am concentrating on getting more Swagbucks to pay for Christmas gifts. I would love to have a Christmas that does not add to our debt. Spending $50 on Christmas seems very attainable and I am going to try to do it!
I had been doing well with saving up swagbucks/discover rewards but we had a few birthdays recently that I had to cash in for.
I am almost up to the cashing out point of inbox dollars–so excited about that and mypoints is building up! I plan on saving the mypoints until the fall when I will cash in for gift cards for Christmas.
I have been saving since your suggestion last year to do so! I have saved (and these are approx. from last time I checked!)
Opinion Outpost $147
ipsos _______
Myview 44oo pts.
Mysurvey 3655 pts
Valued Opinions $14.75
Marie Brighton/Synovate 22,790 pts
Springboard America $55.25
erewards $7.26
Yougov 14,750 pts
Mypoints 8,736
PLUS lots from inboxdollars, swagbucks and hav e an additional
7,643 points from ThankYou points from Citibank!
This is such a great idea and I really am doing very little to get this!
Thanks for your inspiration — you really mean the world to a lot of people!
Monica