Hello! This is Nadia from my blog, With Glittering Eyes. By now, many people have already dumped their New Year's Resolutions, but I have one that you might just want to adopt-- and even though we are halfway through January, it is easy to catch up! This year, my family is doing a super-easy, extra savings plan that I found on Pinterest. For each week, one through fifty-two, we put that amount of money aside. So, for week one, we put in $1. Week two was $2. This is week three, so we will put in $3... this will continue until the last week of the year (week 52) when we will put in $52. You get the idea. At the end of 2013, without doing any extra work and without even noticing the weekly shortage, we will have saved $1378. Click here to see the pin- and the mini spreadsheet. (There's no reason that you have to deposit in order so you might prefer to make the biggest deposits earlier in the year and smaller ones during the month of December since the goal is to make this extra saving unnoticed).
My daughter was concerned that we needed a little bank to hold weekly deposits. For our little bank, I used a recycled bit of packaging from one of my Christmas gifts and covered it with decorative paper. She thought this shape looked like a deposit tube from the drive-thru at the bank.
I used Paper Trimmings for borders (page 69, border cut at 1") and Wall Decor and More for the phrase (page 45, cut at 2-1/4"). I picked this text because my OLW for the year is 'faith' so I am trying to work it into some of my projects this year.
I printed off the spreadsheet from the pin-- my daughter particularly likes crossing off the weeks. We keep it inside with the money.
That's all there is to it-- easy peasy-- and to catch up, it will only cost you three bucks. This is a great way to make an extra, end-of-year offering at church or to have a little stash to buy a gift for the family to share after the holidays. ...And it's a LOT easier than keeping that weight loss resolution!
Thank you for checking my post today!
Cricut Info & Supplies Used:
Designed By: Nadia Herbst-McConnell
Cricut Machines Used: Expression
Project Type: Uncategorized
Project Theme: New Years
Cricut Cartridges Used: Paper Trimmings, Wall Decor and More
Suppies Used: Recycled tube with ends, paper
Fabulous idea - love your choice of Cricut cut and the patterned paper. Matting the mini-spreadsheet is such a good idea too - I can see a lot of joy coming from this project.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great idea! I might have to try this one. Love the paper and design that you did.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! Very pretty bank for your resolution.
ReplyDeleteThis is a brilliant idea! I think we are going to follow along and see how much we can save! I love the design you chose and the sentiment is lovely!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I think I will do this. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!! Pretty too! Lee-Ann :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE THIS!!! I think I might do this with a Disney Theme as well go to Disney for Christmas and this would be a lot of extra money for the trip.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of doing it in the theme of the end-use! A Disney one sounds too, too cute!!
DeleteWonderful idea!!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, much easier than dieting or exercising.
I have GOT to try this! Your container is not only useful, but darling as well! As a memory challenged individual, I applaud the idea of a spreadsheet to keep track of which week you are on--good thinking! Thanks for the inspiration, Nadia! :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome idea!! I'm going to do this myself and challenge my husband to do the same. You know men and their challenges ;) Thanks for sharing. Pass it on people :D
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!!! Love it!!!
ReplyDeletelove this idea...thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteNadia this is a great idea. Love that it will only cost $3 to catch up. LOL. I think I'll look for a special "bank" tonight when I get home. Going to look at that pin now and the spreadsheet. Thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!
ReplyDeleteI saw this savings plan make the rounds of facebook and want to do it too! great idea to make a special saving bank for it! I'm in!
ReplyDeleteYours looks great! thanks for the extra push to try it!
What a great idea!! And, of course, your bank is too cute for words!!! Thanks for the suggestion!!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea!! I take our grandson to make his deposit at the Credit Union every week. This would have made it super fun for him and what a great reward on his statement.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful idea and your bank and check list makes it a fun one too!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea, Nadia. I am so going to try it!
ReplyDeleteNadia what a fun idea - and loving the savings calculator. Too cool great job.
ReplyDeleteI really like this idea a lot. It is one of those things that is attainable for a New Year's Resolution - unlike my losing weight idea.
ReplyDeleteNadia, what a great idea, thanks for sharing.
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