The results are in

Hey, does anyone remember this post I wrote about my money box? Me either. But I just cracked it open and spent an hour counting the money inside. How much do I have? Well first, here’s a photo:

Excuse the glare, I’m shitty at photography. The total of the bagged coins comes to a nice $236. Sweet. I point out bagged, because on top of that there was an addition $48.15 in loose coins, which I’ve thrown into a new money tin that’s approximately 50% bigger than the last one. Since I got roughly $285 in just six months, the goal for this year is to get $500 by this time next year.

I’m pretty happy with myself.

It’s time for change.

I hate having all that silver, I’m scared of my friends wallet; it’s 90% loose change, and is so heavy that if I dropped it on a kid, it’d recreate the scene from Final Destination 2 with the glass and the pigeons.
I always have change from buying a drink or similar, and it annoys me. Sometimes I pump it into the pokies after work, but it occurs to me that it’d probably be better if I stopped wasting it on a flashing screen.

I’ve gotten a large money tin, and every time I get home, I’m going to drop any coins of any sort I have on me. The tin already weighs a fair bit from all the coins in it, and on a rough guess there must be at least 30 dollars in there. I know for sure there’s a fair bit of gold in there, so it might even be more.
Once it’s completely full, I’ll crack it open, count it, and add it to the savings. I’m hoping when it’s full, to get maybe $150-$200 out of it. Fingers crossed.

Introductionary post

I’ve had trouble for forever when it comes to saving money; it burns such a hole in my pocket that almost as soon as I get paid I spend it all and end up broke again. It’s stupid, and any attempts I make to save money fail. That’s where this blog comes in.
The aim of this blog is to talk about how I’m working on saving my money, the various ways I try to get some extra coinage, and so forth. I’m unaware of how often posts will be made on here, but when I have something to say on this topic, it will be published.

My goal

The main reason for saving my money is to get enough money to get my own place to live. To get a home loan, I need 10% of whatever I seek to borrow from the bank beforehand. So, I need to aim for roughly $30,000 saved. I will be moving in with a friend, but it’s much better to have more money than necessary, to cover unexpected expenses.
Turning this into a blogging game should keep me going, and hopefully get all the money saved as soon as possible.

Saving money

I need a house.

That’s the basic drive behind my latest attempt to seriously save some money. I’ve looked, and found out that to get one, I need to have at least 20% of whatever the size of the loan is. So to be safe, my goal is to save $30,000. This will be more than enough, because moving out is something I’m planning to do with my friend.

To help myself plan and keep track of this, I’ve created another site to document progress as it happens, as well as the different ways I attempt to save or make money towards the goal, and whether it worked or not.

Creative as I am, the site is named Piggy Bank (Piggy Bank has been merged into this blog), since that’s effectively what it’s going to be. The site uses a free Facebook styled theme, and I’m not sure how often I’ll post; much like this site it could be rarely, or several in a single day. As long as I have something to say, it’ll be published.