When it comes to saving money, a little goes a long way. What I mean is that you may be just saving your change into a pot every day and see such a result in a few months. You just need to remember that everything takes it's time and patience is really needed for this.
How do I save up money? As I have a baby on the way and me and my partner are needing to get a house by this summer, saving up has been a really difficult thing for us to do. Especially when you have car tax to pay for, monthly bus passes and a bunch of other things. Personally, I save up with a little thing I recently started which is ''£2 for every 50 blog views'', every time I get 50 more views on any of my blogs, I add £2 to a jar. I will be only opening the jar at the end of each month and depositing it into the bank. The final amount of money will be revealed on July 19th 2016, this money will be going full towards our baby and house. I find that doing it this way makes me do my hobby better and also motivates me to save up. I'm loving it so far.
No matter what anyone says, we hate to admit it but we always end up spending money on things we don't need. Whether it's those pairs of shorts you want to get from Primark and then end up never wearing them, or maybe it's a bunch of junk food you don't need but want to get anyway. Imagine how much all that would add up to each month...
So here are different ways to save up quite a bit of money within months:
- Start a hobby and every time you achieve a milestone, put a certain amount of money into a pot and at the end of the month, take it to the bank and deposit it into a savers account. Even if you save £2 each time you reach a milestone, it makes a huge difference. Chances are you would have wasted your money on something else you don't need anyway.
- If money is short and is literally going to bills and essentials only, it can be super hard to save up. If you like music or fashion and don't mind writing short reviews on things, head over to Slice The Pie, that is how I used to get my money when I was in college. All the money you get from the website, transfer it straight from your PayPal to your savers account. You will see a difference within just a few months.
- Just opening up a savers account in general can motivate you to save up. Transferring that money over from one account to the other and then seeing that amount rise every month can make you feel so much better and motivate you to save up even more.
- A lot of people don't like doing this but it is also a good way to save up, makes you sort of compete with yourself a little. Instead of buying really expensive branded things when shopping, why not go for the store value products? At the end of each shopping spree you do for the fridge or house in general, put the remaining money you would usually spend into a pot or savers account. I think this is quite a fast way to save up.
- If you are simply putting whatever money you have at the end of the month into a pot or savers account, the best thing to do is don't keep checking it. This can take all your motivation away, saving up can sometimes take too long and your impatience might impact how much you save. So, set yourself a goal like I did. Give yourself a date to check your final outcome on and this will make you feel so much better.
