The 52-week money challenge is a fun and effective way to stash money away to start or bolster your savings. The most common way to complete the challenge is to start by saving just $1 in week one and increasing what you save by $1 each week, saving $2 in week two and $3 in week three, all the way up to $52 in week 52.
Week 1, you save $1.00. Week 2 you save $2.00, and it continues through the year, adding one more dollar to each week's savings goal. By Week 52, you'll set aside $52.00, which will bring the year's total savings to $1,378!
This $2 savings challenge is an easy and fun way to save up to $2,756 in 52 weeks! Keep track of how much you've saved in your envelopes easily with this savings tracker! Save $2 in the first week then increase the amount by two-dollar each week. do it for 52 weeks to save $2,756.
All this challenge requires is for you to stash away every $5 bill you get as change. That's it. If you're paying for something and the cashier hands you back a bill with Lincoln's solemn face, don't use it to buy coffee or a cheap lunch from the drive thru. Commit that $5 bill to your savings.
52-Week Saving Challenge
The 52-week money challenge works like this: Start by depositing $1 in week one, $2 in week two, $3 in week three and so on. Keep the funds you save in an interest-bearing savings account. By week 52, you'll have amassed a full $1,378 in savings.
If you were to save $50 each week, that would result in an annual savings of $2,600. Over the span of 30 years, that's $78,000. That's not something you can retire on. But if you invested those savings into a safe growth stock, you could potentially have $1 million by the time you retire.
The $20 Challenge was an Australian reality television series that was broadcast on the Network Ten in 2000. The show was hosted by Tim Bailey, and saw four Australians trying to survive in a foreign country with nothing but $20 to their name.
For every 365 days of the year you save pennies. Starting at 1p on day one and then each day you add on a penny to the previous day's amount e.g. Day 2 = 2p, Day 3 = 3p, Day 4 = 4p etc.
1 quarter a day for a year is $91.25. There are 365 days in a year, $0.25 x 365 is $91.25.
The original version of the 100 Envelope Challenge is straightforward—but it's also a big savings goal. You have to be able to save the $5,050 for this to work in the original 100-day time span, which is $50.50 per day—not an insignificant amount.
Do you want to save some money for holiday gifts or other short-term goals? Consider doing the 30-Day $100 Savings Challenge. The goal of the Challenge is simple: save $100 in a 30-day time period through a series of gradually increasing deposits. November has 30 days so every day is a savings day.
52-week savings challenge
The very first money-saving challenge I tried was so easy to keep up with. It gives you a saving challenge every week of the year (hence the name 52-week saving challenge). Start off week one by saving $1, week two by saving $2 and so on. On week 52, you'll put away $52.
The 100 envelope challenge is a challenge designed to help you become a better saver. The saving money box includes 100 envelopes labeled 1-100. Every week you pick two envelopes and put the dollar amount in and then you put them in the green box. One year later you will have $5,050.
The $1000 Project was a personal challenge that I set for myself where I took one big financial goal and broke it down into small, manageable, and therefore easy, mini goals. That is, focusing on saving and earning $1,000 at a time.
The 10X Money Challenge is a seven-day coaching experience where the world's top financial experts, entrepreneurs and business moguls come together to teach you about financial literacy so you can learn to control your financial fate and become financially free.
Users start on day one by contributing just 10c. You can then increase the amount by 10c every day for a full year, meaning at the end of the year you could have saved over R6 000. The challenge creates a savings habit...but also because it gets progressively more difficult, it instills a sense of financial discipline.
Saving $20 a week may not seem like much. However, it's more than $1,000 per year. Saving this much year after year will make a real difference. Don't forget the power of time and compounding.
The plan is refreshingly easy, even for the math-challenged: set aside $3 in the first week and put it into a savings account. Then add another $3 each week after, so $6 is saved in week two, $9 in week three, and so on. By week 26, when the final deposit of $78 is made, the savings will total $1,053.