52 Week Money Challenge
Fifty-two weeks ago , I started the "52 Week Money Challenge" as a way to force myself to save money. And now, 52 weeks after starting that challenge, I'm here to say I - the self-proclaimed actual literal worst at saving money - succeeded! What the challenge is: Over the course of 52 weeks, you save $1,378 by putting increasing amounts of money each week into a jar (or other place of your choosing), starting by putting $1 in the first week, and $52 in the last week. What I did differently: I realized pretty quickly that, for me personally, it worked better to do the challenge backwards. Putting increasing amounts of money in the jar meant that the last four weeks of the year, I would have been putting in $49, $50, $51, and $52 into the jar. $202 right at Christmastime, when money is already tight after buying everyone's Christmas gifts. So I started out putting $52 into the jar, $51 the next week, $50 the next week, and so on rig...