Hello guys so recently I decided to take up the challenge of buying a saving box and dropping any cash from 500 Naira upward into it just before the ordeal I talked about not too long ago
(see it here: https://www.nairaland.com/6436174/landlord-torturing-us ) at the current place which I'm staying. I started saving as soon as I paid the first rent in my current jaguda place (around August.) My friend helped me get the box and for a couple of days I kept staring at it because I didn't have anything to put in it. Lol. The thing been come dey vex me sef. But I thank God because before long, I started getting some cash to put in there. My target was N1,000 per day but if I get more than that, I'll just take out my transportation for the next day and put the rest in it (wasn't easy though). Some days were good, others not so good. Sometimes I'd go for over two weeks without having anything to put in there while sometimes I could get like 10k, take out my transportation and put in the rest. I am an artisan lest I forget so na daily money people like me dey count on. Nobody dey pay us salary ....

Anyway I got the box around late October last year (2020) and started dropping money in it the following month. There were times I was tempted to open it but I resisted. I actually got the box to save up for my house rent. I did this so as not to touch the money in my account or start running around for rent when the time comes. I finally got a new house today that's why I opened it up. Guess how much I saw in there after about 8 months of consistent savings...... N219,000

Now I can pay my rent and I won't even know something left me. It's easier to pay your rent or for any other long term stuffs this way than taking it out of your bank account (na that one dey pain pass. Lol). Lest I forget when you have this box at home, make sure not to show it to unfriendly people. Hide am very well if you can and always pray against the spirit of premature opening ....


I did this to inspire some people who have difficulty in saving. Do this for two years and you can buy a car or land depending on how much you consistently put in it. No be everything be prayer point.

I thank God and my friend who went ahead to still buy the box even when I told her not to because I changed my mind. Lol

God bless you guys for reading.

Mods please push this to front page to encourage others. Thanks.

OP, imagine say Adam resist temptation like you, we for no de experience this inflation.

You sha made $580. That's a well done from me.

Make sure you no give any chica chingum from that money. Double am through alternative investments. Good luck.

congratulations.. Handiwork pays.... I wish I can do this

Bola146:
congratulations.. Handiwork pays.... I wish I can do this

You can o. Everything na mind.

ikechukwu21:


You can o. Everything na mind.

I wish ooo but business now is somehow, God help me.

this doesnt look like 219k mumu stop lying

mmadu5:
this doesnt look like 219k mumu stop lying

Hello sir, have you successfully registered for JAMB this year? We the concerned members of Psychiatry Association of Nigeria care about you because we know how frustrating it can be to be 30 and still stuck at home. By God's grace this year no go pass you by. Amen.

Bola146:


I wish ooo but business now is somehow, God help me.

I understand bro. Try balance small then start. You can put in any amount. Try it for a year no matter how slow or fast the money comes in. At the end of the year take it out and re-invest it into your business

I am a born spendthrift dude..Cant save mehn..Even the cheeze in ma account isnt safe.....I pray to imbibe this sorta attitude before I die.

HarunaWest:
I am a born spendthrift dude..Cant save mehn..Even the cheeze in ma account isnt safe.....I pray to imbibe this sorta attitude before I die.

guy you funny.

ikechukwu21:
Hello guys so recently I decided to take up the challenge of buying a saving box and dropping any cash from 500 Naira upward into it. My friend helped me get the box and for a couple of days I kept staring at it because I didn't have anything to put in it. Lol. The thing been come dey vex me sef. But I thank God because before long, I started getting some cash to put in there. My target was N1,000 per day but if I get more than that, I'll just take out my transportation for the next day and put the rest in it (wasn't easy though). Some days were good, others not so good. Sometimes I'd go for over two weeks without having anything to put in there while sometimes I could get like 10k, take out my transportation and put in the rest. I am an artisan lest I forget so na daily money people like me dey count on. Nobody dey pay us salary ....

Anyway I got the box around late October last year (2020) and started dropping money in it the following month. There were times I was tempted to open it but I resisted. I actually got the box to save up for my house rent. I did this so as not to touch the money in my account or start running around for rent when the time comes. I finally got a new house today that's why I opened it up. Guess how much I saw in there after about 8 months of consistent savings...... N219,000

Now I can pay my rent and I won't even know something left me. It's easier to pay your rent or for any other long term stuffs this way than taking it out of your bank account (na that one dey pain pass. Lol). Lest I forget when you have this box at home, make sure not to show it to unfriendly people. Hide am very well if you can and always pray against the spirit of premature opening ....


I did this to inspire some people who have difficulty in saving. Do this for two years and you can buy a car or land depending on how much you consistently put in it. No be everything be prayer point.

I thank God and my friend who went ahead to still buy the box even when I told her not to because I changed my mind. Lol

God bless you guys for reading.

Mods please push this to front page to encourage others. Thanks.

Wow

HarunaWest:
I am a born spendthrift dude..Cant save mehn..Even the cheeze in ma account isnt safe.....I pray to imbibe this sorta attitude before I die.

Go download piggy bank app .. it will save yr and change ur life. I was worse than you

HarunaWest:
I am a born spendthrift dude..Cant save mehn..Even the cheeze in ma account isnt safe.....I pray to imbibe this sorta attitude before I die.

Uncle93:


Go download piggy bank app .. it will save yr and change ur life. I was worse than you

Good advice. My guy please listen to this man's advise.

Savings on a small scale goes beyond just putting in little money everyday in a piggy bank. The idea is to build in us the capacity to persevere until we achieve our goals no matter how small and negligible our daily effort may seem. It builds in us resilience. Luckily enough for me I have an elder brother from whom I learnt how to save since my early days in secondary school. He didn't teach me outrightly rather I watched him keep buying stuffs from time to time and when I moved closer I discovered he never joked with a penny. He was and is still very good at savings and I've seen him achieve lots of things with it overtime. For example I know of a guy who used same piggy bank money to buy his first Honda car. He told me so and u was shocked. This was years ago fa and guess what? He does daily contribution now and he's almost done building his house as we speak.

Boomboost:
OP, imagine say Adam resist temptation like you, we for no de experience this inflation.

You sha made $580. That's a well done from me.

Make sure you no give any chica chingum from that money. Double am through alternative investments. Good luck.

Abeg that's not 219 jare no dey exaggerate

Still weldone.

VlamesIffect:
Abeg that's not 219 jare no dey exaggerate

Still weldone.

Shey I sound like a child to you abi? Zoom in on the pictures. Those money are not straight because of the way I had to fold multiple of them before putting them into the box. The 500 Naira notes are even more compressed than the 1k notes. The 500 Naira notes are 61k and there are five 200 Naira notes on it. Do the maths to get the balance.

ikechukwu21:


Shey I sound like a child to you abi? Zoom in on the pictures. Those money are not straight because of the way I had to fold multiple of them before putting them into the box. The 500 Naira notes are even more compressed than the 1k notes. The 500 Naira notes are 61k and there are five 200 Naira notes on it. Do the maths to get the balance.

No take am personal now...

VlamesIffect:


No take am personal now...

Me wey count my own money tell you, you talk say e no reach. 219k no be money to begin with. I did this just to encourage lazy savers.

ikechukwu21:


Me wey count my own money tell you, you talk say e no reach. 219k no be money to begin with. I did this just to encourage lazy savers.

No vex.

Run play 2 odds make you double am to 438. Wire me the extra 219.

Make we call am truce.

VlamesIffect:


No vex.

Run play 2 odds make you double am to 438. Wire me the extra 219.

Make we call am truce.

You no too well

ikechukwu21:


You no too well

VlamesIffect:


No vex.

Run play 2 odds make you double am to 438. Wire me the extra 219.

Make we call am truce.

E fit cut ooooo .

derbykol:
E fit cut ooooo .

The guy wan lead me astray

It's hard to save with the everyday increase in the prices of goods & services.. You're doing great, Ikechukwu.. May God bless the work of your hands and multiply your daily profits also.

1F30M4:
It's hard to save with the everyday increase in the prices of goods & services.. You're doing great, Ikechukwu.. May God bless the work of your hands and multiply your daily profits also.

Amen. Thank you sweetie.