Savings challenges

Savings challenges

Saving challenges

Looking for a fun and relatively painless way to save money?

Investment author Donna Freedman recommends savings challenges.

The spare-change challenge. Put your change into a jar every night. In two months, wrap it and bank it.

The dollar-bill challenge. Put all the Washingtons in a jar every night.

Random number challenge. Pick a number, then bank bills whose serial numbers end in the digit you've chosen.

Weekly challenge. Set aside $1 the first week of the month, $2 the second week and so on. Bank the resulting $10 to $15 per month. – 52-x