Vacation Savings Shadow Box
Yield: 1 Shadow Box
Cost: 8 to 18
Materials
- 1 Shadow Box
- 1 Background picture that fits shadow box
Instructions
- I gave some pretty detailed instructions the last time I did this, but honestly. You don't need them. If you bought the cheaper Shadow Box you could drill a hole in the top to put the money into, but it's kind of a pain. You gotta roll those dolla bills up tight to get them in. We would just open the back and put the money in. So really, you just need a picture which you can get printed online and delivered easy, or if you have a printer just print something out. It's really up to you and how creative you want to be. My wife wanted to put something on the front this time so she made it on the cricut, but you don't have to do that. Break out some acrylics or decorate the outside how you want. The important thing is to spend the time together doing it, and figuring out what you want to save it for.
- Ok, savings breakdown. You can do big baller savings plan which is you save the dollar amount of the week of the year it is, each week. Now I liked to work backwards to get the heavy hits out of the way. So week 1 was 52 bucks, week 2 is 51 bucks....so get moving because i'm like 2 weeks late in starting this thing !!! You should have $1,378 by the end of the year.
- Second plan is to do this every two weeks, because most people get paid every other week. So you make 26 payments starting at 52 in week 1, then 51 two weeks later and so on. You should have $1,027. That's nothing to balk at.
- Option 3 is add 20 bucks every 2 weeks. I think everyone can do this. You could easily get 12 dollars every two weeks by skipping 2 visits to starbucks coffee ladies. 20 bucks every 2 weeks gets you : $520 smackaroos. That gets you maybe 2 nights in a hotel, with 2 days of excursions. I'd say it's worth it.