Gamified budgeting challenges, such as the Water Balloon Collab and Debt Story Tinies, make saving money more engaging by incorporating game mechanics like dice rolls, competitive elements, and collaborative goals. These challenges help individuals track savings progress, build discipline, and achieve financial goals through fun, interactive methods that transform routine budgeting into an enjoyable activity.
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FREEBIE FRIDAY | HOT MESS | ROLLOVER BINDER | WATER BALLOON COLLAB | DEBT STORY | FREEBIESAdded:
Happy Friday everybody. Welcome back and welcome if you're new. My name is Dawn.
Um yeah, so as you can see I am in the middle of doing my freebie Fridays. My phone stopped recording. Gr. Um I hope every I'm hoping my Friday is better than this video. Uh but I hope everyone is having a great Friday. Um and I will just kind of catch you up. I did do my roll. I didn't even notice I wasn't recording. I did my roll for my savings goal. I got a two. And so that um was that. So the remaining money I was able to finish Camila Scratcher. And I'm not sure where I'm going to put that. If I'm going to do it in my rollover binder.
I'm not sure. So if I'm distracted, it's me looking at my thing to see if I'm still recording. So um we haven't finished any freebie Fridays. We did save $4 for Miss Britney at budgeting with a ginger. This one is going to the B box.
We for debt we saved $2. This was from Miranda at Shades Budgets.
And then number three we are on. So this challenge is from Jen at the cash stuffing Canadian. And we got one, two, three, and four.
This hasn't happened in a long time. I don't know what happened. I have the airplane mode on, but I don't know if I was getting a call. I don't even know.
But today we are doing our freebie Fridays and we are doing our water balloon fight. We are doing our rollover binder and our debt story. And I do have some freebies to show. So now in Miss Jen's we have five, six, seven, eight, nine, and $10.
Okay, number four is going to my mom and this will go to her box challenge and this is from Miss Reeba at Money Tree Savings and let's see 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 19 20 H 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Let's just do these at a dollar and we got today one. Let's do these at $2. We got a lot. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Yeah, we'll we'll do each leaf for $2.
So, we're going to do two, four.
I'm coloring terrible.
six and eight.
And number six kind of seemed like it was the money hog.
Okay, so they're starting that one off. Number five. Oh, and my envelopes came from the messy messy messy budgeter. See, I'm all discombobulated now. Number five is from Mary at Purple Cow Corner. This one is going to Christmas. And today it got 1 2 3 and four. So we're doing 1 2 3 and four. So all we have left is a plus one.
So I will just maybe save $2 in it.
Right now we have 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 and 20. Yay. So we should finish that one next week hopefully.
And our last one, number six, goes to my 15K book. And this comes from Miss Ellie at Ellie on Earth. And I have made the red stars $2 and the blue stars $3. And today I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. So we'll be do two of the threes.
So, two of the blue stars and one red star. So, let's grab a red and do this red star here.
I might have to redo the blue because that looks green. Okay, so that'll start that one.
All right.
Sorry, you guys. I wish I would have seen I don't even know what I talked about when I was doing the money.
I think that story I'll remember. I'll remember. Okay, the next thing we're going to do really quick is our rollover binder. So, I emptied my wallet every week. And um sometimes I have to put money in my Wednesday challenge. I do not have to do that this week. But we have 5 10 15 20 25 26 27 28 29 $30.
And we are starting back here. We have an IOU of two. So we're just going to put Let's see. Do we have three?
Yes. Okay. So we're going to put three back and we're going to grab a five. So, this challenge, and hopefully we'll get back to it, is from Miss Karen at the Faithful Dash. I'm just going to set this out just in case we can.
And I have four challenges in here in total. And I just wanted to I have a lot of challenges, so I wanted to be able to do them. So, I thought, well, this is perfect. I'll empty my wallet and we'll try it that way. All right. This challenge is from my friend Becca, Becca Budget 777. She sent this. Didn't see it. Send it. She gave it to me for Christmas and she put my face behind the sticker. She's so silly. So, let's see which one we're going to do. Number four. One, two, three, and four.
Holy moly, Becca. That's a nine. Okay. I don't know what this saves.
I should have asked her if this binder was a good place to put it. So, we're going to put one back and grab two fives.
And so this one now has 20, 25, 30, 35, 36, 37, and 38.
All right.
All right. I think that's the end. So we're going back up to the beginning and we are working on this one from April at April's Fresh Start. And this I'm a member of her Kofi. And so let's see which one we're going to do. Three. One, two, and three. That is two. So we'll go again and two. One and two. And that's two. So we're going to do four in here.
Uhhuh. Where's my monies? Okay.
Okay. So we're going to do four. So one, two, three, and four. And so now we have 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, and $29. And this one saves 65.
All right. And our next one is from Miss Jenny, the dramatic panda.
And she sent this to me in happy mail.
And let's see which one we're going to do. Number one.
And that is seven. So we will stop there.
Okay.
So $7. So five, six, and seven. And so now in Miss Jenny's, this saves 40. We have five, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Perfect.
All right. And then we're back to Karen's. Hopefully, we do not get another IOU. Let's see which one. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Oh, yeah. That's a 10. We're getting another IOU. Let's see how much we have.
Little spicy Karen. There's five, six, seven, and eight. So, we have a $2 IOU.
So, I'll just use my IOU I had from her before. And this saves 47 plus. So now we have 20, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34.
So why do I feel like there's another 10? I think there's got to be another 10.
Oh gosh. Okay, so we're going to put our IOU here. But my um shake, rattle, and roll tinies, one of my envelopes is for this binder. So we might be able to get a lot done in here. Yay. I love this binder. Okay, now let's I have a little bit of happy mail. Let me show the happy mail and then we'll show our freebies. So, my friend Stephanie at Overthinking and Budgeting, we're pen house and so she sent me some happy mail.
And she created a box challenge. This is going to be for sale on our Kofi and it's a summer one. Scoop. There it is.
Box challenge. Scoop up savings one cone at a time. So, you have the dashboard, a couple I I use a how to play um one of the sections and then we have, let's see, three, five sections and a catch all. And then we have all the cards. So, it's not a huge box challenge, but I just love it. And she's got some spice in here. So, this is going to be interesting. And then like section three is a game, so that one will save quite a bit as well. So, I'm so excited. I can't wait to play this. I was thinking because I have my rollover binder because Friday is kind of freebie Friday and my rollover binder really aren't freebies. So, I was thinking I could put the box challenge I was going to do after the B box, which is a freebie. I thought of putting that for my rollover and then doing this in after the B box.
I haven't totally decided, but that's my thoughts because I am loving doing the box challenges and I want to do them all, but I just, you know, there's not enough time.
Okay, so if you want that, she I think she said she's going to post it today.
So, now the freebies and I just dropped a bunch. Hold on. Oh gosh, I don't even know if I'm going to post this video, you guys. This is I'm Who knows what else is going to happen.
Okay, so our freebies this week. I didn't get a ton printed. They still haven't gotten me a printer at work, but I did try to print some at home. So, this is a new um a new channel and it's I know I'm going to az saves. It's Miss Ashley and she started making videos and creating on Kofi and this is a cute mini you are my sunshine and then keep on the sunny side of life and I will tag everybody down below from all all everything I do today. Everyone will be tagged. All that we ask is if you do like someone's freebies, go to their channel, subscribe to their channel, watch a a video or two, and then go get their freebies because that is happening a lot where people are getting freebies and then subscribing or the subscriptions are falling off. Um yeah, so last week I showed this dashboard from um Chandelle at Homebody Mama Savings and after every 50 subscribers or watch hours she was going to release um the next parts to this and she did.
So the first one she released Oh, let's put that in the back. That's not That's not good. So she's doing all of these do-it-yourself football scratchers. So, we have a Chargers, the Packers, the Texans, and the Icky Chiefs.
And then that was their first. Then she did I just haven't laminated and stickered these yet. The Bears, the Saints, the Browns, and the Jets. And then the best one, she should have saved this one for last. The Vikings, the Browns, the Giants. That's my team. And the San Francisco 49ers. So, I love it.
I love these, Chandelle. You did an amazing job. So, I will be laminating these. I got to put that over there so I don't forget to laminate them and sticker them for football season when it gets here. All right. Then, we have these from Ginger Snap Budget. She started um creating on Kofi. So, she did some red, white, and blue minis. I thought these were so cute.
So sweet.
Then um Miss Steph's on a budget. I can't remember if this is a cold freebie though or she did a freebie. This might be a freebie freebie. I love warm hubs and sunshine. He cracks me up. Then the last Nope, this isn't the last one. The next one is from my friend Kelly at Boy Mom Budgeting. She hit her 300 subscribers. Thank you everybody. So, she created this adorable color page.
And so, you roll your color dot dye and then if you roll a D3, then you color something in green. I just love it. I love it. I love it. So cool. So, then I think yes, then Miss Lindsay, oh my gosh, reached her 5,000 subscribers.
Amazing. That is so awesome. So, she created a book and it's the Wild Summer Splash Savings Book. And this is a eight and a half by 11, but I printed two per page. And so it's budget friendly challenges to keep your budget afloat.
So we have splish splash savings. So you save per droplet, crocodile pizza party, giraffe sprinkles.
She probably did that just for me. Heat monkeys popsicle poolside perch. Coconut cool down race.
Lion's deep end dive. And oops, you broke a pool rule. I just can't wait to to I want to do it now. I don't know where. I don't know how I'm going to get the money. It might be next summer by the time I get all my stuff done. I'm out of control. You guys are too creative. Too creative for me cuz I want to do everything and I want to do everything now.
But we're going to do the water wars first. We got to knock Ariana out because she's talking smack, you guys.
I'm being so good. Not really, but you know. So, this is one, two, three, four.
I declare a water war. And this is a collab.
Let me turn the page with all of these amazing ladies.
And um it is our snowball fight. Then we added three more people. So, there are 15 of us in total playing this. And it is so much fun and it saves so much. So, snowball fight was 12 creators.
This one is 15 and I saved a bunch with a snowball. So, we have $40. I'm not going to count them because that's a lot of ones and my day already is going a little wonky. So, we're going to mix up our cards. I don't know if I really need to do that, but I'm going to. And hopefully I am not on top. So, we left off with Miss Chris at Crisscross Budgets. They need to get Let's get a blue Sharpie. And she left off right here. So, we'll grab our giraffe and let's roll one. So, that is right here for four.
So, one, two, three, and four.
six. One, two, three, four, five, and six. So, that is a a snowball water balloon. So, we're going to cross it once. We're going to land on it twice, and we're going to put her here, and she is going to throw a Mhm. water balloon at herself.
Okay, Chris, you must be hot. You're throwing water balloons. six. One, two, three, four, five, and six. That's another four. So, we're going to put one back and grab a five.
She's almost done, you guys. Five. One, two, three, oh, four, and five. And that's a water balloon or a Mhm. Yep. I said it right that time. Water ballooned. Don, we're going to mark her there. And she is finally going to throw it at Miss Brittany at budgeting with a ginger. And we've gotten her once I think once or twice. So we need to start here. Two.
One and two. So that is three.
So one, two, and three.
Two. One and two. That's four. So we'll put one back and grab a five.
two. One and two. So that's the water balloon.
We're going to cross that off. I think I keep for I think I forgot to do Chris's ink. Okay, she is throwing a water balloon at Britney.
That's not nice. All right, so going to mine. I'm almost done, you guys. I don't have many left.
All right, let's see. Three. One, two, three. That's a dollar. We have one more left, you guys. We only have one spot left. If I get a one, I've just knocked myself out.
Six. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Okay, so that is a water balloon, but we've totally crossed that one off, so we can't land there again. I am throwing it at Miss Punky. And Punky is another one that is pretty well done with her board.
I did hers a little bit different because I thought I had money at the time.
So, she's going to save a lot. So, we have four. So, let's see. One, two, three, and four. So, she only has one spot left, her and I. So, we're done with this water balloon bucket. So, we're going to start there.
And Miss Punky is throwing at Miss Lacy at Blue Kiwi Budgets. I don't think she has gotten anything. Let's see. She has not. Look how clean her board is. Let's mess it up. Okay. Four. One, two, three, four. That's a dollar.
Okay.
One, two, three, four, five. That's $2.
Okay. One and two. I wish I could just normal. Okay.
One, two, three, four, five, and six.
That's $2.
So, let's put the three back and grab a five. It's the dice tray.
Okay. Let me move some stuff. Okay.
Six. One, two, three, four, five, and six. So that is a water balloon. So we need our tags.
And let's do blue for Miss Lacy. And let's mark that out once. And she is throwing at Charlemaga budgets. So let's go to Charlemagne. She landed here last time.
And we're going four. One, two, three, four. That's a dollar.
Okay.
One. There's another bucket.
So, we'll put that there. And she is throwing at herself.
She wasn't ready to go in. One, two, three, four, and five. That's a D6 roll.
And that's five. So, one, two, three, four, and five.
Okay. Two. One and two. That's two. Oh, no. I got to do this. One and two. We got to land there, dog. Three.
One, two, and three.
We're getting low.
One. So, that is two.
One, and two.
Four. One, two, three, and four. That's four, Charlotte.
One, two, three, and four. So, we have $4 left. Let's go again. Two. One, and two. Okay. So, she got a water balloon.
She got a lot taken out that time.
All right. And so, she is throwing it at Miss Tara at Lifted Up and Living. And I feel like she hasn't gotten much either.
Let's see. She has not gotten anything.
Okay, let's get her.
Four. One, two, three, four. Move ahead three spaces. One, two, three. That's a d6. So, we're going to mark that one and roll our d6. Oh, no. That's a six. So, we got an IOU. So, we have one, two, three, and four. So, do we have another IOU?
Um, no. Let's see. Let me find my I use Let's use one of Paula's.
Okay.
So, let's that off. And we have an IOU of how much?
Two. Okay.
All right. And we will start on Terra's next week. We will start right there.
And let's see what everybody got. Let's So Lacy got $5 to start hers.
I got another dollar, but I only have one spot left on mine.
Telling you guys, I'm taking myself out.
Anna did not get anything.
Okay, Charlamagame got the most. One, two, three, four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 for Charlotte.
Oh my gosh. Okay, Britney got seven.
And each of my boards goes to a different scing fund. Tiffany, nothing.
Crisscross budget budgets got eight.
Marbel did not get hit. We have our IOU for Terra and she starts with four.
So, let's put our IOU here and our little feet. And these feet are from Miss Becca. She has these on her Etsy now.
All right. Save with glow. We did not get Becca. We did not get her board is clean. We got to get Becca. Vicki didn't get anything. Brooke's board is empty.
Ashley did not get anything. And Punky thankfully did not get anything. So me and Punky are the ones that are almost done.
Yay. I want more money. Okay, let's I don't know. Let's put these I don't I'm not going to remember by next week that I won't need to to uh shuffle or Whoops. Chris Chris was trying to sneak out.
All right, the last thing we're going to do is our debt story tinies.
Okay, so every other day I come in with $5 for my debt story and um most of the challenges or a lot of the challenges in here are from the sidekicks collab. I'm trying to finish them by Sunday. So, we have our $5. We're going to put that in our bank envelope and we are exchanging it for $5 in prop.
And debt story comes from Miss Steph's on a budget. This is on her Etsy. So, we roll our three-sided die and that will tell us how many prop coins go on that challenge. We left off at number three.
I'm gonna remember try to remember what I was talking about before my camera turned off. Um, oh, so I had asked what everybody is going to be doing this weekend, if they're doing anything fun.
We unfortunately are going to be helping my son and daughter-in-law move.
I love them and I want to help them, but I hate moving. and they don't even want to move, but their apartment raised their rent $300, so they had to. They They're young and they just, you know, they don't make that much money. Two didn't get anything.
Boo. Um, so yeah, so they have to move.
So we are doing that on Saturday and then I'm imagining on Sunday, um, I'm sleeping.
Good thing I rested last weekend, you guys, cuz I'm going to be moving all day. All right, number one is from Miss Britney at budgeting with a ginger. This is part of the sidekicks. She got 50 and 75. So, we can do one. Boo. So, I'm going to mark these twice to show it's got 50. And then that one will do once.
One, two, three. Yep. So, she got 75 in total. She only needs 25 cents to finish.
Number two did not get anything. And that one only needed 25 cents.
If we finish one and it has extra on, bring coming back. Our next one got 75.
And this one only needed 50 cents. This one is from the sidekicks from Stephanie at Overthinking and Budgeting. So, we only needed 50 cents to finish this one.
And this one saved four. So, what I'm going to do is Which one needed 25? Oh, they both just needed 25. So, let's go to number one. And we're gonna finish Miss Britney's for 25. Yay. This one saved four. And I'll put new ones in in a little bit.
Number four got 25 cents. And number four is from the halfawing collab. This comes from Crystal, a divine savings.
And each star is 50ents. So we can do the other half of the star for 25.
Okay.
Number five got 125 and this one comes from April at what's popping sunshine and she is a part of the sidekicks. So we can do let's see these are all 50. So we can do 50 dollar and 25. So we need 75 cents to finish this one.
Number six got a dollar. And number six is from the half collab. And this is from Gemini Budgets.
And so let's see. Each circle is 50. So we finished this one.
I'm cheating. I'm going to take the 50.
We're going to just do 50 and we're going to save that for the sidekicks.
Number seven got 75 cents and number seven comes from Vicki at Pink Plum Budgeting. And each circle is 50. So we're going to finish this one for 25 and then do another circle for 50.
Okay.
And then our last one, number eight, only got 25. And that one is from the sidekicks. This comes from Safe with Glow. And each butterfly is 50. So, we can complete this butterfly for 25. So, she has a $150 left.
So, let's see.
We needed one in here. We're going to put close in here. Number two, that one only needed 25 cents. So, we're going to finish that one for the 25.
That one saved three.
And then what other ones did we have for the psychics? This one, Zootopia.
This one. Let's take that last 25 and finish this 50. So then this one just needs 50. So for our sidekicks, we have glows, we have April's, and we need one, two, three. Okay. So, yay. That's all that we have, I think, for the sidekicks, right? Let's Let's make sure.
Nope.
Good thing I looked. We have one from Stephanie at Overthinking and Budgeting.
And we have $2 left on hers. Oh gosh.
So, let's pull that. And let's see.
We're just going to make sure we got all of the other ones.
I think we did.
Okay. Yay. All right. So, oops. We're going to put Stephanie's in here. So, we have Glows, April's, and Stephanie's from the Disney Sidekicks.
And then we need two more from the Halloween collab.
So, let's do mine. This is one of mine.
It'll go in spot number five. Yep.
And then the next one is from Cash Stuffing Co. So cute.
And that one will go into spot number eight. Perfect.
So, we will put these back here in our extras.
And we need $3.
There's four for seven and four for 11.
So, we need $11.
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11.
And so that's three we finished. So then we are going to go here. And this is my tiny tracker. So every time I finish a tiny, I'm saving 50 cents. So let's color in three bubbles.
So I have this tracker and then my normal bubble challenge that is for like minis.
All right. So, there is three.
So, that is $1.50 and we have a 50 cent piece in here. So, I'm going to take that out and we're going to grab two ones for our bubble from our bubble challenge money.
Yep.
Yay. So, I should have six colored in. 1 2 3 4 5 six. Yes. Okay. So, that is here.
And then what I'm going to do is our money and our challenges are going in the front here. Then on Sunday when I do my debt binder, we are going to finish all of the sidekicks and we're going to count up to see how much we saved in total. And I am so excited, you guys. If you've watched my debt videos, you know how big this was getting.
Okay, I think that's it. This was a hot mess of a video, you guys. I am so sorry. I think the camera turned off and I forgot who I was. Um, I hope everyone has an awesome Friday today. Um, I won't be back until Sunday. Um, I was going to film or yeah, I was going to film my debt video for Saturday, but I'm not going to do that because we have such a long day on Saturday. So, my last debt binder stuffing for May will be on Sunday. Um, and then yeah, we'll see how much if we can finish anything else in debt. I don't think so. But um, we will.
No, we are going to finish this one.
Dawn. Hello. I think there is two we're going to finish. Yay. Okay, I'm going to stop talking. I love you all so much and I will talk to you in the comments. Have an amazing Friday. Bye, guys.
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