Designs by Divas

07/24/2025

If you are looking to try savings challenges and want to start with low budget ones, head on over to my Etsy shop (link below). I'm having a Christmas in July sale until midnight Monday, July 28th, no code needed.

Shop Savings Challenge & Craft Boutique by DesignsbyDivas located in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

04/06/2025

I fully funded my emergency fund!!! Want to know what accelerated my savings? Collecting letter bucks.

03/28/2025

I made a set of letter bucks for myself. Here's a sample. I'm debating on putting them on Etsy. What say you? This is for low income or if you just want to complete it quicker than saving 25 of each letter.

03/24/2025

I've been working hard to save fir baby step one and rebuild my emergency fund. I'm up to $845. Doing the letters bucks savings challenge has really helped me get ahead faster.

03/14/2025

Happy Friday, had to use some of my emergency money for an emergency but I'm back on track. Had to reconfigure some money I had saving for other things that wasn't a high priority. I'm up to $595 in my Emergency fund.

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02/25/2025

Do you know what letter or bone bucks are? They are letters that appear only on the Dollar Bills that indicate where they are made. The United States has 12 Federal Reserves that produce money and each reserve is indicated on dollar bills by a letter A-L. The letters are located on the front left side of the bill. To find out which reserve made that dollar check the circle around the letter. For example As are made in Boston, MA. I am using a tracker made by Dreamy Budgets on YouTube and Instagram to help track how many of each letter I have. When I have collected 25 of each letter I will have saved $300 to go towards my Emergency Fund.

I'm adding extra fun by restarting the letters that I can easily get and have completed. I will keep restarting them until all the letters have been completed.

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02/23/2025

Happy Sunday!!! Here's my Emergency Fund amount for this week. $430!!! Let's get it!!!

02/16/2025

Here's my check in for this week, $380!!! I completed a mini challenge to add money this week.

02/14/2025

To each and every one of you.....

02/02/2025

I forgot to post last week's emergency fund total. So you get last week's ($300) and this week's ($305). Every bit counts. Let me know if you're doing the challenge with me and how much you've saved so far. $695 seems so far away but I'm determined to get there asap.

01/25/2025