{"id":52,"date":"2012-06-13T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-06-13T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T03:23:00","slug":"my-5-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"My $5 Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Times Square<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

My daughter, Kelly, and I just got back from a week long vacation in Connecticut, where we visited my oldest sister, Sharon, and my niece, Alyse.\u00a0 We got to stay in an adorable little cottage on the coast of Rhode Island for a weekend, saw New York City for the first time, and ate EVERYTHING in sight!\u00a0 The food… oh it was obscene the amount of food we ate.\u00a0 But the pizza and the Italian food on the east coast is so, so good we had to get our fill.\u00a0 We’ve been back a week and I’m still full!<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pepe’s Pizza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Hot House Sandwich from Southford Pizza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/a>Months before we left for our food orgy, I started a $5 jar so we could have some extra “fun money”.\u00a0 I lined the inside and bottom of a large pickle jar with paper, made a slit in the lid and hot glued the lid on.\u00a0 Every time I got a $5 bill, I put it into this jar. I was a little concerned as to how to break the jar open and sift through all the broken glass to get the money out, but then Kelly gave the glued on lid a twist and off it came – so much for security. After only a few months, I had saved $320.\u00a0 Saving $5 here and there was really easy. I glued the lid back on the jar and have started to save my $5 bills again – I’m not sure what I’m going to use them for – maybe Christmas shopping?\u00a0 a vacation next year?<\/p>\n

Make your own $5 jar and start saving for whatever you like.\u00a0 You’ll be surprised at how fast it adds up.<\/p>\n

.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Times Square My daughter, Kelly, and I just got back from a week long vacation in Connecticut, where we visited my oldest sister, Sharon, and my niece, Alyse.\u00a0 We got to stay in an adorable little cottage on the coast of Rhode Island for a weekend, saw New York City for the first time, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}