On the previous pages, I collected lost money to fund an experiment in luck - this can't be described as a massive success - I continued until near the end of 2009 - buying a further six or seven lottery tickets, however the results of playing the lottery are approximately the same as for not playing. There's got to be a better use for all these pennies I keep finding...
Project Ebenezer
Project Horseshoe is over - here comes Project Ebenezer.
Starting on 01 December 2009, I carried on collecting every dropped coin I saw, but this time, I'm saving them up in a jar.
I'm planning to keep this up for a whole year - so at the start of December 2010 - hoping to have accumulated enough found money to be able to do something useful...
...I'm hoping to fund all of next year's Christmas dinner with money I picked up for free.
I'll post the running total here at the end of each month.
December 2009
At the end of the first month, I've managed to find £2.53 in loose change (that's it in the jar above) - a fantastic start!
January 2010
I found £2.38 in January - bringing the total to £4.91.
The fund so far is composed of an assortment of denominations from 1p to 50p - a total of 113 coins - that's an average of about two coins found per day.
February 2010
A phenomenal month's find!
£5.06 in February - more than December and January combined - the total is now £9.97.
In the three months so far, there has not been a single working day where I have returned home without having found at least a penny.
Projection
It's still likely that the Christmas meal fund will be somewhere in the region of £30 - but that will happen even if monthly finds are as modest at they were in January. If they carry on like they did in February, it could be as much as £60. The projected average is probably skewed unrealistically high at the moment.
