rewrite this title Day 9: $100 Savings Challenge (Guess what I found??)

Published: by Crystal Paine on July 22, 2025  |  This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here.

It’s Day 9 of the $100 Savings Challenge and I am SO excited to tell you what I found!! I had some extra time to go through a folder I had in my email where I had stashed a few hundred personal/family emails that I thought I might want to refer to later.

I had completely forgotten what else I had stashed in that folder!!

Today, we saved by…

-Choosing to go to the TN Aquarium instead of the Atlanta Aquarium. We priced it out and realized that while the Atlanta one might be a little cooler, there would likely be a lot fewer people, we could bring our stroller and drinks in, AND we’d save over $200!!

-I ended up taking Kierstyn and Micah to the aquarium while Jesse, Silas, and David went and did some other things. They LOVED the aquarium

-Afterwards, the guys met up with us and we played in the water outside the aquarium for an hour. It was the best free fun!!

And now, onto the $100 Savings Challenge! If you haven’t signed up for the $100 Savings Challenge, be sure follow the directions to sign up (there are prizes!!):

How To Participate in the $100 Savings Challenge

Go sign up for the $100 Savings Challenge to get your free 14-day plan.

Every week day of the challenge, I’ll be posting on Instagram, Facebook, and here on the blog as I work through the challenge myself.

I will invite you to do the daily challenges with me and to share your successes! Every day that you complete the challenge and submit it, you’ll be entered to win one of 5 $100 Amazon gift cards we’re giving away randomly at the end.

You can participate every day or just some of the days — whatever works for you! But every day that you participate and fill out the simple form, you are entered to win!

Day 9 Challenge:

Use Gift Cards or Rewards: Check your wallet or apps for unused gift cards, points, or rewards. Apply them. (Found money: $5–$20)

When I went through my inbox (because I had some extra time while on vacation!), guess what I discovered? There was a $100 Chili’s gift card + a $100 Hotels.com gift card + 4 Krispy Kreme coupons for a free dozen doughnuts. All of these were things I had gotten two years ago and stashed in that folder and them completely forgotten about!!!

I decided I’m only going to count $50 of that toward this week, though, because we are going to use the Chili’s gift card to pay for our usual one night of getting takeout per week this week.

So, with that added to my total, we are at $95.25 found/saved so far with the challenge. We are in the home-stretch and we are almost to $100! I didn’t know if I was going to make it, so I’m THRILLED that I think I’m going to hit $100!!

How much have you saved/found so far as part of the challenge?

Enter to Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card (we’re giving 5 away!)

Go sign up for the challenge here! And just for fun — and to motivate you to join us for the challenge — if you do today’s challenge and fill out the form linked here, you will be entered to win one of 5 $100 Amazon gift cards I’m giving away at the end of the challenge!

Note: We may possibly share a few of the best entries over the course of the challenge, so by submitting the form, you are giving us permission to possibly post your entry. If you’d rather we don’t post it, please note that on your entry.

Did you participate today? I’d love to hear how today went for you!

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