$1,000 in 30 days
The shortest one people actually attempt, and the only one where the daily number is the point.
$1,000 in 30 days saves $1,000.20 by putting $33.34 away daily, 30 times. At that pace it takes 1 month.
- Total
- $1,000.20
- Each deposit
- $33.34
- A month
- $1,014.09
- Deposits
- 30
- Takes
- 1 month
$1,000 of it is 10 bills
US bills stop at $1, so $0.20 of this plan is change no combination of them can produce.
- $100 bills
- 10
Every deposit
- #1$33.34
- #2$33.34
- #3$33.34
- #4$33.34
- #5$33.34
- #6$33.34
- #7$33.34
- #8$33.34
- #9$33.34
- #10$33.34
- #11$33.34
- #12$33.34
- #13$33.34
- #14$33.34
- #15$33.34
- #16$33.34
- #17$33.34
- #18$33.34
- #19$33.34
- #20$33.34
- #21$33.34
- #22$33.34
- #23$33.34
- #24$33.34
- #25$33.34
- #26$33.34
- #27$33.34
- #28$33.34
- #29$33.34
- #30$33.34
What people ask
- How much a day is $1,000 in 30 days?
- $1,000.20 in 1 month: $33.34 daily, 30 times. Held in cash that is 10 bills and $0.20 in change.
- How much cash is $1,000.20 in bills?
- 10 bills: 10 × $100, plus $0.20 in change no bill can make. A chart gives you the total and stops there.
- What if I miss a deposit?
- Nothing compounds, so a missed deposit just moves the finish line by one period. The plan is 30 deposits of $33.34, in whatever order you manage them.
Other challenges, with their real numbers
- $1,000 in 3 months$1,000.09 · 13 deposits · 3 months
- $5,000 in 3 months$5,000.06 · 13 deposits · 3 months
- $5,000 in 6 months$5,000.06 · 26 deposits · 6 months
- $10,000 in 6 months$10,000.12 · 13 deposits · 6 months
- $10,000 in 26 paychecks$10,000.12 · 26 deposits · 1 year
- $10,000 in 100 days$10,000 · 100 deposits · 3 months
A challenge is easy. Twelve months of them is the hard part.
Larder keeps the envelope going after the novelty wears off, on the same paycheck the deposits come out of.
Get Larder on the App StoreAll amounts are computed in integer cents and rounded up when splitting a bill across paychecks, so a plan never funds a bill short. Pay-period counts follow the calendar: 52 weekly, 26 biweekly, 24 semi-monthly, 12 monthly. Every figure on this page is computed from the challenge itself, not typed in. Built by Larder, makers of an envelope budgeting app for iPhone. Last reviewed .