How To Do The 52 Week $5 Challenge and Save $7,000 In A Year. For the 52 Week $5 Challenge, you will start on week 1 by saving $5. Then week 2 you will add an additional $5 so you will save $10 that week. And so on. Week 52 you will save $260 which will give you a total savings balance of $6,890. I even made an easy 52 Week $5 Challenge Printable you can use to help keep track of the amounts and balances.

The decrease method is the same as the first challenge but reverses the order of the payments. You start by saving $52 in the first week and decrease the deposit by $1 a week. The end of.