All year long, we've challenged you to save more, cut impulsive spending, and even earn some extra cash by cleaning out your closets. For this year's final Ultimate Money Challenge, we want you to gift yourself - with savings. In other words, save a portion of your holiday spending.

The end of the year is approaching quickly, and as we get closer to December, we want to focus on saving for the holidays. So this month, our challenge is simple: Clean out your closets and make some extra cash while you're at it.

We've thrown all kinds money challenges at you this year, and all year long, you've been acing them. This month, we want to help you save on a specific expense: Your mobile phone bill.

Readers, this month we've challenged you to save your spare change, and believe it or not, we're almost halfway through July. We've rounded up some creative ideas to help you stay motivated during the second half.

Now is the time to start saving up for all your inevitable holiday spending, and this month's challenge encourages you to do just that. Let's keep our change.

Happy May, money nerds -- it's time for our next challenge. This month, we're bringing back a classic. We want you to flex your negotiation muscle and start haggling.

We're helping readers save money all year long with the Lifehacker Ultimate Money Challenge. This month, we're bringing back one of last year's favourites: kick your spending weakness.

Welcome to the second annual Lifehacker Ultimate Money Challenge. After considering your feedback, we've decided to once again challenge you throughout the year with a new financial goal every month. This month's? The 30-Day Savings Challenge.

That's a wrap for the first ever Lifehacker Ultimate Money Challenge. If you joined us at any point in this journey, we want to hear from you. If you didn't, but you have a few ideas for 2017, we want to hear from you, too!

This year, we challenged you to save more, get impulsive spending under control and even earn some extra cash. For the final instalment of this year's Ultimate Money Challenge, we want you to gift yourself -- by saving a portion of your holiday spending.

Often it makes sense to spend money on quality. If you have a cheap pair of boots but they only last a year, you might pay more over time than you would with a more expensive pair that lasts for years. It's an excellent theory. It doesn't always work out this way in practice, though.

We have just two months to go in our Ultimate Money Challenge. As we near the year's end, we're focused on holiday spending. This month, we challenge you to clean out your closets, get rid of some junk and make some cash in the process.

This year, most of our money challenges have focused on saving, from your mobile phone bill to your restaurant spending to your debt interest. This month, we're throwing out a different challenge: Come up with a holiday spending plan.

We've been throwing out a new challenge every month since January as part of our year-long Lifehacker Ultimate Money Challenge. This month, we're taking on a specific expense that's easy to cut: Your mobile phone bill. We challenge you to find a cheaper plan that offers the same level of service.

This year, we've challenged you to haggle your bills, tame impulsive spending and even save for retirement. Many of you have saved hundreds, and some of you have saved thousands. This month, we're taking it back to the basics with an old school challenge that everyone can easily join: Keep the change.

Last month we challenged you to haggle everything, and some of you saved hundreds. We're impressed. This month, we have a guest. Jim Wang of Wallet Hacks joins us, and we challenge you to use his "Upgrade and Save" strategy.