Make a plan If you want to save $1,000 in a month, that is $33 a day or about $250 a week. If you want to save your $1,000 in 3 months, you'd need to be saving $11 a day or about $83 a week. If you wanted to reach your savings goal in 6 months, you could pull it off by saving about $5.50 a day or $42 a week.