£1000 in 100 Days: 11th April - 17th July 2009

Frugaldom · 11 April 2009 at 8:40AM

WELCOME TO THE '£1000 IN 100 DAYS' CHALLENGE

11th April 2009 - 19th July 2009

It's 100 days, no more and no less.

Link to 1st challenge
Link to 2nd challenge
This is challenge 3

NEW CHALLENGE IS HERE - CHALLENGE 4: 20th July - 27th October 2009

The rules are simple - you do not need to make £10 every day, you just aim to save, earn, win or raise an EXTRA £1000 over the period of 100 days. This 100 day period began on 11th April and ends on day 200 of 2009, which will be 19th July.

All income that is not part of your normal, regular income can be counted and gets used to either pay off a debt, buy something special, neutralise your current spending or to increase your savings.

Feel free to join us and compare notes on how we each earn our extras. Last challenge saw some spectacular results! There's matched betting, free bingo, free scratchcards, cashback, vouchers, competitions, decluttering via online auctions & classifieds, car boot sales or you may even decide to work extra overtime, take on a second job, set up a home-based business or even start a cottage-style industry. Whatever you do, have fun finding those extra pennies that make the pounds that make the debts disappear and the rewards much richer! Above all, have a great year debt-busting and saving.

Small print - if in doubt about how this extra income may affect your current employment contract, tax, national insurance or any benefits you may receive etc, please check with the relevant agencies or authorities.

CHALLENGER LIST

**kym**
Alibell2003
Aligerdie
Aliwali
AlmightyCorgi
Babes21
Bails
Bigbum
Blissfullydebtfreewannabe
Bluesky333
Boomdocker
Buffythedebtslayer
Cannp123165
Carrot
Coco2972
Completely Lost
Curly Cabbage
Debttornado
Dizzybee
Evans17
Floxxie
FrankieM
Gillypen
Hummingbird
Innocent_Guy
Jacci45
Jem_angelic
JenJade
Jenna1239
JennyBee
Jo1972
Kaitlinsmummy2006
Karie
Karmacat
Keys
Lilmissmup
Little Chicken
Lonestarsky
Longhill
Longing to be debt free
Mickey Mouse
Mogwai
MollyPolly
Mrs Tooti-frooti
Nigdeb2002
Ninno820
NYKMedia
Panda Paws
Pebblespop
PetitePeche
Pollydaydream
Princess leia
Purpleroses
Roomontheend
Scarlett1212
Shabbychicfan
Sophiesmum
Squidykins
Stacy
Taka
Traveller
Trex170104
Urg123
Welshgirl78
Wit40iwtwan
Xanthe06
Yukkibear
Yummymummy20

Please note that the list is in alphabetical order, so numbers will change as I add new names. The 100 days ends on 19th July and the next challenge will begin on 20/07/09

WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO SAW THE PREVIOUS CHALLENGE THROUGH TO THE END - VERY IMPRESSIVE. :T :T :T

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Frugaldom · 11 April 2009 at 8:44AM

During the first 100 days of 2009, I managed to spend £1,092.38 but only managed to recoup £617.21 of that. My longterm plan is, by following this challenge, is to neutralise all my 'misc' spending in my annual budget and then work from there. The more I can neutralise my spending, the more I have left to save.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

fermi · 11 April 2009 at 9:01AM

Hmmmmmmmmm....

Not sure how the previous part of this challenge ended up on the "Diaries" board.

Must have been moved by mistake.

I'll move this one back with a redirect, but I'll leave the previous one where it is for now so that people won't be looking on the wrong board for it.

The link at the end of the old thread will still bring people here BTW.

Frugaldom · 11 April 2009 at 9:05AM

Thanks, Fermi. I noticed about a week or 2 ago that the other thread had been moved and didn't think to query it - it did show up with 'Trial' in ther title, if that helps.

Pollydaydream · 11 April 2009 at 9:28AM

Thanks for starting the challenge again, Nyk.

I'm totally motivated for this and no excuses this time.

Won £1 on TAB scratchcard, so have a good feeling about this challenge (resolution no. 1 - I will save the money and withdraw, instead of spending it all on other scratchcards!).

Good luck everyone.

Polly

urg123 · 11 April 2009 at 10:29AM

I'm in - I really need to earn some extra cash in order to meet my goal of being debt free by Christmas

So I am going to:

sell stuff on ebay and amazon
try and get some more mystery shops
try and get some more market research jobs
see if I can find some one-off jobs

Good luck to eveyone. Going to see if I can squeeze this into my sig!

urg x x

Carrot · 11 April 2009 at 11:10AM

Could I join in with this please?
Will go back and have a read through the previous threads for ideas.
Thanks.

JennyBee_2 · 11 April 2009 at 1:42PM

Hiya, didn't get a chance to post my total for Jan-April so here it is...

£1040.01

I'd scraped it just over £800 by raiding 9p from OH pocket (told him he didn't need to be carrying change about!) and then remembered £240 child benefit that I'm squirrelling into a different account, so I made it!!! (Birthday money on Thursday helped too!!)

Bring on the next 100 days! It finishes the day before we go on holiday so the next lot of money will be going towards that!

Buffythedebtslayer · 11 April 2009 at 1:58PM

I didn't do the first 100 days really. Work has been a complete disaster in the last few months and although I started off with good intentions but only made about 100 pounds?

I am still here and have managed to keep my spending under control and the debt is going down.

I am starting to learn about matched betting so I am hopeful!!

good luck everyone xxxx

YummyMummy20 · 11 April 2009 at 2:29PM

Hi all,

I'm going to start mine with £30 cash in hand I got for working thursday nite (actually got it at 2am so counts as today) and £2.16 in tips from last night/this morning (tight @rses!) :A

I'm well motivated to do this (atm, probably won't last!!)
I've signed up to some survey sites, anyone know which are likely to payout quickest, preferably in cash?? And how do I do these free scratchcard things?? Free Money =

Good Luck everybody

YM20 x

Little_Chicken · 11 April 2009 at 2:29PM

Hi Nyk
I'm going to try to continue with my money making on ebay. In addition I'll be adding mystery shopping earnings to the total. I start a new job on Tuesday so I won't have as much time as before - and it's not close to many MS localtions. But I think £1000 is do-able. I hope so anyway. I'm going to use the profits to pay off my overdraft.
Good Luck people.

£1000 in 100 Days: 11th April - 17th July 2009

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