From Trash to Cash: the £100 to 10K Dribble thread

cally6008

Joey - Sheffield Steelers are ace! Went to see them a few times when I lived in Sheffield.

Paula - EmMinetly (spelling wrong I know, soz) might help you with CV if you ask her nicely.

Y/day I posted that I'd won on bingo and then Euromillions.

Well it got a bit better. I opened the post and found one my CC had upped my limit by £1,k so thats now earmarked for emergencies and the cars MOT in june/july and any work it needs doing.
Then last night, staff lottery won £10 again (thats two weeks running)

elly68

skint if you can teach me to bake then you would win an award just for that lol:rotfl: ,i might be willing to give it a go though as husband is ceoliac and the stuff in the shops are rotten this is another area where you might get orders from

JoeyGrey

Well done Cally - sounds like you're on a roll!

nixinixi

Cally - I want ome of you luck....share it out this way! Hey, just had a thought we should have a lottery syndicate (mind you I only tend to do rollovers!!)

Have just had a question on ebay about posting an Air Filter to Lisbon, Portugal....any thoughts about how good bad post it over there, don't want to get stung its on for a starting price fo £50!

MummyandPaige

wd cally!

Skintbint - it was cards (or rather 1 card) and I get the feeling the stuff came curtesy of the craft dept on the hope of sales. Session only took an hour. You are doing something much more time consuming and you get something better than a card at the end of it. What I meant was, was there a special place you got your bits, or do they come from Tesco?
Think Nixi might be onto something, might love to do it myself, but would prob be more likely to payout that much for MIL to do it for her bday or something.

Not just cakes, could you maybe find a local craft shop with a back room to do cake topper hours too?

2Cats - help, have you ever been to the craft sessions in H Garden and Leisure? MIL goes not me, thats why details are fuzzy! I know they alternate between knitting, crocheting, card making and seasonal crafts.

skintbint_2

elly68 wrote: »

skint if you can teach me to bake then you would win an award just for that lol:rotfl: ,i might be willing to give it a go though as husband is ceoliac and the stuff in the shops are rotten this is another area where you might get orders from

pm me what he cannot have: am not good with allergy things and whos allowed what and i'll see what i can do!

GlisGlis

Morning all - hope all are well, or that those that aren't are going to be kind to themselves and have a sofa day with a cup of tea. Those are always good to let the mind wander over ideas anyway - you never know what you might come up with!

Mr-20-Questions eventually placed a bid at midnight. Then immediately sent me a message saying that he wasn't aware of something (that was clearly in the description) wasn't happy about it, and wanted me to cancel his bid immediately. Which I gladly did. You just KNOW he's the kind of buyer that will complain unless it comes wrapped in gold leaf, don't you?

Saucy - stage three is some cashback spending for matched betting. I have a friend that's very experienced, and can hold my hand through it. That's when my climb to £10,000 REALLY begins!

MummyandPaige

GlisGlis - Let me know how it goes, keep chickening out of trying myself, shouldn't really, the amount of cashback available, even if I do fluff it, should still break even!

2cats1kid

MummyandPaige wrote: »

2Cats - help, have you ever been to the craft sessions in H Garden and Leisure? MIL goes not me, thats why details are fuzzy! I know they alternate between knitting, crocheting, card making and seasonal crafts.

No I've never been. I know they've done encaustic art there too (which did look fun) and other stuff. They tend not to be any time I can get to them and they aren't often things that I'd go to a class for anyway (although I might have done the encaustic just because puddling with wax looked like the sort of weird messy stuff I like!).

I do pop up there now and again - their craft department isn't wonderful but it's about as good as we get locally now Graftons in the town centre has gone. And DD likes to go and look at the animals in the pet bit. Treated her to lunch there this half term - never again!! The cafe/restaurant bit is eye-wateringly expensive for meals, although ok for a cuppa and a biccy.

No car boot for me today as we've had snow overnight Was looking forward to my first car boot of the year and having a poke about. Mind you they tend to be tiddly small ones this time of the year anyway.

Need to get ready for back to work today, but I'm sure I'll fit some playing with craft stuff in there somewhere. Got a couple more bits to list on Folksy.

Saucy, I get the impression that most sales on Folksy are from Folksy people rather than outside people iykwim. I certainly hadn't heard of it before this thread. I figure just a sale every now and then will cover the listings costs (that very first sale I got would cover 35 listings, so I figure I'm still quids in from it) and at least you have a shop window if Folksy really takes off so that people who aren't crafters start to buy from there. I'm figuring my main sales will come from little craft/school fairs where people can actually see and handle the stuff.

LilacPixie

Skint I'm up for it. I can bake but icing is not my forte. Have you thought about the goody bags being hessian/heavycotton? get company details printed on them and hopeflly get some free advertising as people reuse the bag.