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

moneymabel

Glis-I think you need to block mr 20 questions from bidding on your items hes obviously an idiot! speaking of which ,after complaining that his first battery for the remote control car didnt work and me sending him a replacement and him saying that that didnt work either...I sent him an email to my pain in the !!!! customer saying to send the car back and I'd refund him and guess what....miraculously the battery is now working...surprise surprise!!

GlisGlis

Mabel - I've blocked him, don't worry! I think I may avoid eBay for selling in future. I last did a lot of selling there 6 or 7 years ago, and I stopped then because people just took the mickey, but it's clearly no different now...

skintbint_2

LilacPixie wrote: »

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.

that would be brilliant Lilac, girl from work would be interested too and i think she would be honest as she is a really genuine girl who would want me to succeed.
have just been looking at things like that - unbleached cotton and applique cupcakes or something onto them and pop up to trinity at brechin and there is a place that embroiders really cheaply, just have to find another 2 or 3 people and get a date - ooooooh all excited now:j
have even been thinking where to put my leaflets (when i do them) have a contat at the the tearoom in Tealing and am sure could put some up at the tearoom at Farnell (they used to do demonstrations and people there have money!)

Rosie

MummyandPaige wrote: »

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!

Morning all. Hope everyone is well. Its snowing here.
Glisglis I am wanting to try match betting (its on my commitments list) but I just can't get my head round it. I will watch your progress with great interest
Well I have just one week to turn my commitments green so I will have to get my finger out today.

Rosie x

yellow3

morning all!
its thick with snow here!!! and i still have no car! so a day on the couch for me and the baby i think.
2 items ending on ebay today, the bargain jacket and a dress. so hopefully should get a few a bob from those to cover this months ebay fees.
not doing much today... an online tesco shop and a lil bit of reseach for the business x

LilacPixie

Often Morrisons/Tesco let you put up leaflets as a one off. Who will ou be aiming for?? Parents who want to do kids birthday cakes so need basic skills??

JoeyGrey

Well I didn't do too well with my commitments this week, but to be honest most of them are ongoing anyway. So think I'll change them a bit this week. Hales, when you update, could you change mine to the following please?

My ongoing weekly commitments: -
Add at least 2 new posts to my blog
Continue with ebay, still lots to sell
Keep on top of my housework
Keep car clean.

Longer term commitments: -
Expand my blog into a website to sell from or create a linked website (might need some help with this one guys!!)
Completely sort my loft of rubbish/treasure and have it either sold or listed on eBay.

Where I'd like to be in 12 months time -

• I'd like to have at least £5000 to pay a lump sum off my mortgage.
• I'd like to have had a really good Christmas selling my items and be confident enough to have expanded into my own website.
• I'd like to be doing another challenge just like this one with all you lot If I can achieve this much in 2 months, who knows where I could be in 2 years!!

skintbint_2

LilacPixie wrote: »

Often Morrisons/Tesco let you put up leaflets as a one off. Who will ou be aiming for?? Parents who want to do kids birthday cakes so need basic skills??

ye, will do the first one aimed at kids (notice i said first one!) one design girls, one design boys. mind is buzzing with ideas now. individual cakes can double up as party bags - leave icing open at the top and about an inch past the top fill with sweets and an icing teddybear????????

mambury

skintbint wrote: »

ye, will do the first one aimed at kids (notice i said first one!) one design girls, one design boys. mind is buzzing with ideas now. individual cakes can double up as party bags - leave icing open at the top and about an inch past the top fill with sweets and an icing teddybear????????

Skint, maybe you would be better doing a basic celebration cake.... eg plain icing... and then show them different ways of changing the cake.... eg, artificial flowers, icing bow, basic icing shapes... and then say the next class will be...... to get them interested..... I think if the first one was too involved especially for those with a mental lock when it comes to icing like me it might put them off.....

I would also think about running two courses (if there is the market for it), first one..... very basic, how to hold a piping bag, how to pipe a straight line, and the other more advanced......

It might even be worth holding taster days eg, pay for materials only and learn how to use a piping bag (basics, keep the advanced stuff for the actual course) and then offer a course based on that....

rambling on a bit there.......

I am about to tackle mount ironing..... crampons on, ice pick to the ready.... Sherpa.... load the pack mules.... tally ho chaps and chapettes......


send in the search party if you don't here from me later!!

Mambury

jo70mo

paulabear wrote: »

Jo, the WWOOF site was fascinating, I spent ages looking through all the offers, wondering if there were any in Yorkshire that would let a family of five plus dog go and live there...we've always talked about going self-sufficient and home-educating but have been so bogged-down in money and work worries that we haven't even thought about it for a year. We live right in town and a few weeks ago our front gate was stolen, possibly by drunks, which we get a lot of, coming and going from pubs in town. OH hadn't realised (thought I'd mentioned it; we rent anyway, so not our problem)- and now desperately wants to move, which brings him nicely up to my level of thinking!

Paula - lots of home educators and groups/ activities in Yorkshire
As for wwoofing - don't think you can go to one place permanently but could prob stay for a while or take a year and go to a few different ones.
Many take families but have heard it mentioned that as 1 parent would usually be looking after the children then the hosts would prob only be getting 1 persons worth of work for hosting a family so you need to work out terms with the host and prob offer to contribute towards food for rest of family.
I have read about families with very young children wwoofing in uk and spain and other places for substantial amounts of time.
We would prob only do it in Dhs holidays as we need an income for paying off our debt. although if we just sold house we could pay off mortgage and debt and have a bit left over.
Very tempting but as we have just built a granny flat for my disabled mum don't think we can just sell up.
If you ever want any info about home edding just let me know.
Jo x