The tiny spider that taught me a big lesson....

ehallett

That was fast!! Opened my wardrobe and pulled out 5 items of clothing that I haven't worn for months:

• 1 pair of Miss Sixty jeans
• 1 pair of Jane Norman jeans
• 2 Jane Norman skirts (one needs a wash so will do that tonight)
• 1 skirt with the tag still on.

I have worked out that each bundle of 5 items needs to get me £17.10 each in cleared money (so say £20 each before fees) to get me my passport and the £8 for check & send. I think that lot will make £20+.

Off to do questions now that job is done.

Emily xx

ehallett

Hi everyone

My mystery shop is all done and I have been accepted for 2 more next week . I have 5 jobs (including the one I have just done) in the next week and will get paid £49 for them :T. Unfortunately I won't receive most of it until September but at least I will be better off then. That's what I keep trying to tell myself anyway.

I have also generated another £10 for myself as I had to pay my mum's mobile phone bill (I pay it every month as she feeds me most nights - it's only £20) and forgot I already had £10 on my Paypal card . So I now have £11.10 to last me a week which is much more do-able. Oh, and I found 1p in the car park :rotfl:. Fortune is raining down on me today.

Unfortunately the questions aren't, it has been really quiet but I will get my 150 done.......

Emily x

ehallett

Hi everyone

Very excited today. I have found something that has the potential to pay for all of my passport :T. I was looking through my jewellery box and found a necklace that I had forgotten about. I haven't worn it for years so it can go. I took it to a jewellers and it is an 18ct white gold pendant, 14ct white gold chain with a 0.25 diamond in the pendant. Fingers crossed that gets some £££ coming in. I will still stick to the original plan of 25 items though.

I have to find 3 more tonight (also found a Jane Norman jumper I no longer wear). I will list the 10 items tonight to end in 10 days (want to give the necklace loads of time) and then the other 15 items on Sunday.

As part of the Wake Up Call Challenge, we are doing an 18 week challenge until 22nd November. I thought I would post my goals to achieve in that time here:

1. Make sure that I am up to date on my bills
2. Be earning £1,200 a month (excluding DLA)
3. Have a completed budget that counts for all of my outgoings and make sure I am sticking to it
4. Get my weight up to 8st 7lb.
5. Get all my Christmas presents for free.
6. Pay off my sofa (just under £400)
7. Get my passport by selling stuff on eBay.
8. Avoid buying any more clothes (apart from a bikini that I need for my holiday – I don’t have one!)

Hopefully number 7 will be done very soon .

Emily x

ehallett

Finally, 10 items listed on eBay. Only took me 2 hours :mad:. Still, they are done now and I already have a bid of 99p . Unfortunately I had to replace 3 of my original items as they had some damage. I'm not sure if I will be able to find another 15 items now. Will see what I can do over the weekend.

Better get on with the questions.

Emily x

ehallett

Hi everyone

Productive day so far today. I have found another 5 items to list on eBay and one of my items has sold for £5 on BIN so that is all packed up ready to post (God bless Paypal postage!). I have a mystery shop to do at 2pm (another £12 to be paid in September ) so will post that on the way back.

I am doing blocks of 10 questions in between tidying up the flat and I have been on Bingoport all morning and am now up to 3.5k worth of points. Oh and got a survey done too.

xx

starnac

you are doing so well. good thinking about breaking your target of 150q's into blocks of 10. 10 sounds so much easier to achieve. well done on your ebaying too. we move next week and i intend to go through all our stuff as we unpack and make an ebay pile.

keep up the good work

ehallett

Mystery shop all done and written up. Don't you just hate it when you fall in love with the product you have to ask about? :mad:.

Anyway, have got my first bid on my necklace (only £4.99 but the watcher are building up). Posted my eBay item and in my tidying up, I also found another one so only 4 items to find tomorrow. Maybe I can find 25 after all.

Down to 2.5k on BP now .

xx

ehallett

I have just started hyperventilating!! I just logged onto eBay to see a message from someone who wants to offer me £150 for my necklace. :eek:. Needless to say I said yes, I really hope he gets back to me. If I can get that, I still reckon the other stuff I have to list will get at least £50. That will hopefully sort out my spending money too.

Other than that, just been doing questions today, not as many as I would have liked as OH was here and he is always bored so keep pestering me to go out with him :mad:.

Back up to 3k on Bingoport and I am only 4k away from a £15 voucher on To Luna :T.

Emily xx

ehallett

Hi everyone

Very productive day here so far. I am doing other things inbetween my spurts of 10 questions.

I have painstakingly completed 3k worth of polls on To Luna - but can now redeem for a £15 Amazon voucher :T. I have also had a good day on Bingoport and have redeemed on there for a £5 Amazon voucher :T. My aim with the Amazon vouchers is to buy my mum a DSi for Christmas. They are £115 so only £95 to go now .

I don't know how I did it, but I have found another 15 items to list on eBay tonight. Inbetween questions, I am going to load them onto Turbolister to save me doing it all in one go (3 lots of 5 me thinks).

I haven't heard back from the necklace guy yet but the necklace already has £26 with 7 days left so I am still hopeful it will completely cover the cost of my passport.

Emily xx

ehallett

Morning all

Can't believe it is August already. This year is flying by.

Again it is going to be a tight month. But I am determined that next month isn't going to be the same. One of my goals is to be earning £1,200 a month. I am going to do that by earning £900 on the questions (100 questions a day) and £300 on mystery shopping.

So far I have nearly £120 worth of jobs to be paid out in September and £30 for October.

My eBay items are finishing today and the total is currently £84. My necklace only has £41 so I am hoping that will get a lot more. There are 32 watchers.

On the Christmas present goal, I have £20 Amazon vouchers and want to get that to £50 by the end of August. I also got a free L'Occitane shower gel yesterday from a coupon in my sister's magazine. That can go into my present stash to maybe be used in a hamper.

My OH bought me Remember Me on DVD yesterday (mmm R-Patz ) and I got Tesco points from it which pushed me to £33 in vouchers for Christmas :T.

Right, off to work on my month's goals list and my to-do list for the day.

Be back later

Emily x