Divide and Conquer - My last DFW diary

ehallett

Hi everyone

This will be my last DFW diary. Why? Because I will be debt free by the end of it.

I am around £37,500 in debt. My plan is to think of 100 ways to make £375 and then pay this off my debt. I get bored very easily so I thought that having 100 different activities will mean that I won't have time to get bored as I will only have to do them until I make my £375 and then it's on to the next one.

So far, I have 19 ideas and will think of the rest by the end of the day.

It might be that I have a few on the go at once, but I intend to keep a record of what money is coming from where and will post next to each idea how much of the £375 I have made.

If anyone has any ideas to add then please let me know . Feel free to try any of the ideas yourself .

My Divide and Conquer challenge starts tomorrow!!

Emily xx

ehallett

My list:

1. Surveys
2. Prizes
3. Prizes
4. Prizes
5. Prizes
6. Prizes
7. Mystery Shopping - Retail Eyes
8. Mystery Shopping - TNS
9. Mystery Shopping - ESA
10. Mystery Shopping - GFK
11. Mystery Shopping - eMystery Shopping
12. Mystery Shopping - others
13. Bingoport
14. Jackpot Joy (the free games)
15. 63336
16. 63336
17. 63336
18. 63336
19. 63336
20. Buying from charity shops
21. Wholesale
22. Wholesale
23. Fixing mobile phones
24. Selling at carboots
25. Cashback
26. Saving £1 coins
27. Saving £2 coins
28. Buying from carboots
29. Matched betting
30. Matched betting
31. Matched betting
32. Writing letters to magazines
33. Bingo sites
34. Reclaiming charges
35. Reclaiming charges
36. Selling freebies
37. 'Found' Money
38. Babysitting
39. Selling craft items online (eg cards, jewellery etc)
40. Writing competitions
41. Magazine articles
42. Photographs (selling, comps etc)
43. Focus groups
44. Buying from church fetes/jumble sales
45. Buying from Gumtree/Freeads and selling to a wider eBay audience
46. Selling on Green Metropolis
47. Music Magpie
48. CEX
49. Freelance work
50. Delivery work

3yearstogo

Hi,

I like the idea of it. Hope to follow you through all 100 activities! I'll try to think of things to add to your list. hmmm How about picking up change you stumble over? 1p, 2p and 5p and the odd 20p on the streets?

ehallett

3yearstogo wrote: »

Hi,

I like the idea of it. Hope to follow you through all 100 activities! I'll try to think of things to add to your list. hmmm How about picking up change you stumble over? 1p, 2p and 5p and the odd 20p on the streets?

Thanks - I guess that I might find £375 worth of change as I think this challenge will still take 2-3 years to complete. I found a tenner the other week so a few big finds like that would help.

I will add it on .

Emily xx

kavics17

I like it too, how about babysitting? I do once a week, you should be able to get £375 in 3-4 months time if you're lucky!

ehallett

kavics17 wrote: »

I like it too, how about babysitting? I do once a week, you should be able to get £375 in 3-4 months time if you're lucky!

Thanks, I would be ok babysitting as I look after my 3-year-old niece all the time. However, I don't have any friends with kids that need babysitting. I guess I could advertise on Gumtree.

I will add it to the list and look into it.

Emily xx

kavics17

Look into Sitters, they send me babysittings every week, doesn't pay much but it's regular work.

kavics17

How about baking cakes and selling them for friends/families? Or making jams/chutneys/etc?

ehallett

kavics17 wrote: »

How about baking cakes and selling them for friends/families? Or making jams/chutneys/etc?

Not very 'baking' orientated unfortunately. I think I would have to pay people to eat my creations :rotfl:.

Emily xx

3yearstogo

hrrmmm how about every month you check down behind your sofa/car seats (and even other people's sofas when you go to visit them... just wait till they go to the loo) and collect money from there too?


Pet sitting/walking? Again you could advertise yourself on gumtree?

ehallett

3yearstogo wrote: »

hrrmmm how about every month you check down behind your sofa/car seats (and even other people's sofas when you go to visit them... just wait till they go to the loo) and collect money from there too?


Pet sitting/walking? Again you could advertise yourself on gumtree?

I think I would add any money found down the sofa etc to the money found in the street one so will change that to just 'money found'.

I would be ok looking after small animals and cats, but can't really walk dogs as I have Cystic Fibrosis and can't walk too far. I think the main work in this area is dog walking. Will look into it though.

Emily xx