challenge Make £11,000 in 2011 The Dribblers Advance

kit

Hi all
I know I'm late but I would like to join you. Spent the past 2 days reading this thread ... am up to page 32 of 55 so far!

Got signed off sick from work in December, likely to be at least April before I can go back. So, due to this, I have dropped from about £1400 a month to about £340! I struggled to manage on £1400 so god knows how I am going to cope now. Benefit claims have been submitted, rent not been paid this month (!!) and no money left in the bank.

So, am going to try hard to raise money other ways. Have used quidco and pigsback for years and dont really make anything from them now so will try some other ones. Have a fair bit to list on ebay which I will do once my daughter has found my camera! Have done mystery shopping in the past so will try and do that again. Bingo and matched betting are on my list to read up on. Surveys bore me but will try those too. Have I missed anything??

Pauldfc

kit wrote: »

Hi all
I know I'm late but I would like to join you. Spent the past 2 days reading this thread ... am up to page 32 of 55 so far!

Got signed off sick from work in December, likely to be at least April before I can go back. So, due to this, I have dropped from about £1400 a month to about £340! I struggled to manage on £1400 so god knows how I am going to cope now. Benefit claims have been submitted, rent not been paid this month (!!) and no money left in the bank.

So, am going to try hard to raise money other ways. Have used quidco and pigsback for years and dont really make anything from them now so will try some other ones. Have a fair bit to list on ebay which I will do once my daughter has found my camera! Have done mystery shopping in the past so will try and
do that again. Bingo and matched betting are on my list to read up on.Surveys bore me but will try those too. Have I missed anything?

try design it sell it for some thongs to try on eBay ( just google it)

nikki2804

elly68 wrote: »

well done nikki your focus is fantastic needing to start doing the same l

Lol, I wouldn't say focused. I'm just money driven apparently although not as bad as I used to be. I used to work 70-80 hours a week before I had my little one. Loved the cash .

Mind you if I could work at night I would probably still do it.

Working at 6 but its my wee pal whose duty manager tonight so I can probably have a good wee laugh - hopefully.

Just had to rescue my dad from the local Tesco, he took his car to the hoover thing and his slave gasket sheared off. To make matters worse the hoover was out of order too so he couldn't even cleab it while waiting for the AA. :rotfl:. Took my LO (19months) who insisted on taking his car transporter and hammer, found that quite funny.

Did get a creme egg out of it tho .

nikki2804

Kit - have you checked to see if your entitled to working tax credits? If you income has dropped drastically you may well be, maybe worth a little phone call.

nikki2804

Hmmm, would it be feasable to think I could work 18 hours per week in my main job, a few 12 hours night shifts plus my bar job? At college twice a week too, hmmmmm. Im actually considering it.

EMminently

Wow Nikki that sounds an awful lot of hours to work - the 'few 12 hour night shifts' is the scary sounding bit! :eek: When would you sleep? Careful not to burn yourself out x

painted_lady

Nikki, I used to do 2 x 12 hour night shifts when I was studying, was a small children's home, once boys in bed sleeping could do my studying.

EMminently

Good point about studying during night-shift. Thinking about it, there are also some care-home or hostel type places where you get paid to be there but can sleep through the night, unless there's any emergencies etc. I imagine you take it in turns to do the sleeping bit though else everyone would want that bit

painted_lady

We used to tie sleep in shifts with people doing late followed by early shift, that's why I liked waking nights, the studying kept me awake and would get time and half. Think I was loaded back then.

skint-student-nurse

I mananged to get my food shop done...bang on £50! :eek: :T i didnt even use a calcualtor,i just stuck to my list

More watchers on ebay and ive had a £4 scratchie win. Decided that im going to do as many bank shifts as possible as ebay is so unpredictable atm and i can get a reduced fare on the bus to the hospital. I think im going to do back to back shifts 3-4 days a week to bring the pennies in.

Im off to do some batch cooking to resist the temptation of take-aways in the week