~~ May 2011 Make £10 a day Challenge - All Welcome ~ ~

Long_tall_sally

Alybaly - Funnily enough I think I would be the opposite - i.e. be tempted to spend more if I actually went to a bingo place but well done anyway!

smiths84

Hi - a bit late to the party, but please put me down for £10 a day. I really need to clear a big credit card debt which I am currently trying to shift to a 20-month interest fee deal. Made a start today when I picked up a pair of Thomas the Tank engine curtains at a local charity shop - hope to sell them for a profit on ebay. Going to scour quidco for no spend/profit deals, have a good ebay clear out and coupon like mad.
__________________________________________________________

9/5 Debt £5000

misskaytee

:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

Ive kinda saved myself £1000 this morning!!

I dont check my bank, its more of a quick peek now and again, i know its overdrawn, and the debt ive got is in the form of an overdraft!!

For a very long time i was at the bottom of 2 x £2500 overdrafts, so £5000 total ! a couple of years ago i came into some money, so paid them both off, but unfortunatly kept spending on my main account and became overdrawn again, the other account i cancelled the overdraft facility, like i said this was all a few years back.

When ive been thinking about my debt ive always thought it was for around £2500 (the remaining overdraft) well i checked my online banking this morning, with a bit more than a quick peek just to see what balances were available and my overdrafts limit is £1500 not £2500, soooo ive kinda saved / or knocked £1000 off my debt :beer:
Cant help but feel chuffed ( and a little ) at the same time, if you see what i mean.

The reason i was checking the funds available was to post ebay items this morning ~ £53 spent on postage alone :eek: good job i'll be getting that back!

Are savings made on imaginary debts allowed to be counted?? :rotfl:

Dans_Girl

Sold some gold last week, cleared in bank today- so thats £150.33 from the lovely people at Hatton Gardens Metals- this means I've already met my May target, but I'm gonna keep ploughing on see what I get to.

sweetpeas_2

Hi everyone :hello:

I'm back from my holidays and rarrrrrring to go with the money saving. Can't believe I missed out on free listings on ebay but sure they will come back around soon

Anyway, we go away again in exactly a months time (yes, we're being very greedy this year and having two holidays but very close together, so really must UP the game a bit) so want to try and get a bit of extra spends in to take. DS has been pestering to do a carboot (sigh- only did one about 3/4 weeks ago and didn't make much at all, not enough to make up for the 4.30am wake up anyway _pale_ ) so might take him this Sunday if the forecast is good.

Also going to list some stuff in free ad's when I get sorted, still sorting through mount wash-more at the moment so hoping to make a crack on that and then can start getting my head around money saving

All things considered I'm going to be on here alot over the next month

sweet x

PiggyBankShaker

Been a good month for me so far. Mainly down to fleaBay and Amazon I must say. I listed about 10 items all starting at 99p and ended up netting the best part of £75 - got another 10 or so still listed but with higher starting prices and loads of watchers no no bids yet - is there lesson there?

Must keep on top of adding stuff to sell, don't want my good run to dry up.

ThriftyFelicity

Well, the latest free listings weekend on fleaBay has come and gone, and I listed exactly one item

However, the good news is that the one item sold today for the BIN price, so after fees and postage (providing I have calculated the latter correctly), I shall have netted £128.72! :j

Even though I have surpassed my overall goal for the month of £155, I am going to continue to try and make a bit of extra cash for the remainder of the month.

And I am definitely going to join the challenge again next month!

AlyBaly

Reporting in with another £ 2 on Mr T xmas savers and £5 amazon voucher taking me to £95 , not bad going but could do better

lellybun

£5-35 from a Games Offer :T

saorsie

£18.53 profit from a m*tched b*t this evening :T

-s-