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

parsniphead

Declaring now at £66.10/155 as nothing else to come in.

Must try harder next time. Now what can I list on ebay???

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ive done it ... opened up my end of month tin £302.56... it was pretty hard going with the tin opener though ...

lolly101

Hey Everyone,

Just adding £15.35 from a survey site and a £10 Amazon voucher.

Not giving up yet, my total is now £199.86/£310... and my challenge is now 'Make £55.07 a day' :eek:.

lolly101

Ooh, forgot to add, DS found 20p today - gave it to me as a present!

£200.06/£310

Psychaley

Another £2.27 from Amazon so I've reached my target £170.46

Aesop

£6 Pinecone vouchers - handy timing! and 3p roadkill

ThriftyFelicity

£10 to add from a credit card incentive payment, and £12.05 from an Amazon sale.

I've not been counting savings at the supermarket for this challenge, because 1. I have always shopped for bargains at supermarkets; and 2. I would not buy (for example) 21 punnets of blueberries at £2 each, but I would buy them at 9p each . In other words, I usually buy reduced/on offer food because it's reduced/on offer.

However, I have come up with a cunning plan to incentivise (is that a word?) myself AND count a bit towards my monthly "save £5/10 per day" challenge.

I make homemade wine, but lately I have let things slide, and as a result we've been drinking more and more store-bought wine.

I've worked out that homemade wine costs around 80p a bottle to make. The cheapest store-bought vegan wine is from Tesco and costs £3.31 a bottle.

We drink the same amount of wine regardless of whether it's bought or homemade.

Sooo... every time we open a bottle of homemade wine, I'm going to count the £2.50 saved over store-bought wine towards my monthly goal. I figure this will give me the incentive to make lots and lots of wine, so that we don't have to get ripped off at the store anymore. Besides, homemade wine tastes SO MUCH BETTER!

Right now I have 3-1/2 demijohns to rack (about 20 bottles), plus another two demijohns of strawberry wine just started and another two of golden kiwi/strawberry/raspberry in the fermentation vessel. I should be able to start a gallon of wine every week for the next few months, as I still have loads of fruit in the freezer from last year, plus more fruit becoming available over the next few months

Hopefully our wine purchases will drop to almost nil.

Milly-Ann-Molly

yay managed to add some more...now at a lovely £1146.11 thanks to a refund of some school fees and £20 pocket money from dad! woohoo. :j can't wait to see how the carboot sale goes now...would be lovely to round it up to an even number.

Good luck everyone else on squeezing some more in before we switch over to augusts challenge xxx

Monkeynut

£60 profits from ms jobs hit the bank yesterday.
And I've also found £3 in coppers in my old change pot in my old room at my mums! So that's been paid in as well.
Payday yesterday and an extra £51.75 for overtime received
So an total of £114.75 to add this morning which gives me the last minute boost I need taking my total to £363.91 for the month :j:j which is fab because it was a bit of a slow month and I didn't think I'd make the target.

Most of this is actual money, which I've been putting aside in a separate account, and hopefully if we can do the same again next month I will be in a position to phone the DCA that our last loan is with and try and negotiate a lower settlement figure and get shot of it for good! :T

MattSS

ThriftyFelicity wrote: »

Right now I have 3-1/2 demijohns to rack (about 20 bottles), plus another two demijohns of strawberry wine just started and another two of golden kiwi/strawberry/raspberry in the fermentation vessel. I should be able to start a gallon of wine every week for the next few months, as I still have loads of fruit in the freezer from last year, plus more fruit becoming available over the next few months

Tell you what I'll but some off you for £2.50 a bottle - sounds lush!! :D:D