£2012 in 2012

aliwali

Just listed some books on Amazon, hopefully some of them will sell! Had varying success in past on there. If not I can get about £11 for them on webuybooks website. Off to do a few surveys now, again hopefully.

amberfinn53

I have started off finally! counted my pennies, added up to £44 :shocked: i have a rare day off tomorrow so gonna try and list as many items on ebay as possible, also nearly up to my redemption point on global test market so will add that in once it arrives, all your other posts are giving me lots of idea's too! now just about to head off to figure out how to change my signature... wish me luck!

SueP19

Just saved myself £2.50 in coupons at Mr M's :j:j

lucy_lemon

Well, I've made a bit of extra money so far this month, but not as much as I was hoping for! I've had £34.60 tax refund, £11 from Amazon, and I've found £1.10 on the floor. Oh, and £10 as a gift. But I did sell another book on Amazon today for £20, so I guess I'm on my way to my first £100.

Thanks for starting the challenge - I'm really enjoying it! I love reading about how other people are making money too!

aliwali

SueP19 wrote: »

Just saved myself £2.50 in coupons at Mr M's :j:j

Hi, can I just ask then are you putting that £2.50 aside in a separate account, or are you just counting it as a saving and adding it to an abstract total? I'm asking as I am actually trying to make £2012 in actual cash, so I guess if I'm going to count savings like yours I would have to put the cash in my savings account. The only problem with that being that often I have to make savings otherwise I wouldn't be able to get through the month!!

I know I'm waffling just interested in how others are approaching the challenge.

frithalouise

I traded in some book on Amazon for £1.25 worth of credit, so I've saved the equivalent as I know that as a student I'll definitely be buying from Amazon before long.
I've also sold 7 old uni books on there now since the 1st and made about £17 after postage and fees That's not going on my total until it's paid into my account though.
Should have around £30 from Skimlinks.com paid out at the end of the month too from affiliate commission from my blog, so that will be nice!

BatOutOfhell

aliwali wrote: »

Hi, can I just ask then are you putting that £2.50 aside in a separate account, or are you just counting it as a saving and adding it to an abstract total?

I'm with you aliwali - I'm only counting actual cash that I can put aside into a savings account. I'm really good at using coupons, buying things reduced or on offer etc etc. What I really need is the hard cash, so that's all I'm counting.

xBuNn

Im doing exactly the same thing, Im counting the physical hard cash I put into my savings account. I see my coupons and stuff as my weekly habits, this is an over and above type of thing. But I suppose each to their own, if people don't normally coupon shop, then it'll come as a massive saving.

I received £50 owed to me today, rather than just putting it into my normal daily account, I put it straight into my savings, as I haven't effectively missed the money. I'm loving how good I am being so far, let's hope it continues throughout the year. Im now standing on 8.33% woop!

PapaJas

Hi

Great idea, if I can do this I could pay off my credit card balance and be able to join my family on their holiday in October. Please include me, I'll keep you posted!

stardance

sexymouse wrote: »

Just did a quick calculation out of interest to see how much money we need to average on a weekly basis to reach our target by 2013, and it's just under £39 a week. (£38.69 to be exact) Daily, bearing in mind we have 366 days this year as it's a leapyear, it works out at £5.50 a day, so we should've all made £49.50 by the end of the day today if counting from January 1st. :eek:Hope we all make it. Lots of people have got a good headstart already.

Eeeep. I'm still on virtually zero! Although in my defence, I should have a load of overtime in my pay come through this week which would have set me up strong but work missed the cut off date so I should get it next week instead. Hopefully by this time next week I'll be on track....

Keep going everyone, you're doing great!