"2012 Make £10 a day challenge January ~ everybody most welcome to join in :)"

house_of_cards

Okay - you've all inspired me!

This is my first post (although like many others I have been reading through threads for a long time) and I think I could probably manage £5 per day for January, especially with all your helpful hints.

So far this month I have my £5 from H'fax and £1.97 from Quidco. I've got loads of stuff for E-bay that we sorted out before Christmas so will have that listed this weekend. This morning I have written a letter to claim my work uniform rebate and have also requested envelopes from the cartridge recycling place - I have one cartridge ready to go and a couple of others are running low. I'm also going to actually do the surveys that hit my in box (I usually leave them there for ages and by the time I get around to doing them they're closed!).

I worked 5 hours overtime on Wednesday but I usually work some extra hours each month. I work out all our household budgets based on my husbands salary and me earning £500 so I will take anything over £500 as part of this challenge.

I shall go and try to work out how to add a signature to show my £6.97.

Wish I had enough confidence to aim for £10 per day...

Aesop

house_of_cards wrote: »

I shall go and try to work out how to add a signature to show my £6.97.

Wish I had enough confidence to aim for £10 per day...

:hello: and big welcome to you house of cards. Love that name.

for your signature, go to the top of this forum, on the green tool bar you will see user cp. click on that, on the left will be edit signature.

make your signature and make sure you click on save.

As for the £10 a day, maybe next month, you can challenge yourself? Start small and see how you get on

lolly101

Just ordered £5 DP voucher from McCains so will add that when it comes - Thanks Aesop , I noticed you mention the £5 vouchers. I thought they had gotten rid of them all as all I could see was £10, then £20 vouchers - didn't think to scroll down and check if they were hidden away underneath, lol.

emmaglet

Sold a book on Amazon for someone else...£22 before postage, I get a 20% cut, so hoping for around £4 - honestly, this selling other people's stuff for them is going well!

Then work gave me a box of cartridges to sell. Looked on eBay, one set of 4 is going for £17, and I've got 6 sets of 4 and two others going for £25 each! My 20% cut from that will be good. I'm using work's time to get the listings ready for tomorrow too.

Big_Hairy_Spider

Morning all, since last update;

5/1

Local grocers - strawberries - 250g - £1.80 whereas Tescos currently have the same at £2 - save 20p
Local grocers - 1lb class II bananas - 30p - although slightly bruised - Tescos 59p - save 20p
Cool Trader - Actimel x 4 - sell by date 15/1 - 59p - usually £1 - save 41p
Cool Trader - Warburtons loaf £1 - local corner shop (where we usually buy) £1.39 - save 39p
Cool Trader - 1l milk 69p - local corner shop (where we usually buy) £1.09 - save 40p
Poundshop - 6 x cans coke £1.20. Nearest comparison is Cool Trader - £1.99 - save 79p

Worked from home - save in petrol £7 (usually commute to Sheffield) save in parking £3 - made £10.

Total today = £12.39. Total for January so far = £92.41

Since taking up this make £x a day challenge, I'm really pleased just how much we've already saved / made this month by just being a bit more price conscious. I thought a fiver a day for January was optomistic but in 5 days we've already achieved over half the total pledge for the month. Although the majority (£70 - in my last post) is Quidco cashback for car insurance we bought last year, that still leaves over £20 simply from being a bit more frugal. Most surprising is how the pennies soon mount up into pounds. Half the surplus is going into a rainyday tin the remainder on going out. Tonight we're going down the pub for a fully 'deserved' pint or three.

Aesop

lolly101 wrote: »

Just ordered £5 DP voucher from McCains so will add that when it comes - Thanks Aesop , I noticed you mention the £5 vouchers. I thought they had gotten rid of them all as all I could see was £10, then £20 vouchers - didn't think to scroll down and check if they were hidden away underneath, lol.

it's all I order they come fast enough nowadays and are perfect for DH's family for birthday and xmas gift. costs me nowt :money: so don't mind playing every week for the rest of the year

lolly101

Well I've hit my daily target today I always buy my mum bits when I go shopping, loaf of bread, dog food, etc, and she has just given me £5 for it. I didn't expect it, so I'm adding it!

Aesop wrote: »

it's all I order they come fast enough nowadays and are perfect for DH's family for birthday and xmas gift. costs me nowt :money: so don't mind playing every week for the rest of the year

Good to hear they don't take too long now, I've not ordered any since the big mess up a few months ago when everyone's vouchers went AWOL, lol. I've got £20 of DP (well, Arcadia) vouchers stashed away from McCains already so may treat myself to something pretty when it comes through

starnac

afternoon all. I'm finally off the mark with £10 voucher from VO.

I'm expecting a cheque from mu$ic magp1e for DVD's I sent away just after christmas, plus got a load of stuff to list this weekend on eb4y.

izzoh

house_of_cards wrote: »

Okay - you've all inspired me!

This is my first post (although like many others I have been reading through threads for a long time) and I think I could probably manage £5 per day for January, especially with all your helpful hints.

So far this month I have my £5 from H'fax and £1.97 from Quidco. I've got loads of stuff for E-bay that we sorted out before Christmas so will have that listed this weekend. This morning I have written a letter to claim my work uniform rebate and have also requested envelopes from the cartridge recycling place - I have one cartridge ready to go and a couple of others are running low. I'm also going to actually do the surveys that hit my in box (I usually leave them there for ages and by the time I get around to doing them they're closed!).


I worked 5 hours overtime on Wednesday but I usually work some extra hours each month. I work out all our household budgets based on my husbands salary and me earning £500 so I will take anything over £500 as part of this challenge.

I shall go and try to work out how to add a signature to show my £6.97.

Wish I had enough confidence to aim for £10 per day...

Hi House of cards...

I started with £5 per day... I became so motivated that I (almost) hit my target... so I thought by adding on ebay sales etc... this month I will aim for £10 a day... so you will get there. But any extra you make, £1 or £100 a day is all a good thing!

Welcome and good luck! :T

izzoh

Aesop wrote: »

it's all I order they come fast enough nowadays and are perfect for DH's family for birthday and xmas gift. costs me nowt :money: so don't mind playing every week for the rest of the year

Hi all... whats this Mcains thing?? Anyone mind sharing? Is it on the mcains website (the people that do oven chips etc?!) or am I being silly! lol. x