Starting again, 1% at a time. 100 ways to make £80!

specialkaye

Ugh stressful day!! Had booked midnight tickets for the new twilight film for tonight, yey!!! but at a cinema 70 miles away. this was so that me and my friend would make a 2 day trip of it, do some shopping and stay with another friend. so far so good. but my friend could get the thrusday off work so she was making a trip from london to my house, well now, and then travel the 70 miles to the cinema. now weve had multiple issues with transport but my mum agrred to let me borrow her car as long as i had it back for 830 am so she can get to work. only now she has just got it locked in a multistory car park and now my dad is driving us both there and leaving us and i have to pay petrol AND a train ticket

Decluttering

specialkaye wrote: »

Ugh stressful day!! Had booked midnight tickets for the new twilight film for tonight, yey!!! but at a cinema 70 miles away. this was so that me and my friend would make a 2 day trip of it, do some shopping and stay with another friend. so far so good. but my friend could get the thrusday off work so she was making a trip from london to my house, well now, and then travel the 70 miles to the cinema. now weve had multiple issues with transport but my mum agrred to let me borrow her car as long as i had it back for 830 am so she can get to work. only now she has just got it locked in a multistory car park and now my dad is driving us both there and leaving us and i have to pay petrol AND a train ticket

Argh, not too fun! I hope you enjoy your trip and that it was all worth it in the end.

Decluttering

Another 19% for me today from overtime at work, I love watching the Uni fund add up when I transfer in a lump sum!

Member Number - 93
1% = £25
Total So Far = 40%

FallenArcher

Happy Friday all :beer:

I just wanted to declare another 1% which brings me up to 4% in total (I guess it's been just under a month?) - which has all gone off of a credit card already.

I am really enjoying this challenge so thank you It has so far come from a mixture of getting refunds on things I paid for pre-LBM (e.g. complaining about some rubbish flowers I'd ordered online and antivirus auto-renewal with no warning - 2 months prior to my complaint), selling quite a lot of clutter/treasures, underspending on budgetted pots (e.g. entertainment purse), changing contents insurance, selling DVDs, and putting my Halifax reward amount straight off of a credit card.

The first lot of DVDs I sold to MusicMagpie for about 30p each, but with my second batch I managed to sell a few to friends via a facebook post at £2 each, and then took the leftovers to Cash Converters for 50p each. So I'd recommend you try this too.

I'm waiting for the money to come through for things like changing gas/electric supplier (expecting a refund from old supplier as well as cheaper monthly payments), doing polling station duties for the PCC election yesterday, changing my mobile to sim-only as contract finishes in a week and £125 reward for transferring my bank account. I've also got lots more stuff to sell - books are my next target!! So even without selling anything that'd be another 5% -amazing, but won't count anything until I see the cash in my account/saving on a direct debit etc. Am hopeful I'll be able to get the debt down to £7000 before Christmas - exciting!

Member number - 164
Total paid so far - 4%

fedupandskint

I've just taken photos ready for ebay listing as somewhere on the forum it was announced to be a free listing weekend this weekend. - hope so and I'll be listing away Sat and Sun

mummybearx

fedupandskint wrote: »

I've just taken photos ready for ebay listing as somewhere on the forum it was announced to be a free listing weekend this weekend. - hope so and I'll be listing away Sat and Sun

I just got an email saying it was a free listing weekend, for auction listings as well as buy it now priced items

tattycath

No 24
8% & 79%

debtbegone

Quickly popping on so I can jot my progress down somewhere I'll remember! I've got £250 in my current account (5%) waiting to be transferred on payday. It's keeping me out of my overdraft at the moment, but if I don't transfer it on payday I'll end up thinking I have more money than I actually do, well I think it's a bit psychological but that's how I'm working it as it keeps me from being charged a quid a day for an overdraft but is also knocking chunks off of the horrendous 29.9% apr card (also my highest debt)

All this has come from ebay sales, being ruthless with stuff, none of which I've missed so far! Still have a fair bit listed and to list so I'm going to plough on with that.

No joy with overtime or a 2nd job that will fit in with the work I'm already doing. Bit restricted with what I can do because of work otherwise I'd probably have managed to fit something in quite nicely but I'm keeping my eye out all the same.

Also just about to put a claim in for ppi, fingers crossed but I've not got high hopes judging by their strongly worded letters that come with the copy of your agreement!

And the last thing is to try and maximise my crafty stuff sales in the run up to christmas. I really should be doing more of this tonight!

Happy percenting everyone!

WinterGhosts

tmd - that sounds fantastic, exactly the sort of thing I should be thinking of doing. Maybe I need to sort out a savings account I can directly transfer any money I don't spend on alcohol!! :beer:

I'm really enjoying the challenge and I'm so happy to see it's a free listing weekend - got a large pile of stuff to get listed/relisted!! Lots of BIN's which is good

Still at 1% - it's still in paypal until I sort out a savings account, I don't trust putting it in my current account.

happytails

evening all! Ive photographed about 20 things to list on Ebay tomorrow. Got about 15 more to do but after ive fed baby im enjoying a bath and a DVD with the hubby! Will aim to list this lot tomorrow, photograph the second lot then and list that on sunday!

returned some bits to town today and will have 18.98 refunded back to my card. Got my best friends wedding next weekend so cant transfer anything until after that from the bank account.

Hope everyone has a productive weekend

Sarah x