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

ilovetea

Please can I join and have a number?
Thank you.

fedupandskint

Well I've done it - I've just transferred £300 from paypal to pay £100 each to 3 credit cards. Feels a little strange to do this as I like looking at the total amount in paypal but hey, it needs to be done to repay the debts so maybe that's why it feels a little strange - time to pay off £100 off each tomorrow when the money has cleared

Have plenty of listings finishing this weekend so hopefully some more payments will find their way onto repaying back my debts next week. Next time around I will be saving £100 this to go towards a car repair job and car tax early next year too. Let's see how I get on by late Sunday!

Still have quite a lot ready to go on the next free listing weekend - furniture and kitchen items mainly next I think then its onto crafty things which I never use now and that's going to be quite a slog photographing all of that!

ETA - Silly me, forgot to add my total is now 4% including the current total on ebay made totalling £375 made since I started this challenge and have £23 to go towards the next % and 4 squares now coloured in bright pink! Onwards towards the 5% I go next

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt

We're all up to date again! Numbers are up for the latest joiners!

Welcome to TheShinyOne, Mr Orchard, WinterGhosts, Shell78 and ilovetea

18 updates and new percentages!

ilovetea

Thank you Little Miss Uni-Debt.
Had a good day (by my standards:)). managed to get £25 in Am*zon vouchers from a couple of survey sites. E-b*y has a few little bids on as well.

Fedupandskint. well done on paying so much off your cards.

Thank you all for the good ideas,

ilovetea xx

youareallhelpingme

Time to join!!! Can I have a number please . I know its a bit late as I lurked for sooooooo long .

For this challenge I am going to use the figure £700 as that is what we have been quoted for some drainage work that needs doing next spring :eek:.

So 1% = £7.

I am using survey sites, Swagbucks and ebay at the moment. If I get Amazon vouchers to buy gifts I will put away the equivalent amount in £'s towards this total. Hopefully the rest will sit in Paypal.

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt

youareallhelpingme wrote: »

Time to join!!! Can I have a number please . I know its a bit late as I lurked for sooooooo long .

For this challenge I am going to use the figure £700 as that is what we have been quoted for some drainage work that needs doing next spring :eek:.

So 1% = £7.

I am using survey sites, Swagbucks and ebay at the moment. If I get Amazon vouchers to buy gifts I will put away the equivalent amount in £'s towards this total. Hopefully the rest will sit in Paypal.

You're already on the list I'll update with your 1% shortly!

youareallhelpingme

Off to find my number!!!!!! :j

happytails

Evening! 2 more eBay bids :j

Not much else to report, just keeping on top of things here as we have a poorly boy on our hands, currently d&v and clingy as he'll so hardly doing anything! Though I must make the post office tomorrow!

Sarah x

Ooh actually, last note, got my annual loan statement, we owe £12,500 ish so that's good to note, will be our last debt to get round to paying extra off but still it's less than I thought

Sarah x

craftingmad

Hi all, I'm back again after a stressful week. My little girl got rushed into hospital on Weds. They thought it was her appendix so performed the op and took it out (except it was'nt - it was an infection which was attacking her stomach and bowel). Thankfully she is home now and after some kick butt antibiotics is now slowly on the mend. Then my mum got rushed in on Friday with a suspected heart attack (luckily it was not but it is a nasty chest infection which is causing her herat to beat irregularly).

Needless to say I have not managed much %'ing in the last week and I had to cancel a couple of craft fairs which I had booked as my family will always come first.

I have though got £100 from previous craft fairs, £75 from mystery shopping, £35 from Quidco and £10 from reward account waiting to be paid in so once I can actually get to the bank I will be able to declare another 11%.

Plus I have craft fairs booked for both Saturday and Sunday this week so my fingers are crossed for more %'s soon.

Well done everyone on all your progress xxx

MrOrchard

Thanks for the number! #180 checking in!

I have some updates from the last few days to add:

1. I drove my tiny car to Heathrow for my 2 day business trip, netting me £31.73. It's higher than my previous amounts as I've realised now that the HMRC rules give £0.45 per mile, not £0.40 as I previously guessed. This also means I need to reclaim the shortfall since April as well, I guess this will be between £15 - £20 or so.
2. Another £69.89 has tracked on Quidco for the two business flights I bought last week, although there is a shortfall of around £40 in this that I need to query with them, as only one return flight purchase tracked
3. Additional ebay sales of £3.97 after all taxes/charges etc

So all in all another £105.59 to add :beer:, with another £60 due at some point (but I won't count this just yet!). Not enough for another 0.5% yet though.

I also left three important cables in Istanbul yesterday, which means I need to replace these which won't be cheap (one of them is an Apple MacBook charger), or have them couriered over, which is £40, so this will dent my success so far. :mad:

In other news my wife and I have gone through the house with a view to summer car boot sales and are having a proper declutter in the hope that we'll make some cash from our old tat.