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

happytails

I returned some paint at b&q and got £14 going back on the card on Friday and cashed my music magpie cheque

Went to the park instead of soft play this afternoon and picked my car up from the garage. The clutch has been replaced and under the warranty too! Best news I've had all day

Going to list a fair bit on eBay tonight and doing a £50 grocery shop at tesco to get my 300 points and hopefully a load of good food to keep me away from the takeaways (my downfall). If I get time I may sort through my craft bits and see what I can use for making Xmas presents, aiming to handcraft all this year bar a few of the kids friends. Bought another birthday present today for september, £7 and I'm nearly done for birthdays til October now which is good as September is going to be a spend little, earn alot month! So an ok day I think, relatively productive

I'm going to adjust my % later. It's gone down from 26% but I'm going to correct it and work on building it back up

room512

marshy1985 wrote: »

Also a warning for everyone using amazon trade in for books, i traded in 11 books and got £2.75 for them, but didnt realise you had to pay postage to send them off, its a bit of a con really!!
xxxx

It says on the amazon trade in page that they pay the postage? Is that not true?

MessyMare

Bought some project boxes to get me back on track with my crafting today Going to set myself a new rule - I can only buy more beads if I know exactly what I'm going to do with them and have a project box free. If I don't they'll have to wait on my "want list". Might set a time limit on how long things can stay in the project boxes too.

Got a few more bids on things on ebay so pretty chuffed with that I really do feel utterly invigorated - plus I've had a firm offer to buy my classic car so that money will be put towards what I owe Mum, starting me off on my percentage journey there too! Might be a bit cheeky and just count that as a reduction so my percentages for that can be smaller

Going to withdraw from paypal just enough to make a percent but wont count it until it hits the account

MessyMare

It says that you can print a pre-paid postage label from them on the Amazon Trade in

7roland8

Also a warning for everyone using amazon trade in for books, i traded in 11 books and got £2.75 for them, but didnt realise you had to pay postage to send them off, its a bit of a con really!!

Just done my first trade in today and printed off a pre-paid label.

Shame they don't have more books listed.

welshgirl78

Evening all, hope you are well - lots of PMA on this thread which i am enjoying, it is the thread I go to first these days

I have done some totting up of my ridiculously complex accounts and am at 5% - nearly 6% but want to count a percent at a time! Need to have some change collecting and see if i can push it over the 6% barrier tomorrow, woop!! it is awesome to finally be knocking down my CC - because it was "only" £1000 I have been ignoring it... but it crept up to £1700 so I am happy to say goodbye! Then back to saving for a house deposit and baby!

Have listed 12 dresses on Ebay that should do OK - hope to get £100 for them and then will list some bracelets on etsy, never tried selling them before but why not!

Keep up the money making / saving all

marshy1985

room512 wrote: »

It says on the amazon trade in page that they pay the postage? Is that not true?

i had to pay £12 to post 11 books!!! i was a tad shocked, i thought it was free to post too!!!

marshy1985

7roland8 wrote: »

Just done my first trade in today and printed off a pre-paid label.

Shame they don't have more books listed.

maybe i missed the pre paid label??? :mad:
Oh well, you live and learn!!!:rotfl:

happytails

welshgirl78 wrote: »

Have listed 12 dresses on Ebay that should do OK - hope to get £100 for them and then will list some bracelets on etsy, never tried selling them before but why not!

Keep up the money making / saving all

Did you start these at 99p? I've some maternity bits to list, want a few quid each for them ideally so not sure to list at 99p and hope or hold out for a free listing weekend?

Sarah x

7roland8

From Amazon site for trad-ins:
Are there any delivery or other fees?

When you use the pre-paid delivery label, sending your trade-in item to the third-party merchant is completely free, there are no other fees. When you submit your trade-in, you'll print a pre-paid Royal Mail delivery label for sending in your items. If a trade-in item is not accepted by the merchant, and is returned to you, there is no cost to you for return delivery.

I think you can opt to go 'via courier' which means you go to P.O. and pay.