My Debt Free Journey starts Today

thehappybutterfly

other way of earning some decent money is by purchasing things like car insurance, house insurance, roadside assistance etc through TopCashBack - I've literally earned just over £400 in less than a year doing this. What I usually do is look for car insurance on one of the search companies like the meerkat one or confused . com, find the cheapest quote and then see if I can make cash on it via TCB. So I;m saving money and making it at the same time!

Missterious

Hiya.

Firstly well done with your path to debt free living, secondly great news about the more than 50% chance and i have all crossable things crossed for you!
Also music magpie offer peanuts for dvds, games and cds. Have you tried playtrade on play. com? i don't sell stuff myself but i buy from playtrade and they are good.
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dimples666

Thanks for the great tip The Happy Butterfly. I will defo try Topcash when my policies are up for renewal.

Not using MM anyway been scared off lol but thanks for the advice Missterious, if i dont sellon ebay over the next few weeks will try the one you recommended and thanks for the support and well wishes i am not so sore today and feeling very chipper.

Thanks JJ as always, I know what you mean, i had trouble ages ago with a guy wanting me to post a mobile phone to Africa. So i learned my lesson, but the reminder from you helped

All CDs on Ebay now along with a few DVDs, making 142 items listed all running out over next weekend coming.

Also I just sold another three items on ebay today bringing me another tenner after fees and postage. Nothing else ending this weekend.
So thats £37 this weekend (net) which i am very pleased with

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dimples666

Thanks to JJ for this one.........I am watching several cheap as chips furniture items on Ebay with a view to a bit of DIY then re sell, I have done it before but kept the items, my friends say i should train as an Interior Designer and that i have a natural flair for design, not sure about that but I get compliments all the time on the interior of my home.
My earlier bargains were a table and chairs for just over £3, i bought some black cotton chair covers off ebay for £3 each as the chairs were in terrible nick looks very smart now.
I also bought an end table for a £5 that just needed sanded and varnished and most recently a fireplace for 99p.
It just takes time and patience............so here i go.........

dimples666

Is it still called Insomnia when you cant sleep cos of pain, or is it just stupidity cos i wont take my morphine lol (it makes me feel like i am iller)

Anyways i have been investigating other forums/threads and found out about spend free days. i like the sound of those! so gonna track what i spend this week and have as many spend free days as poss.
So Monday 10/9/12 will be number one i hope.
Fridge is pretty full, as is freezer, cupboards are ok too.

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dimples666

Good afternoon

I have been reading other posts and have seen repeatedly about facebook selling, can anyone tell me how its done please?

So far its a NSD :j
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dimples666

Well Monday was a NSD so that was great.
Today Tuesday I made my first full complete payment to Webb in over 12 months, i have also told them i will be paying at least £50 0ff the arrears a month. They have ceased any further action on the proviso i do this, i hope to do better but didnt wanna shoot myself in the foot.
I am really pleased that i have made this step forward and feel i am really on the path now.
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vintage43

I there, well don e getting started, I keep stopping and starting, you can read my adventures on A New Start for a newbiee, I will subscribe and see if I can learn any tricks from you! xxx

Rachb2

Well done on your first full payment. I hope this month is going well for you. If you haven't sold your spare mobiles yet then try the mobilechecker on MSE to see which site will give you the best price. What's useful is that you can see the reviews from people who have used them and make you decision about which to use from there. We used Envirofone for 2 phones and made £60. Speaking of phones, if you are not tied into a contract or it's coming up for renewal I would recommend GiffGaff, it's PAYG, but I get 250 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited internet using their goodybag system. I sold my old smart phone, bought a bog standard unlocked phone from Argos and still had money to spare. The other good thing about GG is that calls to other GG users are free so long as you top up once within 3 months, so get the family and friends on it too!

I see you're using survey sites, I would recommend Valued Opinions, on average I make £10 a month and it only takes 5 minutes every other day. I cash in the money as Sainsburys vouchers so I can use it for my shopping, which would mean £10 for your pot. I also used dooyoo.com but it takes ages to get enough points to redeem and then you can only get Amazon vouchers.

The other thing we did was to turn half of our meals vegi each week and we now only spend £30 a week on groceries for 2 people. When times were really tough we tried to not go shopping for a couple of weeks and just used things from the store cupboards.

Hope something in there is useful and can't wait to see how you're getting on. Good Luck!

dimples666

Thanks Vintage and RachB2
All advice gratefully taken.

Today was a shopping day so not a NSD but i did the go down a brand thing and spent £20 less than usual. I also didnt buy as much convenience foods but more raw ingredients. Better for us anyway.
My toddler loved making muffins rather than buying them, not convinced it was cheaper though but it passed time that i may have spent doing something more expensive with her, like soft play so in the end it was.

Thursday should be a NSD, fingers crossed.
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