The 1% Challenge - 100 ways to make your 1%

nomibucha

I have some old Barbies, books, and other toys (e.g. tekno dog, whoopee cushion, stuffed animals) that I no longer even look at. It's winter by me, so I can't have a yard/garage sale. I want to sell them.

fedupandskint

It's free listing this weekend!

I'll be relisting and listing new items once more to get that % up some more for the loan repayment plan.

elly68

Free listing weekend on ebay whoohoo,i'm doing good sold apiano £30,expenses that I never expected £20 I'm out today going to try and be frugal but we will see

Maisie_M

Okay so I had £65 saved up which would have been 10% of the card I was to pay off but then realised it was just short of the 100% of my very account so added another £3 paid that off instead and then closed account.:j

Back to square 1 the 1% of credit card though, no other small amounts to get in the way now!

happytails

Spent £13 on a bargain Trespass coat today but ive half paid for it through sales, £7 sale of a GAP hoody to a friend today.

Also worked out we spent on average £250 a month on takeaways which since new year we have stopped! So thats a yearly saving of up to £3000 (We have tracked every spend and categorised it since last week of June '13 so have exact figures, since then til Dec 31st we spent £1753.46 on take out, it is truly scary).

Hoping to get some things listed on Ebay tomorrow too, need to be productive!

SArah x

happytails

Feeling optimistic. Got £3763 aside for debt 2b that's 67% :j hoping for another 3% before payday from child benefit and keeping to our budget.

Starting to think we will actually manage to get this debt paid on time with no help from family lending us money.

Sarah x

liz-paul

Not really progress but I remembered to cancel my virgin wines subscription (took the cheapo introductory box for Christmas ) & littlest boy found £3 on Friday that got put into this years change tin.

Keep going everyone :beer:

happytails

Put another £150 towards debt 2b today (child benefit came today, i thought it was next week!) So now on £3913 which is nearly 70% :j

Sold my buggy for £20 today and got £10 off a friend for the stuff she bought but added that to my weekly budget until its nearer payday. Hoping i can round it off to £4000 by payday so another £87 i need to save/earn.

Sarah x

happytails

Afternoon all! My, it's quiet on here!

eBay have free listings today only for 10 day auction style listings :beer:

Not much to report here, still plodding along, sending the phone off to asda tech trade in today so hopefully theyll give me what was quoted, £50, would be very useful!

Sarah x

braddy970

Hi Sarah, I'm still plodding along slowly. Started a new saving challenge in my jar.. have £101 saved already aiming for £1000 just before christmas fingers crossed.. On the 5th of feb after I get my wages I will be paying £500 off my overdraft and £200 other debt payments just looking at my sheets seeing if I can gather together any more pennies apart from work I havn't managed to earn anything extra