2007 Olympic Challenge (Part Two)

poppycracker

phew, made it! :j

£20.00 change banked
£15.00 vouchers received from Pigsback and other survey sites
£160.85 wages from second job (didn't do as many hours as last month)

Total £195.85

Will look out for the new challenge, need to keep motivated for Christmas!

well done everyone else who's made it! :T

wilf55

well done poppy keep going anyone still going

hypno06

Well done Wilf55 :T :T

scuba147

well done poppycracker and wilf55!!!!!

the next challenge sounds good, but are we going to use the same rules as this one, but for a 5 month period instead of 6???

scuba147

i was looking at my spreadsheet over the period and i added up all the spare change i had. (This usually goes into a jar and then stuck in the bank at some point!)

i didn't add this into my total, but it adds up to £583.24!!!! (Not including £2 coins) this would have made my total £3924.02!?!?!?! mind blowing!!!!!!

in the next challenge i'm going to include any spare change (but not £2 coins as they're in another challenge)

wilf55

thats incredible scuba

in the next challenge im going to account for what i spend its frightening when i add it all up what i have wasted and how little i have got to show for 3 grand!!!

scuba147

its barking about how much we fritter on rubbish!??!?!?!?!

i realised that the change would have gone on cr*p!!!

Yorkielass

Well done:

wilf55
poppycracker

that's great :j

and here I am getting excited I found 1p on Saturday, 5p yesterday at work and OH kicked something in the carpark last night and I had to check what it was - 20p :rolleyes:. All in the piggy bank now which will be opened on 5th July (I won't be at home on 7th July so I'll have to finish 2 days early).

For the next challenge I really recommend opening a seperate account for the money and putting everything you get in there and then either saving it up (for Christmas etc) or paying off a debt. If it all goes into that account though it's easier to keep track of what you've earned and what you've used it for.

bonar

hello everybody,


been watching from the sidelines for months now. well done on all your efforts, as I am now inspired can I join the new challenge please. I have a separate bank account, and have listed some stuff on amazon, even got a piggy bank for the small change. can anyone tell me where to find the spreadsheet please.

Yorkielass

Hi Bonar,

Welcome to MSE and the olympic challenge. Of course you can join the new challenge - Gemmzie is going to put a thread up all about it on Friday.

I don't think anyone made a spreadsheet for everyone to use. What I've done is I have 1 worksheet where I have 5 columns: date, what it is (e.g. mystery shopping, amazon, ebay etc.) how much, weekly running total and overall running total. Then the next sheet has a week by week break down of how much I need to make each week and how close I've got and how much I need overall by that week and how close I am to that. Then I have a little chart which at the end of each week I update how much I've earnt from each area (e.g. Amazon, ebay etc) overall and also will have a list of what I've spent the money on.

Probably sounds complicated but it works for me and I'm sure other people do things differently. I think a list of what you've made where with a running total and a list of what you've used the money for is all you'd need to keep track of it.

Going off to hide somewhere now after admitting to being that a**l with it.