~* Make £10 a day challenge June 2013 *~ everybody most welcome to join

MrsCautious

Hello, thanks for running such a wonderfully useful and inspirational thread -- I was looking for you in Up your income and have been pointed in the right direction by emmaglet

I've been doing the grocery challenge and have done the NSD challenge on here in the past, massive thanks for those which have helped me no-end.


I'd have liked to have set a target of £33.33 for June please, adding up to £1,000. But I will stick at £10 even though I have gone past it, as that seems sensible for the rest of the month

The reason for what for me is a such a large amount is because I'm already some way there.

I'm involved in an upcoming charity initiative that is costing me a significant amount of money and money raised will continue to go towards that.


But even without that I really want to continue boosting my income as much as I can.

After that I'm waiting with bated breath for a letter telling me I have to pay back all the tax credits awarded to me this year, before they were stopped so that's stressing me a bit and I want to continue to up my income to pay that back.

So far this month, I have:

Closed an old bank account -- £33.
Paid in £201 from a table top sale and a cake sale, these were held near the end of last month but am counting this now as I haven't before!
Got £35 from a very brief appearance at a bag pack by 3 of us
£80.80 from Top Cashback from Orange.
£38 into Paypal account adding to donations through a blog post
£200 in person donations
£200 from a newspaper article written by my teenage daughter
Found a couple of quid around the house as I have been decluttering.
Had £3 from Cash for Clothes
Got £14 from changing back some Euros that came from my mother in law for my daughters and they didn't spend on a school trip and they wanted to give me.
As of today I have £35.88 in nectar points thanks to nectar credit card which I took out recently, you get a load each month for having the card and I do adpoints, canvass and search. (ETA: I pay off the balance in full each month, I wouldn't encourage anyone to have one if they have any debt just now, it's not worth it xxxx)
I have a £1 off Dr Oetkers pizzas which was part of a competition win, again down to MSE.

I have my first 10 items listed on Ebay as a newbie and am doing a car boot at the weekend. I have recently swapped to Santander 123 so get the cashback and interest there as well as interest on a Lloyds Vantage account. I also have a quiz night planned for later in the month and am planning on Music magpie for CDs.

Thanks for reading, I don't half go on. x

ETA: I feel I should add the reason I am here is because I lost my wonderful husband 12 months ago and I have found some focus in sorting out my finances. He was the sensible one and he would be very proud of me xx

emmaglet

YAY I'm so glad to see you here MrsCautious. Seems like you've made a fantastic start! I like to waffle too, its great to see you having laid out your earnings.

You know your Cash for Clothes, £3, was this a lot of clothes? I can work out roughly what the weight must have been, but was it a large number of items? I'm torn between doing that and a job lot on eBay - I've done all the boot sales and single listings on eBay.

MrsCautious

emmaglet wrote: »

YAY I'm so glad to see you here MrsCautious. Seems like you've made a fantastic start! I like to waffle too, its great to see you having laid out your earnings.

You know your Cash for Clothes, £3, was this a lot of clothes? I can work out roughly what the weight must have been, but was it a large number of items? I'm torn between doing that and a job lot on eBay - I've done all the boot sales and single listings on eBay.

Hello thank you!


It was stuff I reckoned wasn't good enough to go anywhere else -- it was one large draw-string type posh carrier bag full! It was 50p a kilo so six kilos.

I was going to take some more this morning as my mum has given me loads but have decided to go for 50p an item at the car boot instead, then she has given me better quality stuff and I want to try eBay with that when I can xx

Rosie

Welcome to the thread MrsCautious

Nothing for me as yet today but had a lovely morning in the garden transplanting tomatoes ect

novagirl

£5 from swagbucks and 12p from topcashback Still on track with dooyoo and ciao so hopefully that will be a good payout in July.

nikki2804

I received an underpayment from my college. Yay. Spent some of it today though as the tiny terror needed summer clothes (was good, I went to Primark but still spent £45!?!?!?)

Will count whats left and add it to my total. Quite chuffed as it was unexpected.

larlie1983

£42.50 has hit my bank account from 02 Recycle for an old mobile phone I found hiding in the back of a cupboard.

I've got nothing else to add at the moment but I'm hoping there will be a cheque from Populus Live and a gift voucher from Consumer Pulse waiting for me when I get home from holiday tomorrow. (I wont add them to my total until I have them in my sweaty little hands! :eek: )

haybel19

£30 from ebay sales - doing a carboot sale Sunday fingers crossed...

Aesop

MrsCautious wrote: »

ETA: I feel I should add the reason I am here is because I lost my wonderful husband 12 months ago and I have found some focus in sorting out my finances. He was the sensible one and he would be very proud of me xx

hello and a very warm welcome! you made me tired just reading what you have been doing to make money!

sorry to hear about your husband my condolences.

I am sure he is extremely proud of you! and I see you have a Badger badge too! :T what were you money tipped for?

Skinnylatte

£61.47 from a PPI claim, yey. I will add it when it hits my bank account. I have also managed 6 no spend days this week, as I've been working away all week.