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

MrsCautious

Good morning all, please tolerate the over keen newbie

I've just got £3.10 from Cash 4 Clothes and remembered £3.30 in Brand Match coupons which need to be used up.

I'm disappointed in myself that I rushed ahead earlier this week and put my first 10 items on eBay as a) it's now free listings and I should have waited and b) I would like to edit the titles but I'm not allowed so should have been more canny there as well, oh well you live and learn. x

I'm getting ready for a car boot tomorrow and unlike eBay feel like I have taken the time to pick up decent tips, am going with a friend and her husband and our children so I don't feel so daunted.

mrsd1984

Hi guys.

I'm a total newbie to posting here, but have been lurking for a few days reading. I've decided to unofficially try these challenges this month and see how I get on.

I am pregnant and due in 6 weeks so money will be tight when I will be on maternity leave. Decided to see if I can make £5 a day. Got £9.40 from Quidco yesterday (a transaction I'd totally forgotten about!) and won a £40 massage voucher. I also used a £5 off aldi voucher at the beginning of the month and have a £1 off clover which I hope I can use in lidl today as the clover is reduced to 99p. Listed an item on ebay this morning as well so it's all a start.

Nelly11

:j:j:j £7.93 today from Ebay sales, hitting the carboot tomorrow, going to try to bag some bargains to sell on :j:j:j

Djelhi-Bhelli

Not a huge amount of actual cash in the pot today but every little helps..... 80p in spare change and roadkill

Plus, I used my free Sprite voucher today in my local Co-op, and they have a 'buy one get one free' offer on Sprite and Fanta, so I took two bottles of Sprite up to the counter and asked wiv a cheeky smile if that counted, since the voucher was 'paying' for one bottle anyway. And they let me have the two bottles for free, so that's £2.50 extra savings.. and a couple of bottles of Sprite chilling in the fridge :j

I've also done some random copywriting articles that were sub-sub contracted to me by a mate so that should be some extra pounds next week, plus I've been sent a few more travel blogs to do so that will be extra quids as well.

As for the rest.. I rang my TV/phone/broadband company to try and reduce costs, went through all the services we had slashing everything to the bone which works out at a whopping £16.50 less per month :eek: I won't count that though as I shan't get the benefit until July anyway.

..and one extra financial goody to report, I was phoned by my credit card company (I've been paying them off religiously for several years, never spending anything) who offered me a 0% interest for 12 months deal on any balance transfers.... Mmm I was VERY interested since my other credit card (with my bank) charges BRUTAL interest rates and I had to use it quite a lot earlier this year just to stay afloat. I did my sums and even after factoring in the handling fee I will still get the equivalent of nine months interest-free.. that's saving approx £140 a year in interest!!:T

So I've gone ahead and done it straight away. And it feels good to deprive my bully-bank out of their crazy-high interest rates too! Now my minimum payment is less than half what it was before, and I shall overpay as much as I can into my savings account (for a bit of extra interest) and try and get enough to pay the whole lot off next year when the 0% deal expires.

Heh, I thought I'd not done very much this week but I guess after reading all that back I've been pretty pro-active after all!!:rotfl:

I've got just one last paper to write before June 26th - one last essay between me and my Degree.. so that's what I'm doing all weekend.. so goodbye sunshine, hello text books!!:A

fairyclicks

yey well done everyone

I managed first car boot today for a while and came home with an extra £60 odds after costs. I also bought 3 big files of craft mags for £5 which I might keep or sell on - not decided yet!

I have another bootie tomorrow which I'm hoping to sell plenty at as well oh and doing lots of relisting on the bay shortly too!

dorajar

I have swapped my broadband and phone provider which should save me about £20 month. Also interested to know if anyone knows how soon bt send out the Sainsbury voucher for swapping to them? I won't add it on until it is in my purse. £9-23 in multi buys and split my shop to get two £5 vouchers for next week's shopping :j

bevally

Been away for a few days so catching up to do! Will read back in a mo!
So far for June - £15 Halifax rewards + £5 Love2Shop voucher from RM survey.
Will add last weeks ebay profit once i've put everything in spreadsheet.... big thanks to Angel...... still got a non-paying grrrrr!
Will relist some stuff tomorrow night too.
Need to get back at it now that things are back to normal!

MinnieMousesMummy

It is a couple of days since I last posted. Friday was not at all productive in terms of making money as I made nothing but I did list 6 lots for sale on fb but sadly no interest as yet.

Today I went through updating my online income spreadsheet and managed to redeem £15 vouchers from Toluna, which I won't count till I receive the vouchers and discovered that I had made 41p on Nectar and 11p on Mr A price guarantee, which takes my monthly balance to £9.50

I really need to get back into things, as this month is not going to well, as currently sitting at £70 less than I should be at this point of the month.

Aesop

mrsd1984 wrote: »

Hi guys.

I'm a total newbie to posting here, but have been lurking for a few days reading. I've decided to unofficially try these challenges this month and see how I get on.

I am pregnant and due in 6 weeks so money will be tight when I will be on maternity leave. Decided to see if I can make £5 a day. Got £9.40 from Quidco yesterday (a transaction I'd totally forgotten about!) and won a £40 massage voucher. I also used a £5 off aldi voucher at the beginning of the month and have a £1 off clover which I hope I can use in lidl today as the clover is reduced to 99p. Listed an item on ebay this mo as well so it's all a start.

hello and welcome. just to let you know lidl and aldi will only accept their own coupons. they don't accept any other coupona ie from manufacturer.

haybel19

Welcome Mrscautious - good luck with your first bootsale I love doing them but haven't done so far this year... tomorrow will be the first... they are very addictive...

Fingers crossed we both do well at our bootsales tomorrow and have lots to report.

Well done everyone lots of great successes...