Which is the challenge for me?

MrsCautious

Hello, I'm quite new to finding ways of upping my income outside work after a traumatic 12 months and am relishing the experience of decluttering/moving money around for the best interest, getting cashback etc.

At the moment my focus is on bringing in money to help fund a charity initiative I'm taking part in. In the last year I have also gone through all my household bills and grocery spend (largely thanks to MSE) bringing what should be around a £5,000 a year saving to what I was paying for me and my daughters this time last year.


I've listed my first items on eBay and have a first car boot at the weekend. I'm doing various things to the point that so far this month I have totted up £809 of "extras" - which includes from loose change found in the process of decluttering, a £1 off voucher as part of a competition win, to takings from a cake sale and a table top sale, a bag pack, plus other bits and bobs including donations through PayPal to help fund me and my children's charity activity.

With or without the charity element I am finding focus in boosting my income in this way as well as anticipating a weight being lifted with decluttering my home, it's going to take a while!

I have stacks of decent quality stuff for eBay and am champing at the bit to get past the first 10 items I have been allowed to put up, I may look at ways of doing this in the near future but understand I need to build trust with buyers.

Anyway thank you to anyone who is still reading after my lengthy introduction, what I'm trying to figure out is which is the best challenge for me, or should I start a new one, would this be allowed? Make £2013 in 2013 doesn't seem quite right as we're in June.

Thanks to anyone who can answer my question x

emmaglet

Have you seen the £10 a day in June challenge on the DFW board? https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4626517 It starts every month and you can set yourself an amount - the deafult is £10 but some people aim higher and some lower. I'm doing £5 a day this month as I've got a busy month and a tribunal

It is a great thread, full of ideas. The goal is to make £300 extra the month, so if you do £100 on eBay then you've got a few days that you don't have to do anything, if that makes sense.

MrsCautious

Emmaglet, thank you, I had seen that thread and was getting flustered looking for it on Up your income Doh.

And I hope your tribunal goes as well as it can, it must be such a stressful time.

gb12345

MrsCautious wrote: »

Make £2013 in 2013 doesn't seem quite right as we're in June.

There's no reason why you shouldn't still join - a couple of people have recently.

You could either pro-rata your target or give yourself the challenge of achieving it in 6 months.

MrsCautious

Thank you gb12345, I never thought of that x