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The £2014 in 2014 challenge

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  • foxy78
    foxy78 Posts: 370 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    managed abit from ebay sales
    Siggy updated
    2023 Target- £70k towards my 1st Home :money:£10/70k :jSave 12k in 2023 £6000/£12k Make £2023 in 2023 £500/£2023 December 2023 Target - £10k Emergency Fund Pot - £200/£10k
  • Good start to the month! Got £29.13 from Bubblews, and 28p from ebook sales on Amazon.com (they send .com and .co.uk payments separately).
  • elfy1807
    elfy1807 Posts: 150 Forumite
    Total at 31/5/14 - £442.13
    Debts (as of 28/10/15)
    Mum: Start £3426.00 Now £2655.00 22.5% Car (on finance): Start 13823.60 Now £8728.59 36.85%
    Current Debt Free Day: 12/1/2019

    Goals:
    £2000 emergency fund £800/£2000 40%
    £5000 House Deposit £62.09/£5000 1.24%
    Car Finance Settlement Fee As of 28/10/15 £0.00/£7152.18 0%
  • cally6008
    cally6008 Posts: 7,629 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    about blooming time, I'm finally back online :D:D
  • Cotta
    Cotta Posts: 3,667 Forumite
    edited 3 July 2014 at 4:42PM
    Slowly creeping - 15.3% of the way there.

    1. £20 refund from insurance company due to them making an administration error.

    2. £40.50 from a survey reward site.

    3. £25 payment due to an error with my bank account.

    4. £150 payment due to a refund being held from me for over one year.

    5. £15 negotiated discount from my car insurance.

    6. £50 refund from bank charges.

    7. £8.52 from a reward site.

    Total - £309.02.
  • nomi01
    nomi01 Posts: 463 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I have been paid today so won't add anything to total after today. Its been a good month in terms of how much extra I made but due to a change in my financial circumstances money is much tighter.
    Anyway, thanks to bank shifts, wage enhancements and a refund for overpayments my June total is £589. I will update my Sig.
    Well done everyone who has stuck with this challenge. Thank you Cally for keeping it going.
    🎄PAYDBXMAS21 #11  £11,300/£11300
    Target met.
    💥PAYDBXMAS22  #11 £5000/£5000 target met.
    PAYDBXMAS23 #26 £5000/£5000 paid

  • Paid £16 of loose change (£10 of 20p, £5 of 5p, £1 of 1p) into the bank this afternoon.

    Also got a whopping £98.32 paid in from Zazzle, it's been accumulating for around 4 years, with me doing no marketing at all in the past 3 years. Finally got round to submitting my W8-BEN form, which they then lost, submitted another one, didn't hear back from them so was starting to think I should just delete my shops and tell them they could keep the money they'd "stolen" but then I suddenly got a paypal notification that the money had arrived.

    Haven't seen if my Ciao money has gone in this month so I'll hold off totalling until Monday.
  • Savvy_cash
    Savvy_cash Posts: 199 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Hi Cally :)

    I've updated my siggy so you can see my total for this year so far.

    Can't believe we are half way through already!!
  • Wow, thanks to my Bubblews and Zazzle money (both of which have already been spent as I'm setting up my own history website and hosting fees cost XD) this month I made & saved and extra £143.73!!!

    So total so far this year is £211.48 :D
  • cally6008
    cally6008 Posts: 7,629 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    depending on who you went with BB, you might be able to move hosts and save some more money
    I use https://www.blackfoot.co.uk for mine, 7 years happy customer here
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