February 2014 - Make £10 a day challenge - everybody welcome :)

SpecialBrew_2

Just been looking at the ecal site. I'm notoriously stingy with my Facebook 'likes', but that got one. Thanks, CountingPennies - it's going to be really handy

CountingPennies

BlueCow1975 wrote: »

Loving the ecal site CP! :beer:

SpecialBrew wrote: »

Just been looking at the ecal site. I'm notoriously stingy with my Facebook 'likes', but that got one. Thanks, CountingPennies - it's going to be really handy

It makes my life easier

CP xx

EDIT: Forgot to add, 52p from the washing machine. Finders Keepers!

CP xx

Listerbelle

$8 from Clixsense.

I'm anticipating a slow month, but hopefully it will pick up in the last week

DreamerHelen

Another £10 from Overtime yesterday...that makes £19/£125 for the month....

Am aiming to put some things on Ebay the next time there is a Free Listing Weekend....I have some things that I think might go for a decent amount!!

Timetogrowup

A tip if people are selling. If you are on Facebook there are many local selling sites that have cropped up. You list your stuff, hope for a buyer and they will come and collect it (or you can offer to deliver if you are heading their way). We live in a rural area but I do the school run to town each night so I usually drop stuff then. The beauty of it is no fees and no hassle having to post. The down side is they can get a bit !!!!!y!! Try searching for "stuff for sale in.....your area/town" or "things for sale".
Also don't forget preloved Dot co dot uk
And gumtree Dot com
Both large established FREE selling sites. You can leave your items on forever so if you have something a bit odd or quirky to sell and you know how much it is worth then just leave it on these sites until that elusive buyer finds you!
Should get another £10 today from a facebook sale when I drop it in :T

Sorry-since I'm a newbie it won't let me put the links to the sites but they are easier enough to find!

gilly41

Hi
Well I am back again this month....not a great start just yet but £10.89 made on Sunday on Ebay so that's a small start........
Last month my grand total ended at £283.88 so I am happy with that......
Good luck to everyone this month....xx

SarahB1989_2

£5 voucher for completing a uni survey. Feeling good about Feb already! Got a little spreadsheet set up to keep an eye on survey rewards etc as spoke to HMRC this morning and they've made a note on my tax records but nothing to pay and that shouldn't change when I start earning 'real' money either, but they recommended keeping a logbook of earnings.

nat21luv

Thought Id better spend that £20 amazon voucher so bought the little lady a ballerina jewellery box for her birthday at the end of the month.


Another expensive month ahead with 3 big birthdays so not looking forward to that but hopefully 2 birthdays can be combined into one party


On the up side is that my income has increased by £97 a month

29Found

£3.59 received from Quidco so my total now stands at £18.59

SpecialBrew_2

Is there any restriction on the type of things that can be sold in these Facebook selling groups? I ask because we've got an old London police truncheon (1918, I think) that I can't sell on eBay. The bidding went wild when I listed it in the antiques category a few years ago, but eBay took it down after a day, saying that it was a 'prohibited item'.

I'm probably being breathtakingly naive here, but I'd have thought that if you wanted a lump of wood just to hit somebody over the head with, you wouldn't be looking to spend money on it and would just buy a baseball bat instead. From one of the thousands listed on eBay They won't let me list it on Gumtree either.

Not that I can complain about eBay. We've got an expensive month here too with my daughter's 21st among other things. She wants a camera, and I've been trawling the net for weeks to find something to fit the puny £50 budget I can spare. At that price if you can find anything with decent reviews then you're still going to need to find a memory card, battery and charger. I was never deliberately going to spend good money on buying her something absolutely pants and so was resigned to having to find some extra money from somewhere.

Then on Sunday I was looking in the eBay 'Deals' section and found the ideal camera, bundled with all those accessories, plus case and cables, for just short of £52 if you include postage. The camera alone normally retails for £65 and has positive reviews all over the net, and together with all the gear would normally cost £185, so you can imagine how pleased I am.

I won't be counting the savings towards the challenge because it's money I couldn't have spent anyway because I haven't got it, but the reason I mention it is because I never knew the eBay 'Deals' bit existed until I took part in their Christmas survey group thingy after someone posted it on here a couple of months back. I just wanted to point out that this thread is worth so much more than face value, to thank Aesop for creating it, thank everyone else for contributing and urge all the lurkers to stick with us and pitch in. This is definitely my favourite thread on the entire site