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

mizmir

Timetogrowup wrote: »

Fascinated to learn what you trainings etc are about......

Dog training. Just started full time self employed. Don't do classes but do one to one, day workshops and online courses. Am using the challenge to hit my target income for the month as I had nothing booked for February :eek:

pinkneonmartini

Good morning all

I am officially off the mark, over the weekend I went to my favourite little shop in the lakes to hunt out some bargain hiking boots as my old ones are useless in anything remotely slippy and I scored a very tasty pair of Regatta's reduced from £70 to £29.99! Bargain! :money: = £40.01 saved

And my mum kindly rummaged in the M&S sale and got me 2 thermal walking tops for £7 each = £14 saved

And being the lovely mum she is, she got a few bits for the fridge so I wouldn't have to brave a tesco express on the way home from the lakes. Saving £4

Total to kick me off £58.01 :T

pinkneonmartini

Oooooooo and on a completely separate sidenote, back in autumn I nabbed a pair of snow chains in lidl for £20. Had no idea if they would be effective at all as previously I've always driven small diesel hatchbacks on skinny wheels and never had any problems in the white stuff. But last winter my dear old Yaris died and I got myself a brand spanking new hyundai i20, but it's petrol and easily double the size of my old mkI yaris, and as such I spent most of last winter going round bends sideways and driving with the window open to alert pedestrians and other cars that I had no control over bringing my car to a stop for things like lights or crossings, and that was if I managed to get the car off the driveway at all! So when the chains appearred in lidl I figured they would be worth sticking in the boot for emergencies. And after driving up to Coniston, we were 4 miles from the hotel and the white stuff started to come down hard and fast. Literally within 10 minutes it went from a light fluttering that looked pretty to blocking roads, and we got stuck on a hill! :eek:
We watched as car after car put their foot down and tried to go round us only to get stuck 6ft further up the hill. But we got straight out and got the snow chains on, granted it was a little more difficult to get them on in 8 inches of fresh snow while it continued to fall, than it had been when we'd practiced on the driveway in the dry, but we succeed and within 20 minutes we were tootling up the hill past the 4WD van which was sliding down the hill with no driver :eek: past the Audi quattro estate (4WD counts for sod all if you're gonna put slick run flat low profile tyres on!) while everyone else was being guided back down the hill and turned round and set back the way they'd come.
We were stopped by builders pushing a low loader who looked genuinely gobsmacked to see these two girls in a fully loaded little silver car complete with a yapping pooch on the back seat, passing with ease, and they demanded to know where we got the chains and were even more gobsmacked to find out they were £20 from a budget supermarket a little further up the road we came across some policemen literally shovelling snow to dig out yet more audi estates (hehehe another point to the cheap korean ) and even a couple of soft-roaders. And again we saw the look of utter amazement spread across the policeman's face as he enquired about the chains and said "it's nice to see that someone's prepared" before giving us a wink and going back to his shovelling.
I realise this has become a very long-winded waffle, but I am getting to the point I promise. Later that night we settled down in a lovely pub next to a roaring fire with a couple of pints and were informed by the bar maid that she'd been stuck on the same road, and she had to wait 2 hours for a tow truck to pull her out and pay for the service. She didn't tell us how much but the eye roll and full facial grimace told us it probably wasn't cheap. My £20 snow chains, not only saved us 2 hours and the cost of a tow truck, but a we took them off put them back in their carrier in the boot, and they will no doubt save us again, and probably many more times in the years to come. The monetary saving is too much to measure so there's no figure for a my siggy. But I wanted to relay the story because if any of you were wondering if they were worth the money THEY ARE! Even my lovely gf who is searching for a new car has now accepted that she doesn't need a 4x4 and is now looking at family-sized diesel hatchbacks and has said the first thing she is doing no matter which make and model she ends up with, is going to halfords and picking up a set of snow chains to put in the boot before the ink is even dry on the v5s!
I know it's not exactly a £10/day item but the saving is too much to be ignored even if I can't put a number on it. (And yes I'm going to stick it on the motoring board too )

DreamerHelen

Am up to £27 with Income from my 2nd Job....

But am also hoping to sell a few things on E**y over this month....Keep your fingers crossed for me!!

hummingbird

OOh I'm SO late joining this month!! £10 a day for me please. Have to start: Ebay 9.58 after fees, winnings from freebie slots offer £18.92, £1.01 roadkill. making total of : £29.51 so far

emmaglet

Pet products worth £50 arrived today for me to review for the blog - not adding as I wouldn't have bought them anyway, but it made a nice start for a Friday.

I've got a few sales to add but I will add them once I've printed postage.

cte1111

£30 from 3 mystery shops today. I'm definitely suffering from mystery shop fatigue, in particular I am now an expert on phone contracts! I've only got one booked in for next week so think I'll just do this one and otherwise avoid shops (especially phone shops) for a while.

No bids on the ebay items I put on at the weekend. I might go and put some extra pictures on later to see if that helps. I'm only £12 from the halfway mark, which would be great to reach in the first week. Think I'll try and do some textbroker articles later to get there. Then I can have next week off and concentrate on some other projects.

got-it-spend-it

I've got another £18 to add today from a mystery shop so that puts me up to £134.30 I think.

mavvymoo

£30 of vouchers arrived today from CPulse
£4 egg sales

Mav x

SarahB1989_2

£2.75 to add from eBay after postage and fees. Total is standing at just over £5/day so far!