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

truebluemummy

hello all,

I haven't managed to do very much this month so far but have lots of things listed on the Facebook/gumtree/pre-loved, not been to lucky with the E bay listings I haven't received an invite so hoping the free listings will be back again soon. Not to sure what else I can advertise on to sell these items and make a little bit of extra cash.

Can't believe my car though it had to go to the garage last week and cost £132 now this week it wouldn't start and got to pay for it tomorrow £316 I cant wait to get rid of that awful car, wouldn't of been too bad if I wasn't now on long term sick due to bilateral foot surgery.

sorry to babble on xxx

bethem

Little bit more to add, thanks to Quidco and the Asda price guarantee!

I don't know how you are all doing it though, halfway through the month tomorrow and i'm not halfway through my £5 a day challenge! Think perhaps I need to be more motivated to ebay things.

Scored some free train tickets for me and the boyfriend to go on a trip, courtesy of being held up on a train for ages last year and getting a load of vouchers. Oh well, that hold up almost seems worth it now

hummingbird

Use my £5 clubcard today in store at face value - had intended to boost it, usually do. But I was happy to get £5 off my shopping x

Roundthebend_2

So I have been failing miserably here

But last week we did well with Tesco vouchers so adding their value here
We got £12 in vouchers from our points
We had a £10 off a £70 spend (our weekly budget for all 5 of us, inc 2 cats is £50 so we decided to use our vouchers and get a new kettle as the lid on ours has broken and you have to prise it open with a knife each time you want to fill it!
and we also had 2 little vouchers from their price promise; one for 68p and the other 72p (every little helps eh?)

So I am up to £23.40 if they count?

Roundthebend_2

Also just realised I hadn't checked my TopCashBack in a while, had £7.42 in there! Not much but transferred it to my bank account anyway
Almost 15% of my grocery budget there so I'm not poo-pooing that!

matty747

Got £53 in club card vouchers that I'm saving for Christmas, £10 very voucher and a £25 ocado voucher this week oh plus a £9.50 train voucher. A good week for vouchers, if only I could stop spending.

Timetogrowup

Bit of a slow day or 2 for me-have 2 mystery shops booked plus another £43 of FB and preloved sales pending....but just don't have the cash yet!!

SarahB1989_2

£6 cashed out from MySurvey finally arrived in PayPal. Not had a survey from them in nearly a week now tho.

mizmir

Yay - reached my income target for the month in 2 weeks - got another £100 from work done last week. In case I'm newly self employed and have no "fixed" income so have been using the challenge to get the minimum income I need for the month to cover our debt repayment plan - counting anything earned other than OH's salary.

Am going to continue - still don't know where the money for March and April is coming from so will see if I can get a head start on that!

SpecialBrew_2

A slow couple of days on the additional income front, but £3.00 to report from Pinecone this morning and all my eBay auctions are greening up now so Sunday should bring in something. Assuming the internet hasn't blown away or washed away in the meantime