March 2014 - Make £10 a day challenge - everybody welcome

Yorkielass

Another 6p Roadkill

37.87 Selling 4 tops and a skirt on FB.

11.18 IG craft supplies sale

So £49.11 to add - current total for March £49.19

Then 2 x £5 from Swagbucks requested and £24.26 from Quidco too after 2nd half of Energy switch payment got confirmed unexpectedly early.

So not doing badly, was away all weekend volunteering so missed another ebay chance, hoping to get some more clothing listed and sold on FB this week though.

nat21luv

Feeling a little bit more positive this week, I hope it lasts.



I did a car boot in another town yesterday in the sunshine which boosted my mood, made £63 profit which im happy about. Next sunday I hope to do another and Im waiting on a huge delivery of goods to sell. Some arrived this week which I sold and I had an outlay of £78 so only £15 to go to break even and most of it isn't even here yet! Its looking good and hopefully Ill see a tasty profit


I have also deferred my place at college on my tutors recommendation and im waiting to hear back from them. This will mean I have to start this year again but the course is a year long rather than 7 months so gives me a lot of time to do coursework. Ive already passed the first two modules so I can put me feet up and ease myself back into it

I have also applied for a job as a waitress in a place I used to work at about 4 years ago, its a step back and Ill no doubt be the oldest there at 27 but it suits my needs and it was fun. The thought of seeing people I haven't seen for years 4 stone heavier is filling me with dread...but feel the fear and do it anyway, right?!


I have also got rid of the students, im no longer hosting after 4 years. I want my summers back and I think im having a bit of a crisis!

gilly41

Hi
Just to update for this month......I have got £50.59 in the pot from ebay sales:) Also put my outfit on ebay that I wore to my sons wedding and currently have a bid on it over £200....yeahhhhhhhhhh!!!! So that will be a huge boost to this months money..will update when it sells!!
Hope you are all having a good month xx

BlueCow1975

Lots of good stuff going on!! Things sound like they are really on the up Nat. Great news about your stock / sales.

Its funny that we spend so much time worrying about what other people think of us ......when the vast majority of the time the same said other poeple are too busy worrying about themselves to barely register a second thought about you.

Anyhow......just nipping in to add £34.50 profit after a few ebay sales at the weekend. Was a huge queue at the post office and am keeping ever last part of me crossed that I made it out of the car park in time!! Was literally within a minute or 2 and forgot that it is one of those automatic reg plate recognition things and you can't park longer than 60 minutes. Lots of people I know have been caught out with it. Will go green if I have been caught out my a few minutes as its a £70 fine!!!! :eek:

Thrifty_Fashionista

Posted my bits...£30.93 to add.
Have 3 more things ending next weekend and then thats it I think, I literally cannot find anything else to sell!

A good thing is I have just transferred another £50 to the CC. All thoose 99 p bids do eventually add up I guess and anything I can throw at the CC helps.
TF x

SpecialBrew_2

£29.15 to add from eBay, plus 67p from the A$da Price Guarantee. It's coming together, but I'm always mindful too of how quickly and easily it can all start coming apart again!

I know that feeling of wondering if it's all worth the effort as well. A hoped-for financial breather after getting Christmas out of the way did not happen here because the washing machine finally packed up (for months it had been so loud that you could not even hold a conversation in the next room when it was in full spin, and even the neighbours were politely asking what the noise was, so I suppose I should be grateful that it waited until the January sales to turn up it's toes ). Then in February I'd just managed to scrape through my daughter's 21st by the skin of my teeth when the gales blew away the felt on our shed roof to the tune of thirty quid and it had to be replaced straight away so that all the rain didn't get in and damage everything inside. I can't really complain about that either, because I know the weather gave lots of other people a much harder time of it.

This month involved finding the car tax from somewhere (it's been SORNed since November) and getting together the final payment for youngest daughter's school camp, which turned out to cost almost as much as our annual cut-price holiday in June. The final payment for that is next month, and most of the summer is expected to be spent scraping up the money for the entire new school uniform that youngest daughter will need when she starts secondary school in September. After which, the whole 'saving up for Christmas' thing starts all over again. And I expect most of us are telling similar stories, and that's just of what we know to expect in the coming months and doesn't even take into account the unanticipated. Stop the world, I want to get off

Yes, when I look ahead I do sometimes wonder why I bother. I get my answer when I look back on having come through much of the same and consider where I'd be now if I had just given in :eek:

We'll get there, all of us, even if it does take one 99p auction at a time and the odd 5p from Qmee

mavvymoo

Nat Well done girl :T:T:T
I have been in your shoes about the weight issues and I let it stop me doing so much even visiting my parents as I worried about what they would think :eek: So I know how hard it is and what sheer courage that has taken.So give yourself a pat on the back girl you absolutely deserve it :T
We are our own hardest critics and nobody will judge us like we judge ourselves. So hold your head up and stand tall and nobody will even bl**dy notice.


And yes this comes from bitter experience I lost 7 stone and have kept it off for years now but you need to like yourself first.

But I do remember clearly how it made me feel and even now I have bad days.
You are doing so well.I am sure I speak for us all on this thread when I say we are all so proud of how far you have come :T

Mav x

SarahB1989_2

£3 from MySurvey after a month of it not sending me any emails! Nothing to add to sig though as postage for ebay stuff came to £3 more than I estimated.

Faete

Made £81 at an Alt Bring and Buy Sale yesterday

Fae xx

emmaglet

SpecialBrew wrote: »

Yes, when I look ahead I do sometimes wonder why I bother. I get my answer when I look back on having come through much of the same and consider where I'd be now if I had just given in :eek:

Exactly! Imagine if you didn't have the extra cash! This things happen and you will catch a break soon.


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I had a phone call on Friday asking me to carry out an urgent mystery shop, with my travel expenses paid. We were actually passing on our way to Ikea (2 hours away, ouch!) so I ended up getting £15 extra petrol money for a journey we were already doing. The actual mystery shop was awful and it's taken a few emails to them to ask how exactly I have to report it (and I've done around 100 mystery shops now!) and I've just managed to submit it. Hopefully that'll be paid this month. This week you can call me Mystery Shop girl - loads planned!

I had a tiny Quidco payment that I've not transferred yet, so I'll have that to add soon. I'm owed £600 in blog commission so I'm chasing that up. That's it really.