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August 2014 - Make £10 a Day Challenge

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  • Listerbelle
    Listerbelle Posts: 1,438 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Another $51 from Bubblews.
    Your biggest asset is TIME! I'm focused on multi-generational financial freedom.
  • purple.sarah
    purple.sarah Posts: 2,517 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    £9.99 eBay sales.
  • I took some bits back to primark today as hadn't worn them and unlikely to now the summer is going. £20. Also agreed to some extra foreign exchange students £250. Need to get listing stuff. Job for tomorrow.
    Mortgage free Start amount feb 2014 227000. Current amount nov 2014 217000.

    Challenges 2015
    No alcohol January. No spend February
    Write down all spends over the whole year
  • yay! when my bubblews money hits my paypal account on Monday I would have met my target! yaya!

    Paid:
    £75 compo for mortgage complaint
    £2.10 TopCashBack
    £20 won - my husband won a game of pool that he didn't even pay to enter!
    £8.57 racordings (thanks Emma)
    £31.00 Bubblews
    £3.90 eBay profit
    Total: £140.57/£200


    Pending:
    $210 bubblews pending
    £60 bubblews clearing
    £125 more compo
    £636 overtime
  • nat21luv
    nat21luv Posts: 3,434 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Cashback Cashier
    £9.27 APG used
    £2 cat food coupon (taken after putting up a fight!)
    £7.04 ebay sale
    £20k in 2023 = £2718 £2023 in 2023 = £196.41 Grocery challenge £250= £195.80 **MONEY MAKES ME HAPPY**
  • cocoloco
    cocoloco Posts: 589 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    :wave:Hello money-makers! :wave:

    I'm not long back from a few days away, kept everything written down but did not get around to post it until now: :o

    £96.60- from my second /evening work
    £3.00- paypal from the shy forest people
    £6.20- saved on BOGOF cinema tickets
    £1.00- free 2L milk from work
    £1.50- sold 2 greating cards from my stash in work
    £7.90- NISA interest
    £2.00- used tesco £2 off £20 shopping voucher
    £0.60- saved with tesco's 2p off per litre perol
    £3.60 - saved 15% off EE bill by paying it within 24hrs
    ______________________
    TOTAL- £122.40


    Still pending:
    £6 pending from viewsbank- thanks Emma
    £ 126.06 - from my second / evening job, due 28/08/14

    Phew, that's a good wee list.:D I was aiming for £10 per day, with the pending bits it's still only £254.46. Have to get some ideas to sell some more stuff- I'm not the biggest fan of the 'bay, usually having more fun with gumtree. To be continued...

    Good luck to everybody, still 17 days to go before the end of the month! :T
    :p "NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS FREE FOOD" :p
    'They can have my money but not my life!'
    :eek: Debt & mortgage free in 18 years :eek:
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  • Please delete Emma if this is not ok posted here.

    For anyone that needs to stock up on meat, morrisons are doing a voucher in the sun newspaper, spend £10 on meat and fish and get £5 off. We bought 4 newspapers so we can get £40 worth of meat for £20.
  • Well I have made some money today. I have got savings of £12.80 from weekly grocery shop. I also have some more in the pending column which now looks like this:

    Money in this month so far is £441.90

    Payments Pending:
    Freelance Work £40.18
    Qmee - 27p
    Shop & Scan £10
  • charlie007
    charlie007 Posts: 413 Forumite
    I got four copies of the sub for the meat offer. Just used one so fat so £5. Also £5 from Royal Mail survey and will count free cinema tickets as £5. Good day :)
    Mortgage free Start amount feb 2014 227000. Current amount nov 2014 217000.

    Challenges 2015
    No alcohol January. No spend February
    Write down all spends over the whole year
  • haybel19
    haybel19 Posts: 1,332 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Cashback Cashier
    £2.12 in cashback.

    Phoned our insurer for our car regarding the renewal and managed to get them to reduce by another £90. Phoned s*ky and managed to get them to reduced my bill by a whopping £22 per month!!! for the next 8 months..... Not counting these savings as part of challenge but so pleased I had to share.
    Make £10 a day challenge November £125.60/310
    December 417.35/310 January 512.33/310

    £1000 emergency fund challenge 0/1000

    Rule of 3 challenge 13/365
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