Aims for August

painted_lady

JCD_Capulet wrote: »

Today I listed a pair of newrock biker boots for sale at a shockingly low price,

I sold a pair on behalf of a friend last year, she got £20 for them on ebay, postage ws £7.50.

RVK2

Not doing too bad with my targets for this month. Managed to put a little bit away in savings and the ISA. May have to boost the trips out budget a little but will take that off the shopping budget. Am shopping tonight and hope to spend no more than £20/25 on top up bits. Let's hope I find some bargainous yellow stickers.

Not managed to earn anything yet or listed 24 box sets on Amazon yet. Will do that in the next couple of days.

JCD_Capulet

painted_lady wrote: »

I sold a pair on behalf of a friend last year, she got £20 for them on ebay, postage ws £7.50.

I started my sale at 50p to get folk intrested, they're up to £1.20 now but hopefully I'll be looking at a minimum of £40 since they're in near to new condition with hardly being worn at all. oooh fingers crossed

painted_lady

Good luck JCD Capulet, my friends werent new or nearly new, so that might make a difference. I need a massive ebay sesh, hoping to do the photos tonight, loads of little stuff rather than more expensive items.

JCD_Capulet

Thanks painted lady. If you have loads of little things to sell, have you thought about selling them as a job lot? I've got a bundle of makup I bought from the pound shop for £2.50 up on buy it now for £9. I'm hoping a car booter will see the resale oppertunity and snap it up. remember, if you're selling lots of little things as a job lot (or even singular) you can offer free P+P to get folk interested too. If everything I have listed on Fee-bay and other places sells, I'll be free of this debt no problemo :j
Good luck!

painted_lady

Might consider that as it would keep the listing fee's down.
Some of my items to list were from the pound shop!
Heres to us becoming debt free the ebay way!

JCD_Capulet

If you have a poundland near you here's a wee tip. If your local branch sells branded cosmetics get yourself down there for 9am and have a look! Kids (and grownups!) around here open up the bags to get a better look at what's for sale. The shop workers then have to bundle up multiple items and often reduce them to 50p. Last week I spent £2.50 on reduced makeup due to folk tampering with the packaging. The RRP is around £40+ for the 14 things I picked up. It's worth looking into anyway. x

sooziesooz

As I'm slowly becoming addicted to MSE here's my Aim for August
- post SOA (DONE):rotfl:
- Pay Debenhams Store Card (PAID):T
- Pay Hitachi Finance (£280:eek: )

- Pay Barclaycard

- Go Quidco mad (Current Quidco total £48) :T

- Sort my work expenses (I'm owed £170 :mad: )

- Stop going on about MSE to all my colleagues and friends

So not much!!!!!!

painted_lady

I too am becoming an MSE addict, do they have MSE rehab?
Must go now, I have a baby somewhere!

Yorkielass

Just thought I'd update this:

OH convinced on present budget - have put my last 2 days pay from my old job in and worked out how much I need to put in each month (will be more in the run up to Christmas)

Grocery budget tracking and spending diaries going well - will be over on target I set for groceries but I picked a rough figure so I've ok with that - something to work on :rolleyes:

And have £124 so far for Olympic Challenge (largely thanks to holiday from old job)

So doing ok - have become the queen of spreadsheets and feel a bit more in control of my money.