Make £10 a day Challenge - February 2016

stressed.mum

Have been off-line for a few days, RL has a habit of getting in the way!
Welcome to all the newbies, you have joined the right place if you are looking for ways to make some extra money. Everyone here is so friendly and are a mine of information about everything money making.

Well done FairyClicks your first £1,000 you are going to smash your target.
Great news about the printer Aesop
Hope things start to go the right way for you soon Lex

Things have slowed done a little for me now, which I knew they would but I am at £ 1,200.36 towards my target - which means I only need to make £ 784.64 by the end of the year!! Think I may have to increase my target soon

Xxx

Kantankrus_Mare

Feel like cotton wool brain today. Got the cold that everyone has had. Struggled into work but could have done without it.
£6 tips anyway and £3.50 ish to add from gifthulk for me.

lexbubbles

Surfchik80 wrote: »

Was thinking Neo or Vivatec. I know some of you seem to do really well with both. Just wondering which people would recommend giving a go next? I tend to spend a few weeks getting to know a site and becoming a bit slicker with it before taking on a new one. Less overwhelming that way, I find. Any user insights great appreciated!

I'm a big fan of Vivatic, but there's pros and cons to it

Pro:
It's a survey aggregate site so you can take a wide variety or surveys from different providers

Con:
Because it's a second-hand aggregate site, you get paid less for the survey than if you took it on the original site (ie Toluna, Panelbase). Although i have noticed that more invites appear on Vivatic than the individual places so... 6 of one half a dozen

Pro:
Build-up to payout quickly, and get money for joining, linking facebook, referrals etc

Con:
Payments can only be requested in exact £20 blocks (40p of which gets eaten by palpay) and will arrive in your bank account on the last working day of the FOLLOWING month - so can take anywhere from 4-8 weeks. Obviously try to cash out at the end of the month rather than a couple days into the start.

Pro:
There's a LOT or survey invites daily. Like, a lot.

Con:
You get screened out a bunch, on really basic profiling information. So after screening out there aren't that many. But still enough to net a good £1.50 a day. If you actually did it every day and went through the invites you could end up with £40 a month.

lexbubbles

Had a £1er on VO so only £3.50 from my next voucher :T

Screened out of FIVE invites on PB like c'mon guys.

Time to go work through... you guessed it... Vivatic :rotfl:

Surfchik80

lexbubbles wrote: »

I'm a big fan of Vivatic, but there's pros and cons to it......

Thanks Lexbubbles, I was hoping you might have some input as I know you're a bit of a wizard with it. That was really very helpful!

As I only do short bursts of activity on these things, I tend to treat them all as slow burners anyway. Still, you take on enough slow burners and you start to build up a reasonable monthly amount anyway. It sounds like this could be another easyish one to tackle and gives the option to be selective.

Surfchik80

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

I can only comment on neo as don't do the other one.

Its a slow burner but has potential to make quite a bit more than some other sites if you are willing to persevere and be patient.

I am still persevering but enjoying the journey.

Thanks KM! Very good to know. I reckon most of us here are probably quite intimately acquainted with perseverance, so I'm guessing it should become second nature quite quickly lol! :rotfl:

Procrastinater

Just got an email giving me a 10% discount on skateboards :j

Sadly thats another one I shan't be taking up so is that £4 lost ? or £36 saved ? :eek:

Procrastinater

Listerbelle wrote: »

Actually, it's the potential of the 1p

Most of us know that a pound paid off a mortgage saves on interest, and depending on when the overpayment is made, that pound can be quite valuable.

For me every dollar overpaid (I'm in the USA now) in the first couple of years was worth close to $3 when it came to reducing the total amount of our mortgage to be paid over its lifetime.

But wait. There's more.

Those three dollars can then be diverted to investments/pensions etc.

One person I was listening to (a financial channel on youtube) was explaining that he worked out that a $5 starbucks coffee was actually costing him $35.

OK he is young (late 20s) so has many decades of investment ahead of him, but the concept is spot on!

So our tenner a day might really be worth 50 a day in our pocket.

Every little helps even more than we imagine :j

Wish I'd read that earlier Lb :cool: Great concept - Thanks for that

Listerbelle

Procrastinater wrote: »

Wish I'd read that earlier Lb :cool: Great concept - Thanks for that

You are VERY welcome. I wish I'd understood this decades ago (I'm 45.) I knew about opportunity cost, but not in the context of a long term financial situation.

And keeping the thread on track, I've claimed another fiver from Swagbucks

Siouxsie32

Ah, the power of the penny - I love it!!!

Also, I love the power of positive thinking. I walked to the top floor of the car park a) to get more steps in and b) to try and find another penny! Would you believe I found another two :rotfl:

I also received my £3 Waitrose voucher from the Daily Mail and £100 prepaid MasterCard from Sky in the post today so, ta da, I made my target for the first time since joining this thread 4 months ago :j

Thank you all so much for the positive vibes :beer: