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MissMarples £100 to £1,000 Challenge

Hi all, :wave:

I've been trying to get my head around matched betting for sometime and have put away a £100 fund to enable me to get going with this.

As I was staring blankly in front of my PC this morning trying to fathom what on earth was going on I decided to set myself a challenge, if anyone is able to or wants to join in that would be great.

My goal is to turn my £100 fund into £1,000, not just by matched betting i'm tryng to motivate myself to use quidco, buying stuff to ebay etc, etc. My reason is a lot of the ways to make more money require us to speculate to accumulate, having a little fund makes it all easier. I've set a time frame of christmas which is three months :eek:

You don't need to start with £100, we can have different levels of challenge

Gold £100 to £1000
Silver £50 to £500
Bronze £20 to £200

There is only 1 real rule, you can't count income till its cold hard cash in your hand. I did my first part of the challenge today and that was paying £10 to gala bingo to get £30 cashback, money is verified already but I can't count it and use it as my fund till its paid to me. Its only money that you have made from spending some of your fund for a profit. Freebies and budget savings don't count.

I'm going to be cracking on with this myself but if anyone else wants to join in that would be great.

I hope to see you here!

MissMarple
xx
;)Proud to be Dealing with my Debts;)
Debt at Highest: £25,000 :eek:
Debt at Lightbulb Moment: £18,110 :eek:
Debt Now: £18,110 :rolleyes:
Debt Free Date: Dec 2009 :T

Comments

  • ok here goes,
    I have been a lurker for a long time and have been trying to go along with some of the challenges without actually joining the threads. But have decided that I will jump in on this one if that is ok.
    Am up for trying to get to £1000 that will definately come in useful in paying off some of those debts just before Xmas
    Will let you know when I make my first amount
    Good Luck to all those who join
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