Make £2020 in 2020

asajj

Year Total: £2,812.87
December total £146
Looking forward to 2021 challenge

ilovetea

Haven't posted for ages, Made just over £2,300 on ebay and a bit on surveys,must try harder with those. Also a few pounds on Ziffit.   Looking forward to the new challenge.
Happy New Year to everybody.

Emmaaar22

I haven`t updated for ages so heres my final tally for 2020 (Since September when I last posted)

Ebay - £777.36

Redbubble - £12.97

Swagbucks - £35

Depop - £134

Qmee - £2.76

Prolific - £28.53

Vinted - £33.87

Commission - £107.07

I know I passed the mark back in September but the final tally of the year is £2,475.51

balabooberlies

bit_by_bit said:

AlexJ88 said:

bit_by_bit said:

#80 reporting in with a good month. I have raised £425.12 this month:
All bank interest £2.53
swagbucks paypal £10.00
Electricity sold to the grid £110.00
Roadkill £0.06
Sales of stuff all ways £234.16
Refund from car insurance cancellation £68.37
So I now have made/saved £3065.69/£2020 this year. 
I am looking forward to nxt years challenge as I expect to beat it. 

would you say solar panels are worth it? considering what you sell to the grid and i assume you dont actually have to oay for electricity anymore?

also what has been your biggest money maker towards this years challenge?

Hi AlexJ88. Its a good few questions that I haven't considered so here goes.
First - making saving money.
The best has got to be refunds which I have chased and made sure every penny I could get back from holidays, events and insurances have come my way.
Saving the payment holidays from water and council tax.
The best and easiest has been selling on various sites. I can earn much more per hour than filling in surveys and wasting energy.
I have good systems to make sure I get the best offers for my sales and pay as little as possible in fees.
Last year I earned stamps doing the postal survey. This year it has meant I can offer free postage. The postal survey took minimal time I hate the way Flebay charges a percentage of your postage and then so does Ppal.
It takes organisation and a spreadsheet and a real understanding of the postage system as I use the post office. My local office is great and doesn't grumble when I have applied stamps and just want a proof of posting. I challenge the PO if they try to charge me more than I should be paying. That has saved me about a fiver in the last month.
Really I am proud of every penny from refunds to the penny found in the road, esp at the moment.
I do work at it and every day I look at the spreadsheet and also look around me for what I can earn from. Saying that, there are whole months when energy levels are low and so I do a lot less.
Next year I retire at 55 and will have paid off my mortgage without dipping into the lump sum I get from work.
Second - Solar panels
The solar panels are well worth it in my eyes. They may not pay for themselves for ten years but since DH has been working from home, DD on her computer every day during lockdown and me doing my thing, all for free, at least in the day. All the clothes washing, dishwasher, bread bakeing and slowcooking also gets done in the day so virtually no costs. We don't have a battery yet but I will add that to the system next year for storage. The thing is I wanted a sure supply as in myarea power cuts have become more frequent. As an environmentallist I feel satisfied that I am reducing my carbon footprint. Peace of mind is priceless. earning money from them is just a pleasant surprise.
I hope that answers your question. 

Hello

was reading through the thread to see if I could inspire myself.  All 'response' posts have been helpful and this one in particular.  Has helped me focus.  Thank you.

And Happy New Year to everyone

bala

Betharooni

#11 reporting with £203.66 made in December, and £1,897.24 made in total in 2020. This is made up of the following:

• Prolific Surveys - £15.85
• Shoppix - £5.00
• Music Magpie/Ziffit - £23.13
• Interest from Bank Account - £9.68
• LISA Bonus - £150.00

So close to target, yet so far. Am super proud of what I’ve achieved this year, as I got closer than I thought possible and it made me much more mindful of that money coming in.

Hoping to get even closer to target or even reach it in 2021.

B x

bit_by_bit

You are welcome Bala. Anything to help.
So #80 checking in for my final 2020 numbers. 
Water Payment Holiday £86.79
All Bank Interest £2.76
Swagbucks paypal £25.00
Cash for helping someone out  £5.00
Qmee £2.74
Barclays reward £7.00
Post Office Survey stamps £22.84
Sales on Ebay after charges £37.07
Grand Total for the month: £190.21  Grand Total for 2020 £3077.02 
Very Very pleased with that. Happy New Year everyone. See you on the next thread  

Fairy_Shazza

#26 doing my end of year check in

I did things slightly differently as I only logged money made from sales of unwanted items from around the house and didn't include any payments from online surveys, cashback or interest earnt on bank accounts.

My year total for sales was £1109.20

Bearing in mind that I hardly sold anything during the first lockdown I’m pretty pleased with that amount. Still got loads of stuff to get rid of though!

I also won 15 competitions during 2020 with prizes totalling around £1091.95 (estimated value) this doesn’t include a few additional competitions where the prize went to friends who I’d nominated as they are NHS workers. Again considering that I didn’t do as much comping as usual as I concentrated on other things throughout the year I’m happy with that.

That makes my total for 2020 - £2201.15

This has been my first time taking part in this kind of challenge and keeping a log of everything has really helped with my motivation.

I will definitely be joining this year’s challenge.

purplevamp

Olliegami said:

#70 checking in here. I made £1999.52 this year!  

Wow, very organised.  I'm impressed, well done x

I sort of gave up logging what I made after my Dad gave me some money which bumped up my total to over 2020.

I'm definitely going to be doing this again in 2021

frugalandsave

Checking in for December and year total:
Credit Card Cashback: £75
Appen: £11.93
Bank Interest: £12.85
Swagbucks: £72.81
Bank Switch: £360
Energy Provider Switch Incentives: £150
Total December: £682.59
Year Total: £2865.96

Marpau

#2
Checking in for December and year end
Bank interest £3.06
Used loyalty points £6.85
Bank reward £5.00
Visa cash back £4.11
Ebay £57.13
Marketplace £20.00
Total Jan-Nov ££2086.97
Total for the year £2183.12