Keep calm and carry on....

edinburgher

Good idea - I remember my survey days and it still makes me anxious!

South_coast

But they do pay off (sometimes) in the end!

Which leads me nicely onto.... The January free money totals 😀:
£0.16 Amazon sale (yep, that's the net figure after fees and postage 😮)
£1.00 Lidl scratchcard win
£1.49 bank account interest
£2.00 Storewards
£4.67 TopCashBack
£5.00 Shoppix
£5.00 i-Say
£5.04 We Buy Books
£7.48 Qmee
£10.00 Vypr
£15.00 cashed-in Nectar points
£17.14 Prolific
£26.50 Panelbase
£30.00 Shop & Scan 

The target was £105 and the total achieved was £130.48 😀

I've decided I'd like to try and average £100/month this year, so after making such a strong start the February target is £97.23. Best get cracking!

killerpeaty

I actually don't know how you do it. It's an amazing total! I get home from work and go to sleep, anything more and I am grumpy lol.

South_coast

Thanks KP, although most of the above is quite passive really. The receipt scanning takes a few minutes after I've put the shopping away, Shop & Scan normally only takes 10 minutes or so a week (I got a lot more this month because I was doing their quarterly food diary) and I have my phone next to me and refresh Vypr while I wait for things to load on my work laptop (only when working from home, obvs 🤣!) £25 of the Panelbase payment was for the focus group I did last month, so that did take an hour but it was all done in one go, so really that just leaves Qmee, Nectar Canvass, i-Say and Prolific as the time drains and I do those in the ad breaks while I'm watching TV. 

South_coast

P.S. Knowing it's for the mortgage/The Future helps keep me focused too x

ruby_eskimo

Well done on the January goals and the free money.  I need to get cracking on onepoll too as I'm close to pay out but it's so exhausting sometimes.  At least I managed to get DH on the matched betting bandwagon and he's making a pretty profit over there.  He even said he liked "side-hustling" over the weekend, almost fell off my chair 🤣.

South_coast

If I mentioned side-hustling to BF he'd probably think it was some kind of dance move 🤣! I've often thought about matched betting but never jumped in, I'm just so terrible at maths I know I'd manage to c*ck it up somehow!

debtfreeoneday

South_coast said:

But they do pay off (sometimes) in the end!

Which leads me nicely onto.... The January free money totals 😀:
£0.16 Amazon sale (yep, that's the net figure after fees and postage 😮)
£1.00 Lidl scratchcard win
£1.49 bank account interest
£2.00 Storewards
£4.67 TopCashBack
£5.00 Shoppix
£5.00 i-Say
£5.04 We Buy Books
£7.48 Qmee
£10.00 Vypr
£15.00 cashed-in Nectar points
£17.14 Prolific
£26.50 Panelbase
£30.00 Shop & Scan 

The target was £105 and the total achieved was £130.48 😀

I've decided I'd like to try and average £100/month this year, so after making such a strong start the February target is £97.23. Best get cracking!

No no no. You don’t get away with a flimsy target like that 😂 target has to be £100 at least. 

debtfreeoneday

That said, awesome work on the free money. 

South_coast

Nooo, I need to feel like I'm reaping the rewards of a good month with a lower target for the following ones! I will not let you goad me into a higher target again 🤣!