The 2008 Olympic Challenge thread

gems2381

Well this month I've made £393.82 from overtime, ebay, clicks and slicethepie.....my grand total is now £1007.28 sooooo close!

saveaholic68

Another £18 to add to my total, meaning I only need £29 to reach Bronze! No idea how I am going to acheive it, surveys have dried up recently

Boomdocker

Savaholic - don't be so hard on yourself you have ages yet and have done really well. You have nearly achieved your target half way through the time allowed, thats fab!! Do you ebay/amazon/boot sale or anything to help generate a few more quid?

saveaholic68

Hi Boom, I do use ebay, and am planning to list a few more items in the near future - just a case of having a sort out. I am getting a bit fed up with it though, it seems nothing but trouble, people claiming items havent turned up, people not paying, !!!!!y emails saying things have arrived damaged when they have been fine when I sent them etc..I'm an honest seller, but I feel like everyone's trying to take the mick lately.
I have sold on Amazon in the past, but dont really have many books or CD's to list at the moment. As for a car boot sale, I dont have a car, and even if i could borrow one, I dont think I have enough stuff.
I should have a £10 voucher from shopandscan soon and hopefully some overtime -fingers crossed.

Hope78

A good week this week for me looks like things picking up again. I've £2 in loose change and made £54.07 at the car boot yesterday. I'm going to ebay the remaining stuff once I've got camera back from friend (left it there after godson's Christening. This carbotting and ebaying is good for the sould finding that the more I'm selling the more I can't stnad clutter so the more ruthless I'm getting about what to sell - stuff I've kept for years just incase!

ruthiejane

I took £10 out of my spare change jar this morning rather than withdrawing from the bank so I've got that to count, plus quite a bit due from mystery shopping. I really must get going on ebay soon!

Yorkielass

I've decided to downgrade to Bronze - I put in the 'where I should be/how far behind I am' for £1008 into my spreadsheet and it looks much more attainable so I'm going with that.

£36.09 to add - the money left from my birthday (last year) and Christmas money after I'd bought myself some treats and have decided to pop it in this account as it'll only get swallowed up by our current account otherwise.

I think my biggest problem is I can't get paid overtime on my job - I can do plenty of overtime but don't get paid for any of it.. - still wavering about a second job, maybe I'll give AQA another go, got rejected a year or so ago so might be worth a 2nd shot.

So onwards and upwards - some ebay things to send off tomorrow so a bit more to add then as 3 out of 4 sold.

novagirl

54p from TopCashBack to add in and £1.25 commission from Virgin Vie

Yorkielass

Made a whole 88p and £1.07 on 2 items on ebay from the weekend and one more waiting for payment on :rolleyes:

did a pinecone survey this week so hopefully another £4 will be winging its way into my paypal soon.

I've decided when I get home tonight I'm going straight on my computer and I'm going to try slice the pie and play trade and then if I've still got any energey maybe I'll give bingo a try too. Having a day off tomorrow as car's being MOT'd so hopefully I'll get some more stuff done then too

saveaholic68

Woohoo I've done it!! I'm finally at bronze!! I got asked to do some overtime and the lovely, lovely, admin girl at work offered to put it on this weeks timesheet for me, so I got paid today instead of next week. :T
Since there is still a while to go and I enjoy doing the challenge, I will PM Gemzie and ask to be upgraded to silver Good luck to everyone else