This Duo's debt free journey

Nothing big to update but I feel like I need to keep on top of this diary to keep me focused. I haven't had a great few days (not money related) but I'm doing what I can to minimise my spending. I have a limit of around £500 to get me through the next 3 months, this is to cover food, fuel, gas and electric and any other day to day spends plus christmas presents. Hoping to sell things on ebay and also use swagbucks to try and increase this, almost have £25 on my swagbucks account to cash in. Today I am feeling stressed and fed up.

Thank you all for your responses, I will have a look at prolific academic as I have seen it mentioned a couple of times on here, swagbucks can be a bit hit and miss but I've earned a fair bit from there, I have around £100 sitting in my amazon account to use for Christmas from the last few months of doing it.

I've had a couple of NSDs, feeling a little bit lost so I haven't been tempted to spend money on anything. We are going to see my dad this evening who has suggested he will order us some pizza so today will likely be another NSD and I imagine tomorrow will be too. I go back to university on monday and plan to use my bike as much as possible to save on the cost of parking and fuel although I am a little nervous about this as I haven't used it in such a long time and especially at busy times on the road. I'm still feeling a little down but I think going back to university will help, it doesn't help that I have come down with a cold that has really knocked me.

My goal until January is to not go out of budget, all of my bills are covered so just food, fuel (hoping to keep to a minimum with my bike), gas and electric (hoping to use my swagbucks each month as I am on a pre payment meter) and then day to day costs.

I have the following to make it through:
£373.74 moved over to savings account so I don't touch my current account
£50 coming back from plusnet from changing broadband provider
£108 in amazon account to hopefully get me through christmas
£25 due from my brother as we went halves on my dads christmas present

Its going to be tough but hopefully I can make a little from ebay to help boost it a little. Worst case I do have a 0% overdraft which I don't want to touch if I can help it. I'm going to get myself out the house, this should help improve my mood a little.

I'm winning today, wanted a coat for my LO for school as his rain coat is a bit thin now its getting colder and I didn't want to send him in his lovely (quite expensive but worth it because its going to last at least 2 winters) winter coat from last year now that hes in reception (I know these things get ruined or lost), so I got on ebay and won one for £4.10 including postage, the best part of this is that I had an email from paypal a couple of weeks back giving me £5 to spend before the end of the month so the coat was free! I just wish I could have upped my bid to the whole £5 to give the seller a little extra seing as I won't use the extra 90p.

In about february/March I decided I was going to attempt the £2017 in 2017 challenge although I haven't wrote this anywhere just my own spreadsheet, I'm currently on £1073 so I'm doing pretty well considering I thought I would start it and then give up after a few weeks. Been having a look through some of the challenges and think I've decided that I'm going to go for the £10 a day one in October although I will probably start smaller, this will certainly help me achieve the other goal plus give me extra spends for Christmas.