£2,000 challenge – week 1 update

Last week I posted about my biggest money making challenge to date – to try to earn an extra £2,000 this month. One week into the challenge and a few of you have taken some guesses on Twitter, but I am pleased to announce that my total so far is…

£954.84.

As I am sure you can imagine, I am absolutely thrilled!

How I’ve done it

Admittedly, I had a high value item to sell – my old iPhone which fetched me £220 after eBay fees. But even without my iPhone sale, that’s over £700 that I’ve managed to make.

I’ve got the money from a variety of methods, including:

• Blog revenue
• Qmee – those pennies really do add up.
• Prolific Academic
• Gift Hunter Club
• eBay sales
• Facebook sales
• Pinecone Surveys
• Selling old DVDs to Zapper, ZiffIt and Music Magpie
• Selling hourlies on People Per Hour

In the pipeline

I am really excited to have some more things in the pipeline for reaching my £2,000 target. They are:

• WhatUsersDo payment
• My Prolific Academic balance is close to £20, so I will be withdrawing that soon
• I’ve listed more items on eBay – all of them now have bids.

That’s it for now! I feel immensely proud of myself, and I can’t wait to crack that £1,000 barrier – hopefully before the weekend!