This isn’t a new challenge to myself, and certainly not to some of my readers. I’ve had a very expensive June, which will probably continue into July, as I’ve bought a new (to me) car! It was sort of on the cards for awhile but I had to bring it forward a few months due to my old car breaking down. My Dad has kindly loaned me the money and I really want to pay him back ASAP, at £200 per month, plus anything extra I can manage. The idea behind the £10 per day challenge is that I make £310 extra over the course of the month. Some people doing the challenge on the MSE forums like to include money they’ve saved using coupons, BOGOFs or other deals, but I’m choosing to focus on cold, hard cash in my hand (or in my bank). You can either make £10 per day, or make larger amounts to cover a few days.
I keep track of my money for this challenge by using an online e-savings account, linked to my current account. This isn’t for the (non-existent) interest, but to see the extra money I’ve made kept in one place. I try to add to it daily, and seeing it grow until it hopefully reaches £310. This also stops me spending the money…hopefully.
So what will I do with £310? £200 will go towards paying my Dad back, and £110 will go towards my Florida spending money.
Right now I don’t really have much idea about how I’m going to achieve this. Here is a handy list to help me:
- Selling on eBay
- Visiting a car boot sale next weekend to then sell items on eBay (blog post about what to buy at a boot sale)
- Get items listed (and hopefully sold) on Facebook selling groups
- Quidco £15 cashback for bingo expected on 14th July
- Goal: £5 from AppTrailers
- £5 to cash out from AppXpert (come back on Wednesday for a blog post)
- Goal: £10 from Swagbucks
- Get a move on with claiming my income tax refund due to being unemployed for part of the year.
As you can see, this is no where near the £310 I need to make. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, and I will be sure to keep you all updated.
Hi Emma
I sometimes struggle to think of things to do to make cash for a particular month as well, when i do hit a brick wall i go through my inbox hunting for surveys or other earning opportunities and go through my master list checking where i am re cashing out levels – the ones i’m closest to meeting i will focus on for the month 