Money Diaries
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10k Side Hustle Challenge – Month 3 Update
Another month gone! I honestly can’t wrap my head around how fast 2024 is going. Ridiculous! But with the end of the month comes another 10k side hustle challenge update. March was a really good month for making money online – I smashed my £833 target and made over a £1000! Plus on the flip side it was a decent month for incoming payments – highest month so far in the challenge! Right before I breakdown all incoming payments in March, let’s me explain exactly what my 10k side hustle challenge entails… The Rules This year I will have two main sources of income, my summer job and my winter…
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10k Side Hustle Challenge – Month 2 Update
At the start of 2024 I had a goal setting session and decided to challenge myself to make an extra £10k from side hustles. Currently, I have two seasonal jobs that mean I only work in person half of the year and have full flexibility over the other half of the year. Meaning I have time to embrace a bunch of random side hustles and kinda need the extra income boost in my off months. So I’ve embraced this side hustle challenge with open arms! But before we get into a month 2 update let me explain the rules I’ve set for myself… The Rules This year I will have…
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5 Weird (& Wonderful) Things I’ve Done For Money
Now I won’t go so far as to say I’d do anything for money but my limit is quiet high. One of my friends recently told me that when her mum was asking what I was up to now, she replied with “erm I’m not actually 100% sure, but if it makes money, Jess is doing it”. Pretty accurate. I have jumped on some very random money making opportunities that have come my way over the past couple of years. And today I’m sharing my top five with you! Now, most of my side hustle experiences have been typical – the boring surveys, getting a second (& third) job, starting…
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£10k Side Hustle Challenge – Month 1 Update
In 2024, I am embarking on a 10k Side Hustle Challenge. Ten grand. Even writing that down seems INSANE! But I’m very optimistic that I will smash this goal! My last side hustle challenge was to make £5,000 by the end of my gap year to match my spending budget. I had initially thought it would take the whole year to achieve but incredibly I smashed that goal in 7 1/2 months. That means the goal I set was too easy so I’m doubling it. The Rules This year I will have two main sources of income, my summer job and my winter job. And as this is a side hustle challenge…
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20 Income Streams I Had In 2023 – Full Earnings Breakdown
2023 was my first full year out of education since I was 3 and it’s definitely been an unconventional year. I brought the new year in in a car park in Seattle watching the space needle fireworks and ended the year in the pub I worked at whilst at uni. An ending I never saw coming but soon became one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! I spent the majority of the year travelling full-time and living off a pot of savings. I was still dabbling in a variety of side hustles and ended the year with money coming in from 20 different avenues. Crazy. Plus the total took…
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9 Big Goals I Want To Achieve In 2024
Setting yearly goals has been something I’ve done consistently for the past 4 years and 2024 is no different! I’ve set around 30 goals that I want to achieve over the next year but they can be narrowed down to these 9 main goals… READ 100 BOOKS I set the same goal last year and ended the year on 159 books finished. I did consider upping my reading target for 2024. However I foresee this year being a little bit busier than last year so I’m sticking strong at 100 books. That’s an average of 8 books a month which sounds incredibly doable. TRAVEL TO 10 NEW COUNTRIES I have…
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16 Nights Exploring Italy – How Much Did We Spend?
What happens when you get a wedding invitation for a wedding in Italy and both you and your sister have no commitments for the month after? You extend the trip and do a little tour – right!! Well that’s what we did!!! One of our close family friends got married on August bank holiday Monday in glorious Sorrento and instead of just going for the weekend we decided to extend the trip by two extra weeks to see the sights. After a tough negociation we decided on heading north from Sorrento and our route looked like this… Sorrent → Rome → Pisa → Florence → Bologna → Venice → Verona…
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October 2023 Money Review
After almost a year, I’m back with another money review woo! This is my first full month post-gap year and I’m feeling a lot better about my situation than I did last month 😅 I’d always assumed that I’d find a “normal person” job once I got back from my year of travel but the closer the end got the less and less this idea appealed. I LOVE the flexibility and randomness of the life I’ve built over the past year and I have found a way to extend it and kinda just keep going – temporary seasonal work!! These types of gigs usually last a couple of months, often come…
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13 Day USA Roadtrip – How Much I Spent!
Hello, ello, ello, long time no blog post!! But I’m back from my best summer yet working as a camp counsellor at a sleep away camp in the West Virginian mountains. I have soooo much to share about my experience at camp and of course the finances surrounding it but I thought I’d kick it all off with a spending roundup from the roadtrip I did with a few new friends once we left camp. We spent almost two weeks together travelling from West Virginia up the coast to NYC (where we met up with some fellow counsellors, one of whom was kind enough to host us) and then onwards…
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Gap Year Budget Update – 8 Months In
8 months done and dusted!!! That means I graduated 9 months ago 🤯 Wtf!!! I still frequently refer to myself as a student because I just haven’t got over it yet 😂 These past 8 months have been absolutely amazing and have really made me stop and think about the life I want to create going forward. I frequently change my mind on what I want to do next and I don’t think I’ll make a final decision until I absolutely have too. Anyway, enough of my indecision, the end of the month means only one thing around here… it’s time to break down last months spending 🥳 You may have noticed…
