Finance
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I Entered 2000+ Competitions… But Did I Actually Win Anything?
Towards the end of 2022, it felt like everyone and their dog was winning thousands of amazing prizes through comping. From actual thousands in cold hard cash to holidays in the Maldives, these wins were all over my instagram feed and I thought “that’s gonna be me next year”. To the point that I made “enter 10,000 comps” a 2023 goal and added a picture of an over-water villa in the Maldives to my vision board. I was going to win a bunch of incredible prizes and then be the one posting on instagram about the cool wins. Well, that’s not exactly how it went. What is comping? Comping is…
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3 Side Hustles I Want To Focus On in 2024
Testing out new side hustles have become one of my biggest passions. I absolutely love finding the weird and wonderful ways to make money – whether that’s online, in person or a mix of both. This hobby of mine led to me ending 2023 with 20 different income streams, none of which are fully sustainable or predictable. So in 2024 I want to narrow my attention a little bit and focus on a few side hustles that I can either see becoming a sustainable income stream or something I’ve been putting off. Now this doesn’t mean that I’ll be ditching all the other side hustles I have, just that I…
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Income System – How I Deal With Multiple Income Streams As A Full Time Freelancer
I entered the crazy world of freelancing at a very strange time in my life. I was on a gap year housesitting my way through 11 countries and living off a pot of money I had saved during my third year of uni. So I never had to really think about what to do with the money I was earning on the side. It kinda just haemorrhaged towards whatever the priority was that month. But when I got back from my fab year abroad with the crazy thought that I could just keep going, I had to use the money I was earning more effectively. I would spend hours each…
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How I’m Making £2000 in “Free” Money This Year
I love finding weird and wonderful ways to make money. And one of my favourite ways to boost my income without much effort or time is through free money or as it’s more commonly known interest. Whether that’s bank interest, LISA gov bonuses or sign up offers they all come under my umbrella of interest. And if my projections are correct I will make over two thousand pounds from this income stream alone in 2024. Two thousand pounds – an insane amount for someone who started out on £5 per hour washing dishes. How am I planning on making this much? Let’s dig into my plan… LISA BONUS I’m obsessed…
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Daily Draws To Enter For Free Instead Of Buying Lottery Tickets
I was one of those kids who dreamt that one day my parents would come home and tell us we won the lottery and were going on holiday the next day. Then I grew up and realised how unlikely winning the lottery actually is and what a sheer waste of money it is. You are so much better off investing the money you would have used to buy a ticket in the market each week. Let’s do the maths. Google says a EuroMillions ticket is £2.50 and there are two draws a week so £5 to play both. If you invested that £5 per week or £260 a year and…
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10 Things To Do To Make Money From Answering Surveys
Answering surveys for a little bit of extra cash each month is something I have been doing since 2020. I always call this hustle the ultimate marmite hustle as people either hate it with a passion or love it. I’m firmly in the love camp only because I have had moderate success with it over the years (see exactly how much I’ve made here) and it was my first online side hustle. Now I will admit there are some scammy survey sites out there that just want to collect your data but there are a few good ones which you can make decent money off. It’s been nearly 4 years…
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Daily Polls: Can You Actually Make Money From Them?
Do you like answering random questions? Seeing what everyone else voted for? Well answering daily polls is the side hustle for you! And it’s as simple as it sounds – you can get paid to answer daily polls! They’re a handful of survey sites that have a daily poll which is a guaranteed way to earn a point or two each and every day. You know what they say, the points soon add up. Now obviously this will in no way make you rich BUT it could pay for a couple coffees throughout the year from very minimal effort and it literally takes a minute. Disclaimer – this post contains…
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Can You Actually Make Money Answering Surveys?
Surveys are the ultimate marmite side hustle. Either you absolutely hate them or you secretly love them. There is a special place in my heart for surveys as they were my gateway hustle into this crazy world of making money online that I now find myself fully invested in. Let me take you back to March 2020 when you might have guessed it, I didn’t have much else going on. So what did I do? Like any rational human who had just lost their job I googled “how to make money online” and hey presto making money answering surveys became something I did. Disclaimer – this post contains referral or…
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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…
