Hustle Income Diaries
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£10k Side Hustle Challenge – My Big Goal For 2024
I LOVE a money challenge!! Like obsessed! I’m highly motivated by goals, streaks and money so the perfect combination of these three is a side hustle challenge. Sign me up! I like to have one on the go at all times to keep me focused and motivated. So when 2024 rolled round and I didn’t already have one in mind, it was time to go to the drawing board. And within minutes my new challenge was decided. In 2024, I am challenging myself to side hustle £10,000. Ten grand. Even writing that down seems INSANE! But I’m very optimistic that I will smash this goal! My last 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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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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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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£5k Hustle Challenge – How I did it in 7 1/2 months!
I am currently on a gap year after graduating uni back in July 2022. My intentions for this year were to slow down a little bit, do some travelling and decide what my next move is going to be. I’d set aside a pot of money (£5k to be exact) to cover all costs associated with the year. But I soon found out I’m not the type of person who can just sit idly all day. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love a sofa day but I need to be doing something. Enter the £5k hustle challenge! Disclaimer – This post contains some affiliate/referral links which means that I…
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How I Made £16,446 from Side Hustles
There is only so much you can reduce and cut from your budget! Eventually you will reach a certain point where to save more you need to make more. Entering the side hustle!! What is a side hustle? There are many different definitions out there but I class a “side hustle” as anything I do to make money beyond my primary source of income. Currently, my primary source of income is my student maintenance loan, paid to me by the UK government to cover all living costs. I started on my side hustle journey exactly 2 years ago, which was just after I had been made redundant from my job…
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Complete Breakdown of My 6 Income Sources
One of the first lessons I learnt when I started on my financial literacy journey, was that having only one source of income is not a good idea. The more sources you have, the more protected you are, the pressure of having only one source is lifted because you have others to fall back on. Currently, I am at the point where I have built up six different sources of income. Only two of them are passive at this point, but I am hoping in the future to have the majority of my sources be completely passive. #1 Student Loan This gets paid in three instalments throughout the year, but…
