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  • Hustle Income Diaries

    £500 Side Hustle Challenge: Full Earnings Breakdown

    April 8, 2025 /

    I love a challenge! Especially one relating to side hustles! Over the past couple of years I’ve completed two big side hustle challenges. And 39 days ago I started another one, this time I embarked on a £500 Side Hustle Challenge to fund a trip to see 5 countries in 1 week! My first challenge was my £5k gap year challenge, where I wanted to make enough from side hustles to match my gap year spending pot. I initially set a 12 month timeframe to complete this challenge and ended up smashing it out in 7 1/2 months. Last year, I embarked on an even bigger challenge and set myself…

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    How I Made £2047.04 from my October Side Hustles

    November 2, 2024 /

    October has been a great month side hustle wise! It was my limbo month, in between my 4 month trip and my next seasonal job so I was determined to make it a productive one. At the start of the month, I set the goal to make £1346.66 from my october side hustles as this was the exact amount I needed to hit my 10k goal. And boy did I smash this! Heads up! In my side hustle earnings reports I count every penny earned in the month of October, not necessarily money that has hit my account. Let’s take freelancing as an example: the total you see in this…

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    £10k Side Hustle Challenge Update – Month 4

    May 7, 2024 /

    Four months down and I’m still super motivated to smash my big goal for 2024. When I first starting thinking about setting myself this challenge, I kept it to myself for a while whilst I ran the numbers to make sure I wasn’t overreaching. Well, like with everything if you put your mind to it, there isn’t much you can’t achieve. So I’m ignoring that little part of my brain that doubts me and am pushing on to smash my 10k side hustle challenge. Right before I breakdown all incoming payments in April, let’s me explain exactly what my 10k side hustle challenge entails… The Rules This year I will…

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    How I Made £1989 In Extra Income in April

    May 4, 2024 /

    Start of a new month means only one thing here, it’s time to add up every penny from the wide array of the random side hustles I do each money to bring in some extra income. For some context, I currently have two seasonal jobs which take up 6 months of my year and then I have 6 months to do with what I please. I like to top up the income I make from these gigs with a range of online side hustles. And I’m going to share them all in this post and break down exactly how much they each brought in. How does this income report differ…

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    3 Side Hustles I Want To Focus On in 2024

    February 1, 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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    How I Made £16,446 from Side Hustles

    May 10, 2022 /

    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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  • Hustle Apps & Sites

    LifePoints Review: Is the site legit?

    November 14, 2020 /

    LifePoints is a legit survey site where taking surveys earn you LifePoints which you can use to redeemed gift cards from various places, including PayPal and Ubereats. I have had some good luck with LifePoints and find it very lucrative for a survey site. It pays more on average than most survey sites and I find my earnings building up quickly.  I signed up to LifePoints on July 10th and reached the minimum cashout within 6 surveys and redeemed my first £5 PayPal gift card. It’s been four months since then and I have made just over £70 on this site alone. PERKS OF LIFEPOINTS? Low time commitment Unlike some…

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    Prolific Review: Is it the best survey site?

    November 12, 2020 /

    Prolific is hands down the best survey site I have ever used! Forget earning pennies for half an hour of your time, studies on Prolific pay on average £7.50/hour – most of the time more! This is more than the current minimum wage for my age group!  The site is very easy to navigate and refreshes itself so you don’t need to be on it at all times. Unfortunately because the site is so popular some of the studies fill their quotas very quickly, which can be annoying and feel like a missed opportunity. Yet there is always more studies on the way. Let’s get into my full Prolific review……

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    Hustle Apps & Sites

    OhMyDosh Review: Can you make money?

    November 8, 2020 /

    Unfortunately, OhMyDosh no longer exists! But good news, a new site Custard is live from the same creators! Check it out here. OhMyDosh is an easy and legit site to make some extra money on. You make money by completing various tasks such as starting free trials, signing up to survey sites and getting cashback at certain retailers. Keep reading my OhMyDosh review to see how you can use the site to make a little money in your spare time! Overall, I like OhMyDosh but it isn’t the most lucrative money making site out there. They do pay relatively quickly once you hit the £10 minimum. It just depends on…

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    Make Money Online Quickly: 20 Cogs Review

    August 28, 2020 /

    Unfortunately, 20 Cogs no longer exists! But good news, a new site Custard is live from the same creators! Check it out here. I woke up one morning during lockdown to the tens of emails that had come through during the night – pretty normal! But one caught my eye before I deleted it. “Make up to £200 doing simple online tasks” was the subject line. Immediately I was intrigued… enter 20 cogs. This is a legitimate site and a very easy way to make money online quickly. I have already received payment from them so I can attest to their realness 🙂 Disclaimer – This post includes referral links,…

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Hi I’m Jess, the one woman show behind The Frugal Explorer!

I am obsessed with finding the weird and wonderful ways to make money online, stretching that money as far as it’ll go and travelling on a budget.

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