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  • Hustle Income Diaries

    Online Side Hustles – How I Made £1045 in March 2024

    April 6, 2024 /

    March was a good month for my online side hustles! I surpassed my initial target and made of 4 figures in earnings. It always feels like a good month when I earn 4 figures! Plus I spent a week of March chilling on the beach and hit some of my stretch personal goals. All round it was a good month and I’m still holding onto that “new year, improved me” motivation. Let’s get into my March side hustle earnings report. How does this income report differ to my 10k side hustle challenge update? I have decided to not only post a 10k side hustle challenge update this month but to…

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  • Money Making Ideas

    9 Actually Passive Income Ideas – Make Money In Your Sleep

    March 17, 2024 /

    Making money while you sleep is the dream right!? But often passive income ideas aren’t actually passive at all rather residual income. Take blogging for instance, which is often suggested as a passive income stream. Well as someone with a blog, it is far from passive! It would be better classified as an residual income stream as the money often still rolls in long after the initial work is done. True passive income should be almost set it and forget it and then watch the money come rolling in, right! So with that in mind, here are 9 actually passive income ideas, the set it and forget it type… {Disclaimer…

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  • Hustle Apps & Sites

    WeAre8 – The App That Will Pay You To Watch Ads

    February 24, 2024 /

    WeAre8 is an app that pays you to watch ads and answer multiple choice questions about them. Yes, it’s legit and pays out real cash. From my experience the ads pay anything from 2-25p each and you get offered around 10-20 ads per month. So by no stretch of the imagination will this app make you rich but it is a legit way to make a little extra income. And it takes literal seconds to complete and hardly any effort at all. We watch a tonne of ads daily for free, you might as well get paid to watch a couple extra. I downloaded this app a couple years ago…

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    The App That Will Pay You To Answer Trivia Questions

    February 17, 2024 /

    Do you love a good pub quiz? Get super competitive with your friends? Want to earn a few vouchers for answering trivia questions? This is the app for you! Back in 2018, Swagbucks first launched their Daily Trivia app, an app where you can earn SB (the sites currency) for answering trivia questions right. Cool right! They have since updated it to feature two games you can play daily to earn SBs. Any SB that you earn get added automatically to your Swagbucks balance. Which you can then redeem for a range of vouchers – like a £1 Amazon voucher which is currently 100SB or a £5 PayPal voucher for…

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  • Hustle Income Diaries

    £10k Side Hustle Challenge – My Big Goal For 2024

    February 6, 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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  • Money Making Ideas

    I Entered 2000+ Competitions… But Did I Actually Win Anything?

    February 2, 2024 /

    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

    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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  • Hustle Apps & Sites

    Top 6 Survey Sites – Make Money Online

    May 15, 2021 /

    Surveys are the easiest way to make a little extra money each month online. They are simple, convenient and require no commitment. Every month I make around £50 from completing surveys for around 2 hours a week. Obviously the more time you can commit, the more you can potentially make. I have tried A LOT of different sites and these are my favourite six… #6 Branded Surveys This site is one of the worse ones for time to payment ratio BUT some of the most lucrative studies I have participated in have come from this. We’re talking getting paid £30 to send a wee sample to Canada, £50 to watch…

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  • Money Making Ideas

    How to Make Money as a Student

    January 23, 2021 /

    Student loan not enough? Want to save for a gap year? Whatever your reason for needing extra money, there are loads of ways for students to earn money on the side of your studies. University is also a great time to develop a side hustle that you could continue after you graduate (see #3 ;)).   Disclosure: Please keep in mind that some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you go through them to make a purchase I will earn a commission. I link to these companies and their products because of their quality and not because of the commission I receive from your purchases. The decision…

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