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  • Hustle Income Diaries

    Halloween Hustle Challenge: Make £31 Everyday in October

    October 1, 2025 /

    It’s spooky season! And nothing is scarier than being behind on your side hustle goals… right?! So it’s time for a new side hustle challenge! Introducing my Halloween Hustle Challenge 💸 What’s the Halloween Hustle Challenge? This is 100% just something I made up to keep myself motivated and because I work harder when faced with a challenge. I’m slightly behind on my side hustle goal for 2025 so need a big boost in October and what better way to hustle than as part of a challenge?! So what exactly is my Halloween Hustle challenge? I’m challenging myself to make £31 for 31 days. Yes, you read that right! The…

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  • Hustle Apps & Sites

    Cashback.co.uk Review: Make Money Doing Easy Online Tasks

    April 17, 2025 /

    From the same makers of the now-defunct 20Cogs and OhMyDosh, Cashback.co.uk is the newer version of 20Cogs, an Online Tasks websites where you get rewarded for completing easy online tasks. Things like signing up for free trials, playing bingo online and joining survey sites. Keep reading for my full cashback review. Related Posts: How does it work? Cashback.co.uk has 15 levels on which you have to complete at least one task before you can cash out your earnings. The tasks are things such as signing up for free trials, playing bingo and joining survey sites. Once you have completed at least one offer on each level and the offer has…

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    April 16, 2025
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    Is Custard Legit?: How To Make £100 On The Site

    April 16, 2025 /

    Custard is a new online task site from the makers of Cashback.co.uk and the now defunct OhMyDosh and 20Cogs. You can make money in your spare time completing online tasks such as signing up for free trials, playing online bingo and joining survey sites. Related Posts: How does it work? Custard works the exact same way as Submission Technology’s previous site OhMyDosh where you find a task you want to complete, follow all the steps and then once your offer has validated you can withdraw the reward money directly into your PayPal account. You complete tasks like signing up for free trials, playing online bingo, joining survey sites and reaching…

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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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    October 3, 2024
  • Side Hustle Guides

    Get Money For Switching Banks – The Ultimate Guide

    February 4, 2025 /

    Bank Switching is one of the easiest ways to get a quick cash injection with minimal effort and in this post I’m going to show you exactly how to get money from switching banks! I have made over £1200 in the past two years from taking advantage of these switch offers. And with each switch taking less than an hour total time investment, this is a crazy good side hustle! Now, it does come with some T&Cs and you won’t be eligible for every single switch you see. But keeping an eye on any deals that may pop up and taking advantage when you can is so worth it! Take…

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    January 24, 2024

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    January 23, 2024

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    February 25, 2024
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    £10k Side Hustle Challenge Update 12

    January 31, 2025 /

    Here it is… the final 10k challenge update! How fast has this year gone, it’s actually insane. I am actually so proud that I completed the challenge, exceeded my goal and kept up these updates. When I first set myself this challenge, I spent hours planning and forecasting how I could hit my crazy goal. So to write this now knowing my total, it’s insane! Ok enough gushing, let’s get into the numbers. Before I breakdown all incoming payments in December, let’s me explain exactly what my 10k side hustle challenge is… 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 11 Update

    January 25, 2025 /

    Welcome to the penultimate 10k side hustle challenge update. Spoiler alert – it’s an important one. I actually can’t believe how fast this year has gone! November was a great month for side hustle payments hitting my account. I started back full time at my intense winter job this month so it was nice to have a big chunk of income hit my account from previous work I’d done. I did have time to do a little side hustles in the month but nothing major so my month 12 update will reflect this. Before I breakdown all incoming payments in November, let’s me explain exactly what my 10k side hustle…

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  • Hustle Income Diaries

    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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  • Money Making Ideas

    5 Easy Online Side Hustles Anyone Can Do!

    October 10, 2024 /

    Easy online side hustles can often seem like a scam. With “sign up and make thousands extra each month”, “make hundreds from your phone”, “get rich on this website” claims are popping up on ads all over the place. And for the most part they are complete over-exaggerations and unrealistic. BUT you can make money from easy online side hustles in your spare time. In fact, I personally have made around £5k to date since May 2020 when I first fell down the online side hustle rabbit hole. I’ll let you figure out why I started then! But the key is to know which easy online side hustles are legit…

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    £10k Side Hustle Challenge: Month 9 Update

    October 7, 2024 /

    3/4 of the way through my 10k side hustle challenge and I’m still committed to making a whopping ten thousand pounds from side hustles! With the way the numbers are currently looking, I might even finish the challenge early… but more on that later! Month 9 of my side hustle challenge was a pretty good one! Things were slowly picking back up again after a crazy summer and I found myself having more time to dedicate to hustling. Before I breakdown all incoming payments in September, let’s me explain exactly what my 10k side hustle challenge is… The Rules This year I will have two main sources of income, my…

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