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  • Hustle Income Diaries

    10k Side Hustle Challenge: Month 10 Update

    November 5, 2024 /

    Another month over, time for another side hustle income challenge update! I ended my last update at 82% towards my goal, so did I complete the challenge in month 10? Keep reading to find out. October was a limbo month for me – in between seasonal gigs. And I spent the majority of the month at home, so I had plenty of time to side hustle. Before I breakdown all incoming payments in October, let 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 job. And as this is a side…

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    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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    How I Made £326.41 From Side Hustles In July!

    September 5, 2024 /

    Well, July was almost a write off month for side hustles. My entire month was spent working at a summer camp in West Virginia. Camp is super full on so I barely had time to do any side hustling. With this in mind, earning a total of £326.41 is actually kinda decent all things considered. Heads up! In my side hustle earnings reports I count every penny earned in the month of May not necessarily money that has hit my account. Let’s take freelancing as an example: the total you see in this post is the hours I worked in July but I probably won’t see this money until August…

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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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  • Side Hustle Guides

    5 Golden Rules To Follow To Get Market Research Projects

    February 25, 2024 /

    Market research is one of the best paying online side hustles around. You can actually get paid hundreds just to share your opinion or test a project. I was once paid £150 to test a bunch of cheese – amazing right. But it can seem very tedious to actually land projects. So I thought I’d share five golden rules of market research from my few years of experience trying to land projects… Apply Apply Apply The more projects you apply for the more chances you have of actually landing some. Make sure to join as many different market research platforms as possible and apply to all the projects that you…

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  • Hustle Apps & Sites

    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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    Ipsos Mystery Shopping – How To Get Paid To Order Booze

    February 15, 2024 /

    If you are aged 18-23 11 months, live in the UK and have a place where you can receive parcels – this is the side hustle for you! I’ve literally made hundreds in profit and got a tonne of free alcohol from ipsos mystery shopping using their site iShopForIpsos over the past year. Not bad considering I’ve spent most of the last year abroad and couldn’t do it regularly. Massive shoutout to @thesolosaver on instagram who sent this opportunity my way last year! What is this magical opportunity you are talking about? iShopForIpsos is a mystery shopping site that among other tasks, is currently offering at home mystery shops for…

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    OhMyDosh: The Site That Will Pay You To Play Bingo

    February 14, 2024 /

    Unfortunately, OhMyDosh no longer exists! But good news, a new site Custard is live from the same creators! Check it out here. Disclaimer: This post talks about gambling. Please proceed with caution!!! The post may also contain referral and/or affiliate links which means I may received commission if you follow the links. I found OhMyDosh nearly 4 years ago and have dabbled on there a few times over the years, usually logging in to make sure I’m not missing out on cashback before I do something. And this time was no different. Casino offers and free spins are something I’ve heard a lot about but never looked into properly. I…

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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

    Daily Draws To Enter For Free Instead Of Buying Lottery Tickets

    January 29, 2024 /

    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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