Friday Link Round Up: 3rd September 2010

Hello. Its Friday link love this week as tomorrow, I'm going to Paris for the day. Yippee!  I'm very excited. 

I'm going by train {I still can't believe that you can actually do this} with my eldest daughter for a day of walking...and more walking around the city; it's going to be so much fun because a) I don't get to see my eldest too often, and it'll be lovely to spend the day with her and b) it's Paris! 


Anyways, here are some of the posts I've enjoyed reading this week;

• The Wedding Budget my Pretty Pennies discusses the budget for her wedding
• The capsule wardrobe experiment at Penny Golightly
• Cutting out snacks to save money at Passive Family Income
• Going paperless with your financial documents at Money Funk
• September Challenge: Punk My Plateau at Fabulous Financials {I'm taking part in this, update to come on Sunday}

and at Move To Portugal this week;

• September 2010 Mini Goals
• Losing my attachment to stuff
• Mortgage Payoff: September 2010 progress

There's a definite new year feeling about September isn't there and I feel very motivated to get things done; I've committed to lots of challenges to capitalise on this, so let's hope it continues!

Have a great weekend and I'll see you Sunday evening with a full disclosure post {eek} on my current weight and weight loss targets.  :-)

How about you, are you feeling motivated to get things done this month?


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September 2010 Net Worth Update +£906

1) The increase this month is a little inflated due to the balance of our checking account.
2) We made a small mortgage overpayment of £57
3) £19,167 is needed to achieve our December 2011 goal.

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Extra Money Earned: August 2010

Overall from different sources my goal is to generate at least £2,010 of extra income in 2010; this money can either be alternative income or passive income.


August earning breakdown:

• £83.08 Site income: I sold some advertising space on one of my sites
• £6.44 Amazon sales: Only one book sold on Amazon in August due to my failure to keep my listings up to date!
• £24.23 Bank interest: This is from our emergency fund savings. 

£113.75 Total

Total so far in 2010 £1,296.35/£2,010

These figures are an improvement on July {£54.26} but worse than  June {£199.87}. 

I'm feeling really motivated to attack my September Snowflake Challenge target, and I'm also doing some background improvement work on my websites, so here's to a money making September!

Let me know, do you have passive/alternative income goals?

A Snowflake Challenge for September

I'm kicking off a new challenge for September: A snowflake challenge.

Snowflakes are a spinoff of the snowball method that is used to pay down your debt faster; they are the little bits of money that you make, extra to your snowball, that speed up your debt free day; if you are debt free then you can also use any snowflakes to increase your saving rate.



My challenge for September is to make an extra £300/$460 in snowflake income.  Every Wednesday I will be blogging my progress....let's hope there is some! :-)

So where am I going to make an extra £300? At the moment I'm banking on selling some books on Amazon, some stuff on eBay and some clutter at a local car boot sale. I'm de-cluttering and purging {again} in earnest.

I often wonder where I find all this stuff, but somehow it accumulates...I'm sure the children bring it in :D

The lovely Serendipity from Serendipity's Guide to Saving is joining me in the challenge, which is open to everyone, and I wish her luck in reaching her target.

Further reading:

• Extra Income Challenge at No More Spending.net
• Snowflaking - A Primer at Paid Twice
• 52 Ways to Make Extra Money at PT Money

This is an ideal time of year to make a little extra money, with Christmas coming, so why not join me and attempt your own snowflake challenge.

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