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Did a bit more MB today, but taking it slowly... had to ring the bank as they put a stop on my card due to the "unusual activity"! I am surprised and pleased to see my task on BeMyEye actually paid out... happy days! I downloaded some more task apps now and going to try and do some more this week.

Not done much today so need to catch up on surveys this evening and xmas admin..

I don't think anyone doing matched betting hasn't hit that problem after a few weeks lol
 

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Been MIA for a bit as had a bad cold and didn't feel up to braving the cold outside for tasks... I have managed to keep up MB and slowly creeping up to 3 figures (probably there after today, but need to check after various football finishes). Also done a couple of the risk free/low risk casino offers because I was getting bored and needed some variety! Will plough on and see what next week brings - hopefully I can pick up the slack from surveys etc.
 

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Been MIA for a bit as had a bad cold and didn't feel up to braving the cold outside for tasks... I have managed to keep up MB and slowly creeping up to 3 figures (probably there after today, but need to check after various football finishes). Also done a couple of the risk free/low risk casino offers because I was getting bored and needed some variety! Will plough on and see what next week brings - hopefully I can pick up the slack from surveys etc.

I've had that cold for nearly a week now. It's an absolute killer!
 

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I've had that cold for nearly a week now. It's an absolute killer!

Yep.. and throw in a little baby with the same cold and really bad teething and you're in for a fun week! No idea in hindsight how I managed to make any money at all and do loads of admin..
 

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Been making a few mistakes... the Boyle sports betting slip makes it look like the bet hasn't gone through (and the account doesn't update quickly), so I put a bet on twice. No biggie... just doubled at the other end too. I had thought I had put my free bet on somewhere else, but luckily went back in to put another one on and noticed it looked wrong. I thought it had gone through, but obviously not... had to correct that one.

Then I put a profit check on my spreadsheet for the bets in play and found one more error where I must have selected the normal calculator rather than the free bet one. Again I have fixed this. All in all only lost about £2 doing this, but lucky I found them! Think I did a few more bets than I could handle! Need to wait for some to complete anyway now as I need the funds to come out.
 
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Plodding along at the moment with MB and a few surveys. Am better now, but frankly it's too cold outside, so I am hiding out indoors and not doing any tasks for now!

Need a lot of bets to settle at the moment so I can reinvest. Scanning through the list, I think I've done most of the "easy" bets and am onto the more time consuming ones. Annoyingly I won a bet which needs a lot of wagering (was hoping the exchange would win that one) and so those is taking time to do before I can extract funds.
 

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Definitely time to get my act in gear... I have been doing some MB and up to about £300 now! I definitely need to mix and match different income streams for my own sanity/boredom levels and just common sense really...

So thinking of challenging myself for the rest of this week to do £10 a day MB, £2.50 a day surveys and £2.50 a day task apps. I will allow myself roll over as I often wait for matches etc and am counting based on "earned" rather than cash received (I.e. tasks or survey amounts completed that day) as cash should follow, spreads the effort out and stops me avoiding larger pay thresholds even if it pays the best.

Looking on the threads, I don't think I am making the best use of curious cat, so will see if I can up my game there. Getting back to the task apps today, but looks like there is precious little around at the moment and I can't remember which ones get better with more XP...

Will report back later to see where I get to! Aiming to hit targets with the least amount of effort!
 

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Back to report...

Surveys £5.65 / £2.50 - smashed this one easily, although probably helped that I had a bit of a backlog of surveys! I have been checking Curious Cat a bit more diligently which has helped too. Made up of:

- Panelbase £1.30 (so close to cashing out now, but not sure I will make it for December given the holidays)
- Newvista £1.50
- Curious Cat £1.09
- Citizenme £0.20
- One Poll £0.45
- Prolific £1.11

Am tempted to increase the target, but won't as Xmas is looming and I am sure everything will go quiet.

Task apps £0.40 - struggling with this one as there is just nothing about at the moment! Hoping it'll pick up post Xmas, but in the meantime I am trying to keep checking them all and doing any quick wins.

MB - technically nothing, but put some bets on to more than cover the whole week... just waiting for the weekend for them to clear.

A solid start. Will see if I can keep it going for the rest of the week.
 

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OK so for the bit of this week (since I started yesterday), I am at:

Surveys £9.75 /£10 (weekly amount) - pretty easy and not put too much effort into it. Totals "earned" to date are:
- Panelbase £1.30
- Newvista £1.50
- Curious Cat £1.19
- Citizenme £0.30
- One Poll £1.15
- Prolific £2.31
- GfK £2

Task apps £0.40 / £10 - still struggling with a lack of stuff, but have been going through and building experience etc, so that should help with tasks when they come along.

MB £0 / £50 - still technically nothing.. waiting for stuff to complete tonight/over the weekend. Just put one bet on today from an excellent deal that came through my inbox... too good to miss! I should easily meet my £50 target for the week.
 

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Having a bit of a "tidying" up day on both money making admin and life admin, so not been able to do much today. However, already "earned" £12.59 out of the proposed £10 for the week on surveys, £16.59 / £40 for MB (although waiting for another £40 on a match later tonight) and still on £0.4 for tasks out of the proposed £10.

Still a worthwhile exercise to figure out how much I can do in a period (otherwise I have a tendency to go too high and get despondent when I get nowhere near). I think next week I will go for £3/day on surveys £2/day on tasks and keep the £10/day on MB and see how I get on with that. Eventually it would be great to make £500+ a month (the dream would be £1000, but a way away yet and may not be possible once I go back to work after maternity leave).

MB may slow a little bit as I am starting to get a lot of cash stuck at bookies and now I am wagering it out as soon as I can and targeting the highest amounts. Annoyingly there is a huge amount with one bookie and I have to do a lot of wagering in order to withdraw, so am working on that before I do any other high wagering offers. Mainly just doing a few smaller ones whilst I get all my cash back!

Gonna do bits and pieces tomorrow and then having a well earned break for a couple of days!
 

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Been quite lazy the past few days as baby ill/playing up and so just trying to get enough sleep was testing. Anyway, need to get back on track now. I would like to have a three fold aim for next month with a minimum achievement of £500 for the month, an intermediate challenge of £750 and a dream challenge of £1,000.

I think the £500 should be possible and would aim to do this by £25/week surveys and £125/week matched betting (or a bit less if I do some task apps which I hope to). Then I will look forward to increasing to the next levels by adding in task apps and potentially increasing the matched betting to a max of: £25/week surveys, £175/week matched betting and £50/week task apps. I can dream....

Anyway, with the bank holiday and some time off, I have only made £35 this week so definitely will have to step it up next week! Decided to track progress weekly and then amend my targets as appropriate if I feel that they are totally unattainable for me. I was trialling the £25/week survey for this week, but with 2 bank holidays, I am not entirely sure it is reflective of what things will really be like in an average week. Nonetheless, I will press on and see where I get to.
 

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Been quite lazy the past few days as baby ill/playing up and so just trying to get enough sleep was testing. Anyway, need to get back on track now. I would like to have a three fold aim for next month with a minimum achievement of £500 for the month, an intermediate challenge of £750 and a dream challenge of £1,000.

I think the £500 should be possible and would aim to do this by £25/week surveys and £125/week matched betting (or a bit less if I do some task apps which I hope to). Then I will look forward to increasing to the next levels by adding in task apps and potentially increasing the matched betting to a max of: £25/week surveys, £175/week matched betting and £50/week task apps. I can dream....

Anyway, with the bank holiday and some time off, I have only made £35 this week so definitely will have to step it up next week! Decided to track progress weekly and then amend my targets as appropriate if I feel that they are totally unattainable for me. I was trialling the £25/week survey for this week, but with 2 bank holidays, I am not entirely sure it is reflective of what things will really be like in an average week. Nonetheless, I will press on and see where I get to.

I honestly wouldn't worry about being lazy at this time of year! I've done no work online since I finished in the 15th December (thank god for passive income!!)

That's a clever idea of having 3 targets btw!
 

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I honestly wouldn't worry about being lazy at this time of year! I've done no work online since I finished in the 15th December (thank god for passive income!!)

That's a clever idea of having 3 targets btw!

Thanks! Still being a bit lazy now.. it's that end of month/end of year feeling!
 

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Leapt into action this morning in an aim to get myself sorted out. First a phone call to the bank to get my card working again (the third time already in a month!), checked results from yesterday and my luck was in.. a huge win at the bookies which needed to be wagered through is complete as I lost every single subsequent bet at the bookies and so don't need to complete the large wagering. Happy days!

Looking through the MB sign ups, I am definitely getting to the end of these. After browsing for a while, I decided what was the best approach for these to get through them in a sensible, efficient way without trapping all my funds as they generally all have wagering requirements. Might take a bit longer, but I am ok with that. Have set myself up now for lots of funds next week to spur me on for Jan and also had £11 in Panelbase which should come through next week too :)

Then browsed the reloads. As I am going to run out of the sign ups very soon, I have been browsing these for the last week or so to try and understand them and figure out how I might want to approach them. Will likely have to do sign ups and reloads together because of the wagering needed on sign ups. Up till now I just did the really easy free spins, but dipping my toe in the water today with the ITV horse racing and will see how that goes.

Need to go back and calculate my total for this month as have a bit of interest, cashback etc which I haven't updated for.. will do this later, but it will be over £500 so my target for next month should be doable!
 

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Finally added up my earnings for the month and got to £522.28! Won't change much now as got a bit of interest to comes, but also some small MB losses to wager out some bonuses.

The amount seems surreal really and maybe even more so since a lot of it is actually invested in exchanges etc at the moment!

Interestingly I had £60 from surveys, £5 from task apps and £445 from matched betting. Will need to up my game a bit next month, but a solid start I feel. At the moment am saving for a load of house stuff that needs to be done and then can start paying down the mortgage.

Did some extra wagering tonight to release funds as won a huge amount at a bookie annoyingly, so not much needs to be done tomorrow, although more wagering is needed if I have time. Otherwise I am starting to try and set things up for next week to give myself a good start to the month.
 

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Slow day for surveys today due to the bank holiday... not much happening other than 20p from Citizenme. Hoping for 12p+ on Qmee tonight as I promised myself I would only cash out once I reached £5 and I have £4.88 right now...

Couldn't get out today with baby, so just did an XP on Roamler from home. Hoping to do some task apps tomorrow as there are some in a few places I want to go anyway.

MB I netted £20.71 today which isn't bad considering that is net of the PA monthly fee and I have a large amount of wagering going on to extract funds. Luckily a free £50 bet won direct into the exchange so no need to wager that one! I tried out a couple of reloads today; a boost which was easy and made a few quid and bet365 ITV racing. This one I only made £3.50 as I won the first bet, but when I looked for the next race the odds weren't that close. I found it oddly stressful and it is difficult for me to have time to do this "live", so probably more of a one off that a usual bet for me. Will need to get into some of the other reloads.

Reasonable start.. should be better tomorrow as I have some more free bets coming in after wagering today. *Edit: realised I still have a fait bit of wagering to do so may not get much at all tomorrow.. might even be negative whilst waiting to get my large free bet...
 
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An average sort of a day today. Got some surveys done (although not enough really... going to see if I can squeeze some more in this evening), did another XP for Roamler (not quite at level 2 yet... slowly getting there!) and only done a teeny bit of matched betting. Overall will be down on MB today once this evening is done as I have loads of rollover wagering/wagering to get free bets going through today which won't be entirely set off by my one reload deal that I did. Will still be up overall this month though and working hard for a highish free bet.... fingers crossed I keep winning into the exchange and then I'll get lots more cash.

I did manage to get out and do one Task 360 item for £6 (pending approval). It was for somewhere I already wanted to go, so win win there. I tried one from Clic and Walk for the same place, but it wouldn't let me book the task (even though it is still showing this evening). Bit annoying as that would be another £5, but never mind.

Jobs for this evening (baby allowing..):
- Check up on MB and continue wagering through for my big bonus and do another sign up if time.
- Surveys, surveys, surveys! (Panelbase, Valued opinions, Swagbucks, Qmee, Prolific, You Gov...)

Currently the week is standing as the following "earned" (targets showing as base and dream is in brackets):
- Surveys £3.29 / £25 (£25)
- Task apps £6 / £0 (£50)
- MB £20.71/ £125 (£175)
TOTAL: £29.46 / £150 (£250)


Lots of work to come I feel!
 

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