I love the start of a new month, it is a great time to celebrate last month’s achievements and set new goals. In July I want to make £1,000 from all of my personal earning streams – this is money that I make outside of the business (eBay reselling, blogging, etc). Here is how I plan to make £1,000 this month.

Why have I decided to make £1,000?

I like big numbers, and £1,000 was a nice, round amount to aim for.

I want to use the money to go straight into my savings – we will be in America for Black Friday this year, and I can’t wait to hit up the bargains. This money will most likely be spent on one of our Orlando trips later in the year.

Declutter

The first thing I plan to do to help me to make £1,000 is to continue having a declutter. How will this help me to make £1,000? I plan on selling lots of the items I find, in a variety of ways.

One of the best ways is for me to list my unwanted items on eBay, but there is also Mercari, Music Magpie, Ziffit and Facebook groups.

I am constantly trying to declutter, however I never seem to get around to actually listing items for sale. I started off with a £10 sale on Mercari and this has motivated me to keep going. I have about three boxes of my personal, unwanted items to get rid of.

Matched betting

The next thing that I plan on doing to help me make £1,000 is matched betting.

If you haven’t heard of matched betting, it is a completely legal and legit way to use the free bonuses that bookies offer to make a guaranteed profit. I’ve been doing it for two years now, and you can read more about matched betting here.

Best of all, the earnings are tax free.

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Selling my old iPhone

I recently upgraded my iPhone to the iPhone 7, so I can sell my old one to help me to make £1,000. I hate selling old phones on eBay, something always goes wrong, so this time I am taking it straight to CEX and getting a little bit less than I would get from eBay, but I will walk away with cash in my pocket.

Completing online surveys

These days there are three main survey websites that I use; Prolific Academic, Mintvine and OnePoll, and I’ll be keeping up with completing online surveys with them.

I will only count any earnings here as they hit my bank account.

Mystery shopping

I love mystery shopping – it is a great way to get free meals out and free shopping. Plus you also earn a fee on top.

I plan on doing a few mystery shopping tasks this month to help me to make £1,000. Don’t forget there’s this one mystery shop you can complete for £50.

Keeping on track of my goal to make £1,000

I have set myself a really big goal, and in order to keep myself motivated and on track with my goal I am going to be using my 1% at a time printable, which you can get completely free from here.

The idea is this – you take your goal and divide it by 100 to find your 1%, which in my case is £10. Then you find 100 ways to make or save your 1%. This helps me to keep on track and have a visual reminder of my goal.

Plus, £10 seems a lot easier to make than £1,000!