Sunday, February 1, 2015

January side hustles 2015


The great thing about doing side hustles to generate extra income is that you can hustle on your own terms.  The more hard work, time, and creative effort you put in, the more extra money you can make.  You can hustle as little or as much as you want, whenever you want.  It’s your extra money, and you can choose how you want to spend it.  Instead of focusing on what ideas don’t apply to you, try focusing on different side hustle ideas that you can implement to work for your situation.

Welcome to February, the start of another brand new month!  Are you watching the Superbowl this afternoon?  Now that January has ended, have you been starting this year off right?

2014 was a great year of relentless improvement of our finances. Together we have managed to save 40% of our take home income.  We could have done better, but we did a fair amount of splurging. 

Saving money is a hot topic around the office these days.  Seems like there are a lot more people bringing their own lunch.  Maybe my consistency in bringing lunch to work has set a good example for others?  When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, saving more money is a big one. 

One easy way to save more money is to do some hustling on the side.  There is a limit to how much money you can save (frugality only goes so far), but there are no limits to how much money you can make.

Here’s our monthly summary of side income that we have generated in the month of January.

Cash Back
On 1.1, I received a $30.68 PayPal deposit from Mr. Rebates
On 1.4, I received a $1 PayPal deposit from PayPal cash back.  I haven’t been using my PayPal account as much as before.  With how busy the holidays have been, we haven’t even maxed out our Bluebird accounts!
On 1.11, I received $150 cash back from AMEX Offers on my Simplycash credit card (Spend $150 at AT&T Wireless, get $150 credit)
On 1.23, I received $5.23 cash back on my Simplycash credit card from AMEX.
On 1.27, I received a $25 statement credit reimbursement for a wire transfer fee.  I just nicely asked if the customer service representative could reverse the fee charged to my account.

Website income
On 1.22, I received a direct deposit of $101.81 in my checking account from website income.

Search and Win
On 1.12, I received a $5 Amazon gift card from Swagbucks
On 1.31, I received a $5 Amazon gift card from Swagbucks
On 1.1, I received a $5 Amazon gift card from Bing
On 1.11, my wife received a $5 Amazon gift card from Bing
On 1.20, I received a $5 Amazon gift card from Bing
Mypoints
On 1.31, I received a $10 Amazon gift card from Mypoints

Paid surveys
On 1.2, I received a $5 Amazon gift card from Opinion Outpost
On 1.12, I received $3 PayPal credit from PineCone Research
On 1.27, I received $6 PayPal credit from PineCone Research
E-rewards Medical
On 1.21, I received a $30 check from E-rewards for a health related survey

Side Job
No teaching or consulting income this month.  Work was done and I should be getting paid next month.

Rental Income
On 1.1, I received $562 rental income from our housemate

Misc. Income
On 1.3, my wife received a settlement check for $24 from Organix for shampoo she purchased

Monthly Totals:
January was a nice productive side hustle month.
We earned $211.91 in cash back
We earned $101.81 from website income
We earned $40 worth of Amazon gift certificates from Search and Win sites
We earned $39 in cash from paid surveys
We earned $562 from rental income from our two housemates
We earned $24 of miscellaneous income from a settlement claim

All of this totals $978.72 from our side hustles for the month of January, not a bad way to start the year off. 

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