Extra cash challenge - May results

Ooops, this is really late because I thought I had posted it already, but I just realized it was still in draft mode today!  

Here are my numbers for the extra cash challenge for May:

Advertising:  $251.74
Amazon: $9.24
ING/Capital One 360: $14.27
Lending Club: $1.15
Part-time job: 25.97

Total: $302.37

Difference from last month: - $2.09

It looks like another good and consistent month! I am not going to be working the whole month of June, so I'm hoping to be able to bring these numbers up even more!  I still have a lot of unsold stuff from my aunt that I have already listed on Ebay a few times.  I got permission to lower the prices a bit, so I'll give it one last shot to get the left over stuff sold. I've been listing these items on and off since the beginning of the year without much luck. I think we agreed on 20% commission for me to list these.  If I can't get anything else to sell, I will have made about $50 total since I first started listing her stuff. It probably wasn't worth my time with all the times I listed them and made multiple trips to the post office. So, I'll re-list the unsold junk a few more times this month and then I'll post my final profits on next month's extra cash challenge.

Extra cash challenge - April results

Each month I total up any money I have made outside of my regular job. In this day and age it's good to have multiple streams of income. Here are April's results:

Advertising: $244.92
Amazon: $26.92
ING/Capital One 360: $14.10
Lending Club: $1.19
Part-time job: $17.33

Total: $304.46

Difference from last month: +$102.08

I'm pretty happy with my results this past month. Who couldn't use an extra $300?  Of course most of this is pre-tax money, so it's probably closer to $200.

After next Friday any "extra" cash will be my only income. I am a temporary worker and they have this weird agreement in their contracts that once a temp worker works three years at the same position, they have to take a mandatory 60 day unpaid leave of absence. Stupid rules. However, they have said I could apply for unemployment, so I will probably do that so I at least get some money coming in during that time. I am looking forward to some time away from the grind though. Hopefully I can motivate myself to try to come up with some ways to make some money while I wait out the 2 months.

Extra cash challenge - March results

Here are my results for my extra cash challenge for March.


Advertising: $135.39
Amazon: $34.62
ING/Capital One 360: $13.82
Lending Club: $1.23
Part-time job: $17.32

Total: $202.38

Difference from last month:  - $50.71

I don't know where the time has went - it's almost May already and I'm finally getting this post done.  Hopefully I will do better with my extra cash challenge next month because I'll need to.  I'll write up another post with the details why soon.