Results of my summer money attempts...

So the summer has now gone, although I have a few weeks holiday left. How did my small plans for making money pay off?

Well if you never read my earlier blogs or have forgotten my plans I'll remind you.

I couldn't find a job because I left it too late and was too honest, so that left me with these options: sell stuff on ebay, find ways to make money online.

The ebay selling has gone well. My last 2 pieces of warhammer are up for sale now, and I estimate that I have made about £100 in total from selling it. Although it cost me about £250, I wasn't going to use it again, so I can consider this total a profit. Not only that but I am now selling some of my friend's warhammer for a 10% commision. This isn't really worth it because at the most I'd make about £10 for quite a lot of effort. Since running out of warhammer to sell I have been looking for other stuff I can sell. This search gave poor results (mainly because I only thought about it in my head) but then I stumbled upon a scalextric car on ebay. I had a number of scalextric cars, and am now selling a couple on ebay. Some of them hold far more sentimental value to me than my warhammer did. Just because I used them a lot more I suppose, and they remind me of my joyous youth.
The Caterham 7 Gulf #1, which I am currently selling, seems to be really rare. A new one has currently been bid up to £42 and the auction is a few days from finishing, so my fingers are crossed! There seems to be a fair amount of interest in my little caterham, which I am rather fond of, so I hope the buyer takes good care of it!

That is about the full extent of my ebay money making plans. Reasonably successful I'd say, although I could have made more money on the warhammer if I hadn't sold most of it to a chap that came to my house and bought most of my collection for £56.

What other ways could I possibly have had? lol. If only I had found a job...sigh.

Well, after research I found out that blogging was quite the little earner. So I started this blog. I started it on wordpress with the aim of joining a pay per post site once I had blogged for 30 days. Sadly when I reached this stage I found out that wordpress wouldn't allow you to use your blog in this manner. So I came here, to blogger. Now blogger would let me put adverts on my site, so far I have earnt a little bit from ads. My blog would be a nice little earner, but I'm just not getting enough traffic to do so. I get about 3 or 4 views a day, most from the same person :p, so the blogging hasn't really come through for me. I don't think my blog is interesting enough to be honest.

The other plans I had were stock photography and gambling lol. The stock photography turned out to be too hard to get approved photos. I had one which was approved a couple of months ago, and as yet I don't think anyone has downloaded it. The gambling was something I was never going to do. I was tempted to do roulette, doubling my bet on red and black each time to make a small profit every win, but gambling online isn't something I want to start doing.

However when pokerstars gave me $5 free money to play with, I thought why not try and earn some money through poker - at least there is skill involved. This was a good plan until I found out that I am/was actually crap at poker lol. I made some research into how to be a good poker player, but I never really cared enough about the money I was given to play properly.

When this was depleted I looked around for other ways I could play poker online without investing any of my own money. Last night this was in fact. So anyway, I found PKR.com after watching one of their tournaments on TV. They have freerolls, where you can win a small amount of cash ($1-$5), and enter for free. This is great, but a freeroll is a tournament. Because it's free everyone wants to enter. Registering isn't a problem, but you are playing against 2000 players for this small amount of cash. To win one of these tournaments would probably take 3-4 hours? They are fun nonetheless though, and my only route to becoming semi-pro at poker, because I have vowed never to use my own money. I finished my best one an hour ago, with a position I was most proud of. 152nd. Now I think that is impressive for a 2000 people tournament. Sadly you only start getting paid at 80th place, and only 14 cents. But it's a good start. I also came 9th out of 244 players in a play money tournament, which I was also pleased with. So maybe there is still hope for earning money online.

PKR is incidently really good. You make an avatar look however you wish and then play with them against other people and their avatars. So its as close as you can get to playing the real thing with people in the room with you. (its all 3D graphics) The TV program just puts a high profile tournament table on, and has a few commentators. If that is all you need to do to make good tv then its a fairly decent program I'd say. Although when the editors leave the bits which the commentators ask to be cut in the program it does help. I was laughing anyway.

So that is the sum total of my money earning exploits this summer. (a few jobs for my Dad got me a bit too).

Interesting? Or was that another waste of time :p

Happenings

So why haven't I posted for 10 days? Well its because I have been knackered. Hmmm what was I doing ten days ago? Well I don't think I was doing much. I know a long run put me out for a few days. Then last Thursday I got my A level results, and as far as I'm aware I've been partying ever since and sleeping in between. Partying is a loose word to use there, but I was out with friends.

My A levels were good. I got 4 A's in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and German. Although I still cannot believe I got an A in further maths. It is epically hard, and I started revising for the last and hardest module, FP3 about 2 and a half days before the exam. After 22 hours of revision I somehow managed to go from a U to an A, and even get an A in the exam. Now that's what I call cramming. Physics and straight Maths were fine, but I got B's in all my German modules. Now I'm not sure how good the B's were but I ended up with a fairly comfortable A, 11 marks over the boundary. I must have dropped around 20 marks below the A grade throughout then, because I was about 30 up last year. So yeah, I was ecstatic.

We went to the pub, and then I got into a friend's car and went where the flow took me. Apart from not being fed dinner this was a great idea. We went more pubs and stuff. I could tell you everything but I'm tired and you don't even care. Basically there were parties, and I got little sleep. Yet here I am now writing this blog. To be fair I got 12 hours sleep last night.

If anyone was reading my other blogs you will know of my Warhammer exploits. Here is an update. I had a few things on ebay, and this really nice guy who lives nearby saw them. He asked me if he could buy both, and I had a lengthy conversation with him about the rest of my stuff. So at about 10am today, he left me with £56.50 and 3 tanks, whilst he left with the rest of my collection. I was most happy with this, since it saved me the hassle of having to put it all on ebay, and I get the dosh straight away. So yeah... and I haven't spent it already...

What else has been happening? Well, lots. My mind is busy. We had some friends down from cambridge who I only saw a bit of because I was out all the time, but they were cool. My room had been redecorated by myself and mother, double bed arrived. I get to spend my first night on it tonight.

My parents went to scotland for 5 days. I would have been alone at home if it weren't for good old skype, and a certain someone who kept me company.

So basically a load of interesting stuff happened. If you are lucky I will elaborate soon in the future. My time that was being spent painting warhammer can be spent blogging.

Sorry about the wait if anyone cared, but I'm back now :p

and if anyone cares my cat is trying to claw her way in through my window. What a naughty girl. Shut up cookie!