Side Hustle Challenge Week 1 Check in

So Week 1 didn't exactly go as planned.

My totals were:

 

Qmee $3.10

Connect $11.04

mturk $4.27

freecash $4

Scrambly $5

Pogo $3.04

Teachers pay teachers $2.87

Total $33.68


Which is less than half of the $10 a day I was hoping to make. But onward! Lessons learned: the game offers from Freecash and Scrambly, while easy to do while watching TV or standing in line or waiting to pick up my kids, take a lot of time per hour for how much they make. Connect is clearly my biggest earner and I think mturk could be too if I put in the time, the problem being that neither of those really work on my cell phone very well so they don't work for those in between times when I'm out and about or waiting. Hopefully a few bigger ticket things will come up soon so that I can start to make up some of the difference. 

Side Hustle Challenge: Freecash.com

The first site I want to talk about for my summer side hustle challenge is one of my tried and trues, Freecash.com

Freecash.com is a user-friendly platform that allows you to earn money online by completing simple tasks like surveys, offers, and app downloads. It has quickly become one of the top-rated GPT (Get-Paid-To) websites due to its fast payouts, global accessibility, and a wide range of earning opportunities.

It’s free to join, and you can start earning right away—no experience required.

By incorporating Freecash.com into your  side hustle challenge, you can:

• Track progress easily with built-in earnings stats

• Stay motivated with leaderboards and giveaways

• Get paid quickly via PayPal, crypto, or gift cards

How to Make Extra Money on Freecash.com

Here’s how you can maximize your earnings:

1. Complete Daily Surveys: Each survey pays a few dollars, and they take only 5–20 minutes to complete.

2. Try Featured Offers: Download an app or sign up for a free trial to earn quick rewards.

3. Invite Friends: Their referral program allows you to earn a commission when your friends sign up and use the platform.

Users report earning anywhere from $5 to $50 per day depending on the time they invest.

My favorite ways to earn on Freecash.com

1. I check the featured or recommended games every day.
2. I make sure to have at least one game installed that credits at least a penny for daily plays.
3. I open that game every day, then after playing for the required amount of time, I go back to freecash to collect my daily box, which is usually between 1 and 10 cents for free but can be more.
4. I also look through the games to see which ones have levels I can complete quickly and easily for larger payouts.  

Summer Side Hustle Day 1

 So today is the first official day of my side hustle challenge and I'm not really sure what to report. I guess here's my plan.

I'm going to take surveys, do offers, and play games on "beer money" type sites, focusing on the ones that I've learned over the years are the best paying ones. Early on in the summer, before other things start kicking up, this is going to be the primary stream of income so it will probably be a lot of time per day because this is still really trading time for money. I plan to take surveys while waiting in lines or at pickup for my kids and when watching TV at night, but to get to $10 a day I may need to kick it up past that.

I'm going to make one thing a day that will hopefully make money in the future. This may be a piece of content I'm hoping to eventually be able to monetize in the future, a printable to sell on etsy or teachers pay teachers, or ... something I haven't thought of.

Apply to an opportunity, sign up for a site, or bid a freelance job every day.

Spend some (at least a little) time learning a skill that can help with making money in the future every day.

Let's try this side hustle challenge thing again, shall we

 Hi friends. So you know how last year i said I was going to do a side hustle challenge for a week and promptly made it two days?

Oops.

So now that it's summer and I have some time, I want to try this side hustle challenge thing again.

I want to set my expectations a little more reasonably this time, so here's my plan:

 

• My goal is to make $10 a day for a month in side money, starting Monday June 9. Last time I said $33 a day and really don't think that was a reasonable place to start.
• I'm going to check in once a week instead of every day. I will tell you my totals for the week from all the sites I use and average that out by the day to see if I'm making progress towards my goal.
• At least once a week, I will separately write a post about a site I'm using for my side hustle challenge and what I like about it.

I hope you'll stick with me, and hopefully I'll stick with me!