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As with my recent look back at my mortgage overpayments, now that we're in 2023 (well into it, it's February!) I can look back at my spread sheets and see what the impact last years side hustling was.

This is the first year that I've properly tracked my side hustle money. Most of it tended to go into my Paypal and then just sit there until I bought something off eBay. But with more of a focus on FIRE in the past few years I realised I needed to be a bit more sensible about this as well.

And I'm very glad I did, as I can now see the impact of all those little sums from various sources, that just come drifting in throughout the year.

Becoming a Women's Institute Speaker

In a recent post about my side hustles I mentioned that one of my main earning streams was doing talks for the Women's Institute.

I really enjoy my talks as an alternative side hustle, and I know that WIs need a good diversity of speakers. So I thought I would write a little guide on how I became a speaker, and a few things you need to keep in mind if you want to become one yourself.

Side Hustle Total - January to April 2022

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I don't have a huge number of side hustles, especially compared to others in the FIRE world. I tend to fall in and out of them as my attention waxes and wanes. And some of them (such as YouGov) have a high total to reach before payout so there are quite a few that are slow burners.

Despite that, this year I decided to finally start tracking my side hustles and the amount I'm earning from them. When it's a slow drip of £2 here and £5 there it can feel like you're not getting much out of it. But totalling it all up makes you more aware of how much you've actually earned over 12 months and can help with motivation. 

Zazzle Shops Update: June 2021

In my recent post about my mortgage overpayments I mentioned a few of my side-hustles that I use to earn a few extra pennies to go towards the mortgage.

One of my other side-hustles, although not dedicated to becoming mortgage free (it goes to my Lifetime ISA instead) is Zazzle. This print-on-demand company allows you to upload your original works, set them up to print on various products, and then list them for sale. Zazzle handles the printing and dispatch, so you only get a small amount of the money, but you can bump up your percentage (this does bump up the cost of the product though) to earn a bit more.