CHALLENGE: 7 days - $500 - buy swap and sell can it be done?

Since getting a lot of things out with my mental health team I am finding a little more motivation (hence 2 blog posts in 2 days!), I have set myself a challenge, I have 2 days off work, I am going through EVERYTHING and tossing what we don't use, read and wear. Well not tossing (unless it is worthy of tossing!) everything will be listed on buy swap sell in an effort to raise $500 in 7 days.

I'll give you a bit of a back story as to why I want $500 in a short space of time, recently my husband and I have been working on our relationship and if you've ever followed this blog or my page you'll know it has been fragile for a while. We have talked and made some serious commitments to both change our ways, work together as a team instead of against each other.

Rewind to February just after I got back from the UK - that's another post I need to write about! Back on topic, the husband and I made our most expensive purchase yet as a couple. We bought "Flic"
 

My husband has been a truck driver since we met 11 years ago, more specifically he has been a furniture removalist ever since I met him and in that first week of meeting spoke of his dreams to own his own truck and his own removals company. Something financially we never imagined possible though. Until now.

So we had Flic and couldn't afford a trailer yet so he has been doing some haulage work while we save and we have just put our name down for a trailer! It is a bit of a scary world as we have never had finance or repayments of this kind ever but we are committed to making it work. With my business knowledge, his experience in the industry I know we can make this work.

Back to my $500, to 100% secure this trailer we need a $2000 deposit within 7 days, by the time hubby gets paid for the week we will have that but we also have a fuel bill so I am trying to relieve a little pressure.


Some of you maybe thinking right now, why are we doing this? Why put extra pressure on ourselves financially like this? Well I'll tell you! To form a successful business you have to put money, time and effort in to reap the reward, this has been my husbands goal for over 11 years, we are building a future for our children, when we are up and running we will be in a position to buy a house which we couldn't do before, my husband can be home more eventually (not in the beginning stages) so although the start is tough, the result will be more than worth it.


I'll be sure to do some updates on how the buy swap challenge goes!