About Us
What Is Living For The Week...
Living For The Week is a public, evidence-first project where we test side hustles and practical life improvements under normal constraints, then publish the results with numbers and context.
It started because most advice online skips the hard parts. It assumes you have spare time, a big budget, a useful network, or an audience ready to buy. If you are trying to improve your situation in a normal week, that advice often falls apart fast.
We wanted something more useful than opinions and screenshots. So we built a simple system: pick one idea, set a clear scope, track the work, and publish what happened. If it works, you get a repeatable approach. If it fails, you still get clarity, and you avoid wasting time on the same dead end.
Why We're Doing This...
Living For The Week is built around a situation we recognise. You can do the right things and still feel stuck. Bills keep moving. Time disappears. And most “opportunities” either feel risky, vague, or like they only work for people who already have momentum.
We are not approaching this as full-time creators or professional entrepreneurs. We are building it in the margins of a normal week, with a tight budget, and with the expectation that some tests will be boring, slow, or simply not worth repeating. That is the point. If we only published the wins, it would not be useful.
Our Approach
Every test is designed to be realistic and comparable. We start by writing down:
The objective and the hypothesis
The exact constraints and success criteria
What we will measure, and how we will measure it
The risks, downsides, and worst-case outcomes
Then we run the test, capture evidence as we go, and publish a report that shows the full picture, including context that usually gets left out.
The Constraints We Work Under
We keep the baseline consistent so results mean something:
Time cap: 5 hours per week
Budget cap: £100 per month
Starting point: zero experience
No special access, no paid shout-outs, no behind-the-scenes advantages
If we break a constraint for a specific test, we will say so clearly and explain why.
What We Publish
You will see:
Side hustle tests with time spent, costs, revenue, and what we would do differently
Tools and systems that reduce effort or improve consistency
Skill building that supports better outcomes over time
Case studies and small challenges you can copy under the same constraints
The website is the archive and source of truth. Social posts are for distribution and updates.
From time to time we will share links to tools and resources we use. Some of those links may be affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if you choose to buy.
It does not change the price you pay.
We will always label these links clearly. More importantly, we will only recommend things we have actually used, and that we genuinely think are worth it. If something is not good value, we will say so. If our view changes over time, we will update the recommendation and explain what changed.
Who We Are
We are a small team building this quietly and consistently. We are not sharing every personal detail, because we want to keep the focus on the work, and because privacy matters. But we are not hiding behind a brand either.
We are people who have tried things that sounded sensible on paper and did not work in practice. We have also had small wins that came from doing the basics for long enough. Living For The Week is our way of turning that experience into something more concrete, by testing ideas properly and showing the working.
You will see the process as it happens. The false starts. The trade-offs. The admin. The awkward bits. The moments where motivation drops and the numbers force a decision. That is the reality most people are dealing with, and it is the part we think is worth documenting.
What We Believe
A few principles guide everything here:
- Evidence beats confidence
- Small tests beat big promises
- Clarity beats motivation
- If it is not repeatable, it is not that useful
We will always include the time required, the risks, and the downside. We will publish failures. We will avoid hype and “get rich quick” framing. This is about short-term extra income, better decisions, and building momentum over time.
What should we test next?
If you have an idea you want us to run under the same constraints, send it in. If it is a good fit, we will scope it, test it, and publish the results.
