Are there ANY part time, work from home jobs, that you can actually make some money from?

[bustle]

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I've tried Avon, not only did I hate it, it only made me about £30 a month.

I've tried mystery shopping - great when I was getting the £50 jobs, but to get those I had to do hundreds of the £5, takes-two-hours-and-two-gallons-of-fuel jobs.

Is there actually anything you can do that works? Anyone tried Kleeneze? Betterware? Any other suggestions?

[LucyEllensmummy]

I shall watch this thread with interest.

[bustle]

I think there's only us watching it, LEMummy!

[kkey21]

And me! x

[scifinerd]

I am watching it too.

[bustle]

So perhaps the answer's no then

Oh well, off to bed, I'll check back tomorrow. Night everyone.

[Bubble99]

Yes. But it's not one you'll want to tell the grandchildren about.

[Squiffy]

Take in ironing

Run children's party food catering service (including making the cakes, buying the napkins etc)

Almost free to set up - leaflet the area you want to cover and offer a 2-for 1 or free shirt trial or something. Round our way we pay 60p a shirt, which equates to a very good hourly rate.

The organised ones never really pay IMHO - I did Avon for years as as student and it was fine as an easy supplement to my other student jobs, but not as a money-spinner in it's own right as such (I made much much more for less effort delivering newspapers for example)

[SimpleAsABC]

kleeneze was rubbish!

[paolosgirl]

A woman round here started a local newsletter/business directory. It's doing amazingly well - and is now in colour on glossy paper!

[Smine]

Keep the ideas coming, I'm also watching.
Looked into the party food catering, too dodgey unless you get certificates etc. Don't fancy being sued. lol

[RubberDuck]

Kleeneze did it as long as it took to pay back the initial outlay and quit. Never again.

Betterware is supposedly better because you don't have to pay for your catalogues but you still have to lug catalogues around and do the door-to-door thing which is a thankless task in itself.

Avon (from word of mouth with friends who have done it) is supposed to be one of the better ones, so if you've done it and hated it I'd guess it's best to write off all catalogue-based home businesses.

[solidgoldsoddingjanuaryagain]

Market research: you will make more money if you have a car but can still make some money without. Basically this is not actually work-from-home in that you have to go out and it's only doable if you have some childcare but it pays about £50 a day. Ipsos Mori are apparently quite good and Kantar OK depending on where you are.

[GumsNRoses]

I applied and got an interview with this company, all legit and above board, but the system the use does not support cable telephones, so was a no go for me

[stripeytiger]

Also watching this thread with interest. Have just resigned from my part-time job as a receptionist. I don't necessarily want to work from home, but finding a job in which you can be flexible with hours to fit around school runs, school holidays and taking time off when dcs are poorly is so difficult.

Interesting about market research Solidgoldsoddingjanuaryagain, have you done it, what was it like?

[Sawyer64]

I've done betterware and it is hard work,but as all the stuff is pretty useful I could earn £60-100 a month,ok to top up part time hours,but not enough for all the work you put in IMO.

I think the Usborne book type thing looks good,as obviously its not "working at home"
but you can go into playgroups schools,GP surgeries etc. and leave the books,and you can take DC with you.

A friend of mine does nights for the royal mail in their sorting office,she starts at 9pm or 10pm ish,so she can put the DC's to bed,and gets in about 4-5am,so she gets a couple of hours sleep before the school run.

[stripeytiger]

The Usborne book job sounds ok, not sure about nights at Royal Mail though

[thritbies]

Have done Partylite for 2y, and more recently usborne and phoenix. I think these things- and others like virgin vie, can definitely work but you need to put in loads of effort building up your customer base.

[lovemybabes]

proofreading for investment banks - £30 an hour

[IdrisTheDragon]

Do you need a proofreading qualification to do that?

[LucyEllensmummy]

i'll have some of that lovemybabes - how do you find out about it? Oh, imagine the headaches though