Side hustles that make you money

[verybighouseinthecountry]

Anyone have a side hustle that makes decent money? By decent I mean NMW or above, not £50 a month on Etsy selling crocheted hats.

Unfortunately I CBA to do proper cleaning in my own house, which is a shame as I read on another site that many people started cleaning as a very PT side hustle and the demand was so great it became a lucrative business.

I'm a FT carer for disabled adult child who's now at home FT. I had a legal background before DS.I am in a very part time support role now which is more respite for me. I'd love to do something that I really enjoy that pays more than NMW though, again only very part time.

Amazing!!! Well done

What sort of book?

I’ve gone with colouring book and picked one of my sons interests so he can keep me straight on content. If it goes well I’ll keep everything as templates so I can do more!

That sounds really lovely!

@verybighouseinthecountry definitely give data annotation a whirl. You can do additional tests on legal skills and they can unlock higher paying projects.

If you haven’t done the entrance test yet, my top tip is take loads of time and be ultra thorough and careful. Quality not quantity is order of the day.

Its very flexible but extremely insecure - lots of people stay for a good while and others report being booted without explanation.

Did you register as self employed for this @singlemum2025 and is it a lot of hassle to do?
I have always been employed so have no experience of this?

Registering and doing self-assessment for a simple job like cleaning is pretty straightforward, so don’t let that put you off, you can always ask HMRC for advice. Paying an accountant also might not be as much as you think and could save you a lot in the longer run. If you keep your self employed earnings below £1000 and don’t have another reason to complete self assessment, you don’t even need to do one and you won’t pay tax on the self employed earnings. If you earn more from self employment but owe less than £3k (I think - do check) you can say on your SE form that you want them to collect tax out of your regular employee income. It gets more complicated if you have capital stuff/equipment/ large overheads and I think that is where you definitely need an accountant.

Thanks for that @IntrinsicWorth. I have been asked to take on some work on a self employed basis and was not sure because of the self-assessment thing. I think I will give it a try. Thank you.

Those who mentioned cleaning, what’s the best way to get customers, I thought about facebook but there are loads of people offering cleaning on there

Try Air tasker and Task Rabbit. Nextdoor app, ads in supermarkets and newsagents.

Second next door, I got my very sporadic cleaning gig on there. The secret is not to spam your groups with ads for your services but DM people who say they need a cleaner and use good English and a friendly, competent tone ;)

I buy things in charity shops and resell online usually vinted..do reasonably well...two examples last week...a pair of prada shoes bought for £15 sold for £100, a vintage jacket bout for £20 sold for £42.50... £107.50 profit in 7 days and I love going round finding stuff do its win win really.

I sell weird snowdrop varieties.
Makes about £3k in the 5 week season.

Pretty interested in this Amazon affiliate/influencer scheme mentioned above as I have a dog park with dedicated facebook followers.

Incredibly difficult career to make any money from unless you have the luck of JK Rowling.

I remember years ago The Guardian article saying that publish writers made a pittance, like 12K a year, and that it was impossible to do full time unless you write a bestseller or are a celebrity with a following already.

I read some incredibly talented writers on Substack and continuously wonder why these women aren't making careers out of it.

@Charlize43 absolutely right as far as fiction goes. Maybe it’s easier in non-fiction or specialist writing but AI is making inroads there.

Someone I know writes absolutely brilliant fiction books and is published, has an agent, the works, but works a 9-5 because it pays sweet FA.

I have heard matched betting pays well- provided you learn to do it properly

cheat!🤬 you should go back to the charity shop you bought the items from and pay them the profit you pocketed...

Quite the opposite to the point of the thread, sorry, but his did you find her? Id happily ish 20% as well to just be able to hand the stuff over!

Edit: sorry! I hadn't clocked the date of the thread!

I have a trade and take on small jobs rather than do it full time.
Because I like my day job and don't want to go the extra step of needing a van etc. I think I'd hate it full time and ruin my back.

This is the best post on this thread. Find a product which is lightweight (low postage and storage costs) and not expensive. And is something people will buy on repeat. As a lawyer a few years ago I was peripherally involved in the sale of a company which sold one product, a cosmetic product - think sheet masks or a spot treatment, something like that. The owner of the company was a woman in her 20s who’d found this product in Korea or somewhere and got the UK distribution rights. Her company had one employee: her. Her warehouse was her spare room. After running the company for about 5 years she sold it for a number in the low millions. Brilliant.

Cheat how lol 🤣. I paid what they asked 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️. You know people resell for a living as a full time job!

I know lots of teachers who private tutor on the side, cash in hand. An easy £500 a month during term time. A very easy job that doesn't really cost anything other than time.

In the late 90s, just as Ebay was getting going, my parents made an absolute killing selling A5 sized paperback books on really niche, nerdy topics, such as clock making, London railway stations, and classic cars from the 70s. They almost all got sold to Americans.
Over the course of about 3 years, they probably made around £20k. It paid for us to have a number of lovely holidays that we wouldn't have otherwise been able to afford.
The business died out very quickly as the internet got stronger and more widespread, and the information from the books could be found online and for free. But it was a goldmine while it lasted.