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Side hussle! £250/£500 extra each month?

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Silvertincan · 06/10/2019 08:36

Hello, looking for advice after DP and I realised that with £500 extra each month we could meet all of our savings goals in 10months!!

Looking for inspiration as to how we could do this, I'm thinking £250 each per month, so around £60 a week!

AIBU or is this totally do-able on top of two full time jobs?

Thanks Grin

OP posts:
TheStoreRoom · 06/10/2019 08:38

Matched betting always comes up but I cannot get my head around it personally

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Silvertincan · 06/10/2019 08:48

I'm the same, can't work out how you would make decent amounts of money doing it Confused

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FlipFlopChipShop · 06/10/2019 08:58

Buy and sell on eBay? Can you make anything crafty for Christmas? Market research groups?

Goandplay · 06/10/2019 09:03

Pub work?
Retail weekend / evening job leading up to Christmas?
Do you have a skill people need?

WaterSheep · 06/10/2019 09:04

Sell anything you no longer need on FB market place, gumtree or Shpock. People will say Ebay, but I prefer collection only as then there are no problems with returns and also no fees.

Secondly any chance you could take in ironing? The people near me who do this charge a fair bit and it's easily done in an evening.

MuchBetterNow · 06/10/2019 09:04

My dh knows a guy who regularly needs casual labour for handyman and gardening jobs. He picks up between 250 and 500 a month extra working for him.
If you have a spare bedroom foreign students are an option. We live in a university town and lots of my neighbours do this.
I know people mean well by suggesting eBay selling but we've found it to be frustrating and pretty self limiting once you run out of stuff to sell.

3luckystars · 06/10/2019 09:05

Sell stuff. I read that most people have about $3000 worth of stuff in their house that they could sell.

Babysitting?

TidyDancer · 06/10/2019 09:06

I was a bit cynical about Matched Betting tbh but have finally started this weekend and have made nearly £30 with very little effort, and can see making at least another £450-500 just from welcome offers. I would give it a go if I were you.

3luckystars · 06/10/2019 09:07

Argos and the toy shops take on temp staff running up to Christmas.

chomalungma · 06/10/2019 09:07

I was a bit cynical about Matched Betting tbh but have finally started this weekend and have made nearly £30 with very little effort, and can see making at least another £450-500 just from welcome offers

Getting started is easy. Maintaining it after the offers is more difficult.

Rezie · 06/10/2019 09:08

I want this aswell! There are not many part time jobs that work around my schedule. There are quite a few online work places for data-entry/translation but the reviews if these places are so mixed. A friend of mine earns over $2000/month from online work but then there are so many stories about peoe not getting paid and all the work to get the work is not worth the income. Doea anybody have experience with Upwork type companies?

TheCanterburyWhales · 06/10/2019 09:10

Join us on the earn a tenner a day thread

Loads of suggestions. If you check out the September thread it has a list of links near the beginning.

GunpowderGelatine · 06/10/2019 09:10

£250 with matched betting is totally doable each morning. Make sure you take advantage of the referral bonuses and refer each other to bookies

OhioOhioOhio · 06/10/2019 09:10

Do your weekly shop one day late each week. You always find something in the cupboard and eventually it means you've saved a weeks shopping by doing without.

OhioOhioOhio · 06/10/2019 09:10

Cut back on Christmas.

GunpowderGelatine · 06/10/2019 09:11

*each month, each morning would be very ambitious 😂😂

blackcat86 · 06/10/2019 09:16

I made a couple of extra hundred a month as an Avon rep (its MLM so does come with a caution but with Christmas coming you could make a decent profit and then quit). I couldn't keep it up enough to make it worth it with a job and a toddler. I also sold a load of 2nd hand clothes to patanam who send you a big bag to fill and send back to them for free. They gave me £60 cash which I was really happy with as it would have taken me a lot more effort to have sold each thing on Ebay - it was only high street stuff so nothing high value. DHs cousin does well taking in ironing which I know has been mentioned but she spent about £250 on a professional iron and then had to by bags etc. She has made it a good business but her DC are school age so she has time in the day to do it all.

SnapAndFartAllDayLong · 06/10/2019 09:19

thecanterberrywhale

Why abouts is the thread? I'd like to join Smile

Also how do I find out more about matched betting??

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Silvertincan · 06/10/2019 09:22

Thank you for the suggestions.
I'll have a look for the ten pounds a day thread!

How does matched betting work then, after you've signed up to all of the betting offers for first timers?

I work full time, and it's long hours so normally I'm in work by 7:45 and home between 6/6:30, so I don't think I could do a retail job on the side, being so inflexible.

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3luckystars · 06/10/2019 09:22

I love Avon. They had really good value moisturiser and lots of things I loved when I tried them.
I would buy it a the time only they kept bringing out new brochures and offers. Why dont they just do a decent online site and cut that crap out.

Anyway, what about working just one day over the weekend (depending if you have children). Waitressing or in a shop. If you are working then you are not spending.

catwithnohat · 06/10/2019 09:36

£250 with matched betting is totally doable each morning Do you mean matched betting or high risk casino offers? And is that consistently or on average?

Swisskit · 06/10/2019 09:37

I earn about 10 a week from online surveys. I often do them during tea break or while watching telly etc so they don't use up free time.

I now it's not much, but maybe combine this with selling stuff on eBay and some of the other suggestions on here. Again, the 10 a day thread is full of useful advice.

Jaxinthebox · 06/10/2019 09:48

I do bodyshop from home and earnings are good, no hassle to sell, its your business so you work your own hours around other commitments. Lots of people are in FT work/education who have this as a side job and do really well. What you put in is what you get as a result, but commission is 25% and rises.

Selling on ebay/fb is fine until you run out of things to sell. Doing matched betting is easy to start out but harder to maintain.

missbattenburg · 06/10/2019 10:01

Matched Betting should make you around £1500 of that with the startup offers. After that it gets harder but there is no rule to say all your £500s should come from one source.

Sign up to Team Profit or Odds Monkey, follow the tutorials until the beginner offers dry up. Cash out and move onto something else.

Mistigri · 06/10/2019 10:06

What skills do you have?

I do agency translation work evenings/weekends and can earn about €3-4k a month doing that.

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