To ask what is your 'side hustle' and how much do you earn?

[MisterMakerMakes]

I need to preface this with apologising for using the term 'side hustle'. I know it is hated by many

I work part time but over the years I have supplemented my income with various side hustles. Cleaning, buying and selling, cake decorating, etc. Now I tutor and earn about 350 a month extra.

What is your side hustle if you have one and how much do you earn each month from it?

I’m a lecturer and do bits of writing work for an exam board. It’s fits and starts, but averages out at a couple of hundred pounds a month over the year.

1-3k a month making and selling on Etsy. It’s taken me 2 years to get here and this year has been awesome!

@Littlewhitedove2

1-3k a month making and selling on Etsy. It’s taken me 2 years to get here and this year has been awesome!

Well done!

I teach summer school on occasion. It's around £700 for 7.5 hours. This thread is reminding me I ought to motivate myself to do it more.

@1manwenttomow have a look on Facebook for a group called 20Booksto50K - they are people who write and self-publish on Amazon.

The idea is you find your fiction genre or non-fiction niche and then churn out short books (mostly 50k words but can be as short as 10k depending on genre). If you write a series of books, regularly producing new ones for the same readership market, you're more likely to make an income of $50k by the time you've written 20 books.

They advise on promotion, strategies etc.

I would be tempted to join them, but I keep thinking of non-commercial ideas (like family history, local history ideas) that I want to write first!

I started selling photography nearly 20 years ago, but didn’t make much. Then started selling art and various crafts on Folksy and Etsy. This progressed to self-publishing on Amazon KDP, which makes more than I have doing anything else, apart from tutoring. I also make a bit doing surveys. DH gets a small monthly amount from YouTube.

@Trying2Heal thank you so much x

Watching with interest!

Is matched betting very risky and time consuming?

I hope everyone is declaring their extra income for tax where appropriate

I'm not sure if this counts or not, but I make anything between £20 - £80 per month selling my old, unwanted stuff on Ebay. I know I talk about it a lot but it's such easy money. I just list everything on Buy It Now and let it sit there until someone buys something. I've been doing it for years, but a few years ago I decided I couldn't be bothered and gave a bag of stuff to a charity shop, which I then regretted. It's such a no-brainer - why would you give stuff away for free when you could get money for it? (Not the same as giving hand-me-down baby clothes to family members etc). I did have a very quiet few months earlier this year, but now it's gone the other way and I've had the two most successful months I've had in ages.

Such an interesting thread

what is low level casino ??

I break in, bring on and sell horses and larger ponies. I keep each one for about a year. I make upto 3k per horse. It's not great riches when you work out the hourly rate but I enjoy it and am proud of what I achieve with them. Each horse teaches me something new. So does each deal (whether I'm buying or selling). The trick is to sell them with total honesty, and not until they're ready. And give the animal social mobility, taking advantage of the fact that the kind of people I sell to would never in a million years buy from the kind of people I buy from - not because there's anything wrong with the horse, but because they're snobs. Not being a snob can be really profitable.

Top Cash Back. I made an additional 1000 last year I save it all year and it pay for Xmas or emergencies

@Littlewhitedove2 well done!! Out of interest/if you don’t mind me asking - what do you make?

@mrsbyers

I hope everyone is declaring their extra income for tax where appropriate

No, we all nick it, and then we talk about it on public websites where it's pretty easy to figure out someone's real identity.

I work at events and sports stadia on match days, and make stuff to sell on Etsy. I make more from Etsy than the other stuff - about £3k in last 3 months - but I do all of it for fun rather than for the money. It's been hard this year with few events and then being behind closed doors for sports, it's nowhere near as sociable as it used to be! I save up my extra earnings for holidays.

Interesting, one thing I'm looking into doing is creating niche templates that would be available for instant download on etsy.

If you find your niche you can make a few hundred £ a month in passive income as once you've made your template and paid the fee to list it you don't have to do any further work

@alliwantisabitofpeace I really must get round to joining Top Cashback! I was meaning to but never did. Does it count as taxable income?

Indie author pulling in a couple of hundred a month in book royalties.

£400 per month newsletter, £600 per month website

@mrsbyers

I hope everyone is declaring their extra income for tax where appropriate

As far as matched betting goes winnings from gambling are not taxable.

Freelance accountant here.
About £1 -2 k per month. I also have a day job in an accountancy firm.

Pulling up the cushions on sofas in my friends' and my relations' houses. Average income £0.75 per annum. Tax free.

Makeup artist and hairstylist. About £25k a year working weekends and afternoons.