If you needed extra money

[Whatwillitbenext]

....an extra £100 per week

You both work full time

Can't cut anything back at all (fine tooth comb through the budget has already been done)

Not eligible for any benefits even with low wages and high childcare costs.

What would you do? I've had 2nd jobs before, but now we have 2 kids under 6 and not much support.

We've gone interest only for a few months but it is very temporary. I'll enquire about the term thanks.

Thank you 😊

Sell on eBay.

Standing on the corner.

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Care work as weekend bank staff can be lucrative, £15 an hour or more, no permanent contract so you can just do it as and when. Overnight Friday to Saturday could earn you what you need

Apologies for the delay in responding @Whatwillitbenext I had to check with my friend. She said Odds monkey is the best place to start.

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Can you honestly not imagine a reason? Remortgage rate doubled? Energy fix ended? Illness? Increased childcare costs? Redundancy? Hours cut at work? New job that requires train fare / petrol?

shall I go on?

OP evening work?

hope things get easier for you soon.

For any YouGov members on here that couldn't cash out their £50 as the bank transfer system was down, it's now working again.

Hope things are going well for you @Whatwillitbenext
Have you managed to make the £100 a week or at least some of it?

I remember those lean years well and it will get easier if you can stop the wheels falling off in the coming months.

Thank you for your kind thoughts. I've done nothing yet, sort of buried my head if I'm honest. I'm still thinking of doing care 2 nights a week but husband isn't keen 😩

😂😂I had exactly the same from DH initially when I was spending Friday and Saturday nights babysitting after a long week for both of us. However, he soon saw the logic when we went from just keeping our heads above water to managing to save a bit towards a much needed holiday.
Short term pain for long term gain.

Wouldn't it be better for you both to do 1 evening per week (or 3 per fortnight / 5 per month maybe), especially as you have already suffered from burnout, so spreading the burden?

Yeah maybe 2 for me and 1 for him haha probably would need to be that. I've decided to properly look into it this week. Thank you x

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An easy few hundred points.

The amount of spam calls I have received since trying swagbucks is stupid. Personally I would avoid.

Spam calls on your mobile? I rarely get spam calls and certainly no more since i joined Swagbucks. In fact I never heard from Swagbucks themselves via text. Do you have this box deselected on the preferences page?

Do you know you can get 15 free hours from age 2? Mine will get this from September, we'll have to pay for his meals and they've told me they'll stretch it through the full year so it's the same amount every week. It's not going to save us much more than £35 a week I reckon but it will help us massively l.
I second the online surveys! I must be signed up to at least 15 companies, I save up all the rewards to use towards Christmas presents.

Thank you yes he got the 15 free hours from April 2024 so we're using them.

Little update - I have 3 job interviews over the next 2 weeks for essentially what I do now (maybe on a slightly bigger scale and slightly more responsibility but no management of others) and all the jobs are between £45k-£55k remote. Fingers crossed for me I can get one! And no risk of burnout as its very similar to what I do now.

I would get out with hand written leaflets offering to do an hour of gardening for people, using their own mowers and tools. I would love someone/a couple who want to spend an hour in my garden strimming and mowing and cutting back. I think things like cleaning out people's cars are things teenagers used to love doing in the street for money and now I can't even get a builder to turn up to quote to fix the roof!

Sounds very sensible OP.

Good luck in your interviews!

Good luck 🤞x

Great news @Whatwillitbenext I hope you will be successful. Fingers crossed for you and come back and let us know.

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