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Earn extra cash any ideas?? for a SAHM?????

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Momma23 · 04/02/2009 11:12

I am a SAHM to 3, Money wise were ok (ish) but the way things are going it would be nice to have a little somthing on the side.. Problem being with 3 under 3 it is not possible to do evening work or morning work, it has to be in the home.

Any ideas ladies?

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basementbear · 04/02/2009 12:39

Sorry no advice but would be interested myself! Bumping this for the lunch time crowd..

PlumBumMum · 04/02/2009 12:41

Bump bump bump

chocoholic · 04/02/2009 12:43

Do you do on-line surveys? Valued opinions and Pinecone are quite good. Not going to make you millions (or even hundreds!) but every little bit helps in my world.

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Momma23 · 04/02/2009 16:13

Will have a look into that one.. Was looking at ciao they do online surveys.. Will let you know how that one goes... But yes every little helps...

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Mung · 04/02/2009 16:17

Very interesting thread. How do the survey sights work? I obviously understand that you need to fill in surveys, but how do they pay you and can you do any you want or do they assign certain surveys to you?

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Momma23 · 04/02/2009 16:50

Just joined in with valued opions so will post the out come.

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PestoBlizzardMonster · 04/02/2009 16:51

Avon lady?

Ironing?

Child-minding?

mistlethrush · 04/02/2009 16:55

I do Pampered Chef which I really enjoy - mostly hand over to dh and go out and have fun and earn money at the same time. There is also Osborne Books, Phoenix Cards, Virgin Vie etc.

samsonara · 04/02/2009 17:26

Momma23, you're just like me. I registered as selfemployed and set up a Folkys shop (handmade things), but I haven't actually sold anything on there .The main problem is getting a continual source of income at a steady stream and that's hard to do without fixed work hours and pay but I think there are things you could try specifically for your local area, e.g. if you have a sixth form college or University, you could advertise word processing, writing up letters, cv's, helping people fill in or look for jobs online. Maybe use some skills you have already. I think it's difficult but not impossible so see what other people are offering locally (supermarket noticeboards) and see if any of it gives you ideas. For me I'm going to stick with it as I really want to do something arty and creative.

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Momma23 · 04/02/2009 18:26

Child-minding hands are full with 3 under 3.
Ironing hate it (baskets full here)
Avon Will look into that one. Did any of you try Avon? Do you find yourself spending what you earn on the products?

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chocoholic · 04/02/2009 18:48

I've not done avon but I did try Phoenix cards. It seemed a lot of work and space at home needed for not a huge return so didn't last long.

A friend did Usbourne books but found it a bit hard going when they offer so many of them through the book people at a really discounted price.

As far as surveys go, Ciao was a bit of a waste of space as you get screened out of most of them. Valued opinion are pretty good. They pay you in vouchers when you get to £10. Pinecone give you books of £4 luncheon vouchers which you can spend all over the place - perfect for a coffee and a cake I've found!

It's your view is another pretty good one.

How about some market research?

Can you tell I've been through this myself?? BTW, I ended up as a childminder!

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Momma23 · 04/02/2009 18:56

chocoholic
Never going to make it big and thats for sure. I will reconsider the child-minding in 2-3 yrs but for now its no no..
Can you explain more about the market reserch? Did you try it?
Willing to try anything once it fits around my crazy life!

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chocoholic · 04/02/2009 18:58

I know the feeling!!

The market research I do is in the evening and a bit sporadic. We go along and natter about something for a hour and get paid to do it!! Perfect I think.

samsonara · 04/02/2009 19:07

Momma23, you don't know, if you have a good idea you could turn it into a business that starts from working from home and then progresses onto something very reasonable.

Tas1 · 04/02/2009 20:03

I used to do Body Shop at Home and I loved it. I did parties in the evening but you can put the catalogues through the door like Avon if you wanted to. I also did parties at school fetes, playgroups etc during the day

I used to earn between £30 and £50 per party, more if it was around christmas time.

I stopped due to family commitments but I would do it again in a flash, I realy miss it.

mistlethrush · 04/02/2009 20:11

My Pampered Chef parties normally make over £50 for the evening. I don't have any stock - its all done by orders, and delivered to the host - Pampered CHef also provide the host gifts...

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Momma23 · 04/02/2009 20:25

mistlethrush
Money plus gifts will have to look into it.

chocoholic
How did you get going with the market reserch? Is there a website i can look up?

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mistlethrush · 04/02/2009 20:50

You should see my kitchen

SE19er · 04/02/2009 20:56

Sell your unwanted (good condition) books, DVDs, games, CDs via Amazon. Fairly easy money, just a bit of printing, packing and going to the post office.

techpep · 04/02/2009 21:03

Avon was great for me, loved chatting to all the regular customers, and you really can make good money depending on how many houses you want to drop to. Its true that you need a bit of space in the house and boot of the car for products but once you get into a good routine with it all, you shouldn't have it for more than 24 hours.

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