Ideas to make £50-100 by December?

8pnoodles

Based on a post I've made here: http://8pnoodles.blogspot.com I've decided the only way I can justify going to both my work's Christmas meals is to earn the cash to be able to go out and have a good time.

Any one think of a way I can earn ~£50-100 by the middle of December? I've been and done bar work and it's a bit of a nightmare. The hours are too long.

Was vaguely thinking of a paper round? But I have to get up so early to go to work anyway so I don't know if this is feasible. Any other ideas?

I have maybe 2 months to do this in.

Raspberry_Ripples

Estate agents 'round my way often advertise for people to deliver leaflets door to door. Might be worth asking about?

I'd imagine they'd also pay you in cash (nudge, nudge, wink wink, know what I mean, like..?)

before_hollywood

distributing catalogues? i mean the ones like betterware or kleeneze or something?
part time work in a shop or something (if your existing employer/ home situation allows it?)
minimum wage comes in about £5-odd an hour so doing about 15 hours work will (after tax) bring in most of what you want.
or sell some unused stuff to somewhere like cash converters/ cash generator? they take pretty much anything

Spendless

Babysitting?

Though the parents would probably have to know you and trust you.

If you're thinking of delivering papers what about a weekly paper rather than the daily round.

8pnoodles

Been there done that with Kleeneze.

I like the delivering leaflets thing, will keep an eye out for that kind of work.

I have just discovered you can check your local jobcentre vacancies online!

Been looking at cleaning jobs, only an hour three times a week, seems about what I'm looking for. Anyone done these and are they more hassle than they're worth?

The parents I know with kids already have teenage babysitters, wouldn't want to put them out of a job.

grant1wish

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Callisto

Do you have anything you can sell on Ebay (eg good quality clothes you no longer wear) or Amazon? (books, CD's, DVD's etc)

Is it feasible to get a second job? (Saturday or Sunday or a couple of evenings a week?)

My sister did a weekly paper round of the local paper a couple of years ago. The pay was dependent on how many leaflets were included within the paper (as she had to put each leaflet into each paper). She wasn't impressed and only did it for about two months as the pay averaged about £11 for five hours work! By all means look into it, although I wouldn't fancy trekking through the streets with the winter coming!

If you're already cutting back and reading the Old Style board, why not do the Pin Money Saving challenge? If you buy something BOGOF, then the price of the second item would be put into your pin money, any vouchers used etc, the equivalent value would go in as well. You could probably save at a guess , £10 - £20 over the weeks to December.

Hope that helps!

ms_london

I would definately suggest Ebay (providing you have things to sell...).

Otherwise, a bar job, Estate Agents sometimes look for a "Saturday Person" to help out, waitressing (the tips would be good at this time of the year...). There are lots of job websites, reed.co.uk, thegumtree.com, as well as the job centre like you say... check out your local paper, newsagents windows and look at the adverts. As you say cleaning might be an option.... Could you get overtime with your current job? Is your Christmas "do" really going to cost that much?? What are you going to do if you dont raise that extra money? Not go? Or just go, but not drink so much/buy a new outfit?.....

Ms_London
(just 2 weeks til im debt free, thank g*d!!!!)

8pnoodles

I don't want to put the junk I've got lined up to sell on ebay towards this, I would like it to come from something I haven't accounted for yet.

I take the point about paper rounds, I am vaguely recalling how bad it was doing mine when I was about 13.

I also don't want the money to come from my salary. My aim is to live on as little as possible, and being creative with my salary is the norm (I'm aiming for) for me, rather than something I do to treat myself. That's the plan anyway!

The problem with the second jobs thing is I'd like it to be in the evenings rather than the weekends, as the weekends are when my bloke is around and I'd like to spend as much time with him as possible before he goes away in the new year.

So cleaning jobs look good as it's evenings.

Also McDonalds (if I can bring myself to do it) s a possibility as they ask for a very low minimum number of hours to be worked a week. I really don't want to commit myself to working too much, I did this with bar work and it took me a long time to recover after I finally quit.

8pnoodles

Ms London it's two separate dos, one with my department which is a meal out and one which is an all day event at work. Both I have to pay for. I don't buy new outfits for anything any more so that's not an issue.

I'm guessing the meal will cost £30 as everyone orders loads of bottles of wine and we split the cost equally. The day do will probably cost £20. These are on two separate days. Both have drinking afterwards. If I can only get £50 together I’ll go to both but not drink afterwards, if I can get £100 together I can go to both and drink after both.

And before anyone suggests it it would be really hard not to go to either. My department is very evry small and everyone always goes to the christmas meal. It's very very social, they even invite the old boss who has now retired.

And the day do is at work in work time and starts around 11am, and basically if I didn't do I'd have to spend all day in my office on my own. One guy did this last year and he's still talked about as odd!

I'd hate to miss either, not through peer pressure, but because they are both such a laugh. And this will be my last year working here too, so I don't want to miss them.

grant1wish

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