Ideas to make £50-100 by December?

rprinter

supermarkets start advertising now for pre-Xmas staff; they do evening shifts...

skintchick

Could you explain you are skint, and ask not to be included in the cost of the wine on the bill, but just to pay your own share? If you arranged this beforehand I'm sure everyone would be OK with it.

Robert_Sterling_3

before_hollywood wrote:

minimum wage comes in about £5-odd an hour so doing about 15 hours work

I make it about 25 hours not 15 hours after tax.


15 hours at £5 ...... £75

less tax 75 times 22p = £16.50

Balance after tax £58.50

Q.E.D.

Contains_Mild_Peril

By all means try applying to McDonalds, but if you're over 21 you're unlikely to get a job there. They prefer to take teenagers so they can pay them less, and most have moved on to better things and been replaced with more teenagers by the time they'd be old enough for full adult minimum wage.
Your best bet is probably catalogues, e.g. Avon, where you distribute the catalogues, take orders, then deliver the goods and get commission on your sales. Do read all the small print, though. I did Avon once, and though I got free catalogues to distribute and full commission on the first batch of orders, if I'd stayed on, I'd have had to pay for the catalogues and take a minimum amount to earn anything at all the next time. My allocated area was only about 60 houses on a deprived council estate. More affluent streets nearby were already the territory of other Avon reps, so I couldn't sell there. My sales total was only slightly over the then £40 usual minimum, and that was near Christmas. I would still have got the money for my first time if I'd failed to reach the £40 mark, but after that, I'd get nothing if I fell short of the target, and since I'd have had to spend money on the catalogues, I could have finished up working for hours and actually ending up out of pocket. You understand why I only did it the once!
Perhaps for next year, you could suggest a savings scheme at work, where people pay maybe £2 a week into a kitty for the nights out if they want to, rather than having to find the money all at once at an expensive time of year.

black-saturn

I cant stress how much ebay has done for me. I dont know if you have children or not but a monthly sort out of their wardrobe of clothes they never wear anymore will bring you in a bit of money. Also dvds you never watch anymore, cds you never listen to anymore (if you have a CD writer you could copy them and sell the original), videos you never watch anymore, clothes you never wear anymore, books you never read anymore. The list is endless. If you have a ruthless search around your house your bound to make £50 by xmas EASY.

apprentice_tycoon

this is a huge list of mystery shopping links (thanks beckles) I do a little bit of this, they pay roughly around £10.00 for each job

onegirl

You could hold an Ann Summers party, as you'd get commision from all the sales. If you have a look on their website it tells you how to do it. Or I know that The Body Shop let's you work on commision for selling their stuff. I don't know how much you'd make from either of those...
I've just joined Ciao and they pay you a little bit to fill in online surveys - it's not much, but every little bit helps I suppose... I've only just started doing it, so I can't guarantee that they pay up, but I've been told they do!
Good Luck anyway....x

Robert_Sterling_3

black-saturn wrote:

cds you never listen to anymore (if you have a CD writer you could copy them and sell the original)

This is no more legal than selling the copy.

I may be wrong but I assume MSE does not wish to encourage illegal copying of copyright material.

chinagirl

Robert_Sterling wrote:

This is no more legal than selling the copy.

I may be wrong but I assume MSE does not wish to encourage illegal copying of copyright material.

Oh, come on!

black-saturn

I thought it was OK to copy the disc for your own use? If its illegal why do they sell CD writers in shops?