Ideas to make £50-100 by December?

monkeylugs

8p - have you read this thread on the budgeting board? http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=88679

Also - why don't you see if your library stocks that book I told you about "A Bit on the Side" by Jasmine Birtles - 500 ways to boost your income.

N9eav

HERE'S THE BEST WAY

Find the PG Tips Grommit mugs in the supermarket (if you are lucky) for £2.66 and sell them on ebay. 6 mugs should do it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WALLACE-GROMMIT-Thermo-Film-MUG-CUP-PG-Tips-Tea-NEW_W0QQitemZ6216822177QQcategoryZ45607QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

reddevilled

black-saturn wrote:

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

It's ok to have a "back-up" of your own CDs as long as you still have the orginal. So it's ok to copy your CDs to play in the car as long as you have the original at home.

As soon as you sell the original it is no longer a "back-up" of something you own, it is an illegal copy.

Otherwise it would be legal to buy a CD from a shop copy it and take it back

Downsizing__for_sanity

Have you thought about working at evening functions? My sister does this for a few places through a temp agency. They ring her up a couple of times a week looking for extra staff for weddings, Christmas parties, gallery openings etc. She usually earns about £30 for an evening, plus tips sometimes, and regularly ends up with lots of half bottles of wine which have been opened, plus lots of finger food and sandwiches etc to take home!

Now is the right time to apply, and another advantage is that you don't have to work for them regularly, it's more "as and when", so if you've already made plans, you don't HAVE to work when they call.

Just a thought...

DFS

8pnoodles

What agency does she work for? I wouldn't know where to start with finding a place that does that, but it sounds really good!

HannahD_2

That sounds like a brilliant idea! Could you also let me know which agency she belongs too!

Thanks

meanmachine_2

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.

Presumably Robert, you have NO video copies or recordings of copyright material off the TV gathering dust on your shelves?

You do know that technically it's illegal to keep VHS recordings beyond a certain period, right?

I mean, if we're going to be a stickler about these things.

Plus I hope there isn't any copyright material stored on your hard disk - outside the temporary internet cache. Technically that too is illegal.

I could go on. But life's too short.

Downsizing__for_sanity

She works for a local agency in Edinburgh, don't know the name of it but I can try to find out. You could try asking around at local hotels etc, to see who they use. It's really just a bit of walking around with drinks and then silver service at the meals. Hard on the feet but good for the wallet! I think "Kelly" is a national agency which takes on catering staff, give them a google. High Society is a London based one (just found it on the web).

H2H

DFS

chinagirl

N9eav wrote:

HERE'S THE BEST WAY

Find the PG Tips Grommit mugs in the supermarket (if you are lucky) for £2.66 and sell them on ebay. 6 mugs should do it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WALLACE-GROMMIT-Thermo-Film-MUG-CUP-PG-Tips-Tea-NEW_W0QQitemZ6216822177QQcategoryZ45607QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Some people! What a cheek selling that Wallace and Gromit mug. You can buy it in any supermarket, but still, talking of Mugs, there's one born every minute!

musey

Contains_Mild_Peril wrote:

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.

This is entirely untrue!

Most McDs would prefer a more mature person as they are more reliable, more professional, hard working (no disrespect to teenagers here) and relate better to customers. The hours can be very flexible, if you do go down this road I wouldn't mention you're only looking for a couple of months work make it seem longer term. The work is by no means easy physically and some of the managers are McHeads (they live, breathe & sh*t McDonalds) but other than that it can be quite a laugh.