Making money in spare time from home ideas

topyam

Hi everyone,

Money is really tight at the moment. I really need to try and earn some extra cash in my spare time (weekends or weekday evenings).

Is there anything that I can do?
From: stuffing envelopes to marking papers to writing reviews, I'll consider anything!!

Thanks in advance.

downshifter

To be honest I think the best investment you can make is to spend a bit of time on here, reading through other people's ideas as well as all the tips and step-by-step guides at the top of the page and narrow down what you can reasonably do. For example although I like the idea of mystery shopping I live so far out in the sticks with no shops around for miles that I would spend too much on petrol to do this.

Read through, sit with a notebook and write down any ideas that might work for you depending on what you're good at or have experience of or think you'd like to do, then follow them up, or even ask the individual posters how it works for them. You sound panicky, as if you'd take anything, so please don't fall for the envelope stuffing scams out of desperation. It's Saturday, - unlike me, you may not have to go to work, so plan a couple of hours being organised and systematic about it.

Good luck with your search, there's so many ideas on here, it really isn't necessary to ask this question yet again (which is probably why no-one has responded to you) but I always feel sorry when people don't get a reply.

DS

... and ps, don't forget traditional jobs like bar work, shop work etc (which is what I do at weekends), delivering local papers and so on

cat10_2

I agree that if would be a good idea to read some of the posts here to get some ideas. You could also try selling any unwanted items on eBay. This can be a bit hit or miss, but if nothing else its a good way to get rid of clutter.

NigeWick

topyam wrote: »

I really need to try and earn some extra cash in my spare time (weekends or weekday evenings).

I am in the process of starting to learn how to earn money from the internet. www.challenge.co are doing a free course on how to do this. The lessons and necessary actions should take no more than half an our per day and are being split up into blocks of seven days each, with between them seven days to rest or perhaps perfect what one has learned that week. The information should be fairly up to date and the providers use the challenge as a hook to get one to buy into their paid services, although they do not push them too hard. The challenge has taken over from The Thirty Day Challenge that ran for about five years and only started a sort of pre season launch this week, so you're not too late if interested.