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  • Askalaba
    Askalaba Posts: 61
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    It does feel like a lot of these ways to 'boost' your income only generate an extra £5-£10 a month.

    It's not too bad I guess but nothing competes with getting your head down in a full-time job in my humble opinion
    Absolutely love a good bargain. If anybody has any money saving tips please send them my way :j
  • mikep22
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    Askalaba wrote: »
    It does feel like a lot of these ways to 'boost' your income only generate an extra £5-£10 a month.

    It's not too bad I guess but nothing competes with getting your head down in a full-time job in my humble opinion

    Why are you posting this in the qmee thread?

    And I mean, obviously a full time job of any kind of going to bring in more cash then £5-10 a month :rotfl::rotfl: - however if you are doing 3-4 things which bring in £5-10 a month, it can quickly accumulate to something which you can do something with...

    FWIW - Qmee has netted me £27+ for the last 5 months. Prolific £1,250 over 3 years.
  • Askalaba
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    mikep22 wrote: »

    FWIW - Qmee has netted me £27+ for the last 5 months. Prolific £1,250 over 3 years.

    This is absolute peanuts. It just feels like such a waste of time. Each to there own I guess
    Absolutely love a good bargain. If anybody has any money saving tips please send them my way :j
  • mikep22
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    Askalaba wrote: »
    This is absolute peanuts. It just feels like such a waste of time. Each to there own I guess

    Then dont do it....

    why are you here, other then to make pointless comments?
  • Askalaba
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    It’s just my opinion, I don’t see why it’s a pointless comment just because it’s a slightly negative one . It feels like it’s worth letting people know so they don’t invest their time into it unnecessarily.

    Just trying to balance out all the positive comments :D.

    If you work out the average money made per hour on these things then it’s wayyy less than minimum wage most the time. If you want to make real money then just work overtime
    Absolutely love a good bargain. If anybody has any money saving tips please send them my way :j
  • Tinman
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    Askalaba wrote: »
    It’s just my opinion, I don’t see why it’s a pointless comment just because it’s a slightly negative one . It feels like it’s worth letting people know so they don’t invest their time into it unnecessarily.

    Just trying to balance out all the positive comments :D.

    If you work out the average money made per hour on these things then it’s wayyy less than minimum wage most the time. If you want to make real money then just work overtime


    What about the people who are retired and those that cant work?
  • Askalaba
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    Tinman wrote: »
    What about the people who are retired and those that cant work?

    Yeah, that's completely fair enough - if you don't have a job then these are absolutely fine. My comment only applied to the working population :D
    Absolutely love a good bargain. If anybody has any money saving tips please send them my way :j
  • purplevamp
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    Askalaba wrote: »
    Yeah, that's completely fair enough - if you don't have a job then these are absolutely fine. My comment only applied to the working population :D

    I work and do this on the side. OK, it doesn't make huge amounts of money, but with all the other bits I do it all adds up.
    Mortgage: Was: £154,495 Oct 2039 Now: £73,772.29 Mar 2037
    Swagbucks ~ £155 (2025 ~ £240)
    Surveys~ £229.12 (2025 ~ £238.94)
    Make £2026 in 2026 #18 ~ £830.53 ~ (2025 ~ £2,368.64)
  • Trina90
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    I work fulltime and do 30+ overtime every month, but I still do surveys. You may see it as a waste of time but I would probably find what you do in your spare time boring and pointless. It keeps me busy when I'm bored.
    Mortgage started 2015: £150,000 2016: £130,000 2017: £116,000 2018: £105,000 2019: £88,000 2020: £69,000 2021: £51,195 2023: MORTGAGE FREE!
  • jen245
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    I've made more than £750 just on Qmee in the last year, across all the other platforms I use, I've made the same between them, so that's an extra £1500+ a year just doing surveys when I have spare time, so I wouldn't exactly call that peanuts, and I work full time too, so it's a nice supplement to my income
    Debt free and staying that way! :beer:
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