How And Why Are You Upping Your Income?

daveb80

I'm saving to be able to afford to put down a deposit on a house for me and my girlfriend (this would be our first house, so real hard to get on the property ladder!).

After that, I'd like to start saving to start off my own business, but I realise this will take a long time

Hardup_Hester

Hi John
Yes a lot of people seem to think that making people re-apply for their own job isn't legal, but according to the union it is. Fifteen people left in July & two more are leaving at Christmas.
Hester

kbl

have VERY stupidly run up €3000 catalogue bills (2 diff catalogues) and have to pay them off asap as interest rates are crippling. am currently selling avon and trying not to spend commission, but not easy.

HugoSP

We went for the 4% cashback CC earlier as we are spending loads on our house etc. Now the cashback is down to 1% we are still asking ourselves "what can we pay by CC?" Recently B&Q have started to allow payment of their accounts by CC at no extra charge, so we get 1 months extra credit plus 1% of our spend back!

I collect scrap copper/brass/aluminium etc and steel from varous jobs and weigh them in regularly. Did you know that a cast iron bath weighs in at around £8? I had to remove one from a client's house earlier in the year (no not a vicorian with claw feet, but a really ugly one with poor enamel). I broke it up and it came down the stairs in 2 sections plus 2 bags of shrapnal.

Taps are primarily brass and can weigh in at about £1 each. The prices that copper fetches in various forms from sheathed cable to bear copper pipe are staggering to say the least.

lazza_w

I started off stoozing, which I still do - I usually have £10000ish earning me interest rather than a credit card company, though it has been up to £18000 at times.

A year ago I saw a thread somewhere about 'what do you do for extra cash' which mentioned daily clicks and surveys (I did a few but got bored and the return wasn't huge) and someone mentioned matched betting there.

I had a look at the forum to see what it was about and, after a month or so, decided to give it a go. A year later and I'm still going strong.

V_Chic_Chick

Wings_of_Ambition wrote: »

I've just spent £26,000 on pilot training, and it may be a while before I get my first job:eek:

Should have learnt to glide . . . you could have gone solo and bought yourself a glider and had a bit of money left over. Plus, I believe Lasham will pay you to instruct

Back on topic -
I pet, plant and house sit to earn extra pocket money . . . I've made over £70 since the end of August

cjbjb

I want to up my income as I want to be able to travel.
We went to Florida 7 years ago, the first time we had a family holiday as there are 7 of us and it doesn't come cheap. We have been back twice since then and next year DH and I are going to New York. I would love to spend more time seeing other places. There are many places in Britain that I haven't seen. Now the children are now getting older and we won't have to take them all with us when we go away. All of that takes money so for me it is work hard on upping my income so that we can reap the rewards.

buxtonrabbitgreen

HugoSP wrote: »

We went for the 4% cashback CC earlier as we are spending loads on our house etc. Now the cashback is down to 1% we are still asking ourselves "what can we pay by CC?" Recently B&Q have started to allow payment of their accounts by CC at no extra charge, so we get 1 months extra credit plus 1% of our spend back!

I collect scrap copper/brass/aluminium etc and steel from varous jobs and weigh them in regularly. Did you know that a cast iron bath weighs in at around £8? I had to remove one from a client's house earlier in the year (no not a vicorian with claw feet, but a really ugly one with poor enamel). I broke it up and it came down the stairs in 2 sections plus 2 bags of shrapnal.

Taps are primarily brass and can weigh in at about £1 each. The prices that copper fetches in various forms from sheathed cable to bear copper pipe are staggering to say the least.

I had to pay someone £10 to take my cast iron bath away. Still it took 2 strong men and it wouldn't have gone in my car even if we could have lifted. Luckily bathroom is downstairs so we were able to drag it out. You need to be strong for that job.