Can I raise £10k by means other than full time wages?

debt_free_me

Does anyone know or had any experience of raising around £10k by means other than their full time wages? Perhaps in two years or less? I know this may be quite a challenge. I've so far this year made around an £80 profit through selling some old uni books on Amazon and I plan to sort my stuff out and put things I don't want on ebay and also at a car boot sale. I haven't tried as hard as I could have so far (partly coz i'm scared of doing ebay coz i've never done it before). I'm on Pigsback though I know this doesn't give cash and i'm on quidco but only used it once coz i'm not sure how the tracking works and if I have done it right.

So any ideas are VERY welcome! Want to clear my debts asap.

beanielou

No ideas but just to wish you luck!
You sound as if you are off to a good start.

debt_free_me

Thanks alot. I appreciate all the good lucks and positive thoughts that come my way

chevalier

Hi there hope this helps
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Here are some websites, on which you can earn a bit of money or points to put towards vouchers. Sorry if it is a bit long!

www.lightspeedpanel.com - this is a survey site, where you get points that turn into vouchers (you choose). May not help with the cash flow, but the vouchers could be saved towards birthday/xmas or given as presents.

www.ciao.co.uk - survey site that gives money. A bit fits and starts i.e. no surveys for a couple of weeks, then three or four the same day.

www.yougov.com - again paid surveys. However takes a while to get to the minimum payout level

www.mytns.com - again this is a survey site, but it pays you in points that convert into Nectar points at Sainsbury’s.

www.pigsback.co.uk - this is a points site, i.e. they give you points for buying things via their site. BUT you also get points for signing up for news letters (some of which are even interesting!), and also for clicking on adverts with pink borders. I have spent NOTHING with them but got £40 vouchers through (been registered since January). There is also a thread in the freebies section, of https://www.moneysavingexpert.com that gives you all the daily answers to the competitions so you can have a better chance of winning on them. I won £20 of points recently on the daily quizzes so a nice boost to the Christmas fund.

www.mutualpoints.com - another points for clicks site. You can also buy things via their site and get points too. For a long time, I just clicked the links in the emails they send you, and that gets you 5 points. At 3000 points you get £20 I think. You can do searches via their site and that gets you points too.

www.quidco.com - this is a cash back site, so very good, for checking if any potential new insurers (i.e. if you have checked your contents insurance say and found a new provider), are offering cash back. E.g. Lloyds was offering £120 cash back on new policies at one point (the offers do change). You can also get small amounts of cash again for doing searches via their site. You can earn 52p a day by doing this. Every little helps.

www.greasypalm.co.uk - another cash back site, where you can do searches and get small amounts of money. But it all adds up. I think you can get about 50p a day on there for nothing. Minimum payout is £20 I think, but you can sign up to survey sites via there, and get extra money that way for nothing.

www.topcashback.co.uk - another site where you can do daily clicks to get money for nowt.

www.britishrewards.co.uk - same as topcashback, daily clicks to do searches for pennies a time.

Again more medium term money might come from claiming back bank charges. Also if you had an endowment you can write to your provider suggesting you might have been misinformed about its performance. Many people have got money back on that. There are articles from Martin on the main site about how to go about doing this.
If you are going to do this, it is wise to set up another current account first, with a bank that you have no debt with. Just to be on the safe side.

Are you in the correct banding for your council tax? Again there is an article by Martin on the main website about how to go about checking this. If you are in the wrong band and due a rebate, it is for all the year you have been living in the house since 1991, so this can be several thousand pounds back.

andan

Try checking out some of the challenges on this boars such as make £10 extra a day in February, also the olympic challenge thread. These people, myself included are hoping to do that in our own roundabout way and there are many ideas on there.

Some ideas are the surveys listed above, matched betting, free bingo, daily clicks, ebaying and amazoning. Good luck.

Gemmzie

Chevalier's post is massively helpful. And as to 10k, well a lot of us are trying for the pay off 20k in a year challenge to raise as much as possible, feel free to join in - it's great motivation

debt_free_me

Thanks very much Chevalier, that is fantastic! I am so excited about all this money making!

debt_free_me

Cor, 20k in a year! How do you all do it? Big inspiration! I have been thinking about free bingo, is it really free?

globalds

You could get some of the way there with matched betting...There is also Stoozing the credit cards ...Although this may be getting harder to do.

debt_free_me

There is an article on matched betting isn't there. Will look into this - thanks

Gemmzie

There's a forum for matched betting on here - make sure you understand it fully before starting out though.

I cleared £2.5k in five months last year - all from extra income, was so chuffed