Jasmine Birtles
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10 easy ways to make quick cash
Reading Time: 7 minutesWant to make quick cash right now? Check out our ten top ways to make money fast, with the least amount of effort possible.
Perhaps you’re looking for easy ways to make money online from the comfort of your sofa, or perhaps you want to make sure your credit report is accurate and up to date so you can get the best deals.
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Be paid for your opinion – online surveys
This is a sporadic way to make quick cash and it brings in a relatively small income, but it’s low effort and you’ve nothing to lose. It’s a great way to make quick cash from the comfort of your computer but make sure you NEVER pay to join an online survey site or reveal your credit card details.
Inside tip! Here are our favourite online survey sites. They’re completely free and have received a big thumbs-up from many of you. For maximum earnings set up a separate email account (so your personal one doesn’t get flooded with survey-related emails) and then register for free with all of them:
If you like the sound of making quick cash through filling out online surveys make sure you check out our full article right here on the safe way to earn money by taking paid surveys.
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interesting articles to read 2011
People be smart.Buy in bulk. Plant your own vegetables. (Lettuce grows like a weed.) Give gifts of food items. Cancel cable. Get chickens. Stop watering your lawn. Learn to raise livestock. A single lamb is extremely easy. Find ways to reduce /eliminate heating & air expenses. Lease a hybrid dump your gas guzzling car you will actually save money. Eat whole foods / eliminate processed packaged items and save significantly. Buy silver. Any move to self-sufficiency is better than none. Then encourage others.
Don’t keep just one lamb (or any other animal) as they are herd animals and it is crule to keep them alone. Even if you do plan to murder and eat them later.
How the hell would I keep all those animals in my small flat!! think man THINK!
i will like to be a dog walker please can you contact me with more details.
Thanks
Hey there, why not take a look at our article which explains how you can make up to £60 an hour dog walking.
https://www.moneymagpie.com/article/make-60-an-hour-by-dog-walking
Jasmine Birtles, rhymes with turtles
i have loads of teenage books i really need to get rid of but have no idea where to do it, have looked on amazon but it will cost me more for post and package than to sell them in the first place.
Have you considered bootsales? I’m in the same position, 2 crates full of old books! Good for old clothes and unwanted gifts too.
I don’t know your graphical location but you might like to check out Eco Computer Systems. They combine recycling computers using libraries. ecocomputersystems.
That didn’t quite come out right, they will take books too.
A good way similar to Amazon is GreenMetropolis.com they are free and dead easy to use! Enter the ISBN number and it brings up the details all you have to do is enter condition of book…You pay P&P but you get about £3 plus per book, more than at a carboot and without getting up early!
I’m on pre-payment meter for the electic and gas at the moment, so what I did was to top up my meter by more than what I should’ve have done, not use much, as I’m saving it for when the big chill finally happens. I’m also an avid bagain hunter, where you get brand new goods from places like Matalan, TK Maxx, Market Places, Second Hand Furniture shops, as I recently had to furnish my new flat. You have to make it enjoyable. I also have an ISA, the interest on there really did help me. Also have a look… Read more »
Hi there, I have recently been discharged from the Army due to injury and haven’t been compensated due to it having been an injury that first developed before I joined. I am stuck in a vicious circle of payday loans that over the months have been building bigger and bigger in size. I receive my last wage from the Army at the end of this month. I’ve begun working in a kitchen as a Kitchen Porter, which I can just about get by on when it comes to my everyday expenses (rent, food, bills, etc… the usual!) However, I need… Read more »
Try elance.com.
Hello,
I know it’s not along the same lines as writing, but have you ever considered clinical trials? If you’re looking to gain a quick couple of thousand pounds and you are healthy, you could consider it. I have considered it, but there are factors which mean I can’t do it. I would if I could though.
Good luck whatever you decide to do. I’m in a difficult situation too, with debts I just want to get rid of!
Kerrie
Hi,
I am living in Canada and came across your site by chance but I am finding it very useful although I cannot use many of the sites you mention in the UK. Have just run off your article on mailing letters to magazines and would ask if it is possible for you to make the articles more printer friendly!! When I clicked “Print This Article” I expected a print friendly version but had to print 10 (ten) pages just to get the two pages I needed. Just a suggestion!
Thanks for a great e-magazine
Pat
If your determind you can overcome anything. When i couldn’t afford to pay the rent, i offered to do work for the landlord to reduce what i owed. For the block of flats i lived in, i became the cleaner, the gardener, and the handy(wo)man. I built brick walls, painted everything!, dug holes, and scrubbed floors. I had kept a roof over my head, only for the landlord to put the lovely clean/painted/tidy block of flats up for sale! I though look what i’ve done here, and decided to do it for myself! I went around estate agents looking for… Read more »
Inspirational…………..keep going.
ps Have you thought of renting out one of your rooms; you can pay off your mortgage early. You could then rent out that house and start a business. There are plenty of people in need of good, reasonably charged rooms. I did this due to illness and couldnt work. I have also read pieces by landlords/ ladies who have combined this with social enterprise work. Ive been on both sides of the coin now; awful landlords etc and flat shares and found this was all useful experience. Oh and I watched plenty of DIY horror stories and just had… Read more »
Unfortunately I became unemployed just over a year ago. I am single, female and whey over 50 and not much chance of another job. Benefits did not cover rent on my small one bedroom flat or cover water, gas, electric. I applied for over 280 jobs in the first 6 months, not even an interview. I had to retrain but could not afford the course even though it was discounted through benefits. I found your site and have done it all, I like the mystery shopping best as I pick the ones that require me to buy something and I… Read more »
Toluna is a total scam, who steel your points if you get anywhere near enough to buy a voucher, also greatly increase points needed to buy voucher whenever they feel like it, failing that they insist they can only send voucher code by post, then off course they have been lost in the post, also send scam emails trying get your bank details of whatever bank you decided to tick in one of their so called surveys