iron clothes for money

Ironing is boring and time consuming. No-one enjoys doing it. Well hardly anyone. If you are quite strange and enjoy pushing a hot piece of metal backwards and forwards, then do people's ironing for them.

You can either sign on with an agency, or go it alone to fit around your busy schedule. Its obviously a given that you require a good iron, an ironing board, and are good at it. If you've got all three then your qualified in my opinion.

Offering a collection and delivery service will attract more customers, as will providing a fast turnaround service as no-one likes to be kept waiting. Advertise locally using the techniques I have mentioned before.

ebay#1: sell things online for money

So far I haven't mentioned ebay at all on this site. Mainly because it is so glaringly obvious, and if you have enough knowledge to find my site then you will have at least a vague idea of what ebay is and how to use it.

However I shall from time to time post tips on the best way of making money through ebay that you may or may not have considered.

Many people are unaware of ebay pulse.

This site shows the top searches, which you can select via ebay category, of everything that people are searching for at that moment on ebay. It also shows you what items are most heavily watched by ebay users.

Armed with this knowledge you have instant access to what the market wants. If you know what the market wants then you know what to sell. A very valuable tool.

Apparently at the moment the ebay market is not searching for a my broken lawnmower.

rent DVD's for FREE

Well kind of. I suppose if you have them for free you are not renting them, you are borrowing them, but you get the idea.

This scheme works nicely if you play it right. The people at lovefilm.com are offering 14 days FREE trial of their DVD rental service. So you go to their site, choose a DVD, they send it to you by first class, you watch it and then return it in the pre-paid envelope. And you can do this for free for 14 days.

However, you MUST cancel your trial at the end of the fourteen days and ensure you have returned the films. Otherwise you will be charged at you have been wasting your time. Cancelling your account is easy through the My Account section. You cannot have a free trial more than once, neither can your household. But if you have enough friends, this scheme could be continued for quite a while.

If you haven't got any friends, well, join a club or something.

get a DVD for FREE

When I was younger, I remember sneaking into the cinema to watch Jaws 3D without paying. There was no clever scam involved, I just ran past the cashier, through into the cinema and hid. The cashier came in looking for me, but never found me crouched on the floor amongst the dropped crisps and fag ends (yes kids in those days you could smoke in the cinema).

I loved the film, and loved it even more since I managed to watch it for free. I'm not suggesting sneaking your way into your local Odeon as todays tip, as that would be illegal. However there are ways to watch DVD's for free, and even get DVD's to keep for free.

Free DVD rental I shall mention tomorrow, but here is a great way to get a fantastic DVD delivered to your door to keep. For FREE. As with all my tips, this is not a scam, nor do you have to pay for postage and packaging. Just go to free-dvd-club.com, complete their questionnaire and choose your DVD. Thats it. You just wait for it to be delivered. No subscription, no credit cards. Just answer a few questions.

Then either keep the DVD or sell it.

Don't say I never give you anything.

bake cakes for money

Cakes are great. They are also exempt from VAT which makes them taste even better (actually they are zero rated but you don't want me to go into specifics). If you not only like cakes but also enjoy baking, then make some and sell them for money.

There's a big demand for home-made cakes, and they definitely taste better than the mass produced supermarket ones. The can be sold at craft fairs, fetes, car boots, farmers markets etc etc.

Just ensure that the cost of the ingredients and time involved are less than the selling price, and you will make a nice tidy sum. You also can only do this on what the Law calls a "casual and limited" basis, otherwise you will find yourself having to put details of the ingredients on the side and all other manner of legislation. But as long as you are only doing it every now and then to make some exrta cash you will be fine.

stay in hotels for free

There was no post yesterday as I have been away in Lincoln on business. I stayed overnight in a rather pleasant hotel, at what is more I didn't pay a penny.

For the last 4 years I have been a member of the ICHotels group (Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza etc) Priority Club which rewards you with points for staying in their hotels, much the same as a Tesco Clubcard. And when you have enough points, you can use them for overnight stays.

Points received vary from hotel to hotel, but frequently they have excellent offers which means sometimes for one nights accommodation you make enough points for a free stay.

Obviously this works best if you are a frequently hotel user, or travel a lot on business. However if you use hotels infrequently it will still pay since the points never expire.

Check here for details.

be in films for money

Make yourself into a star and use your spare time to be a film and TV extra. This is something I used to do a few years ago. I still have videos of me in Watching and The Upper Hand if you are old enough to remember them.

It was dead easy. In The Upper Hand I played a customer at a jumble sale. I picked up a jumper, looked at it, and put it down again. That was it. You only saw the back of my head but that was enough for me.

Pay at the moment is around £70 per day, and you don't need to be in Equity.

Contact The Casting Collective and 2020 Casting.

get a holiday for free

Holidays are expensive. Fact. So save your money and dont bother paying for one. Just swap your home with someone else with the same idea for a fortnight.

The idea is lovely in principle. I want a holiday in August, so does Juan Carlos. So we get in touch, I get the key to his beach front villa in Puerto Banus and he gets the key to my penthouse apartment overlooking the Thames in London. Apart from I don't live in London overlooking the Thames. Juan Carlos is going to find himself stuck in the middle of a depressing market town in Lincolnshire near the Supermarket. Oh well.

If your interested have a look at home for exchange.

get free Marks and Spencer vouchers

I think this is a fantastic deal. Go through your wardrobe NOW and find all your Marks and Spencers clothes you dont wear anymore. Stick them in a bag and take them to your local Oxfam who will give you £5 in M&S vouchers for them, which you can spend on more M&S clothes! Check it out here.

Theoretically I guess you could visit non- Oxfam charity shops first, buy their M&S clothes for less than a fiver, and then run them down to Oxfam and make a profit.

Just a thought.

find your lost money

As it stands I have at the moment 5 different bank accounts. I only actually use two of them, one is my current account the other a savings. The remaining three accounts are ones that I have had from childhood, when some nice auntie decided to open one in my favour and credit it with a £1. I still have that account and at the moment theres about £30 in it, just seems a shame to close it.

Many people have such accounts they they have either forgotten about or lost the details to. If this is the case contact my lost account which is run by the British Bankers’ Association, the Building Societies Association and National Savings and Investments. They can chase your bank and building society accounts as well as Premium Bonds. You never know, there might be a small fortune you are sitting on.

get a credit card for money

As long as your are sensible with credit cards, there are some great deals still to be had despite the credit crunch and you can make money for nothing.

Firstly get yourself a credit card with 0% interest on purchases. Then use this card exclusively for all the purchases you would normally make. i.e groceries, clothing etc. DO NOT spend it on luxury items you would not have normally bought. Whilst doing this, put all the money you would have spent on your debit card into a high interest savings account. Keep on doing this for the duration of the interest free period (which is normally over 12 months but check your agreement). Pay off the minimum amount every month, and when the interest free period is over clear the balance immediately. As long as you have invested your cash over the last 12 months, you will have earned a significant amount of interest for yourself. Then TEAR UP the credit card, and apply for another 0% card.

Easy money.

check your credit report for money

If you have a healthy credit score, there are numerous ways to make money which I shall intermittently cover over the coming weeks. The first things to do however is to ensure that your credit report is not showing anything too damaging.

The best way is to use a company such as Experian who hold details regarding individuals credit cards, bank loans etc and it is this company whom banks and other financial institutions check when deciding to give you any credit. It offers a FREE credit check service.

Check out Experian and find out how healthy your report is first.

be charitable for money

Foolishly I always thought the people standing in the street trying to get you to donate to charity were doing it for the love of small animals/sick kids/lesbian dolphins. But apparently some are paid for it, shows you how naive I am. Anyway it is still a good way to make money in your spare time as long as you don't mind standing outside in all types of weather and mainly being ignored by people.

So you stand in the street, invite people to sign up to whatever charity you are promoting and get their bank details for the direct debit. You will receive around £10 per hour plus bonuses if you exceed your targets.

Contact dialoguedirect and sign up.

use spare space for money

If you have an unused cellar, loft, garage or shed, consider renting out the space for storage. People need storage for many reasons. moving home, not enough space in the current premises, moving abroad for a few months.

It is much easier if the space has its own access, such as a garage, so that your new clients are not wandering into your house all the time; but it is not essential. Charges would vary on space available, security and your location; but once you have a client it is easy money.

Just be specific to your tenants that they must not store anything illegal/flammable etc in your lovely space.

make hampers for money

Hampers are strange things. Its even a strange word if you say it enough times. Im not quite sure what brings people to decide to buy a wicker basket full of spam and dates and pay way over the odds for the contents.

But people do but them, and people do pay good money, so jump on the bandwagon and make them from the comfort of your home and watch the money roll in. Buy some cheap baskets (charity shops and car boots are always good), buy some food/chocolates/wine in bulk, stuff them in the basket and sell them (for more than you paid for them naturally).

Christmas is the boom time, but naturally there is nothing to stop you setting up other themed hampers: birthday hampers, valentines, bar mitzvahs, divorce. Advertise locally and you could do very nicely.

collect money for money

It is a sad fact that people get into debt. Most are unlucky, some stupid and others reckless. Nevertheless whatever the reason people owe people money. And this money has to be collected.

Part-time debt collecting is becoming increasingly popular, although it is not everyones cup of tea. You need to be confident, thick-skinned and patient.

Some companies pay per visit (about £4) others a percentage of the debt.

I am not going to recommend any particular companies on this one, since it is an unpleasant business with some unsavoury companies. Use google or job sites for details.

use your hands for money

If you have ever fancied being a model, but you're just ugly then you might as well give up on the dream.

However if you're ugly but just happen to have nice hands as well, then you could be a hand-model. Advertising execs pay good money to use hands in the TV and magazine advertising, as long as they are in good condition and you have the normal amount of fingers and thumbs.

You do need to be on the books of a good agency, so try Derek's Hands.

talk to plants for money

Since we are now theoretically into Summer, many people are off on their holidays meaning their poor plants are left at home all alone, sat on pathetic widow cill waiting to wither up and die.

So help these poor unfortunate things by offering a plant-sitting service. You could either visit the people's homes whilst they are away, talk to their plants, water them, go through some drawers; or if you are not trusted with the key to a strangers house, collect the plants before they go on holiday and take them back to your place to look after.

Print off some leaflets and stick them through peoples letterboxes before they go away. Charge them per plant. Easy.

get naked for money

I know what you're thinking. And, no i am not going to recommend that as this is a family site (although apparently it does pay well). What I am suggesting is becoming a life model. i.e. you go to your local art class, take of your clothes and some voyeurs artists draw you.

Although being a life-model has become somewhat of a cliche in sit-coms, it is apparently still very common, due to the fact that people are notoriously difficult to draw and look realistic so it is a good test of the perverts artists skill.

Pay is between £7 - £12 per hour dependent upon location. Contact your local art school, further education college.

have stars in your house for money

Don't bother hanging outside stage doors in the rain, waiting for a fleeting glimpse of the z-listed celeb to come out and brighten up your life. They're no better than you. In fact, you are better than them. So make them come round to your pad and get paid for the privilege.

TV and film production companies are always on the lookout for houses to use as sets. It certainly helps if you have an unusual, period or large home; although they will consider anything.

Pay varies from £300 - £2000 per day depending on time spent/type of project involved. What's more, afterwards you can charge people to come in and look round your famous location. Sell them badges and stuff.

Start by contacting Amazing Space and Sarah Eastel Locations.

be nosey for money

If you fancy asking people about there private life, whilst drinking their tea and having a good old nosey around their house, then being a market researcher could be the ideal way to make some extra cash.

So, you go to peoples homes on behalf of a certain company, ask people questions, look vaguely interested, record their answers and send the resulting document to the relevant company concerned. Easy. Well theoretically easy, so long as you are not subject to abuse on the doorstep whilst you disturb people during their favourite TV programmes.

Contact Fieldshare, MORI or the Market Research Company if you are interested.

read yet even more stuff for money

I love the indexes at the back of books. It means you can skip all the boring bits and search out all the bits you want to read. Saves so much time. Well have you ever wondered how the indexes are created? No i hadn't either. I guessed a clever computer scanned the documents and found the keywords and somehow through its magic recorded what page it was on. But apparently I was wrong.

Even in todays advanced age people go through the entire book and create the indexes themselves.

Pay starts around £20 per hour, but you do need to be able to read, have an eye for detail and not get easily bored.

You can even join the Society of Indexers as a bonus. I bet their Christmas parties are thrilling.

read stuff for money

Half the stuff on TV is useless. I don't really know why I bother watching it. Makes me wonder sometimes how this rubbish gets commissioned in the first place. So if you feel the same, become a reader and spend your time disillusioning people and let them know that their "Fireman Panda" idea is a no-goer.

TV and film producers get piles and piles of submissions everyday, and simply do not have the time to go through them all, so provide them with your services and chuck out the dross.

Initially contact publishers, you can find their details from The Writers Handbook.

A qualification in English, or proven competence in creative writing is a distinct advantage.

Alternatively, just submit your own ideas to the TV producers. Come to think of it I'm starting to like the idea of "Fireman Panda".

answer questions for money

If you like answering questions and letting everyone know all your private secrets, then it is worth considering filling in online surveys, especially if they pay you.

There are numerous survey sites who pay online, some better than others. All it takes is your time and the ability to stay awake during the lengthy question process. Personally, I would recommend 2 courses of action if you are to do this:

i) Set up a disposable email address such as hotmail to use, and not your main email address, just in case they decide to bombard you with spam marketing.

ii)Secondly don't worry about telling fibs on the survey. Ok I know it defeats the whole idea of questionnaires, but at the end of the day we are in this for the money and not to help society. By fibbing you can complete the surveys much quicker. Just arbitrarily click on the answers.

Try YOUGOV which is excellent.

Two other good ones are ciao and onepoll, but there are many others.

write letters for money

Go to any letter page in a magazine or letter, and look at the names of the contributors. You are guaranteed to find at least of couple of names that are blatantly made up. Just 2 days ago in the Times there was a letter from someone called I. Lykitt. No joke. And why are the names made up? Because many publications get so few letters they just get the journalists to invent some.

So send in your own letter and chances are they will pay you for it. It doesn't even have to be a major work of prose. Comment on Colleen's new hairdo and you could make yourself £25. Easy. Most magazines and newspapers have a letter page, but make sure your contribution is relevant to the publication concerned. Readers of the Times ar unlikely to be interested in Cameron Diaz's varicose veins (as written about in letters section of last weeks Heat magazine).

What's more they all accept letters by email, so it doesn't even cost you a stamp.

buy stuff for money

I don't like shopping. Never have. If I need something, I'll either order it online or go straight to the first shop I can think of that sells it, buy it and come home again. I don't particularly like salespeople either. Ok, there are good sales persons and shop assistants but they are few and far between. In general they have either a very severe superiority complex or they are just stupid. Usually stupid.

So why not join me in getting them sacked and replaced by nice people who I would like by becoming a mystery shopper. If you like shopping then that's a bonus. You can be paid to eat, drink, buy and generally be merry. Unless you're mystery shopping in a funeral directors.

Basically you go to the shop or restaurant, buy something and then report to the mystery shoppoing agency how painful it all was. And then they pay you. Pay is around £8-£25 per venue plus the lovely food that you consumed in the process.

And getting someone sacked who you don't like is priceless. I already have my list ready.

Try JKS, Mystery Shoppers Ltd or Storecheckers to get you started, although there are many more. However NEVER pay to join a mystery shopping agency. They are naughty scammers.

be a guinea pig for money

I previously posted regarding undergoing medical experiments for money, usually trying out lots of drugs to see if you are still standing afterwards. If that is too risky try psychological experiments.

Many universities carry out such experiments, testing the ability of the brains retention and memory, sociability and perception.

Payment depends upon the time of study and length of time involved, but it is common to receive at least £12 per hour. In the first instance contact your local University, or check the local press.

be a mother for money

If you are a mother, you can be a part-time doula. This is someone who has had a baby and is then helps in the birth of a new baby and assists the mother through the first few weeks of motherhood.

Some single-mothers, mothers with little or no family, or mothers with fathers away on work do not have anyone to help them. Doula's help with all aspects of motherhood in the initial weeks, as well as assisting around the house. Pay is around £10-£12 per hour. Please visit British Doulas for more information.