Help! I Need Some Cash

April 4, 2011 by Emma in Bingo, Cashback, Coupons, Mystery Shopping, Paid To Click, Selling, Surveys No Comment
Let’s be honest, you’re not reading From Aldi To Harrods because of my brilliant writing style and good looks – you want to know how to make some cash. Whilst I try and make my blog as user friendly as possible it’s still a minefield out there and knowing where to start can seem quite daunting. Even more so if you’re desperate for some cash for an unexpected bill and feel confused. This led me to thinking about creating a “Help! I Need Some Cash” post, using certain time frames by which you need the money by to help you decide what to do.
Help, I need some cash within a week!
For whatever reason you need some cash within a week. A mere 7, or fewer, days to get some money together. It feels impossible. You know eBay will take too long, so what can you do?
  • Post items for sale over at TSUK. Do this on the first day of your week, allowing 3-5 days for Paypal to transfer the funds into your bank account. Read my blog post about this
  • Do a bootsale. Read my blog post about this
  • Cloud Crown. You won’t get rich but you will get paid the following day into your Paypal account. Allow 3-5 days for the funds to transfer into your bank account. Read my blog post about this
  • Sell your unwanted items quickly via pawn brokers/Cash Converters/game shops.
  • Count up your loose change and get it banked. Every little helps. 

Help, I need some cash within a fortnight!
As above, you can start with the weekly ideas and expand on them a little bit.

  • List items on eBay. A fortnight is enough time to list items for 7 days, allow a couple of days for postage and payments to come through, 3-5 days for your Paypal funds to clear and you’ve made a bit of cash. Read my blog post about this
  • Along the same lines you can list unwanted books, CDs, DVDs and games on both Amazon and Play.com, for free. Although items may not sell, if they do, funds are transferred to your bank within approximately 5 days.  Read my blog post about this
  • Play some free bingo. There are 3 sites I verify as being able to make money from this. Money could possibly be back in your bank account within a week but a fortnight would be a safer bet. Read my blog post about this 
Help, I need some cash within a month/longer term!

As well as both the week and fortnight ideas you can expand a little bit more on some other ideas. Some of these things are things I now consider to be a way of life for me and are things I do even when I’m not actively trying to make money.

I hope this guide is somewhat useful – its certainly helped me to find areas that I’ve not actually written about yet, as well as made me realise I want to organise my blog a bit better and reach a nice balance between personal money making updates and guides. 

I’d also like to take a moment to let you know that I updated the Smelly Shoes on eBay guide last week so do go and take a look – it is still the most popular article on my blog…hm…I wonder why…