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Local Facebook selling groups and Facebook Marketplace are taking over from eBay…
If you've a computer or smartphone, there are a host of ways to boost your coffers –…
There are scores of legit ways to earn extra money, whether selling stuff, working from home or using the web. After all, no matter how good a MoneySaver you are, a little bit more money's always useful.
Airbnb and other sites could help make you £10,000s from letting your home or spare room temporarily to holidaymakers.
Product development's big business. By checking items work and verifying marketing claims, companies boost sales. Add the power of word-of-mouth recommendations, and it's clear why they're happy for you to test goodies for nowt.
Willing to give views on politics, washing-up liquid or what goes on between your bedsheets? If so, it's possible to earn £100s a year, without any special skill or talent.
Many old items you have sitting around at home can be worth serious cash, but to really get the money rolling in on eBay, you need to know the etiquette and shortcuts.
Are you sitting on a small fortune in household waste? Stop throwing out your old loo roll tubes, jam jars and wine corks – you might be flushing cash down the toilet...
TV ads yell "sell gold for cash!", yet many receive a fraction of the promised sums. This MSE undercover investigation finds the best places to sell your gold for the maximum cash.
Whether it's free flights, gym passes, cash, perfume, face cream, games or books, it's all available for free on the internet if you know where to look.
From £23,800 in cash to luxury weddings, five-star holidays to £10,000 in Tesco gift cards, MoneySavers have won the lot. It's all about 'comping', a potentially profitable hobby.
It's a shocking but typical example: "I've paid £16/month for white goods I no longer have for six YEARS." That's not far off £200 for nothing, every year. Many waste £1,000s paying for products and services they don't need or never use. So whether it's mags, gyms, dating sites or paid TV, get tough and cut 'em down.
Do you have hidden treasure in the form of an old mobile? This is a step-by-step guide to phone recycling, to help you get the most for your unneeded handset.
Taking a day to cut your bills, treating it like a job, saves many people £1,000s over the year. And unless you earn £100,000s, that's the best paid day of the year.
Sometimes waving a magic MoneySaving wand and changing all your providers isn’t enough to really improve your finances. Two further simple words are needed... STOP SPENDING.
Cashback websites pay you when you click through them, go to retailers or product providers and spend. You can make £100s a year using them correctly.
Cashback credit cards pay you every time you spend on them, possibly £100s a year. The top card pays 5% cashback for the first three months, others give up to 1% on fuel and supermarket spending, while there are also some good fee-free, near-cash reward cards. We analyse the pros and cons of all.
There's free cash available to help increase your home's energy efficiency or pay your energy bills – hundreds of millions of pounds of it. The key is knowing where to look.
It's possible to boost the value of your loyalty points by up to three times without spending a penny.
Stoozing's the art of making money by earning interest on cash credit cards lend you at 0%. While not quite as lucrative as it used to be, you can still make a pretty penny from long 0% deals, fee-free balance transfers and tax free high-interest bank savings accounts.
The average wedding is estimated to cost a heartbreaking £30,000, according to experts – but there are ways to cut back. This guide offers a host of tips including cheap venue advice, the top used bridal gown sites and how to nab an all-in reception package for less than £1,000.
With the average family Christmas costing £800, saving up for it in advance is a great idea. But if you're considering signing up to a Christmas savings club, beware. If it goes bust, as Farepak did, you could lose cash – and there are other pitfalls too. While we know the clubs help some with the discipline of saving, a DIY Christmas savings plan may be better instead.
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