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Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Setting Up Your Own Online Shop

A few posts ago I suggested a quick way to raise money was to sell unwanted stuff on Ebay.
If you use Ebay on a regular basis you soon find that fees begin to mount on stuff that doesn’t sell.  One way around this is to set up your own shop. FOR FREE. 
This option works best [...]

Make Money Online

I don’t intend this blog to become yet another “how I make $30,000 a month by blogging” site but, if some of you readers do have blogs or sites and are interested in monetising them, there are a couple of books I have read recently which offer some good advice.
The first one,
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging [...]

10,000 steps a day…The benefits

As promised in the last post, here is a bit more information about the health benefits of walking 10,000 steps a day.
History
About 40 years ago in Japan the idea was developed that walking 10,000 steps a day will help you keep fit and healthy without the need for additional exercise. So ideally, between [...]

A fat bloke and 10,000 steps a day

I’m too fat.
Ok, I’m not at the “firemen with hoists taking a wall out of my house so I can get out and go to McDonalds” stage, but I could do with losing maybe a stone, maybe two.
My problems are threefold; a love of sweets and chocolate, a sedentary occupation and extreme laziness. We eat [...]

3 things you can do to make extra cash (pt 3)

This third suggestion is a little out of the ordinary, and really only applies to readers in the UK (as far as I know).
If you live in a house with a driveway, why not rent out your parking space?
A company called Cheap and Easy Parking sell parking online (at the minute just around the London [...]

3 things you can do to make extra cash (pt 2)

Following on from the last post, selling items in Amazon’s marketplace is also a good source of extra cash. Not every type of product is sold on Amazon, but for things like books, CDs and DVDs Amazon can have real advantages over Ebay.
Unlike Ebay, items you list with Amazon stay listed for 60 days, and [...]

3 things you can do to make extra cash (pt 1)

I know this is a no-brainer, but selling stuff on Ebay is always a quick route to ready cash for me.
Everybody has stuff at around that they don’t need, don’t want or can’t remember why they got it in the first place. It makes perfect sense to offload anything of value, however small, to bring [...]

Quick ways to earn more money

So the Bank of England has shocked the world by cutting interest rates today by a massive 1.5%. This will have a direct positive effect on a proportion of the population, (including me, actually), but the overall economic outlook is still bleak, and will be for sometime to come.
So what things can people do to [...]

Hello..

This is the first post on my new blog.
If I’m honest, I have no idea how it will all turn out, but let’s give it a go anyway, eh?
Let me give you the concept first. Last year, around Christmas time, I was asked if I had any new years’ resolutions. Off the top of my [...]