Sensible ideas for making a bit of spare cash?

Thanks very much for any serious replies, everyone else can jog on.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

I'm an OK poker player but I've dabbled a little, I will make a decent profit from this.

selling on ebay & amazon

Do you have any vaseline?

"Just get a job that pays 5k more."

Yeah, thanks for that, mate, much easier said than done,

We all want more of the dollar, either live to what you earn, or kill yourself chasing it. I'm not trying to be sarcastic, just speaking from experience.

http://viz.co.uk/make-selling-wasps/

"I was a tramp when I started selling wasps. Now I've got four houses and a giant yacht in the Caribbean. And my mobile phone has diamond buttons"

ok,i will make you a millionaire if you follow my instructions.
1.Patent the idea for colored grass.(the stuff in lawns) it will cost 10 quid.
2.go to a color genetic scientist with grass seed and get him to change the color when it grows.
3.advertise world wide that you have the patent for colored grass.
4.can you imagine how you would change the world with everyone coming to you for a pink lawn ,with a white border for their new house.
5.and I suppose BARCELONA FC would would want you to change the color of their playing surface

6. I guess you are going to be a busy man.
7.did you know the guy that invented paint was called paint.
8.dont forget me when you make your millions.
9.if you whan to make a few quick millions just sell the patent for the idea.
10 good luck to you sir.

Put an ad in newsagents window offering to walk dogs for an hour a day or board them whilst people go on holiday. Charge a tenner each and if lucky you may get two at a time,do it properly and you will get recommendations and repeats.

....what about all the poop scooping !

What's all this 'color' nonsense? You've been spending too much time on facebook by the sounds of it. That's full of Yankee crap like that .. Please share if you agree, but I bet most of you won't...

if you only want a hundred a week,forget the patent and the scientist,just get a mate and buy some orange or blue astro turf and knock doors and lay down colored lawns.
women sit in houses everday pi$$ed off with nothing to do with their money,waiting for some latest fashion.
so you tell them the latest fashion is to have a purple lawn with a light blue border priced at 399 quid +150 for laying the lawn.

Should be let's ( let us), Leopard

*tyvm

^^^ you've used one comma too many there.

Just brought this to the top in case the OP or others are still interested in the original question.

There are a few methods that I move between as the mood takes me but I haven't got any get rich quick schemes or even get rich slowly ones. However, £100 a week is possible just by sitting at your computer for a few hours in the evening but you don't get much more than minimum wage. It's work, not gambling, so you have to pay tax.

Hello Torquemada, I see the Inquisition has started!

What caught my eye about your post was the target of £100 per week. It's the same as mine. The obvious method is to sell stuff on eBay while using your garden shed as a warehouse. It does work but I haven't been able to get to my shed for a few years now and the post office is out of the question.

That left working from the computer as the only option, which gives the choice of working for yourself or working for somebody else.

My first try was for a large company that guaranteed 16 hours per week at four hours per evening. Two of those evenings had to be Friday and Saturday but that didn't bother me, of course. The hours were from 7-11pm or 8-12pm or 9pm-1am.

Although you could choose two of your evenings, you couldn't choose your
hours slot. The pay was about 50 pence above minimum wage and overtime, if offered, was at the same rate.

It's a big company, you'd know the name and it's all above board. There are similar jobs at other companies from the same agency.

The job involved turning your computer into a phone by wearing a microphone headset. They give you a CD to boot from and it completely takes over your machine. Windows doesn't get booted and it doesn't put anything on your hard drive.

There's a short exam online and then you get a choice of telephone sales or telephone support. Sales means the customers call you to buy, there's
no cold calling. Support means the customers call you in a bad mood because their stuff doesn't work. You take them through a check list to find the problem. Usually they haven't plugged it in. They're delighted if you can fix it, they aren't delighted if you have to tell them you need to send a man round.

You need a quiet room without kids running in and out. The customers think you're in an office. Deduct tax and the cost of heat and light and you just about make your £100.

I can't guarantee to be fit to work regular hours anymore so I transferred to self-employment.

If you're interested in the kind of stuff I'm droning on about, let me know and I'll continue later. She who must obeyed has just told me that my tea is nearly ready.

PS I have to go out now for a few hours, so please don't be offended if I can't reply again until tomorrow.  Thanks you G.

My suggestion to follow the profitable tipsters on here was a serious one.