Jasmine Birtles
Your money-making expert. Financial journalist, TV and radio personality.
Easy ways to make quick cash
MoneyMagpie team
24th Jun 2024
Updated 24th June 2024
Want to make quick cash right now? Check out our ten top ways to make money fast, with the least amount of effort possible.
Perhaps you’re looking for easy ways to make money online from the comfort of your sofa, or perhaps you want to make sure your credit report is accurate and up to date so you can get the best deals.
Here are our 10 easy ways to make quick cash, and don’t forget to sign up to our newsletter for weekly quick-cash-making and money-saving ideas.
- Earn with Swagbucks
- Join inCompass
- Make Money with Toluna
- Claim Your Free Money-Making eBook
- Save on Your Energy Bills
- Get Paid for Your Opinion
- Get Paid to Use the Internet
- Have a Free Financial MOT
- Make £400 a Month Mystery Shopping
Earn up to £25 per survey with Swagbucks
Swagbucks gives you the opportunity to earn Swag Bucks, their reward currency, for a whole host of things; from using their search engine to watching online videos and even playing games.
These points can eventually be used to redeem rewards such as an Amazon gift voucher or a PayPal e-Gift Card.
Registering is absolutely free and you can quickly rack up the bucks if you spend just a few minutes each day on the app.
Join inCompass and earn £20 for your first month
Join Ipsos MORI inCompass and earn £20 for your first month and £10 every month after.
All you have to do to join is complete a five-minute questionnaire and install the free app, which is available on Android and Apple phones.
If that sounds like you then what are you waiting for?
Make Money with Toluna
Toluna is a great site to join. You not only earn points which you can later redeem for fantastic prizes, but you also have the opportunity to get free goodies.
Click the appropriate device to complete the survey! iPhone, Android, Desktop
Claim Your FREE Money-Making Email & eBook
Sign up for FREE to our Make Money Newsletter and every Tuesday we’ll send you the inside tips YOU need to succeed.
Grab hold of our expert cash advice and run with it – it’s been created with the sole purpose of making you quick cash. What’s more, each issue also contains a lot of special bargains designed to save you cash.
You could also hop over to our eBooks section and grab a FREE copy of our ‘Make £1000 Before Christmas’ eBook.
Win £850!
Want to win a nice wad of cash?
Then enter Pick My Postcode – all you have to do is enter your postcode and email address.
They give away £850 a day and have so far given away over £100,000.
If you’re still not sure what it’s all about, you can read our article all about it here, which tells you everything you need to know so you can start winning.
Save Money on Your Energy Bills
Now is a perfect time to fix your deal as the Energy Price Cap drops for July. But there are lots more ways to save on your energy bill.
If you want to find the very best deal before you fix, shop around!
Click here to use our comparison tool and find a better deal for you.
Be Paid for Your Opinion
This is a sporadic way to make quick cash and it brings in a relatively small income, but it’s low effort and you’ve nothing to lose. It’s a great way to make quick cash from the comfort of your computer but make sure you NEVER pay to join an online survey site or reveal your credit card details.
Inside tip! Here are our favourite online survey sites. They’re completely free and have received a big thumbs-up from many of you. For maximum earnings set up a separate email account (so your personal one doesn’t get flooded with survey-related emails) and then register for free with all of them:
If you like the sound of making quick cash through filling out online surveys make sure you check out our full article right here on the safe way to earn money by taking paid surveys.
Earn for Using the Internet
Fancy making money in your pyjamas without any effort?
Sign-up to InboxPounds and earn cash for reading emails, completing surveys, watching videos and more.
You even get a pound just for signing up!
Get a Free Financial Health Check
Sense check your finances with a free financial health check – a 30-60 minute call or meeting with a local, well-rated IFA.With more than 4,500 independent financial advisers and over 60,000 reviews, VouchedFor is home to the UK’s top advisers.Simply leave your details and VouchedFor will find the best adviser to conduct your free financial health check.Get your free financial health check here.
Make Up to £400 a Month Mystery Shopping
Fancy getting paid to eat out, shop and even go on holiday? Try mystery shopping!
Our editor Jasmine has been a mystery shopper for over five years now, earning decent money on the side while bagging brilliant freebies left, right and centre.
Now you can too! Download your special guide for:
- A step-by-step walkthrough on how to become a mystery shopper
- Details of all the best mystery shopping firms
- Essential tips on how to make money and land freebies that’ll make your friends jealous!
You can nab this indispensable guide to mystery shopping absolutely free. Claim yours now!
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My quick money making tips:
1. Look round your house for things you no longer like/need/use – sell on local Facebook selling sites or in your local paper – ads are free
2. If you have anything not big or valuable enough to warrant listing individually, bundle it all up and do a car boot sale – your unloved stuff will be someone else’s treasure
3. Join a cash back site and use it for online shopping – the cash back quickly adds up
i like selling in local facebook groups
I’m always up for making money as I seemed to spend a lot of it! Thank you for all advice. I used to belong to a survey site but found it was a lot of work for a little back however I found that if I saved up from the surveys & withdrew my money/vouchers at Christmas once a year I found even that small amount of money a saviour!
My favourite is buying stuff cheap at the car boot sale and then selling it on Ebay!
Start young and never lose the entrepreneurial spirit. When I was young, I used to walk the paths near the local golf course where I would find a lot of lost golf balls (not running on to the course to steal them!) I’d then sell them in bundles to guys in my dad’s work who were just starting out so needed cheap balls as they are likely to lose a lot. I used to go down to the local factories and collect their empty bottles of Irn Bru. Each had a 30p bottle return deposit. They had no desire to… Read more »