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Companies such as CafePress.com allow people to design and sell their T-shirts for a cut of the profits. According to the company's website, some users earn over $100,000 a year.

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Make-up companies such as Avon and Mary Kay are always looking for new sales representatives, as are other companies such as kitchen products seller Pampered Chef.

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Magazines and television companies are always scouting for places to feature as backdrops for photo shoots or filming. If your house happens to be gorgeous it could be ideal for a magazine or book shoot; regular family homes, meanwhile, are in demand from television production companies. It is by no means a guaranteed way of earning extra cash, but considering many agencies offer free registration (they will take a 20% cut if your home is chosen for a shoot), there is no harm in signing up. You can expect to earn about £1,000 a day if your home is used.

Atlanta Bartlett, who co-runs location company Beach Studios, says it helps if you're not too houseproud: "It can be quite inconvenient to have a big crew in your house for days – they will change things around, move furniture and scrape walls. They might even want to paint the place, but then again if you get a shoot that will last a few days then you could say you've hit the jackpot."

The Collective is specifically looking for houses on the west side of the M25, close to many studios where TV dramas are filmed. Its properties have featured in the Bill, Spooks and Silent Witness. Lavish Locations is also keen to hear from owners of spacious family homes.

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soundout.com, a music website that pays users to review unsigned bands. The idea is simple: you sign up, listen to a track, rate it and write an honest review. You'll get 5p per review, but the more reviews you make the more you can charge — experienced reviewers can command 25p per song.

"If you're a dedicated reviewer, you can earn some decent pocket money, some users have earned in excess of £1,000," says David Courtier-Dutton, the founder of soundout.com.

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Does your home have energy generated by renewable technology (e.g. solar panels)? Or are you considering going down this route? If so, you could make good money by selling any surplus energy you generate back to the National Grid. You’d be surprised at how much can be generated and how much it could make you. Click here for the full lowdown.

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Join the www.mylot.com community and earn money by using the site – start discussions, post comments, make your own blog and refer friends. The higher quality of work you publish, the more you can make. Generate discussions that engage other users and provide insightful responses to other user’s discussions.

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Cashforcartridges will pay up to £4.50 per empty cartridge, whilst Inksave also offer some very competitive rates. You’ll be doing your bit for recycling, while making a tidy sum into the bargain! If you can collect your friend and family’s unwanted cartridges, you can make even more. (Also enquire what your employer’s policy is towards used ink cartridges. Many needlessly throw hundreds away each year – so why not take them off their hands?)

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If you advertise on home rental website holidaylettings.co.uk and recommend a friend or family member to put an ad up on the site you’ll get a free gift as a reward. Gifts include a £50 case of wine and £50 worth of Amazon vouchers. Just click ‘Refer Now’ on this page and enter your friend’s details. You can refer as many friends as you’d like – just make sure they mention your name or Advertiser ID when registering.

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Most cashback sites pay bonuses when you get a friend to sign up. If you’re into cashback sites, this is an easy way to earn some cash while also helping your friends to save on purchases.

GreasyPalm pays £7 per friend;
Free Fivers pays £5 once the friend has earned £25;
Froggybank pays £5 for every two friends you recruit;
Cashback Shopper will give you £5 just for signing up followed by an extra £5 if you refer a friend.

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If you don’t use your garage or driveway you could rent it out for money – particularly if you are in London or another parking-unfriendly city. Just register with Parkatmyhouse.com (it’s free), put your postcode in and wait for desperate would-be parkers to contact you.

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Lonely Planet is looking for freelance writers with special knowledge of a city, country or region.You must be an experienced traveller and have professional writing experience, be able to write with authority, have excellent research and organisational skills and meet deadlines.

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Lonely Planet is looking for freelance writers with special knowledge of a city, country or region.You must be an experienced traveller and have professional writing experience, be able to write with authority, have excellent research and organisational skills and meet deadlines.

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If you’ve got secretarial experience, you could work for small businesses – from the comfort of your own home! Experienced Virtual Assistants charge up to £25 an hour. Visit societyofvirtualassistants.co.uk.

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By doing other people’s washing and ironing you can make cash when it siuts you, whilst catching up with the Eastenders omnibus! Bring in customers by putting an advert in the local paper, handing out leaflets in your local area or, for more professional advice, check out www.ironingservice.net.

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Are you 18 to 20 years old? Looking for a well paid part time job? Well you can earn £15 to £20 an hour buying alcohol from pubs, supermarkets or clubs and filling in a report on their ID policy. Plus you get to keep the drink! All you have to do is have a valid passport or driving licence and right to work in the UK. Click here to find out more.

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Like clubbing? Do you have lots of friends? Make money by bringing them into clubs. Go to Velvet PR for free. Tell them where you live and they’ll let you know which clubs need promoting.

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Become a Body Shop at Home Consultant. The Body Shop recruits people to sell Body Shop products at special beauty parties in people’s homes. If the party goes well, you could earn over £100 in just one evening as well as receive lots of beauty products for free. What’s more, as you get to decide when you want to host these evenings, you can work as little or often as you like.

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Earn yourself as much as £10 an hour handing out the Evening Standard, or The Metro (which is distributed all over the UK). Apply here

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If you’re a music fan, you can sign up to the unique Slicethepie website for free and become a scout. This basically involves getting paid to listen to the music of unsigned bands from all over the world and review it. Obviously, your reviews have to be competent and fairly well informed, but need only be a few sentences long. Initially you won’t make much, but as you get a better scout rating (i.e. the more reviews you make, and the more they agree with the majority of reviewers) you can make more and more. There are also a few other ways to increase your earnings on the site; check it all out here.

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NatCen has a national panel of over 1000, and all receive paid training and reimbursement of transport costs (if you have a car then this is ideal).

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Driving a Pedicab/bug/rickshaw is a great way to stay in shape, meet loads of people and offer emission free transport to London’s visitors. The Bugbugs Community offers training with an accredited National Cycling Certificate awarded. The cost of training is £50, with a £100 deposit required for the duration of your employment, you keep everything you earn, so the harder you work, the more you make.

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If you’re good at arts and crafts, there’s a big market out there for your talents. Sites like Coriandr, Folksy and Not Mass Produced.com are crying out for people like you to sell their handmade goods online. These sites normally take a small commission of any sale you make (usually around 2-3%) – but in return give you a ‘virtual shop’ for your goods. You could set up your own blog and sell your goods online, of course, but this is an easier route if you’re not web savvy. Plus, these sites attract a lot more customers than you would do if you set up a site on your tod. Definitely worth a look!

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To make a bit of money on the side you could start up your own card business. Starting up your own business sounds like a lot of work, but with Phoenix Trading it doesn’t have to be. To start off you simply order an Introductory Pack, which contains an application form which you then fill in and return along with your first order for cards.

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Want to be in a movie with your favourite celebrity? Always thought it would be fun to see your face on the big screen? Acting extras are ordinary people that are essential to setting up scenes in films or television shows. You can earn £65 for 9 hours of work, with a £20 bonus …not to mention the bragging rights if you are in the same shot, even momentarily, with lead actors. The Acting Website offers loads of information on how to become an acting extra, and you can see a directory of extra’s agents on UK Screen.

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You don’t have to be a pro to sell your photos. Nor do you need to albums full of dramatic shots. If you have a library of decent, ordinary digital snaps – you may be able to sell them through an online agencies like Picture Nation, 123RF and Fotolia. You get a royalty fee each time a picture of yours sells. You’d be surprised at how many websites and businesses will be interested in using your pics – and willing to pay for the privilege.

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Get paid to write travel guides at SimonSeeks. They are looking for intelligent, well-written and gramatically correct guides of holiday destinations. Register and upload your guide, await approval from the site’s editorial team, and get paid based on its popularity. There are also 100 prizes of £200 for the best guide-writers. Join the site known as “the Youtube of travel” today!

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If you’re a budding writer, you could try your hand at writing a short story for Clonepod, who produce science fiction and fantasy podcasts from work its users send in. They’ll pay you $25 through Paypal for a 2,000 word story that they like, and they don’t ask for any rights to the work at all – which is great if you want to try selling the story over and over again. Click here to be taken to the Clonepod website.

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Get paid around £50 an hour using your voice. Subscribe with Voices.com, upload a sample of your voice and quickly and easily apply for voice-over jobs. (You may find that you get head hunted if you have a distinctive voice!) If you are successful, you will be on your way to recording and cash!

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Can you teach English language? If you have time on your hands and a spare room, you could host a foreign student in your own home and earn extra money giving them tuition. People needed around the country. To host and teach English in your home contact InTuition Languages on 020 7739 4411 or visit their website. You could also rent your spare room out to a foreign student and get a bit of culture at the same time. Check out Idiom for a list of foreign language schools in the UK.

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If you’re a graduate, and eligible to work in the UK you could earn extra cash as a home tutor for a range of subjects and levels, usually on a one-to-one basis at the clients’ home. See London’s Learning website for details on tutoring in London or agencies like Personal Tutors for more information on nationwide tutoring.

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Become a ‘chugger’ (charity fundraiser) and do your bit for charity whilst you earn! Several charities are looking for people to stand on the street and persuade passers-by to pay monthly amounts to their charity. You can earn between £8.50-11 an hour, on average, and the work is flexible. It involves being outside and meeting people, of course, but you could get a lot of abuse from pedestrians. There are several commercial organisations that run ‘chugger’ campaigns but they keep a percentage of the money raised. Better to work direct for the charity if you would like to do this. Just a few of the organisations looking for fundraisers directly are Shelter, Concern and Everychild.

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There are more and more companies offering to pay you to refer your friends. The website Refermehappy has a load of companies that do it, and you can join as either a ‘referrer’ or a ‘friend’ and you both get a referral bonus from the company.

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If you have some free time, Shopping.com will pay you £50 for writing 100 reviews on their top products, that’s £5 for every 10 reviews! Click here to find out more.

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Mystery shopping is a fun way to earn some extra money while shopping, or testing services at local restaurants and pubs. Sounds like a dream job! TNS Mystery Shopper is looking for new shoppers nationwide to assess a variety of different businesses such as shops and restaurants.