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foggy

Joined: 21 Feb 2012
Posts: 343
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 7:44 am Post subject: Quick ï¿½20 ideas
I need to come up with ï¿½20 asap for joining the local allotments. Any quick tips?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 7:46 am Post subject:
Sell vegetable futures?

lettucewoman

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 7834
Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 7:48 am Post subject:
Sell something on ebay, sell books on Amazon, offer to tidy a neighbours garden, or do the cleaning , offer a car washing service or walking dogs....

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 7:52 am Post subject:
And never underestimate the 'chucking all the cushions of the sofa' manoeuvre. There could be a fortune down there.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 8:04 am Post subject:
Miss a week's food shopping and eat from your stores?

sally_in_wales
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 8:09 am Post subject:
Ebay something, or put some things up for sale on the trading post here?

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 8:59 am Post subject: Re: Quick ï¿½20 ideas

foggy wrote:

I need to come up with ï¿½20 asap for joining the local allotments.

Any quick tips?

Offer to be responsible for cutting the communal areas of the allotment, for the whole year, in exchange for getting the plot free. And do it.

Kate (ex-allotment site secretary)

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 9:03 am Post subject: Re: Quick ï¿½20 ideas

foggy wrote:

I need to come up with ï¿½20 asap for joining the local allotments.

Any quick tips?

Enter into an elaborate deal whereby you promise to pledge, say, ï¿½40 towards a crowdfunding bid in exchange for the immediate loan of ï¿½20?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9878
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 9:12 am Post subject:
car boot sale?

faerienono

Joined: 28 May 2011
Posts: 363

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 9:16 am Post subject:
Babysitting/childcare for friends? Cleaning out animal cages for someone? Window cleaning? Taking stuff to a rubbish tip for someone? Garden tidying/oddjobs? Busking???????? Sitting on the pavement with a sad dog and a hat.......????

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9878
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 9:18 am Post subject:
'invest' the children's piggy bank

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 11:20 am Post subject: Re: Quick ï¿½20 ideas

Rob R wrote:

foggy wrote:

I need to come up with ï¿½20 asap for joining the local allotments.

Any quick tips?

Enter into an elaborate deal whereby you promise to pledge, say, ï¿½40 towards a crowdfunding bid in exchange for the immediate loan of ï¿½20?

Jesus threw people like you out of the temple.

foggy

Joined: 21 Feb 2012
Posts: 343
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 12:52 pm Post subject:
I seem to live in a village where everyone already does everyone else's gardens/child minding/dog walking etc... & the thought of taking my manual cylinder mower around the patch DS's moneybox is full. of IOUs I shall try the sad dog & hat routine. (OH just found some shares she'd forgotten she had, worth a bit more than what she remembered them being)

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 1:35 pm Post subject:
Can someone lend or give me ï¿½20 please?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9878
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 12 1:39 pm Post subject:
sell the lamb chop whiskers in a fund raising event? edit for spelling Last edited by Nicky cigreen on Wed Jun 20, 12 2:18 pm; edited 1 time in total

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