Top Ten Ways To Make Extra Money When There Are Two More Weeks To Payday

Payday is not for another 2 weeks, and I’m already broke. Blame it on PC Fair. Some more school holidays coming. What to do, what to do? Ever thought of some stopgap measures to make a few bucks…?

Top Ten Ways To Make Extra Money When There Are Two More Weeks To Payday

• Collect the old newspapers from your office and sell them when the old newspaper van comes to your house. Hey, every dollar goes a long way.
• You know how you never watch again all those hundreds of old DVDs and CDs you have around the house? Sell them. Open a wooden table outside the mamak at night and recoup some serious money. But watch out for cops.
• Raid your parent’s storeroom for old vinyl records and 60’s paraphernalia. Then sell them off eBay. Don’t tell them about it, or you’ll never hear the end of it.
• “Uncle, uncle, job week. Want me to cut your grass for RM15? Very cheap!”
• Don’t shower or shave or shampoo until payday. You’ll save lots of money. Besides people will give you lots of personal space too.
• Make a jug of lemonade and open a stall by the roadside. 10sen per glass. Just like in Peanut or Calvin & Hobbes. Just don’t drink it up all yourself.
• Start an Internet chain mail scam. Send an e-mail with a message like ‘Send RM10 to me (give address) and you will be happy. Send this to 10 of your friends.” See? Nothing illegal, unlike those African scams you get everyday. There’s a sucker born every minute, so you’ll stand a good chance to receive a few facts.
• This one sure make money one. Very simple. Buy face masks by bulk and sell them to passers-by and bikers at a busy intersection. The haze will make sure you sell bucketloads.
• Set up a table, umbrella and typewriter outside the government department and charge old uncles and aunties RM2 to fill out their forms for them. Just like in the old days.
• “Eh, boss. How much you want to bet that I can swallow that dead mosquito? RM20? Bet la…”