Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: My name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud yor the
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Speaker 1: Let's get into it. She's on the Money.
Speaker 3: She's on the Money.
Speaker 4: Hello, Ho ho ho. I'm sorry, v I just want
Speaker 4: to take this off.
Speaker 1: Too changing a little bit.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's too far, and I'm sorry you're trying to
Speaker 4: be festive for offensive a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: How do you feel.
Speaker 4: That's a good start? Welcome, She's on the Money, the
Speaker 4: podcast that can help you slay your holiday goals without
Speaker 4: dashing through too much cash.
Speaker 1: How long did that take you?
Speaker 4: Maybe like three and a half minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: The holiday season is now in full swing and today
Speaker 4: we're stuffing at your stockings with our top ideas to
Speaker 4: help you add a little extra jingle to your wallet
Speaker 4: this Christmas.
Speaker 1: I do love a jingly wallet. That means you have
Speaker 1: coins that we're off for a good stack.
Speaker 4: You have some coins in there. I'm excited with me
Speaker 4: As Victoria Divine stand a little finance helper, I think
Speaker 4: you are Santa. I feel like I'm the finance.
Speaker 1: I feel like I identify differently, but whatever, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I just don't have the bed for it.
Speaker 4: Well Sands, a little finance helper is here to make
Speaker 4: sure your wallet stays merry and bright this Christmas.
Speaker 1: I love that. I can imagine. Yeah, but we always
Speaker 1: talk about Christmas budgeting in I guess terms of cutting
Speaker 1: costs and finding some deals and setting spending limits and
Speaker 1: trimming down the wish list to make this season a
Speaker 1: little bit more affordable. But one thing that I think
Speaker 1: often gets overlooked is that this season is actually a
Speaker 1: golden opportunity to make some extra cash. Beck we can
Speaker 1: make money. As the festive season ramps up, demands of
Speaker 1: all kinds increase in every area. I mean, everybody has
Speaker 1: a long list of to do things and no time
Speaker 1: to get it done, and this time of year there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that are happy to spend
Speaker 1: on the task of outsourcing.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I totally get it.
Speaker 1: So with a little bit of creativity, Beck, you could
Speaker 1: end up covering your chrissy expenses or even give yourself
Speaker 1: a little bit of a financial cushion to start the
Speaker 1: new year. So that's what today's episode is going to
Speaker 1: be all about. We're talking about holiday hustles.
Speaker 4: I love this idea because I feel like a lot
Speaker 4: of people spend, spend, spend, they're usually in the negation
Speaker 4: is by the time.
Speaker 1: We all are it is so crazy. But also, I
Speaker 1: mean side note, if you are feeling the festive pressure
Speaker 1: right now, what you're going to do and beyond listening
Speaker 1: to this episode about holiday hustles, where you're actually able to,
Speaker 1: I guess, increase how much money you're saving and earning
Speaker 1: of this period. You're going to go and create a
Speaker 1: bank account today and you're going to call it Christmas.
Speaker 1: And after Christmas, you're going to start contributing an amount
Speaker 1: of money that feels comfortable to you every single week
Speaker 1: or month to that so that you don't have to
Speaker 1: feel like this next year. So you have Christmas sorted.
Speaker 1: Because how many times does Christmas roll around back and
Speaker 1: you're like again, as though we didn't know what was coming,
Speaker 1: I know, like we knew it was coming. We did
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. You've got three hundred and sixty five days
Speaker 1: now to plan for the next Christmas. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be stressful.
Speaker 4: No, And even if you have one dollar a day
Speaker 4: to put away, that's more than you would have had.
Speaker 1: If you're can have three hundred and sixty five dollars
Speaker 1: this time next year, that I can almost promise you
Speaker 1: future you is going to be like, thank God, Beg
Speaker 1: did that?
Speaker 4: Thank me so much?
Speaker 1: But also if you want to make some extra cash,
Speaker 1: that's what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 4: All right, So what's the first tip and our holiday
Speaker 4: hustle stocking?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Are you ready for one that you probably already saw coming.
Speaker 1: I am to start off very strong, but also very predictably.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us overlook how much cash
Speaker 1: we're actually sitting on in our own homes. The first
Speaker 1: place I would start is just by looking around your
Speaker 1: house and having a look for anything that you can
Speaker 1: chuck on Facebook, Marketplace. It's a fantastic way of freeing
Speaker 1: up some space. And making some extra cash at the
Speaker 1: same time. And from my perspective, it's a great way
Speaker 1: to declutter and make room for the new presence that
Speaker 1: you might be receiving. There such great idea. What I
Speaker 1: would do and what we're looking for selling though, is like,
Speaker 1: maybe have a think about what do people need during
Speaker 1: this holiday season? So I posted something on Instagram the
Speaker 1: other day. If you are currently thinking about decluttering for
Speaker 1: your kids, please do because items that your kids have outgrown,
Speaker 1: like maybe toy or bikes or even cubby houses can
Speaker 1: be a massive hit for someone who's looking for a
Speaker 1: save at Christmas time and being like I really want
Speaker 1: to get my kid to bike. Yes, don't wait till
Speaker 1: after Christmas to get rid of your kid's items, which
Speaker 1: I think lots of us are like, oh, I'll see
Speaker 1: what they get for Christmas and then declutter Like it
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense. But do it before Christmas so
Speaker 1: that another family can benefit from it. Yes, Like, also,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is not going to make you any money,
Speaker 1: but if there are things that you're like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I can afford to give this up, try and
Speaker 1: gift it away. So like give it up for free
Speaker 1: on Facebook marketplace, like I can almost guarantee it will
Speaker 1: go to a kid who was not going to get
Speaker 1: something otherwise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so true. I actually spent two hours driving
Speaker 4: someone's house just to buy a one dollar Sanda hat.
Speaker 4: You do, those fluffy ones, you can't get them two hours.
Speaker 1: This was last year. I'm just gonna say back, I
Speaker 1: have so many fluffy Santa hats. You actually can have one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll bring you because I lost it already.
Speaker 1: I don't know wear of course you did. What don't
Speaker 1: you lose?
Speaker 4: But you know that person has an extra dollar. She
Speaker 4: was like, no one's gonna buy the Santa hat.
Speaker 1: You want fluffy Santa hat? I really like on it?
Speaker 4: That first tip.
Speaker 1: Okay, so decluttering making cash if we're going to be decluttering,
Speaker 1: like what about your wardrobe? Are there any like outfits
Speaker 1: that you've worn once or twice that could be a
Speaker 1: perfect Christmas dress for someone else? Like, pop that up.
Speaker 1: You're probably never going to wear it again. Another thing
Speaker 1: I want you to do is back, what do you
Speaker 1: get for Christmas? Last year? Exactly? So we're going to
Speaker 1: put things on Facebook marketplace if we don't need them,
Speaker 1: and turn them into some extra cash because I can
Speaker 1: almost guarantee if you haven't worn it in a year,
Speaker 1: if you haven't used it any gear, you're probably not
Speaker 1: going to use it for another year.
Speaker 4: Absolutely right, Yeah, yeah, get rid of it. Don't b
Speaker 4: bit savage this year. I actually thought you were talking
Speaker 4: about how there's always coins under the couch cushions for
Speaker 4: some reason.
Speaker 1: Also check your couch couch cushions and the bottom of
Speaker 1: the washing machine, you know, the little steel around the edge.
Speaker 1: There's always two bucks in there. Don't know where it
Speaker 1: comes from because my household we don't use cash. No
Speaker 1: one uses cash. There's always cash in the washing machine.
Speaker 1: Where's it come from? Okay?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I do like that first tip a lot, decluttering making
Speaker 4: extra hash at the same time.
Speaker 1: So simple but so effective.
Speaker 4: Now once we've done this, what's next?
Speaker 1: Okay? So I feel like everyone was able to predict
Speaker 1: the Facebook Marketplace one because like the first thing I
Speaker 1: do when I wake up in the morning, back I
Speaker 1: roll over, I pick up my phone because it's probably
Speaker 1: an alarm going off that I need to stop, and
Speaker 1: then I check Facebook Marketplace. I don't not to see
Speaker 1: what's going on. I just need to see what people
Speaker 1: are listing. So you saw that coming. But what you
Speaker 1: didn't see coming? Huh? Yardwork? Okay, yeah, okay, So Christmas
Speaker 1: time is a time of year when basically everybody wants
Speaker 1: their garden looking amazing. Like you're having friends and family over,
Speaker 1: They're going to go through the front yard. You haven't
Speaker 1: weeded it for a really long time. But with how
Speaker 1: much is going on, most people don't have time to
Speaker 1: do it themselves. And here in Australia, where Christmas means
Speaker 1: warm weather and outdoor celebrations, having a tidy garden and
Speaker 1: a festive yard, I would say is a must.
Speaker 4: So you could put yourself out there.
Speaker 1: You could put yourself out there. So one of my
Speaker 1: favorite platforms is they a taskard. But you could start
Speaker 1: by letting your family and friends know that you're offering
Speaker 1: yard work services. So chuck it up on Instagram or
Speaker 1: you could check it up on Facebook. Posting on social
Speaker 1: media is going to get you out there. And I
Speaker 1: mean if you said, hey, for one hundred bucks, I'll
Speaker 1: come and clean up your yard and like mow the
Speaker 1: lawn far out, come on over today, Beck because it
Speaker 1: hasn't been done in ages. For added security and visibility.
Speaker 1: My favorite platform air tasker where you can, I guess,
Speaker 1: be covered by their insurance and also connect with clients.
Speaker 1: At this time of year, everyone's booked up, So why
Speaker 1: not join and cash in on the fact that, you know,
Speaker 1: I actually need someone who's available tomorrow because I forgot
Speaker 1: beck that I wanted my garden done by the way
Speaker 1: ken Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a great idea exactly. And
Speaker 1: you could earn like forty or fifty bucks an hour,
Speaker 1: depending on your location and the job details. Okay, do
Speaker 1: you have to be a landscaper? No, No, you can
Speaker 1: pop it up and at the end of the day
Speaker 1: you can pop in your ad. I'm just, you know,
Speaker 1: an average goal looking to do some yard work. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty good at it. Yeah, why not?
Speaker 4: It's actually a really good idea. I'm genuinely, genuinely thinking
Speaker 4: about doing that. See I think that's a good one. Okay,
Speaker 4: So after tiding up the yard and making it sparkle
Speaker 4: for all those outdoor gatherings, what's next in the holiday
Speaker 4: husehole shopping? So outside it's looking fresh, it's looking sleek.
Speaker 4: You go in your house it's a bombsite, of of course.
Speaker 4: Or maybe I'm just talking about my house because right now,
Speaker 4: my house is a bombsite. I have a baby, and
Speaker 4: not much else gets done, if I'm being honest.
Speaker 1: But now the outside's looking great, I think it's time
Speaker 1: to bring that energy inside. Same as yardwork. Everybody is
Speaker 1: looking for someone to help with Christmas cleaning or decluttering,
Speaker 1: and it's in massive demand at this time of year.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing all these decluttering instagrams pop off because that's
Speaker 1: the type of content I like to consume. Of course,
Speaker 1: I love watching people organize pantries, good back, but all
Speaker 1: of these people are like, hey, get in before the
Speaker 1: end of December. I only have like one or two
Speaker 1: spots left. Yeah, okay. I'm not saying that you need
Speaker 1: to be a professional at these things, and we're not
Speaker 1: putting ourselves out there as professionals, but there would be
Speaker 1: somebody who's going to, oh, my gosh, I would love
Speaker 1: just an extra set of hands that could come over,
Speaker 1: help me tidy the house, come over, help me deg clutter.
Speaker 1: Like you know when you go into someone's house and
Speaker 1: they say, oh, that cupboard all way too overwhelming, But
Speaker 1: you're like, what's the big deal Because you don't have
Speaker 1: the emotional attachment exactly, I can clean up your linen cupboard. Yes,
Speaker 1: I could organize all your sheets and towels.
Speaker 4: I feel like when we're cleaning our own houses, we
Speaker 4: get stuck on like little miscellaneous in its one hundred
Speaker 4: percent there for an hour.
Speaker 1: I can go through your pantry and look at all
Speaker 1: the expiry dates on things and make sure that your
Speaker 1: pantry is being cleared out. I can put it all
Speaker 1: in a pile and be like, Beck, this is all
Speaker 1: the stuff I think you should get rid of, and
Speaker 1: you go, yeah, okay, no worries.
Speaker 4: Yep, don't think about it, just just give it rid
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 1: But between everything everybody's doing over this period, who even
Speaker 1: has time to deep clean their house? And Beck, that
Speaker 1: is where you and I came Yes, exactly. It's the
Speaker 1: same as yard work. You could like tap into your
Speaker 1: social networks or sign up to air tasker, especially if
Speaker 1: you're that friend that's kind of known as being a
Speaker 1: little bit of a neat freak. But all lies on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are commercializing ourselves at this time of year. Back great,
Speaker 1: you guys know I'm a neat freak. I'd love to
Speaker 1: be a neat freak in your house. Come on over,
Speaker 1: I love this. You can expect to earn between thirty
Speaker 1: and sixty bucks an hour, depending on the depth of
Speaker 1: cleaning required. Like also not that hard to pick up
Speaker 1: a few you know, cleaning items, or you can say
Speaker 1: I can do this for you, Beck, I'll come over,
Speaker 1: but you need to supply all the cleaning products in
Speaker 1: the vacuum. Then you don't even have to turn up
Speaker 1: with anything. You could just jump on the tram, go
Speaker 1: to their house, do some cleaning, get some money, make bank.
Speaker 4: Go home, oh man, and you also get to spend
Speaker 4: time with the friend you might not have been able
Speaker 4: to do exactly season. Or you could put it up
Speaker 4: on Air Tasker and get a few reviews going so
Speaker 4: that throughout the next year when cash is a little
Speaker 4: bit tight, you can be like, I'll just put another
Speaker 4: add up, or I'll reply to a few air Tasker things.
Speaker 4: That's so good.
Speaker 1: You can make literally a couple of hundred bucks in
Speaker 1: a day by doing that.
Speaker 4: And so, okay, we've gone inside, we've done outside. Everything's sparkling,
Speaker 4: clean and ready.
Speaker 1: What's okay? So this one it's not for everyone, but
Speaker 1: I've put it down anyway, if you're going away for
Speaker 1: the holidays or you have a spare bedroom, beg rent
Speaker 1: out your space. It can be a really good way
Speaker 1: of bringing in a little bit of extra cash during
Speaker 1: this festive season. I think you might be thinking, Oh, no,
Speaker 1: one's gonna want my room, Like, what are you talking
Speaker 1: about me? Like, it's not a holiday house. But with
Speaker 1: so many people traveling to visit family, there is so
Speaker 1: much demand for rentals that are going to allow guests
Speaker 1: to stay close to their family without having to book hotel.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't mean to be rude. If you're my family,
Speaker 1: please stop listing right here. I'll give you three two one,
Speaker 1: all right. So sometimes you just don't want to stay
Speaker 1: family about the trust. Sometimes you just don't like you're
Speaker 1: happy to go over for dinner, you're happy to travel,
Speaker 1: but you want to go back to your own place.
Speaker 4: Oh man, that would be sweet. That's so truious.
Speaker 1: I would love Beck's bedroom. Yeah, like the idea that
Speaker 1: I could escape that situation, go to quote my own room,
Speaker 1: and then I'll see you tomorrow for breakfast.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 1: So we're not talking like fancy, usual holiday houses. We're
Speaker 1: talking like if you have a bedroom that you could
Speaker 1: lease out this holiday season, because maybe you're going to
Speaker 1: your family's place where you don't get to rent somebody's room, right,
Speaker 1: you could rent it out, which I think it makes
Speaker 1: your homework for you, but also generate some cash for
Speaker 1: you in the short term.
Speaker 4: I guess I'm assuming that you maybe need to own
Speaker 4: or doesn't.
Speaker 1: I guess you can have You can chat with your
Speaker 1: landlord and work out what's fair and what's reasonable. You
Speaker 1: don't necessarily need to own it, so I would check
Speaker 1: your lease agreements, but you could post on social media
Speaker 1: and like sublet to a friend for a period of time.
Speaker 1: Or if you do own, you could list your place
Speaker 1: on Airbnb and stays, which honestly, it provides coverage so
Speaker 1: like insurance and stuff, and connects you with people who
Speaker 1: are looking for short term rentals. And I mean everybody
Speaker 1: who has a mortgage right now is probably thinking that
Speaker 1: their mortgage is feeling a little bit tight around their next.
Speaker 4: So this could take some pressure off. Yeah, great call exactly.
Speaker 4: Idea of printing out like a room or your house.
Speaker 4: It's such a clever way to make use of your space, exactly.
Speaker 4: And I mean it's going to vary, like if you
Speaker 4: so stupidly regional and it's just a sharehouse. And all
Speaker 4: of that, you're probably not making as much, but from
Speaker 4: my research, it could typically earn anywhere from like one
Speaker 4: hundred bucks to like four hundred dollars a night, especially
Speaker 4: during peak time. Yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Especially imagine if you have like a really good rental
Speaker 1: but like in a really great location, so you're like
Speaker 1: Christmas time come at me. I have a friend who
Speaker 1: actually rents her house out, so she lives down where
Speaker 1: we go on holidays bed and she goes and stays
Speaker 1: with her parents and rents her whole house out for
Speaker 1: the Christmas New Years period.
Speaker 4: It's so clever because.
Speaker 1: She leases it for like two grand a week. This
Speaker 1: is not a house with a pool, It is not
Speaker 1: anything fancy. It's just in this holiday location that someone
Speaker 1: usually last minute books because they're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't have any other option. That sounds really bad.
Speaker 1: But also she puts that towards a mortgage, and you
Speaker 1: know what, we're all just doing the best that we
Speaker 1: can beg We're all just out here trying to live
Speaker 1: exactly live okay, with everyone heading out of town. That's
Speaker 1: a really really good idea. But there's another huge holiday
Speaker 1: hustle to take advantage of there is, So without further ado,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a very quick break, okay, and when
Speaker 1: we come back, we're going to dive into another holiday
Speaker 1: hustle that lets you cash in on the holiday travel
Speaker 1: season without even leaving your own neighborhood.
Speaker 4: Okay, welcome back everyone. Before the break, we were talking
Speaker 4: about renting out a room or your whole place for
Speaker 4: some extra holiday cash. But you'd rather stay local while
Speaker 4: still making money off the holiday travel rush. We've got
Speaker 4: just the thing, all right, are you ready?
Speaker 1: I'm ready? Oh this is my favorite one. Pet sitting
Speaker 1: and house sitting.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: Do you know who goes away during Christmas periods?
Speaker 4: Everyone and the rich people? Oh, rich people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like do you know whose house they want
Speaker 1: to houseit over? The gr rich people? Yeah? Because do
Speaker 1: you know what they leave their Netflix logged in?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like they usually have foxtail.
Speaker 4: Yes, they might have a pool.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not going to take advantage of that, but
Speaker 1: I want to do my cross ditch beside your pool.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't hate it.
Speaker 1: And I can't take advantage of this because I am
Speaker 1: the person with the pets, so I can't go house
Speaker 1: sit for somebody else, which is very disappointing because I
Speaker 1: think this is a really good side hustle. But there
Speaker 1: are so many people right now who are planning to
Speaker 1: travel over the holidays, and because of that, pet and
Speaker 1: house sitting are both in high demand. People want to
Speaker 1: make sure that their homes and their furry family members
Speaker 1: are looked after. But with some of the hustle and
Speaker 1: bustle beck, it's actually relatively hard to find somebody who's reliable.
Speaker 1: And that's where you get to come in. So how
Speaker 1: do you even get started? First thing I do is
Speaker 1: again social media if you have it. We're not talking
Speaker 1: like you need thousands of followers for this, right because
Speaker 1: like you just need one person. And do you know
Speaker 1: who I would trust with my pets before going online?
Speaker 1: A friend or a family member or somebody in my
Speaker 1: inner circle. In fact, I know this sounds a late
Speaker 1: and maybe this is just me being really dangerous, but
Speaker 1: like I've seen a girl Amy. I just follow her
Speaker 1: because her content was cool. I knew she lived in Melbourne,
Speaker 1: like she was a she's on the money follower. Anyway,
Speaker 1: she followed me. I followed her and she posted on
Speaker 1: her Instagram stories one day that she does pet sitting
Speaker 1: and I screenshot it, and then when I went away
Speaker 1: earlier this year back, I literally messaged her on Instagram
Speaker 1: and I was like, I know this is a bit
Speaker 1: weird and I've never met you before, but I like
Speaker 1: your vibe. I like what you're up to. I saw
Speaker 1: that you posted that you did pet sitting. Would you
Speaker 1: do it again? And so Henry and Bailey and Lucy
Speaker 1: had Amy for that period and they loved her. That's
Speaker 1: really good. Like that's who I felt really comfortable with
Speaker 1: because sure she always posts pictures of people's cats, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're my people, you know. But if you
Speaker 1: don't have somebody that you know that you could house
Speaker 1: sit for, you could post in local Facebook groups. So like,
Speaker 1: if your suburb has a Facebook group, join it and
Speaker 1: post and say, hey, guys, I'm looking to house sit
Speaker 1: or pet sit over that period of time really helps.
Speaker 1: If you post pictures of yourself. It really helps. If
Speaker 1: you post pictures of pets that you've looked after, and
Speaker 1: like even just being like, hey, I could provide a
Speaker 1: review from my mate beck who I've pets it for before,
Speaker 1: and that makes me feel a little bit more secure.
Speaker 1: Or you could join a trusted platform. So I have
Speaker 1: also used a platform called mad Pause before. Yes, so
Speaker 1: when I was really hamstrung and I couldn't find someone
Speaker 1: because like, to me, I'm crazy, I'm a crazy pet mum. Like,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I would not go on a
Speaker 1: holiday before putting my pets into like a cattery or
Speaker 1: something like that. It's just not happening. So I went
Speaker 1: on Mad Pause and I was matched with a house
Speaker 1: sitter that had really good reviews. Or there's another website.
Speaker 1: I haven't used it, but I've heard it's really good
Speaker 1: called Trusted house Sitters for house sitting, and it helps
Speaker 1: you connect with clients who might be outside your immediate network,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. And on those platforms like
Speaker 1: Mad Pause and Trusted house Sitters, they usually require a
Speaker 1: police check and references. Okay, so that's really cool. But
Speaker 1: if you're just doing it, you can just apply. I
Speaker 1: think it's like forty seven dollars to do a police check,
Speaker 1: but I would do that as well. Like can imagine
Speaker 1: if some rando online was like, oh, I can you
Speaker 1: know pet sit for you? And I have a police check,
Speaker 1: feel a lot safer and bonus if you're a house
Speaker 1: sitting for somebody. You could hack it, you could rent
Speaker 1: out your bedroom.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, yeah, if it's in the same
Speaker 4: area exactly, really changing that much. I'm not traveling anywhere.
Speaker 1: I just get money.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's a great idea.
Speaker 1: And do you know what, Yeah, I think that pet
Speaker 1: sitting like I would probably do it for free. But
Speaker 1: rates typically range anywhere from like thirty to seventy dollars
Speaker 1: a day, depending on the level of care and location.
Speaker 1: So like, if you offer your pet sitting services, it
Speaker 1: might be seventy dollars a day because you need to
Speaker 1: sleep over at the house to look after these pets.
Speaker 1: Or you could also upsell them and be like I
Speaker 1: could take your dog on an hour walk a day
Speaker 1: for an extra fifteen to thirty dollars. Huh, there you go.
Speaker 1: Exactly one's getting paid for.
Speaker 4: You're getting one hundred bucks a day, exactly.
Speaker 1: We are rolling in it, and most people go away
Speaker 1: for at least a week, So that's seven hundred bucks
Speaker 1: you didn't have before. And then how sitting you could
Speaker 1: expect about the same between thirty to seventy dollars a
Speaker 1: night with higher rates. If there are heaps of different responsibilities.
Speaker 4: Sure, okay, pet and housing are great for holiday travelers,
Speaker 4: but that's not the only way to help busy people
Speaker 4: this holiday season. What else can we jump onto.
Speaker 1: You could run people's errands also, like so many people
Speaker 1: have to do lists that are super long, lots of
Speaker 1: people just don't have the time to handle it all.
Speaker 1: And that, my friend, is where you come in. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming again, if somebody put their hand up and said, oh,
Speaker 1: I can do that for you, you be like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: a weight off my shoulders. Someone's willing to pay for
Speaker 1: it in that case, So becoming an erran runner could
Speaker 1: be a fantastic way to earn some extra holiday cash,
Speaker 1: which can help people tick off their holiday checklist. You're
Speaker 1: helping them be less stressed, but then also you're making
Speaker 1: some extra cash. So again, you could do social media,
Speaker 1: but air task I Reckon is a good way for this,
Speaker 1: so you can connect with people who need errands done
Speaker 1: really quickly. There's also a platform called Zoom to You,
Speaker 1: so ZM the number two and then the letter you.
Speaker 1: They're really good, so zoom to you. Sherpa is another one.
Speaker 1: Go People are delivery service platforms that connect independent couriers
Speaker 1: so anyone who's like, I've got a car, or I
Speaker 1: can do this with customers who need same day or
Speaker 1: on demand deliveries. So oh my gosh, I don't own
Speaker 1: a car. I need to get the bike from Target
Speaker 1: to my house. They pop the job up there. You
Speaker 1: could do it, easy done, easy done right. Some of
Speaker 1: these allow you to earn extra money for the last
Speaker 1: minute deliveries, and even like Uber allows you to select
Speaker 1: just delivery services only these days, so like, you don't
Speaker 1: have to sign up to Uber and have people in
Speaker 1: your car. You can sign up to Uber, which also,
Speaker 1: by the way, drops the car that you need. So, like,
Speaker 1: if you have thought about doing Uber and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I checked the requirements and my car's not new enough, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could be delivery driver. Cool, well you're not having
Speaker 1: people in your car. But if you're going to sign
Speaker 1: up as like an independent contractor on delivery platforms, I
Speaker 1: need you to make sure that you actually read the
Speaker 1: terms and conditions carefully because each platform might have like
Speaker 1: different requirements. So for example, if you sign up to Uber,
Speaker 1: they aren't just going to pay into your account and
Speaker 1: wham bam, you don't think about it again. You're going
Speaker 1: to need to have an ABN. So you need to
Speaker 1: set up an ABN because in order for you to
Speaker 1: operate legally, they need you to process your own tax
Speaker 1: and super and whatnot. And you also need to understand
Speaker 1: your I guess responsibilities when it comes to like insurance
Speaker 1: and liability and tax obligations and all of these are
Speaker 1: going to be your responsibility as an independent contractor if
Speaker 1: that makes sense, Yeah, definitely, yeah, So just thinking about it,
Speaker 1: because I've written this long list of like what you
Speaker 1: could do. You could offer like grocery shopping. I know
Speaker 1: that grocery shopping is something that you could be like,
Speaker 1: but I could get calls online or whatever you could.
Speaker 1: But are they going to pick the right bananas exactly?
Speaker 1: Are they going to go and go to like your
Speaker 1: list of different like places. So like for me my
Speaker 1: Christmas grocery shopping, I go to calls, I go to
Speaker 1: audi and I have different things. Imagine if you wrote
Speaker 1: a list and then someone else went and did.
Speaker 4: It totally, and you know when they replace the item
Speaker 4: because it's out of stuff?
Speaker 1: What is that about?
Speaker 4: Some sometimes you get the most rogue thing ever.
Speaker 1: You actually do, and I mean the other day, get this,
Speaker 1: so I was really lazy the other day. Steve was
Speaker 1: away and I was at home on my own, and
Speaker 1: I realized I was almost out of baby formula, and
Speaker 1: I was like, fantastic, I'm going to order it on oubriots.
Speaker 1: Turned out it was much more expensive, but I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the price I'm paying to leave my baby napping
Speaker 1: because it took six years to get him to not course.
Speaker 1: And I was like, and I'm not going out, Like
Speaker 1: I just can't mentally do it. I don't really order
Speaker 1: formula on ubroots. And so Harvey is eight months old,
Speaker 1: so I ordered the like six to twelve month old formula.
Speaker 1: Turns out they didn't have it, so instead of replacing
Speaker 1: it or calling me or doing anything, they just like
Speaker 1: swapped it for the three year old for me. So
Speaker 1: I paid forty seven dollars to have a tin of
Speaker 1: formula that I cannot use for my child delivered to
Speaker 1: my door. No, well, maybe I looked at it. I
Speaker 1: looked at it, yeah, and I was like, what do
Speaker 1: I do with this because I can't use it. Also,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that three year olds still used formula,
Speaker 1: so I checked the expiry date it would expire before
Speaker 1: my son is three. No, I don't even use it ever.
Speaker 1: That sucks, don't worry. I did take it back to
Speaker 1: Cohle's and told them what had happened, and turns out
Speaker 1: their product was actually in stock and they just let
Speaker 1: me swap it, which was very kind. So I fixed it.
Speaker 4: But also, ah, did you get delivery feedback or anything?
Speaker 1: I gave them five stars. They did the best they could,
Speaker 1: I suppose, So beck that's my side story about Uber
Speaker 1: eats and how that didn't work out for me, And
Speaker 1: if I had hired someone independently that would have worked out,
Speaker 1: I think. But also gift pickups, gift delivery service, like
Speaker 1: postal service right now, isn't reliable. Maybe you need to
Speaker 1: get something across the city, returns and exchanges. No one
Speaker 1: wants to do that themselves, truly, don't. You could put
Speaker 1: it online and say that you're happy to do that
Speaker 1: and picking up. Event supplies are always in high demand.
Speaker 1: Do you know how many Christmas parties are happening right
Speaker 1: now for companies who are like, oh my gosh, how
Speaker 1: do we get all these candles to the venue? So true,
Speaker 1: you can do it. You can do it.
Speaker 4: You could be a woman with a van, check a
Speaker 4: podcast done, go for the drive.
Speaker 1: No one you could listen to, but typically Beck, you
Speaker 1: could earn between twenty and fifty bucks per delivery.
Speaker 4: That's great.
Speaker 1: That's a good deal, depending on obviously travel time and
Speaker 1: complexity and what do you want to charge for your time.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. I reckon offering an errand service during
Speaker 1: the holidays. It lets you help others make the season
Speaker 1: a little less stressful while you're earning some extra cash.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good deal. Plus, with the right approach,
Speaker 1: you could turn these short term gigs into some repeat
Speaker 1: clients year round. Yeah. That's so. Once they've got your number,
Speaker 1: you can be like, oh, if there's anything that pops
Speaker 1: up during the year, you let me know.
Speaker 4: Little burths of cash every now and then, couldn't he sligh? Yeah,
Speaker 4: great idea, Thank you, you're so welcome.
Speaker 1: I have one more for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I was going to say, is there one tiny,
Speaker 4: little one more?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I hate? Flat packs?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hate.
Speaker 4: I see where you're going.
Speaker 1: We know that the holiday season is hectic and parents
Speaker 1: are often doing their own groceries because they didn't know
Speaker 1: you offer a delivery service, and they're doing their own
Speaker 1: errands because they didn't know that you could do it
Speaker 1: for them. And they are shopping and they are cooking,
Speaker 1: and they are planning family events. They didn't put the
Speaker 1: bike together, No for little Johnny.
Speaker 4: Flat pack galore this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so many. But you know what, that's where you're
Speaker 1: going to step into your job as gift assembler. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's and you're going to take a huge
Speaker 1: task off their hand and they're going to pay you
Speaker 1: to do it. Great. Also, there are some people in
Speaker 1: this world who were really good at flat pack. My
Speaker 1: best friend Harriet flat pack queen. Oh I bet I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it. I'll end up divorced.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't say it's because I'm probably going to try
Speaker 4: and get into this, but I'm really bad at it,
Speaker 4: but I love it.
Speaker 1: It's so satisfying. Also, like, can't be that hard. Men
Speaker 1: do it all the time.
Speaker 4: It can't be that hard.
Speaker 1: That hard exactly, So you could spread the word on
Speaker 1: social media, letting parents or people in your I guess
Speaker 1: network know that you're able to handle those tricky or
Speaker 1: time consuming gift assemblies. How many of us are like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, scrambling at the last minute, being like
Speaker 1: I'm hosting Christmas and I don't have enough chess. Do
Speaker 1: you know what, not only will I pick them up
Speaker 1: for you, I'll assemble them. Absolutely, I got you. So
Speaker 1: you could join platforms like air Taska again to help
Speaker 1: connect you with busy families. You could put an ad
Speaker 1: on Facebook marketplace like. There are lots of places that
Speaker 1: you could do this because I can almost guarantee that
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who need a lot
Speaker 1: of things assembled before Christmas Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And I looked at air Taska, Beck, do you know
Speaker 1: you could earn between eighty five to one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty bucks per assembly job? Really?
Speaker 4: Yeah, beef, real people are paying this, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And these are all jobs that you could do that
Speaker 1: literally require I will say, like skill, yes, like you
Speaker 1: don't need a degree, Like you could just put your
Speaker 1: hand up and be like, I'm a pretty handy person.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll do that.
Speaker 1: I'll do that. That's absolutely fine.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that is so great. I did not
Speaker 4: realize that was a thing.
Speaker 1: Anyway. That is a lot of money that you could
Speaker 1: be making that otherwise somebody else is going to.
Speaker 4: Make Yeah, there actually are a few of these that
Speaker 4: I'm going to start doing.
Speaker 1: I feel like all of them. I feel like you
Speaker 1: probably expected me to be like passive income or get
Speaker 1: a Christmas casual job, but that's not I feel like
Speaker 1: sometimes to make some money you actually have to move
Speaker 1: your butt. You actually have to put your hands in
Speaker 1: there and get them a little bit dirty and do
Speaker 1: some work. But like it pays off literally totally.
Speaker 4: I mean if you're able to exactly, yeah, I'm going
Speaker 4: to give that a go. I feel like that's a
Speaker 4: wrap on our holiday hustle ideas, which is great.
Speaker 1: I honestly, we did a good job.
Speaker 4: That was fantastic. There's so many good tips.
Speaker 1: You could tidy someone's garden, you could put their pre
Speaker 1: leaves together, you could turn your spare room into someone's
Speaker 1: holiday getaway. Honestly, there's a way for everyone to cash
Speaker 1: in on the holiday spirit.
Speaker 4: Absolutely and maybe even fund a little festive fun for yourself.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 4: That's great, Okay, And if you want to maybe.
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Speaker 4: your holiday season be mery, bright, and just a little
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