If you have a lot of loose change lying around in a jar, you can take it to a Coinstar machine at many supermarkets around the UK. The machine will count the coins for you and swap them for a voucher you can redeem in-store (you pay a 7.9 per cent processing fee). To calculate roughly how much you might get - from a jar of change to a large bottle - and locate your nearest Coinstar machine visit www.coinstar.co.uk
If you enjoy the occasional (or even regular) game of bingo, you can take your skills online. It’s exactly the same playing on the web although there’s no point in shouting “house!” when you win. Try Gala Bingo (www.galabingo.co.uk) or Foxy Bingo (www.foxybingo.com).
If you have a website you can sign up to various affiliate programmes. You get a small fee for every vistor, subscriber and/or customer you send to an affiliate’s site. For more information and a list of affiliate companies go to www.webaffiliate.co.uk
Having a good poker face won’t help you when you’re playing online, but if you’re a talented card sharp, you might still win big. Try Poker Stars (www.pokerroom.com), Paradise Poker (www.paradisepoker.com) or Victor Chandler (www.vcpoker.com)
You can wager money on almost anything these days, from the traditional horse racing to the winner of Big Brother. Some online bookmakers will offer free bets to first-time players, so you don’t even need to risk your own money. Try Blue Square, Betfair (www.betfair.com) or Paddy Power (www.paddypower.com).
If you’re handy with a camera you can sell your snaps to an online stock photographer. You’ll get paid every time someone downloads or buys one of your images. Try iStock (www.istockphoto.com) or ShutterShock at (http://submit.shuttleshock.com).
You can earn cash by writing reviews of products. If you’ve just purchased a new digital camera or an MP3 player, write up what you think of it and you could be quids in. Several consumer opinion sites pay for reviews, of which the best are Dooyoo (www.dooyoo.co.uk) and Ciao (www.ciao.co.uk).
Another stock market variant is Exchange Traded Funds (EFT), also known as iShares. These are bought and sold just like regular shares but they track indexes or share groups. Visit the iShares website (www.ishares.net) for more information.
It won’t make you rich but parking a domain name can produce a steady stream of revenue. The idea is that you purchase a domain that will get a lot of traffic and fill it with advertising. A common approach is to choose a name similiar to an established site that people might accidentally type, for example www.maazon.com (which is actually owned by Amazon).