I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen loads of those banners saying “earn cash for browsing the web”, gone “yeah right” and ignored them completely. As I’ve mentioned before, I quite often pop on a few prize draw sites and surveys – won a couple of prizes (£200 once, yay!) after a lot of boring form filling in and still waiting to hit the minimum pay outs on the web surveys, so generally motivation is low (Aside: has *anyone* had a payout from You Gov surveys yet?!).

Anyway, someone told me about Free Fivers and I thought I’d give it a go. The basic idea is that they’re a collection of shop and site ads who give you cashback on purchases if you click through them or pay you pence per click through. The most lucrative seem to be the bingo sites, many of whom will offer deals like “deposit £10 get £15 cashback” (as long as you’re disciplined enough to *only* play through your initial deposit, that is). The most useful part of the site though, is a click through guide written by one of the users (see the Forums) which, in theory, helps you to earn about £3 a day just running through the free clicks (i.e. the ones you don’t have to buy anything from). In practise, I mostly get about £1.50 to £2 on a run through and it takes me about 20-30 mins. I also get any online purchases that I would have made anyway by clicking through to the shop via them. My running total at the moment is about £45, those are mostly the free click throughs and I joined on the 31st October – it adds up fairly fast. It’s a slow process – minimum payout is £25 but you have to wait for them to be validated which takes about a month – should get a cheque on the second month after joining if you’re consistent, but don’t expect a payout in time for Christmas. I haven’t had a cheque yet, but I know people who have so I know they’re legit.

If any of my UK readers fancy joining and want to use this link instead of the one above, I get a fiver once you receive your first £25 cheque for no extra cost to yourselves, but please don’t feel obligated to use it – I’m recommending the site because it’s useful rather than pimping for dosh. Hopefully at least the stay at home mums among us might find the extra cash handy!