How to Make Another Income With Side Hustles!

At the start of the year, we shared goals in this post and have since been sharing updates on how much we’ve made on the side each month, doing things anyone can do.

In April, we said we were going to scale back and focus more on business rather than side hustles.

All the side hustle amounts shared below and in posts are separate to business and other work income. This year so far we’ve made $14,641.34 from side hustles.

January – $3,200.17

Clinical trials, Airbnb, bank account bonuses, selling things online and online surveys were the ways we made money on the side in January.

We seriously scaled back the selling things online this year, as a conscious choice. Last year when we focused, we made over $10,000 and you can find out how here.

February – $3,833.37

We forgot to post an update in February. Going over my finances, we can see we made this much from Airbnb, Cash back apps, selling things online, a few online surveys and doing something for a friend.

March – $4,005

Through the same methods used in January plus returning a couple of trolleys on the way to the shops.

April – $1,600.70

Selling things on the side while switching focus to be more on business was where the $1,600.70 came from.

However, this month we also spent it all on various things..

May – doubled business income

As mentioned, our focus moved more to business and less on side hustles. Business income doubled and we picked up an extra passive income stream.

Renting our garage through Spacer at $191.75 a month, ongoing. We don’t have to do anything for it, we get paid each month and someone keeps their Mercedes in our parking spot.

June $851.15

A low month for side hustles, but also a low effort from us. Business has increased again this month, which is where the focus will remain.

You can see below what we did this month and future plans.

Selling things online: $395

Last year we actively bought things to resell, mainly rockabilly clothing, specific camera gear, camping gear and certain things we knew would sell really well.

We started making over $10,000 a month doing it.

This year, we had other plans so the stuff we sold this month was purely in preparation for moving.

An Ikea trolley, crutches, lamps, clothes and a few homeware items.

Spacer: $190.75

Last month was the first month renting the garage through Spacer and it’s continued this month.

It’s super easy because it’s all done through the website, other than giving my tenant a remote to our garage, there is nothing we’ve had to do.

Spacer direct debit the amount from him and deposit it into our account.

Referral bonuses – $180

While we make money from affiliates and referrals on this site, these ones were directly through friends and family using our codes after asking for them.

It includes ING and Uber. Check all the apps you use and see which ones have referral offers then share them with your friends and family.

We have a full list of freebies here, a list of apps you can make money with here and another list of apps you can save money with here.

Some of the things mentioned in those posts have refer a friend programs too.

Found 15c

Ok, not technically a side hustle, but we find it amusing to see how much we find on the ground or in random trolleys like the other month.

15cents isn’t huge but we were excited to put it into our holiday tin for later this year. Every cent counts!

Cash Back – $91.71

This was a combination of our shopping where we activated ShopBack and got some cash back plus a couple of family members using the referral code.

If you want to get cash back on all your online shopping, sign up free here.

Bonus savings – $53 value

Again, we don’t make money from this, but it does save us money.

This month we were accepted into the Woolworths Bunch program which we wanted to test for you all before posting about it.

We are also getting another Black Box, which is a box of new goodies to try for free. There are more ways to get free and super cheap groceries here.

Get up to $200 off with HelloFresh, spread across your first 6 boxes for new and returning customers. Conditions apply.

Get easy meals from $2.19 per plate with this discount from EveryPlate.

45% off your first box with Marley Spoon and further discounts.

Up to $140 off Dinnerly, spread across your first few boxes.

Online Surveys – $23.54

You can find a full list of the best online survey sites for Australians here.

This month we tested a bunch of apps, some new online survey sites and this is how much we got from the few things we did.

It’s not a lot, however, we were offered over $500 worth of online surveys and mystery shopping gigs within 2 weeks, so if we had wanted there was ample opportunity.

Find the apps to make money here and apps to save money here.