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Between hovering, having a cuppa and washing up your cuppa you could earn extra bucks by working from home for any number of companies.

Be it stuffing envelopes, selling Tupperware or becoming a bike mechanic, there are lots of opportunities for anyone with some tenacity and some time.

Ebay is a good source of income once you’ve built up a reputation (which you can achieve by buying lots of stuff and paying swiftly). You could build up an industry in something. Bikes can make a good return if you know how to polish them up. Anything vintage you can pick up from a boot sale or charity shop will often be worth a lot abroad. Big sizes from British name shops can sell well in the states where online clothes shopping and obesity are both rife and that means you can make some profit on postage as well as on the garments themselves.

Ebay selling involves some knowledge of the online jargon so brush up on your shop skills before risking any cash on stuff.