About Me 0107: Making Money Ideas

So Christmas has been and gone. Are you now facing the New Year and wondering how you can keep up the Christmas spirit and goodwill for the coming year? Well, it certainly helps when you know how to do so for free from your own home.

There are so many simple ways to volunteer or donate to charity by giving up a small amount of your time or re-purposing some money you would normally have spent. So here’s a list of five of the best quick and easy ways to volunteer or donate to charity. Bookmark the list of charities and use it to do the rounds weekly!

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This is a great concept — it’s a site which makes you think about how much money you waste on frivolous things. You nominate something which you will give up, say a lunch or newspapers for a month. Then you donate that same amount of money to feeding a hungry child.

Yes, you’re handing over money to charity, but it’s money you would have spent anyway. It’s also easy to share news of your donation with your friends via social networks, and hopefully convince a few of them to skip something for charity too.

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Free Rice

Free Rice has been around a while, but it’s so good it’s worth making sure it’s on this list. Play a simple, addictive trivia quiz and Free Rice will donate rice for each of your correct answers. This is a free and simple way to give whenever you have a free moment. Read more on FreeRice here.

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Causes

There are a number of things you can do using Causes, including raising awareness for your chosen charity and helping to raise funds for them. By far the easiest way to donate money with Causes is to set up a birthday or holiday fund. This way, instead of receiving presents from friends and family, you simply ask them to donate the money on your behalf. It takes about two minutes to set up, since you can log in with Facebook Connect – just choose the charity and you’re set!

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Charity Gifts

Here’s another easy way to spend your money on charity instead of something you were already going to pay for. Instead of giving gifts to your friends, give them the knowledge that you have donated to charity on their behalf. The Donation4Charity website searches all the big charity gifting sites (such as UNICEF, WWF and Oxfam) and lets you search the gifts according to how much money you have available to spend. Buy a goat for charity for about the same price as a modest gift!

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Sparked

Spend 5-10 minutes donating your expertise to charity: Give website feedback, brainstorm fundraising ideas or help design an awareness campaign. This is what they need help with – if you can spend a few minutes working on it then you’ve made a difference to a real charity with just a moment of your time. Read more on Sparked here & get going!

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And many, many more!

There are so many great ways to donate your time to charity — the sites listed above are just a few. Here’s some more great articles which introduce many more you might like to try.

Introducing Jumo – The Social Network for Social Good
How To Easily Coordinate Volunteers Using Volunteer Spot
5 Crowd Funding Websites To Support Your Favourite Charities, Bands & Projects
Find Volunteering Opportunities Near You with VolunteerMatch
10 Search Engines To Help The Environment
5 Cool Edutainment Games You Can Play and Also Donate To Charitable Causes
5 Websites To Lend A Hand & Make A Difference To The World

What are your favourite sites for donating your time to charity? Do you appreciate charity gifts given on your behalf? Let us know in the comments!

First of all, you can always go out to dinner, send flowers and the like, but I am talking about some different ideas that maybe you haven’t thought of to create a spark of romance between you and that special person in your life.

If you have some cash, you can plan a romantic getaway for the weekend, maybe to a resort or even somewhere warm. Or if that is too pricey, you could take your significant other out for a romantic dinner (McDonalds doesn’t count!). Try to do something that you do not normally do. If you live in a warmer climate you can rent a boat and plan a romantic dinner on the boat or take a dinner cruse or even picnic on the beach. But if you live in a colder climate, why not plan a picnic in your car (with lots of warm blankets) down at the beach. How about going as a couple to a book store and purchasing a book on romance or you might want to go and rent some movies and make a big bowl of popcorn (feeding each other of course) and stay in for the evening. If you are lucky enough to live in a wine region like I do, you can plan a romantic getaway and visit wineries and do some wine tasting of your own (and get a tour of the winery while you are at it.) Perhaps you can go for a balloon ride or enquire about a half an hour airplane ride for two. How about signing up for a class together in something that you are both interested in? If you haven’t had time to purchase something special for each other, you can do that on Valentine’s Day. What about giving back to the community together. Spend some time at a soup kitchen or do something else worthwhile and do it together. Or you could go to a specialty coffee hangout, get something tasty that you can share, sit, hold hands and talk. Even if you have little or no money, all it takes is a little creativity. You could go to the library on a date or go for a walk and split a sundae. There are plenty of ideas!

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Monday, January 24, 2011

Making Money Ideas

Skip1.org

Free Rice

Causes

Charity Gifts

Sparked

And many, many more!

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