Is it possible to get money for nothing?

It turns out that you can make money for nothing (and you don’t need to resort to crime). Actually a small amount of effort was involved, not strictly nothing but close enough. Using accountancy worthy of Enron it works out that I made £522.50 in free cash offers (I won’t bore you with the details, suffice it to say that the profits from the whole year have been included in this weeks figures).

Breakdown
- Cashback credit card - £100
- Current accounts - £410
- DVD Rental Trial - £10
- Cashback Service – £2.50
Full details of how to do it for yourself can be found at www.millionpoundyear.com/freemoney.htm.

Now for the maths, I know you have been desperately waiting for them, ok I know you haven’t but you are going to get it anyway (sorry).
- £522.50 is the equivalent of working 90 hours or 2.25 weeks at minimum wage.
- It is also more than the median weekly wage of £489.
- It took under an hour to make the £522.50 and the hourly rate is nearly four times the £114ph needed to earn a million in a year.

So that’s it then, week three and I’ve managed to find a way to make a million pounds. Unfortunately no, there are only so many free cash offers available before you need a new identity and I have a feeling that collecting identities like Jason Bourne may just sit on the wrong side of the legal fence.

For one hour I was earning like a millionaire, which is a bit like someone who stood in line for an X-Factor audition saying they were famous. It is hardly surprising that there isn’t enough free money to make me a millionaire (at least not in the UK, it may bet easier in Zimbabwe), but at least I am in profit for the first time and as far as failures go I will take one that pays over five hundred pounds any day of the week.

Next
Common wisdom tells us that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but if it is possible to get money for nothing then perhaps there may be such a thing as a free lunch. So the next activity on the list is to try and get a free lunch. I know it won’t make me a millionaire but ‘Well Fed Year’ is still a worthy experiment, although I suspect it will turn into ‘Really rather hungry does a half eaten big mac count year’.