Watch Your Nuts, supported by the Consumer Action Law Centre and the Financial Rights Legal Centre, suggest some handy tips to cash in and avoid getting caught up in serious debt:
- Chase up your tight-arse mate/s for all that beer money they owe you
- Become a competitive eater with a crazy popular YouTube account
- Sell some of your stuff on eBay or Gumtree. (After all, the average household has $5,400 worth of unwanted stuff lying around! Who knew?)
- Buy second hand from eBay or Gumtree
- Take in a boarder, or rent out a room on AirBnB
- See if your folks can spot you for a bit. Go on, ask nicely
- Help Beryl around the corner with her gardening, or earn $$$ through AirTasker
- Borrow whatever you actually want to buy from a mate
- Shop around for cheaper gas, electricity, insurance, broadband etc. Switching might just save your nuts
- Request a bill extension from your utility provider
- Ask your employer for an advance on your wages
- Actually squirrel away your savings and save up for it
- There's nothing cute about fast loans. So do 'Anything Else', seriously, anything else, apart from getting a fast loan (aka payday loan, aka 'small' loan) before you find yourself calling the National Debt Helpline on 1800 007 007
