BORED during lockdown? Run out of stuff to online shop for? Try these five easy ways to lose money from the comfort of your sofa:
Become a day trader
New apps mean everyone can play the stock market and lose money on it, just like the boys in the City. The only difference is that, unlike fund managers, the money you’ll be losing is your own. Burn through the lot shorting frozen orange juice concentrate futures in mere minutes, and reward yourself with a line of cocaine.
Trade on eBay
Spotted something on eBay selling for £140 when there’s another seller offering it for £350? Snap it up, relist it and then realise that other seller’s had it up for £350 since July 2012. Nobody knows why they do this but they do.
Take up a new hobby
Of course you’ll make good use of that microbrewery kit and 30-litre food grade fermenting bucket with airlock. There’s no way it’ll sit resentfully in the spare room for the next five years until your partner dumps you for being too crap to even make alcohol.
Tell the kids to count your spare change
Your visions of the children assiduously counting coppers in awe at how rich Mummy is lasts for an unsupervised hour, until you find discarded coins everywhere apart from all the £1s and £2s, which are gold and shiny so have been thrown in the pond.
Buy Bitcoin
Read a post from a guy on Reddit who says it’s definitely not a load of old toss, then excitably shove the next few month’s mortgage payments into Bitcoin. As you tell your partner, if you’d got in six years ago you’d be sitting on a gain of five billion percent by now. Soon you’ll be sitting on nothing but the floor when the bailiffs take away the sofa.
