Welcome to the Lylia Rose money and lifestyle blog
Hi, I'm Victoria. This is my money and lifestyle website where I share genuine ways to make money online, free money offers, side hustle ideas and money-saving tips.
Many articles are based on real experience as I've been successfully self-employed and working from home since 2012. Having earned up to £99k in a year making money online, I share what's worked for me.
Alongside easy-to-read personal finance content, you'll find lifestyle topics covering healthy living, family life, travel, home and garden, fashion, beauty and more (often with a financial twist).
Self-employment, raising kids, working from home...
In 2012, I became a mum and first explored self-employment while on maternity leave, making and selling handmade jewellery and crafts on Etsy and a Facebook page, and opening an online fashion store. By 2013, I had started blogging, and by 2016, I was earning a full-time income from my blog alone.
Starting January 2017, I made the bold decision to leave the secure income of my employed job and fully embrace self-employment as a full-time money and lifestyle blogger. I also started a healthy living website and a travel blog in 2018.
By the summer of 2019, I became our family's breadwinner!
As a former shopping addict who faced a debt crisis in my teenage years, I developed a strong passion for financial stability and becoming debt-free. This led to my original Lylia Rose blog having a strong money focus, along with a personal interest in side hustles and ways to make real free money.
Since I went self-employed, my husband has too! He currently runs a local business as a handyman in Newquay, as well as managing home, garden and DIY websites, in addition to Etsy and eBay shops selling his handmade furniture creations and digital printables such as comprehensive self-build shed plans.
Drawing from our combined expertise and experience, my blog provides valuable insights into working from home, setting up home offices, running Etsy and eBay stores, monetising blogs, managing finances as self-employed individuals and as a family, all while balancing work, life, home improvements, side hustles, passion projects, kids and healthy living!
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In my money and lifestyle blog I share how to make and save money in easy-to-read personal finance articles, including managing family finances and self-employed income. Check out these to get started:
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Get instant cash for free, food for free, gift vouchers, shares and more. Learn how to get free money with these amazing free cash offers, regularly updated!
Learn how to easily make tax-free cash in your spare time at home. Use easy to follow matched betting step by step instructions and video guides.
Loads of ways to make money online or in the comfort of your own home, including 60 tried and tested ways to make money online
Looking for ways to score some free gift vouchers? Follow these tips to earn free gift cards online for Amazon and more popular stores!
Blogging resources and tips from a full-time blogger. Learn how to monetise your blog and get paid blogging opportunities
Earn easy free cashback on your everyday purchases. Also, you can even make money with your paper receipts!
Yes, really! Set up and forget! Check out this list of how to make money doing nothing sharing real methods.
Here's my tips to make money in one hour when you need cash quickly. Or if you have longer, click here to make £1000 in a month.
My annual online & blogging income reports
As an established online entrepreneur with over a decade of proven success, I speak from experience when I share tips on making money online. Those early years of building my first website were a real leap of faith. I worked on it for free for several years, not knowing if it would ever earn anything. But sticking with it laid the foundations for what’s now a thriving online business.
Wondering how I make money online? My revealing annual turnover income reports are a great way of digging into exactly how I made money online and from home each year. Click an income report below to see which online activities and side hustles were most lucrative for me each calendar year:
In 2021, I decided to stop writing income reports as they had become repetitive. Since then, my online businesses have continued to perform strongly. Between 2022 and 2025, I achieved turnovers of £56,000, £62,000, £69,000 and £99,000, each with an impressive 90–95% profit margin.
