You are tired, the past few months of work have really drained every bit of energy from you and now all you can think about is that three day holiday to London or Brighton or Paris, whichever tickles your fancy. The hotel is booked, the car is jampacked with all the bags and you already have all the best restaurants and bars in the city sized up. You surprise your partner with your fantastic plan that you have been keeping a secret for the past three months and boom you are finally on the road. Now what if I told you instead of just spending money on that holiday, on the fuel, hotel, food and drink, you could actually return from the three day break to paradise with more money than you spent or at the very least break even.

Don't believe me well let's see exactly how:

If you are going away for three days you are not going to need your parking space are you? With JustPark you can rent out your parking space for the specified days and make around 15 or 20  pounds depending on the city you live in.

Now when you leave you are not going to need your room or home, are you? With Airbnb you can rent out your room or home for the specified days and get around 75 to 100 pounds depending on the city you live in.

So far so good, you have already made some money from two possessions of yours you clearly weren't going to use. Now on your way from let's say Milton Keynes to London, with Uber (provided you are already registered as a Uber Driver) you could pick someone up on your way and make enough money to pay for your fuel, congestion charge and more.  You were already driving there anyways so what is the problem with an added guest in your car as long as his hygienic levels are up to scratch and he doesn't suffer from involuntary flatulence.

On your way from Milton Keynes to London, everything is going splendidly, you have already been payed for your parking space, your room, an added guest to join you on your journey and now with Roadie you could possibly find a couple of small yet heavy parcels that need delivering into London and you could get paid handsomely, just to put these parcels in the boot of your car and deliver it somewhere along your route.

So in total you have been paid for two possessions you weren't going to use and for picking up someone and something to join you on the same route you were already going to follow. Can't get much sweeter then that can it? Well it can! As an added final bonus, let's say you or your partner like sharing a ton of pictures or videos or social updates whilst on you holiday instead of using FaceBook or Twitter or any of the other pin-gram's out there, if you use Tsu (use http://www.tsu.co/airesao to join) you can actually make money.  Yes you read that correctly, you can get paid to share stuff on your social media profile. Tsu shares 90% of all revenue with its users.

The world has changed dramatically in these past five years and the opportunities for the general population to earn money from areas previously unexplored have exploded.  Therefore next time you go on holiday be sure to use these 5 websites or apps to help you come back with a smile on your face and a little extra in your pocket.

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Marks and Spencer plc, also known as M&S is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in London, listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks a Belarusian Jew from Slonim and Thomas Spencer, a cashier from Skipton in North Yorkshire. Employing over 85 thousand employees worldwide, M&S stores specialize in the selling of luxury clothing, home and food products.

Things could be going better for the multinational as it is facing huge controversy and backlash from the Christianity Population in the UK (which accounts for roughly over 29 Million People) after The words ‘Christ’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ had been placed on a list of banned words by Marks & Spencer and couldn't be used in gift messages. Customers purchasing flowers who tried to add a free message containing them were prevented from completing their order. An on-screen error, which pops up if any blocked words are entered, read: ‘Sorry, there’s something in your message we can’t write.’

The retailer had added the term to a list of banned words to prevent abuse – despite allowing ‘Buddha’ and ‘Mohammed’. The IT blunder has now been rectified after endless calls and messages from upset users came flooding in.

A spokesman for Marks & Spencer said: ‘An automatic phrase checker is in place to prevent the use and misuse of certain words and it includes hundreds of words of varying nature.

This is not the first time it has faced backlash from the Christianity population. In fact it is the second time in less than two years. In mid-2013 Marks & Spencer was left facing a boycott from hundreds of customers furious at the store's decision to allow Muslim staff to refuse to serve customers buying alcohol or pork products.

The policy was revealed after customers trying to buy pork or alcohol from a Muslim shop assistant in a London store were told they would have to use another till or employee because of the cashier’s religion. At the time a Facebook campaign calling on people to boycott the store attracted hundreds of 'likes' within just a couple of hours of being live. Comments featured that gained a lot of attention included "If you have Christian workers who wish to refuse the sale of ladies garments to male homosexuals or men’s trousers to lesbians, I do hope you will equally stand by those workers' religious or personal beliefs…

"Or perhaps if an atheist worker notices a customer purchasing hot cross buns during Easter and wishes to refuse sale to that particular customer based on beliefs that conflict with their own, I do hope you will not punish such workers for their actions surrounding refusal of sale…

Similar to then, today the M&S Facebook Page has seen a steep rise in negative comments and feedback from upset customers.

Personally I don't think that M&S are trying to upset any religion or faith. In fact I am pretty confident that this huge controversy was probably caused by a single IT employee that either updated the system manually or made it live without testing it first. Therefore I do think that their internal protocol and systems need to be updated to prevent future mishaps like this. All changes and updates to the website need to go to a Beta site which cannot be seen by the general public and intense tests need to performed before anything goes live.

It will be very exciting to see how M&S will deal with the backlash on their Social Media accounts and how they cope with their Easter Marketing campaigns and in fact the Christmas (the clue is the word) battle for customers with their competing retailers. Although as we have seen before Xmas is a long time away and by then all will be forgotten and forgiven especially if Marks and Spencer's bring out a Multimillion pound heart-warming Xmas TV ad.

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