Posted on 07/16/2017 7:34:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The monthly bills are due again, and it seems you are getting further and further behind. You’ve scrimped and cut costs as much as you possibly can, there’s no change left in the couch cushions or the car seats, and it looks like another month of Ramen noodles and raising/lowering the thermostat to cut down on energy bills. How about turning things around and looking at this from the income side instead of only cutting expenses?
You may already be working two jobs to make ends meet, but there are legitimate ways to make side money online that don’t involve illegal or morally questionable activities. Depending on your skill level and available time, you may be able to make enough to supplement your budget and start chopping away at debt.
The opportunities fall into a few basic categories.
Marketing Tasks and Surveys – There are dozens of online sites and apps that pay participants simply to take surveys, from Harris and Nielsen polls to sites like SwagBucks and SendEarnings. You can also join focus groups to give marketing feedback on websites’ products and services — assuming you are comfortable with the terms of the site and how your information is to be used. Read the terms carefully before signing up.
Small Odd Jobs – Can you teach crafts or tutor? Try Udemy. Do you like extremely simple and quick odd jobs? Try Amazon Mechanical Turk. Other sites will pay you to do various forms of testing on their sites, such as search engine reliability. You can even propose your own odd job and promote your skills on Fiverr.
Selling/Renting Things You Own – Consider eBay and similar sites as the garage sales of the Internet, just waiting for you to post your wares. Look around the house for things that you are not using or using sparingly — old appliances, books, clothing items, or knick-knacks you don’t care about anymore. Set up a PayPal account and place your unused items on auction sites for sale — but do some homework first on postage and shipping rates so you know how to set shipping costs and maintain a profit.
How about renting out your house straightaway? That’s a possibility as well, thanks to Airbnb. We suggest looking over Airbnb and their tips for homeowners. You do not want to come home to find party residuals, farm animals, or a meth lab in your living room.
Selling Things You Make – Do you like to knit or create special craft items? You might be amazed how much they would bring on Etsy or similar craft sites. Look the sites over for inspiration, as well as an idea of how much you can charge for your creations.
Sale items are not just for traditional hobby store crafts. If you are handy with wood or metal crafts, there are plenty of opportunities to make and sell anything from handcrafted knick-knacks to furniture and accessories. Again, it’s important to set your shipping/delivery policies and costs properly.
Another possibility is selling photos to stock photo houses such as Foap. You can even sell smartphone photos if they are high enough quality.
Why not take advantage of all the opportunities you have to make money? You may not get rich, but you may be able to put a dent in your debt and stash some cash away for a rainy day or a special future purchase. At worst, you can crank up the heat or air conditioning a bit and add some toppings to your Ramen.
Or just do what Hillary does. Give a speech for $250,000 or sell some Uranium to the Russians.
I know a girl who does Calligraphy for a little extra money.
The people who really make money on EBay are those who own Ebay.
Back in the 80s several of us in an office made a copy of a ten dollar bill just for fun. It was on plain paper using an ordinary color copier. I was surprised how good it looked.
We then tore it up. BTW, we all worked for the U.S. Treasury.
Why not just make duplicate molds?
Didn’t read the article, but do any of the ideas suggest baloney holsters?
Then there is the Fred Garvin’s of the world.
A meth lab in the living room???? That’s ridiculous. Everybody knows that the meth lab goes in the bedroom.
I have read that every copier sold in the US will microprint serial number info on all its prints. Heck, I think I’ve read that modern copiers will recognize US money and not copy it.
I love those thick, hooked potholders I made as a kid. There is really not a good substitute as sturdy, and I love the thought of making some for craft shops. The loops and frames are still available, yet, 3D printing sounds easier, haha.
I imagine the more sophisticated counterfeiters probably use printing presses and paper that at least looks similar to that used in currency.
At one time not that long ago, U.S. Currency was one of the easiest to counterfeit. My Father brought back some German paper money from WWII. It was worthless and just a souvenir but even bills made in the 1920s had watermarks on them. All you had to do was hold it up to the light.
I have no idea why we resisted such an easy preventative measure so long.
1) Prostitution - No education or training needed. Can be extremely profitable in the right circumstances.
2) Selling drugs - Be careful of the competition and especially your snitch children.
3) Sell your children as slaves - plenty of time after school to do odd jobs around the neighborhood, including using them under #1 and #2.
4) Sue your local government - Clumsy? We have ways to make it pay for your lifestyle.
5) Welfare fraud - Hey, it’s just Uncle Sam you’re stealing from. Who’s going to notice? Who’s going to care?
6) Anonymous sources - Fake News outlets like CNN and the Washington Post can’t get enough of them. Be prepared to tell some whoppers like you saw them right before your very eyes. Before long, you can tell Anderson Pooper that Trump raped your daughter without batting an eye.
7) Be a street beggar - Good at looking pathetic? Got a sad story to tell? Grab some cardboard and stand out on a corner.
Are you referring to the gimp potholders?
I haven’t thought of them in years. They were nice.
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Seems like it would be safer in the garage
“I call this one ‘the Snake’”.
The image I use for Skype.
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