Have you ever thought or reasoned what to do as a student or stay at home parents, with my following lessons and tutor, you will be inspired to take a bold step.
Whether you are a busy mother, a stay at home father, a college student, or just want to earn some extra money – doing some extra work can help you make money from home.
A quick internet search can reveal many work from home scams. They charge you upfront fees and lure you to work with them. But actually they are just cheating you out of your hard-earned money.
A quick internet search can reveal many work from home scams. They charge you upfront fees and lure you to work with them. But actually they are just cheating you out of your hard-earned money.
I know you want to find some legitimate work from home jobs that are not rip-offs. So, I have scoured through hundreds of ways to work at home, and came up with the following.
1. Start a blog or online business
Online business is how I’ve made a living since 2003 and what has helped me retire early. I made over thousands of dollars blogging. You can start a blog for as little as $2.95 a month (less than a cup of coffee!). Create a blog and leverage it into affiliate sales or product endorsement deals. Consider topics like:
- Travel
- Cooking
- Health
- Technology
- Personal finance
- Just about anything else
2. Take part in surveys to make an extra $250+ a month
Simply answer online surveys or product tests and make money from home. You can easily make an extra $250 a month while watching T.V.
Take a look at some paid survey websites listed below. At all of these websites you not only earn some extra cash, but also get rewarded through gift vouchers, prize drawings, free products, etc. All of these sites are free to sign up and use. Heads up: If any survey site asks you to pay, they are probably scams.
3.Watch movie previews, YouTube, and like videos
Do you like watching videos in your free time? Now, you can get paid for watching videos including movie previews, news, celebrity videos, and all kinds of other videos.
Sites like Swagbucks ask you to watch certain videos and like them. You have to watch for a certain number of minutes which you’ll be told ahead of time. You could earn over $200 a month (earnings vary). You’ll earn Swagbucks for watching (points that can be redeemed for gift cards or Paypal). You can get $5 for just signing up.
4. Sell your books
Check out this recent story from frugal living expert Lauren Greutman:
My 10-year-old son brought home a book from our park’s free library box. It was a biology textbook – teachers edition. He said it looked interesting and hey, it was free (having no idea you could sell it). I scanned it in my Amazon seller app and realized it was worth around $150. He was so excited. We listed it for sale for $130 and it sold! Going to tell him, he just made $130!
My father-in-law did this with his old seminary books. I couldn’t believe that books 30 years old were still worth so much!
Even regular books can earn you money. Stores like Half Pricebook and others will give you cents to dollars for each of your current books. It saves space on your shelves for something new, and you earn a few bucks.
But if you want the most cash for your books, check out getting rid of your old books using Bookscouter
- Enter the ISBN of your book into BookScouter
- BookScouter searches their database for the highest paying book buyback companies.
- Once you find the company offering you the most money for your books, you fill out some information
- Ship off your book, and get paid! Most companies offer pre-paid shipping labels which saves you time from having to print shipping or go to the post office. It’s super easy!
5. Sell online
A garage sale might not be your style, or maybe you only have a few really nice things you want to sell. Consider selling on Ebay, Craigslist, and Facebook groups.
My wife sold some Kate Spade purses that she no longer used and made much more by using Ebay than trying to sell locally. She started by asking a very low price for the purses and the bidding drove the price up much higher than she expected.
6. Open a bank account
A simple Google search for banks giving bonuses for opening accounts returns a list of current offers. Be careful to read the requirements, but if you have time, you can make a few hundred dollars.
7. Sell your antiques
Did you collect things when you were younger or have items that fit your last home but don’t fit your new one? Get out all your collectibles and sell them off. If some are antiques or collectibles, make sure to get them appraised. Otherwise, you may sell some rare items at low prices.
Sadly my long kept collection of Star Wars and X-Files trading cards were only selling for a few cents on eBay, so I decided just to keep them for the memories.
8. Rent your clothes online
If you have a closet full of clothes that you haven’t worn in a long time, rent them out. Sites like RentnotBuy and loanable make this possible.
If they don’t fit anymore or not fitting your current lifestyle include them in the garage sale or selling online mentioned above.
9. Cook
A college friend makes the most beautiful cookies and finds events to sell them all year long – birthdays, holidays, football parties, the list is endless.
Some people love to cook and bake. If this is you, consider running a catering business from your kitchen. Bake cakes or cookies for birthday parties, dinners, or other events.
Make sure to abide by the food safety laws and have fun.
There are many moms who don’t have time to make homemade food for bake sales and parties and families who want a holiday feast without the trouble.
10. Start a side business
Become an online personal stylist or the many other options to start something on the side. It will take effort, but there are many different routes you can go.
You can work with an existing company, like Avon, Jamberry, and Stitch Fix, which will help you get started. Or find a need in your community that might need addressing. Do local companies need your accounting skills?
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