133 Ways To Find Extra Cash

1. Do what you do for a full time job as a freelancer.
2. Take a part time job to help make ends meet.
3. Sell metals: Whether you have old gold jewelry or collect aluminum or other metals, sell them to recyclers.
4. Collect all of your pocket change. (see Hunting for Change
5. Walk dogs, pet sit – dogs, cats, fish, etc.
6. Clip coupons – use them or sell them on eBay (people really do this). Use coupons adding funding a savings account to earn interest.
7. Babysit neighborhood children.
8. Be a Bookkeeper, do Tax preparation.
9. Start a knife sharpening business.
10. Return items you bought but haven’t used for a refund.
11. Have a yard sale or a booth at the flea market and sell anything you haven’t used or needed for six months or more.
12. Sell your stuff on eBay, Craigslist, Amazon or any other used marketplace websites.
13. Make crafts and sell them at your job, to neighbors, on Esty or at local craft shows.
14. Create a duct cleaning business. Or, a Spring Cleaning business (and it doesn’t have to be Spring to do a detailed job of cleaning.)
15. Medical or legal transcription.
16. Computer repair, set up software, training, or provide a back up service.
17. Virtual administrative assistant, secretarial service.
18. Pawn things with the idea of never reclaiming them (too expensive).
19. Be a graphic designer.
20. Teach a musical instrument, language or just about anything. Teach something that you are good at, through a community school or as private lessons.
21. Resume preparation, with cover letter and a Thank You letter template.
22. Cut grass, rake leaves, clean gutters, shovel snow.
23. Rent out a room in your home.
24. Start a blog and place ads on it using Google's AdSense.
25. Write articles for Associated Content or Heluim.
26. Be a temporary worker. There are plenty of temporary employment agencies.
27. Be a chimney sweep.
28. Donate plasma.
29. Cook meals for busy people.
30. Sell your hair (you have to have long hair to do this).
31. Be an interior designer or decorator.
32. Sell the starter plants for a fraction of what nurseries charge.
33. Drop or cut back on services you don’t need like: cell phone services, added cell phone features, cable/satellite TV, expensive nail or hair salon, lawn or pool care, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, any other subscriptions to a club and so forth, and Internet access.
34. Conserve energy and water aggressively to lower those bills for extra cash.
35. Sew, mend, make alterations to cloths. If you are good, you can even design cloths/costumes for people.
36. Help the elderly. Offer to do the shopping for a small fee.
37. Offer handyman or remodeling services.
38. Collect ink cartridges from friends and coworkers or your office if they don’t recycle for cash back.
39. Consulting as an expert in your field.
40. Wash or detail cars.
41. Wash and groom pets.
42. Train to be and work as a locksmith.
43. Make jewelry, designer your own.
44. Open a bed and breakfast.
45. Cleaning service or housekeeping. Clean up after a party or some other event.
46. Be a concierge. Take care of peoples needs like, securing tickets for events, handling errands, making reservations, and so on.
47. Create gift baskets.
48. Personal shopper.
49. Woodworking, cabinetry, furniture maker.
50. Freelance writer.
51. Sell your stuff, or sell at a consignment shop.
52. Sell food to workers at a construction site.
53. Be a wedding planner, consultant. Learn to ways to cut expenses, or make a wedding Green.
54. Sell your used wedding items to Replacements Ltd.
55. Cash out points on a credit or debit card reward program, store loyalty program, gas reward card, or on rewards sites. Cash them all in and use the cash or gift cards to cover household expenses or sell them online.
56. Tutor children or college students.
57. Look through the trash for rewards caps to build up points for gift cards. Look at events, concerts or races, where Coke products are sold. Few people ever keep them tossing them out.
58. Use equipment you already own to make money (a power washer, snow blower, chain saw to cut downed limbs, etc.)
59. Help someone move. Even if you rent a truck, you can be cheaper than a mover.
60. Act as a driver for the schools. Some public and private schools take on private drivers to go where buses do not go.
61. Turn your hobby into a money maker. (photography, beading, cake decorating, decoupage, flower arranging, greeting card designs, scrapbooking, embroidery, seweing, etc.)
62. Information researcher. When people need to find information, you know exactly where to look to find it fast and affordable.
63. Photography. You can photograph pets, people, houses, landscapes, etc.
64. Do genealogy research for busy people.
65. House sitter. You could also add plant sitting.
66. Proofreader or editor. The more people move to the Internet for a side income, you can prodvide an affordable way for them to have good content.
67. Be a professional organizer. Help people organize their homes conserving space and even help them sell what they don’t need.
68. Professional scrapbooker, photograph organizer. You would be surprised how many people don’t have time or inclination to organize their family memories. Do it for them in a professional layout.
69. Enter to win contests that pay cash (recipe submission, bake-offs, poetry contests, craft contests, state fairs, pie contests, etc.)
70. Be a small publisher. Use print on demand technology to publish and sell your own books or the works of others who are too busy.
71. Change peoples oil and filters for them. (Just properly dispose of the oil or you could be fined a hefty amount!)
72. Use your pickup truck to haul heavy things for people.
73. Accept whatever overtime your job offers you.
74. Clean houses. Learn to do it right and fast and you will never be without work. Use Green products (people, pet and environmentally safe)
75. If you have some land, allow RV or boat storage at cheap rates. If that is not allowed in your area, grow things you can sell.
76. Birthday party coordinator. People will pay you to set up, organize and clean up their kids birthday parties.
77. Coach or be a referee for sports.
78. Greeting card designer. Make one of a kind unique cards you can sell yourself or at local stores.
79. Grant writer. If you are good and can follow directions well you can make a fair amount of money.
80. Party or event planner.
81. Songwriter, commercial music composer, or jingle writer.
82. Become a Mary Kay or Avon representative.
83. Be a consultant or host for businesses like Usborne Books, Tupperware, etc.
84. Quit smoking, drinking or both. Smoking a pack a day will save you around $1,500 a year.
85. Professional errand service. Take care of the things people don’t have time for.
86. Seasonal lawn care, rake leaves, snow removal, cleaning up after a storm, installing and removing storm windows, cleaning gutters, be a chimney sweep, among other things.
87. Christmas, New Years, or any holiday coordinator. People will pay you to decorate, create themes, plan parties, wrap presents, shop for them, and handle whole holiday hassle so they don’t have to.
88. Walk through drive through lanes, around parking meters and parking lots picking up any spare change you find.
89. Use programs like CVS Extra Care or Walgreen’s discount catalog and coupons to get things like toiletry or cleaning products at a discount or for free. Sell them at your next yard sale for half the price.
90. Be a Green consultant. Teach people how to be Green in their lives, at work, place of worship, and other places without disrupting their regular lives or routines.
91. Collect old cell phones or ink cartridges from family, friends, and coworkers, selling them to recyclers.
92. Turn your car into a billboard. Places will pay you to cover your car with their logos or ads.
93. Rent out your house or room for big events in your area like, major sports event, convention, or for shooting a movie.
94. Sell your car and do without until you get all your finances under control. Use the money to get out of debt, if you have to.
95. Do you have season sport tickets, ski pass, or tickets to a concert? Sell them, do not scalp them. If money is tight or you are in debt, you need to focus on getting finances under control first.
96. Some car dealers give cash or a gift card for you to come in and test drive a vehicle. (Although, with this Recession, I haven’t seen this program at this time.)
97. Drop unnecessary insurance coverage raising deductibles.
98. If you have AAA and a car insurance policy that provides roadside assistance, drop one.
99. Check with your state unclaimed property office to see if any money is owed you.
100. If you really need money now, cash in any bonds you have. Many people were given them as a gift and now lying in a drawer or safe deposit box.
101. Try to negotiate a lower interest rate on your credit cards and get rid of them. This is the number one reason people live paycheck-to-paycheck never getting ahead financial. (That’s why I created this site, to help you.)
102. Use ATM’s wisely so avoid paying transaction fees.
103. Sign up with a Credit Union. You will pay fewer, or no fees which saves you money.
104. Sell on eBay any gift cards that you can’t use, or swap them out dollar for dollar for ones you will use.
105. Write a book and sell it through LuLu or Scribd as a digital download.
106. Make music, art, computer themes, canned websites or clipart and sell them online.
107. Look into bundling any services you need to keep to lower the monthly bill. Shop the competition for deals.
108. Call all your service providers and ask if you can get a discount because you’re a good customer, paying on time, or as a loyalty to a long term subscriber. Negotiate any discount possible.
109. Learn to haggle for everything. If you don’t ask for a discount you can’t get one. A ‘No’ doesn’t mean you’ve lost anything.
110. Brown bag your lunch instead of eating out.
111. Give up the afternoon coffee shop visit and save yourself a bundle.
112. Actually complete and send in those rebate forms. There are people who treat this like a money making hobby.
113. Sell stuff. Do have a music or video collection which never gets used? Sell em.
114. Scrounge the local trash piles for good, intact items, clean them up and sell them.
115. Be a plant or garden sitter for people who go out of town. You water and tend to the plants while the owners are away. Just be sure you know your plants.
116. Get paid to submit video reviews of products to sites like ExpoTV.
117. Open an account which pays you a cash bonus for opening an account.
118. Participate in focus groups which you can find on Craigslist, want ads, or Yellow pages. Research companies pay people for their opinion.
119. Enter contests that give out prizes which you can sell.
120. Send in your FSA or HSA claims now and don’t wait until the end of the year, get your money back early.
121. Check your health insurance plan for rebates which reimburse for things like gym memberships or weight loss programs.
122. Use a site like Ebates.com or other rewards sites to get cash back on any online shopping. Invest the difference.
123. Ask for a raise at your job, it might just happen. It never hurts to ask.
124. If you have a vacant room, or garage in your home, rent it out as a studio to artists, or for storage for less than what the going rate is.
125. If you are popular on a message board see if can get paid as a moderator.
126. Get free samples from sites like StartSampling.com or any others. Its not cash, but every sample you get free, use it or you can sell - can be thought of as free money which you would have spent on products.
127. Get back everything you are entitled to: Replace your car battery yourself, be sure to take the old one back to get a refund. Get price adjustments on things that go on sale within a stores guidlines. Get security and utility deposits back when you move. Keep good records and you can put money back in your pocket.
128. Rent out parking spaces. If you live in an area with little parking or near a big center or arena and you have a little extra space, rent it out for parking. Even if all you charge is $5 a space, or less than the going rate, you’ll make money.
129. Sign up with Mechanical Turk ( Mturk.com ) to take on small simple tasks to earn cash. Mind you many don’t pay much, but you can do some quickly and in your spare time.
130. If you have old electronics try selling them to specialty websites, or try trading them in.
131. Stop spending money on things you don’t need.
132. Keep a budget, spend less so you can keep more of your hard earned money!
133. Keep visiting this website: richardboettner.com for more ideas, how to get out of debt and remain debt free so you can finally start building your own wealth.

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