to Make Money ($100+ fast)
Last Updated on March 22, 2019
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Quick! Can you come up with $100? I know
most of you have $100 and a lot more. Some
of you have that in your couch cushions, but for
those who don’t, we have a ton of awesome
ways to make money fast (many of which are
online).
Any opportunity that promises you’ll make
money fast overnight, run the other direction.
The only time we’ve ever come across cash
that quick is finding a $5 dollar on the street. If
you’re looking for legitimate ways to make
some extra money we got you covered.
Some of them are shall we say, are morally
ambiguous, but when you need to make money
fast… We’ve got some money making ideas for
everyone.
Easy, free money
These are a few ways to get money with very
little effort.
1. Missing money, tax refund,
and class action lawsuit
checks
Missing Money: You may have money owed to
you out there. It could be from un-cashed
checks, old insurance policies, or utility
deposits. Since it was free, we tried this and
wound up finding over $200.
You can search on Missing Money to see if you
have any money floating around out there.
Tax Refund: The federal government might owe
you money in the form of a tax refund that
never made it to you. You can also use links on
this page to find unclaimed state money, a
mortgage refund and several other sources of
unclaimed money.
Class Action Lawsuits: When a company
settles a class action suit, you might be
entitled to some of it if you ever purchased the
product in question. Class Action Rebates will
show you open claims.
1. Make money with online
surveys
Want to get paid for your opinion? Using Survey
Junkie you can share your opinion to help
brands deliver better products and services.
After you create your profile, they will start
matching you to online surveys you can take
online anywhere, anytime, and on any device.
Completed surveys earn virtual points that can
be redeemed for PayPal or gift cards. Survey
Junkie is great for anyone who is interested in
earning money from their couch.
If you have some spare time during your lunch
break or commercials it’s a great way to make
money fast. Sign up for Survey Junkie make
some fast money online. Most of the online
surveys are pretty easy and you are not
required to sign-up for other services so no
annoying spam mail.
For starters, it’s completely free, and you earn
25 free points when you create your account.
1. Prize Rebel
Prize Rebel is a “get paid to” site where users
can earn points for doing things like taking
surveys, watch videos, and referring new users
to the site. For each completed task users earn
points.
Taking surveys offers the most points,
generally from 50 to 200 per survey. Each point
is worth one cent and the minimum to cash out
is just $2 or 200 points. Users can turn their
points in Amazon gift cards, gift cards from
several other retailers or cash via PayPal.
1. Lose Weight. Get Paid
Some 45% of Americans go on a diet each year
and most of them give up after just a few
weeks. But money is a great motivator so why
not get paid to lose those extra pounds? That’s
what HealthyWage does.
There is a calculator on the HealthWage site.
Enter how many pounds you want to lose, how
many months it will take, and how much
money you want to bet per month on yourself
to do it. Enter your gender, height, current
weight, and waist circumference.
Based on this information, you’ll see how much
money you will win if you meet your goal. I put
in some fake numbers (I don’t have weight to
lose) and my winnings after my bet would be
$169.40 which would be a 56.33% return on
my investment in six months. There aren’t
many investments that give you that kind of
return and you get to control whether you win
or not. Pretty cool!
1. See if stores owe you
money
Earny: Receiving refund checks are my favorite
past-time. As it turns out, stores owe you
money all the time but they don’t pay if you
don’t ask. That’s where Earny comes in – they
automate everything. It’s also 100% free.
Ebates ( $10 free signup bonus): Shop online
through their website at more than 2,000 stores
like Sephora, Macy’s, and Apple. Ebates
members also special discounts, promo codes,
and coupons. You earn cash back with each
purchase and will receive it in the form of a
check or through PayPal. If it’s already cheaper
to shop online, why not make it even cheaper?
Ibotta ($10 free signup bonus): They are
bringing coupons back in style with their
app that pays you for finding deals on the
items you’d normally be buying every day. Their
app is free to you and that you get cash
rebates right from your phone.
They partner with stores all over the country to
offer products and brands at discounted prices
which they pay you back in cash. After you buy
the products you selected at any participating
store redeem your rebates by taking a photo of
your receipt. They will match the items you
bought to the rebates and give you the cash.
Get extra cash back for price drops and late
deliveries. Effort required? Basically zero, just
how we like it.
Hint: These three services work really well
together and using multiple will amplify your
results ;)
1. Negotiate your debt away
and reduce your monthly
payments.
Debt Forgiveness: Did you know that credit
card companies will forgive some of your debt
if you’re in trouble? Imagine reducing a
$10,000 bill to $4,000 just by calling them and
asking.
Not only is this a real thing but billions of
dollars get forgiven every year.
If you aren’t comfortable negotiating
forgiveness than you can always bring on a
company like National Debt Relief to negotiate
on your behalf – they take a percentage of
what is forgiven so it’s no risk. If they don’t get
your debt reduced, you don’t pay anything.
Reduce monthly debt payments: Not all of us
are in such a dire situation that we can just
have our debt forgiven. However, you can cut
your payments by up to 80% by refinancing.
Most credit cards have interest rates above
25% and Credible’s refinance loans are as low
as 4%. It won’t change the amount of your
debt, but it can reduce your monthly payment
significantly.
Earnest (refinance your student loans ): Same
idea as above but on your student loans. There
is $1.4 trillion in student loan debt
outstanding. When you have student loan debt,
it can make it hard to get ahead, invest, or to
buy a home. If this sounds familiar, refinancing
the debt can not only help you pay it off more
quickly, but it can save you money on interest
too.
Their interest rates are best-in-class so we
highly recommend them. An hour of time here
can easily save you thousands of dollars.
1. Use your home as a bank.
To be clear, we absolutely don’t suggest you
do this to buy a new TV or go out to dinner.
However, this is a great way to access money
fast to refinance your debt or even invest in a
business.
Figure : Their rates can go as low as 4.99%,
you can gain access to your cash in 5 days
AND their loans are tax deductible. It really
doesn’t get better than that. Also, unlike
traditional HELOCs, their interest rate is fixed
so you know what the monthly payment will be
every month.
1. Trim your unused
subscriptions, automatically.
We waste a lot of money on things like
subscription services we no longer use. When
is the last time you went to the gym? But life
gets in the way, and we can’t keep track of
everything.
You might not even realize that you are paying
for these things. It would be nice to have an
assistant who looked through your bank
statements and credit card receipts and found
this kind of stuff. But you need $100, so you
are too broke to have an assistant.
That’s what Trim can do for you.
It combs through your transaction history and
looks for subscriptions to things like
magazines, gym memberships, or food delivery
services. They cancel anything you no longer
want to pay for.
1. Billshark
Billshark will negotiate with your current
providers to lower your bills. They can work
with your cable, wireless phone, satellite TV
and radio, internet, and home security
providers. Billshark is good at it too. They have
an 85% success rate. According to Billshark,
the average customer who gives them two bills
to negotiate will save as much as $1,500!
Billshark is easy to use. Enter your email
address and create a password. Take a photo
of the first two pages of each bill you want
Billshark to negotiate. The images have to
include your name, the account number, the list
of charged services, and the amount you’re
being charged.
1. Get free gift cards with
Swagbucks (including
Amazon)
What’s better than getting paid to do things
you’re already doing? Getting paid to drink I
supposed but getting paid to do things like
watch videos, shop, and do searches online is
pretty nice too.
When you join Swagbucks you can get cash
back when you buy online from more than
1,500 retailers including places you probably
already shop like Amazon, Target, and
Starbucks.
You earn points for each dollar you spend and
also get special coupons and deals exclusive
to their shoppers. You can also earn points
when you use the Swagbucks Yahoo search
engine, and when you watch special videos
Swagbucks has put together. You can redeem
your points for gift cards or get cash back
through PayPal.
1. Use Seated for cash back
eating out at your favorite
places.
Probably part of the reason you need $100 fast
is that you spend so damn much money going
out to eat. That’s why you need Seated. This is
probably the best thing on this list.
It sounds too good to be true but I know it
works because Andrew and I both use it. It’s
an App that you use to book restaurant
reservations.
Every time you complete a reservation, you get
a gift code for $15 for Amazon, Uber, or
Starbucks. Amazing! The rewards are available
within 24 hours of your completed reservation.
1. Get paid for random online
jobs
TaskRabbit lets you bid on jobs for things like
picking up dry cleaning, food shopping, and
babysitting. Lots of little, everyday tasks that
others don’t want or don’t have time to do are
up for grab for taskers.
Upwork is similar to Task Rabbit but for more
professional kinds of work like freelance
writers, graphic design, translators, social
media management, customer service reps,
and virtual assistants.
Fiverr is another online marketplace for
freelance services. You can sign up for free, set
up your Gig, and offer your work to a global
audience.
Mechanical Turk is an Amazon site that pays
small amounts of money for completing simple
tasks like looking at an image and describing it
in fewer than ten words.
Gigwalk is an app where you do things like go
to a store and verify that items are correctly
priced or displayed, take a photo and send it
to the manufacturer.
1. Pay way less for your cell
plan with Ting
The cell phone bill is easily one of the biggest
reoccurring monthly bills we have. Since it’s so
much yearly, It makes sense to optimize it.
Turns out you don’t need to pay out the nose
for a cell phone, it’s time to slash your cell
bill. Ting will give you affordable service on the
main carrier networks, what more could you
want? You get the same coverage as the big
carriers with a much smaller price tag. The
average Ting bill is just $23/phone/month.
Damn
1. Bank signup offers.
There is so much competition between banks
that some offer cash bonuses when you open a
new account as a way to attract new
customers.
There are usually some stipulations; you use
direct deposit or pay a certain number of bills
online, the account must be open for a
minimum length of time or keep a minimum
balance. But most of the criteria are pretty
easy to meet and signing up can make you a
few hundred bucks.
Investments
Do you know the best way to make money?
Don’t you? Have you never listened to a single
episode or read a single article we’ve done?!
It’s growing money while you sleep – investing.
Here’s how.
1. Acorns – Invest your spare
change (Get $5 to invest $1)
As it turns out, Acorns will pay you $5 to start
investing with them for as little as $1. That’s a
500% return, plus it’s probably time you started
investing for your future. They even have
features like round-up and found money that
allows you to get free money from places you
already shop at.
1. Betterment – Automatic,
efficient online investing
We have loved Betterment since Day One and
we love it still. It’s such a good gateway for
people who are afraid to invest because you
don’t have to know anything about money or
personal finance or investing to get started.
There is also no minimum and the fees are
low.
There is no excuse to not open a Betterment
account and start investing now. If you have
two minutes and five bucks, you can do it. If
you want more information, we did an
exhaustive review.
1. Fundrise – Online real
estate investing
Simply put, Fundrise gets you access to
million-dollar real estate deals with a
contribution as small as $500! They get the
deals and automatically invest your money
based on some simple questions you answer
when you first signup. Passive income at its
finest.
Last year their return was over 11% !
We love what they are doing so much, we’ve
written a full review on them and interviewed
their CEO twice!
1. Roofstock – Buy rental
properties online
You know how we feel about rental property.
What could be better than having someone pay
your mortgage and pay you? It’s intimidating to
become a landlord though.
You don’t know how to tell a good property
from a bad one, you don’t know how to fix a
sink, you don’t know how to screen tenants.
With Roofstock , you don’t have to.
They are a turnkey real estate company. You
just choose a house from their portfolio, and
the rest is done for you. The house is turnkey,
there are already tenants in place, and those
tenants have been screened. You just sit back
and collect a check.
1. Blooom – 401k
Optimization
If you have a 401k, 403b or TSP than you
absolutely need to give Blooom a look. It’s
highly likely that you’re bleeding hundreds of
dollars a year in fees due to poor fund picks in
your retirement account.
No big deal though because Blooom analyzes
everything automatically and helps you get
back on track in minutes. Saving $100 in fees
this year could compound to thousands more
by the time you retire – small tweaks like this
make a big difference!
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Make Money Online from
Home
Many of these are small businesses you can
create and eventually run from your iPhone. A
lot of these can provide a decent full-time
living with a little bit of hard work.
1. Create a profitable blog
like this one
We wrote a free in-depth guide for you that
cuts through the bullshit. Specifically, we dive
into how you can make money online with
things like selling digital products and affiliate
marketing (including affiliate programs to join).
Learn How to Start and Monetize
a Blog that Earns over $400k a
year
1. Create an online store for
e-commerce and drop
shipping
Shopify : Selling stuff is a great way to make
extra money whether you sell things you make
or re-sell stuff you buy. If you want to build an
online store, Shopify makes it easy. They have
ready-made templates, so you don’t have to
spend time designing your store.
We literally sell everything we don’t need and
sometimes items we got for deals or even free.
Shopify is also the favorite platform for drop
shippers.
What is drop shipping? It’s creating the
process of creating an online store (automated)
and signing up with a product distributor that
will mail products directly to your customers.
Since the products you sell ship directly to your
customers, you don’t need to hold inventory or
mail anything. All you need to do is find cool
products and market your website. Some are
saying it’s the ultimate online business.
Etsy: Are you a crafty person? Can you make
things like fancy soaps, jewelry, clothes? You
can set up an online store and sell your
creations.
1. Sell Your Advice
You can also start selling your knowledge as a
consultant in an area you specialize. The
internet is filled with people willing to pay for
your time. You don’t need a product to make
money online. With online coaching, you are
the product.
Although the money is tied directly to your
time, many online coaches charge hundreds for
their coaching packages so there is potential
to make a whole lot of money.
Being an online coach is an awesome way to
make money online and has the potential to
become a scalable this business model by
creating online courses to sell as well.
Try a platform like coach.me to get started.
Their platform supports three types of coaching
services: digital chat-based coaching,
traditional call-based coaching, and coaching
plans/courses.
1. Make videos to teach and
entertain people
YouTube: Make an online tutorial for something
you’re good at, car repair, building a bookcase,
cooking your signature dish. Upload it to
Youtube and enable monetization. This allows
them to put ads on your videos. Want to learn
how to get started? Check out “PolyMatter” on
Skillshare .
Skillshare : Want to teach people things but
don’t want to make them publically for free?
Skillshare is a platform that allows people to
create online courses to help others and if
people use your course, Skillshare will pay you.
Want to learn from other creators? There isn’t a
better place on the internet. Skillshare comes
built-in with an audience interested in learning
online.
1. Sell your clothes with
Poshmark
You have some much stuff in your closet that
you’re never going to wear again but one man’s
trash is another man’s treasure. Sign up for
Poshmark and start making money
online selling your previously loved clothing.
Lets Go Thrifting! The Ultimate
Guide To Thrift Store Success
1. Tutor and translate for
people online
Those ultra-competitive tiger parents want to
make sure their special cornflakes get into the
best schools, whether that means pre-school
for three-year-olds or the Ivy League for
eighteen-year-olds.
Wyzant ( tutor) : They’re the place parents and
students shop for tutors for a variety of
subjects from algebra to science to test prep.
There is a wide range of ages in need of tutors
as well, from elementary age through college.
You can set your schedule and fees, and
Wyzant takes a cut.
Translate: If you are fluent, and I mean very
fluent, in a language, you can get paid to
translate. Translatorscafe.com is a free online
directory of translators and translation jobs.
Just upload your resumé and list your rates
and services. New jobs are posted every day
and include things like translating a tourism
brochure or subtitling a movie.
Or you can try an online agency like gengo.com
and verbalizeit.com . You select projects that fit
your schedule and abilities.
Side Hustle with your
Existing Skills
I know you have mad ones.
1. Earn money driving with
Uber
The hourly pay after expenses varies from city
to city but you can expect to make around $10
an hour. In larger cities, it will often be much
more and in smaller cities, sometimes a little
less.
The appeal of Uber is that you can set your
own schedule and there is no commitment.
You can work your regular job and make your
$100 in just a few hours on a weekend or
some evenings.
1. Be a mover and get paid
to pick things up and put
them down
You don’t have to get hired by a moving
company to do this. If you live in a big
apartment complex, lots of people move in and
out. Moving tops the list of things that suck
but people don’t realize just how much until
they start doing it.
This is when they’re weak and wishing they had
arranged movers. As you spot them carrying
boxes to and fro, offer to help out for some
quick cash. I know this will work because it
happened to me. Guy approached my boyfriend
at the time and me as we were moving and
offered to help. We took him up on it.
1. Deliver packages with
Amazon Flex
Amazon Flex is a rideshare opportunity that
allows you to earn money by delivering to
Amazon customers in your city. You perform
the “last-mile” delivery, which means you help
Amazon deliver its packages from its regional
centers to customers.
The program is currently available in more than
50 cities across the nation and has continued
to grow to new locations since it debuted in
2015.
Amazon Flex pays its delivery drivers between
$18 and $25 per hour. The pay for each shift is
fixed, meaning you make the same amount per
hour, but the amount each block pays will vary
based on your region, the time of day and the
number of packages you can carry at one time.
Some drivers have noticed that block payments
tend to increase during bad weather, around
the holidays and in the evenings.
1. Cook food for people
Cater: This doesn’t have to be a whole, starting
a business, big to do. Ask friends, relatives,
and co-workers if they have any special events
coming up they would like you to cook for. As
we get closer to the holiday season, there will
be a lot of opportunities for various kinds of
get-togethers.
Cook: I know someone who was a home chef/
magician. Frankly, I can’t think of anything
worse than some guy making me dinner while
he pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but he made a
living at it, so there’s a market.
There is probably a better market for non-
magical cooks. Do you have a friend who
wants to make dinner for a potential SO but
can’t cook? Here’s your $100. Some chicks
have claimed to get a ring after making some
kind of roast chicken , so I think $100 would be
a cheap price to pay.
If you want to get serious about your cooking
career, sign up for Table at Home . Their
platform makes it simple to connect to people
looking for home chefs.
1. Fix Stuff
Not everyone has DIY skills. I would gladly pay
someone to do things like assemble
bookshelves or fix my broken lamp. Do you
have technologically challenged friends?
Goldmine!
Yea, turning it off and back on will probably fix
it, but you can surely push a few extra buttons
to make them think you earned that $100.
1. Clean and Organize
Cleaning isn’t so much a skill as a pain in the
ass. And some people will pay good money to
avoid pains in their asses. Even if you don’t
love to clean, it’s a quick way to make some
good money. The average independent cleaner
makes between $25-35 per hour. A few hours
and you have your $100 and then some.
Some people love to organize. You can tell who
they are because when you visit their house,
you see all sorts of weird stuff like
alphabetized can goods and books that have
been arranged by color. If you’re such a person,
others will pay for these magical abilities
1. Event Plan
If you’re not much of a cook, you can still take
advantage of all the holiday parties. Plan the
event, which can mean anything from planning
the menu to arranging for flowers, sending out
invitations, and renting things like extra chairs
and glasses.
People are busy around the holidays and may
be willing to outsource some things and it’s a
great opportunity to make money fast.
1. Bartend
You don’t have to get a regular job doing this,
you can do this at parties. You could even do it
at a party you’ve been invited to. Stay behind
the drinks area, serve people and put a glass
with a few dollars in it on the table. I bet you
get some tips.
1. Shop around for better
prices
Travel: When you shop for an airline ticket what
do you do? Go to a site like Kayak or Expedia
to compare prices and find the best deal.
Electricity: There are fewer choices for things
like cable and electricity, but some lucky
places do have more than one provider. Power
2 Switch is a comparison site for electricity
providers. Currently, you can compare prices in
some areas of New Jersey, Texas, Ohio, and
New York.
Insurance: Check and see if you can find a
lower price for your various types of insurance,
renter’s, home owner’s, car. You can compare
rates here.
Cable: Allconnect does the same with cable
and internet providers. Enter your address and
zip code, and it will give you a list of providers
and their prices in your area.
Groceries: Do you have an Aldi near to you or a
Trader Joe’s? They have great prices. Check
ethnic markets too. Often you can get things
like meat, produce, and spices for less than
your local big box place.
If you have farm stands near you, you can buy
directly from the source which often means
lower prices since there is no middleman
involved. If you have a bakery outlet, you can
get reduced prices for things like bread, rolls,
and sometimes baked items like pies and
cakes.
1. Sell some easy things you
already have
Sell Ad Space On Your Car: You can make up
to $400 a month to let companies advertise on
your car. There are fewer of these opportunities
than there once were but they do still exist.
Sell Cold Water: Stand outside some event that
will have overpriced water and sell bulk
purchased bottles for half the price.
Sell Door to Door: Remember when you were a
kid, and your school made you sell stuff like
candy bars and gift wrap door to door? No
reason you can’t do that as an adult. I would
let people know you’re doing this as a
fundraiser and then actually donate part of the
money to a local charity. Otherwise, it just
looks kind of weird.
Sell Junk in Hour House Online: Your house is
full of it. And you’re too lazy to have a yard
sale or even put it on Craigslist. That’s okay;
there is a new service for the lazy, $100-less
among us.
Gone is an app that allows you to text a picture
of what you want to sell and a customer
service rep will make you an offer. If you
accept, they will send you a box and shipping
label.
If you live in Austin or San Francisco, they will
send someone to your house to pick the items
up! You can sell anything of value but some
things, like electronics, do better than others
Garage Sales: You were too lazy to have one
but maybe not too lazy to go to one. Do a few
searches on e-Bay and Amazon to see what
kind of stuff is selling. Then go find it and sell
it yourself.
Your Ex’s Crap: Still got some of that sob’s
stuff hanging around? I don’t. I’m from the
church of angrily burning it in a Santeria ritual,
but you might not be religious. Sell those old
hoodies and CDs on Ebay and the bad ju-ju
that comes with them.
Old Gifts: All those crappy obligation gifts you
get from relatives are in the back of your closet
somewhere. Surely there are people on eBay
who relish and collect hideous holiday-themed
sweatshirts and would pay good money for
yours.
If you have old gift cards laying around, you
can sell those for quick cash too. You can list
new or partially used gift cards and store
credits on sites like Raise. You set your own
price, and you will receive payment through
PayPal, direct deposit, or mailed check.
1. Rent your apartment out
online
Airbnb : If you live in a desirable place, a big
city, a charming hamlet, the chances are that
someone would like to stay in your place for a
few days. And they’ll pay you!
Right now, a small studio near the United
Nations in NYC, so, far, far from the subway, is
renting for $175 a night. If you can crash on a
friend’s couch for just one night, there’s your
$100 and then some.
Rent like a Champion: Do you live near a
college campus, a famous golf course, race
track, or other venues where major sporting
events are held? You can rent your home out to
people attending those events through Rent
Like a Champion.
You set the price and availability for your
rental. Most rentals are from Friday evening to
Sunday afternoon, and the site says the
average host earns $1,100 per weekend.
The company provides up to $1,000,000 in
insurance coverage which acts as your primary
insurance policy for the time your home is
rented out. The policy covers liability, structural
damage, and damage to items and property.
1. Rent your extra space
Parking: This won’t work everywhere but if you
live near an event venue, a sports stadium, for
instance, charge people to park in your
driveway and even your yard
Storage: Have space in your garage, attic or
basement? Rent it out as temporary storage.
Possibly get in touch with some contractors in
your area who do home renovations. They can
steer their clients to you for a place to store
the things in the room being renovated.
Around Your Hood
Become the entrepreneur of your block.
1. Get paid to be part of a
Mock Jury
Many lawyers will try their case before a mock
jury to find out what needs to be improved
before taking a case before a real jury.
According to this site, you can make as much
as $100 a day.
1. Be a Sitter and a Walker
Dog Walker: Everyone likes puppies! Look
around for the fat ones in your neighborhood.
Those are the ones who have parents too lazy
to walk them. But all puppies need and
deserve exercise, and you need and deserve
$100. Join forces with the fat puppies and
profit from being a dog walker. Rover.com is
where you’d go to find a ton of clients.
Pet Sitting: Especially if you know how to
administer medication to an animal, you can
make great money doing this. I had a diabetic
kitty that required twice-daily insulin injections.
It cost $35 per visit, so $70 a day. Sittercity is
the way to go.
House Sitting: No one really pays for this
anymore. At least not people who live in nice
places. People will house sit for free in
exchange for the free accommodations.
If you’re willing to do a little more work, this
site has some paid listings. You could house
sit for free though and use that time to rent
your own place out on Airbnb.
Baby Sitting: Parents post jobs on Sittercity for
everything from a full-time nanny to the
occasional date night sitter. You can apply for
the postings, meet the family and get hired.
The average pay for a sitter is a little over $12
an hour.
1. Entertain locals and
tourists
Walking Tours: Tourists are walking around
with cameras around their necks and wallets
full of local currency in their pockets.GIve them
a walking tour. I do these in every city I visit.
There are all kinds, history, ghosts, architecture,
food!
Craft one and advertise it in hotels and those
kiosks that have information for tourists. Even if
you don’t charge, a lot of people will tip. You
can connect with these visitors and become
their local tour guide through Vayable.
You can set your own availability. You can
create themes for your tours that align with
your interests and knowledge of the local area;
museum tours, hiking tours, history tours, food
tours. You set your prices, and Vayable takes a
reasonable 15%.
You make a profile and record a short audition
video. If you’re approved, you will be given
access to the site to list your tour. The
payments are handled via credit card through
the site. You are paid within 24 hours of
conducting the tour. Vayable is available in
more than 600 cities worldwide.
Cooking Class: This is another thing I do on
vacation. Food is so intrinsic to a place.
There’s no more appealing way to get a feel
and a bit of history for a place as to eat and
learn about its food.
Again, devise a menu showcasing local dishes
and advertise in tourist areas. Or sign up for
Eatwith and host a local dinner for some
travelers (or locals).
1.
Bar Crawl: They’re tourists, so they don’t know
all the great hole in the wall places you know
and the guidebooks don’t list them. So take a
group on a bar crawl, so they don’t visit your
city and commit the unpardonable sin of
drinking at the bar at Applebee’s.
Activity Tours: Are you an experienced scuba
driver? You know all the best places, where to
take lessons, where to rent the gear? Not
everyone does, and it takes a lot of research to
figure it out. If you can arrange all the
particulars of this type of trip, or similar ones,
rock climbing, whitewater rafting, people will
pay for it.
1. Neighborhood Help
Mow Lawns: Even if everyone in your street is
hale and hearty, head over to the local old
folk’s side of town and offer to mow their
grass.
Shovel Snow: Even if your neighbors are able-
bodied, shoveling snow sucks and lots of
people will gladly pay someone else to do it.
Clean Gutters/Rake Leaves: When leaves fall in
the yard, they fall into the gutters too and are
wet, sticky and gross to remove.
Designated Driver: This probably works better
in smaller places that don’t have things like
Uber or hail-able cabs. It also probably works
better if you make friends with the bartenders
who can steer clients to you rather than be
some creepy stranger trying to get people into
your car outside a bar.
Painting House Numbers: If you live in or near
a subdivision, buy number stencils and offer to
paint house numbers on the curbs in front of
houses. Otherwise, the pizza delivery guy may
never arrive.
Make More at Your Day Job
You already have a job but are you getting the
most out of it?
1. Negotiate yourself a better
salary
If you don’t ask you don’t receive so it can’t
hurt. Ask three times. It’s hard to muster up
the courage to ask for a raise once, never mind
three times. A boss knows this and may
dismiss your first attempt hoping that will be
the end of it.
By asking more than once, it shows the
company that a raise is an expectation that
needs to be met. It also serves as a reminder.
Everyone is busy; everyone has distractions.
If you ask once and forget it, your boss may
too. Don’t just walk in and ask. You have to be
prepared to argue your case. This is almost like
another job interview. You need to sell yourself
again. Know your value within your team and
the company.
How To Negotiate With Skill, Not
Force
Have a number in mind but don’t toss it out.
Do some research to determine what others in
your industry and your geographic area are
making. Someone working in New York City
can expect to make more than someone doing
the same job in Nashville.
There are websites dedicated to this,
glassdoor.com or payscale.com are two good
examples.
Discuss salary with your co-workers. It is not
legal to fire employees for discussing salary.
Many employers use the taboo of discussing
salary to underpay everyone.
1. Overtime
If you’re paid hourly, see if you can get some
overtime. If you have lazy co-workers, see if
you can pick up some of their hours when
they’re home with a hangover
1. Change Shifts
If your job has shift work, find out if working a
less desirable shift pays a little more. Many
people prefer 9-5, so working a late shift might
net you a slightly bigger paycheck.
1. Outsource
There is a legendary story of a developer who
outsourced his own job. He figured out a
workaround that let him outsource his work to
China while he watched cat videos on Reddit
all day.
He was paying less than a fifth of his six-figure
salary to the worker in China. Genius! You can’t
sit around all day on watching cat videos as he
did, though. You’ll have to be doing something
with that free time to make some extra money.
When You’re in College
They have rich parents or fat loan checks, so
they have it to spare.
1. Help out Online Daters
Crappy Photos: Why do some people have
such awful photos on their dating profile? It’s
not that they’re ugly, $100 won’t fix that, it’s
just the pictures are so poorly taken.
Well, because they aren’t a professional
photographer or even an amateur one, so
there’s your answer. But if you are, you can
help. Offer to take some panty dropping photos
for quick cash.
Here are some tips to take good dating profile
photos. The left side of the face is somehow
more pleasant to look at according to one of
those weird studies that are pretty useless, but
hey, it’s useful for this one thing, so not a total
waste of grant money and scientist’s time!
Take the photos during “the golden hour.” This
is the hour just before or after sunset when the
light is redder and softer, therefore more
flattering.
There is even a calculator that tells you what
time that is based on your location. Women
should show a little cleavage and men should
go shirtless if they have a good body. If you
Shallow but true. Hot is hot, and looks are
about all we have to go on when we’re perusing
online dating sites.
Crappy Profiles: Some people try, bless them.
But it’s hard to objectively write about yourself.
If you have a poor self-image, you sound like a
sad sack, and if you have too high a self-
image, you sound like a douche.
Offer to revamp their zero message getting
profile. A profile should read like a compelling
short story, not a bullet list of attributes, or
worse, an entitled list of “deal breakers.” When
potential dates read it, they should understand
what to expect when dating this person.
Sending Texts: We want the new person
we’re dating to think we are a hot commodity,
much in demand! Or we want our nosy parents
or co-workers to think we have a life in which
boys or girls are interested in us. But
our phones sit there, wan and silent.
Offer a service to send texts at pre-arranged
times to boost value. You can also arrange to
send “escape” texts to people on first dates.
You could text with some terrible emergency
thirty minutes into the date. If it’s going well,
they ignore it. If it’s an SOS situation, they have
an out.
1. Condom Delivery
College kid Kyle McCabe started a condom
delivery service on his campus. He arrives at
your door, condom in hand, wearing a flashing
blue light on his helmet to denote the
emergency nature of the situation.
He also provides a more discreet delivery sans
lighted helmet, but hey, then your floor mates
won’t know you’re getting some so what on
earth would be the point?
1. Dumpster Dive and
Curbside Finds
You have to do it on move out day. College
kids throw away the most amazing
stuff! College kids are notorious for throwing
great stuff in the trash because they can’t be
bothered with it when they move out at the end
of the semester.
Clothes, furniture, books. Just anything they
don’t want to bother lugging back home. You
might get some great stuff for yourself and
some stuff you can re-sell.
See what perfectly good stuff your peers have
chucked out and sell it on e-Bay or Craig’s List
or your school’s local FB page. Textbooks may
be especially lucrative. Check out other
college’s dumpsters nearby.
1. Fill Out Forms
This one is for pre-college kids. If you’ve been
to college, you know the Hell that is filling out
student loan forms. I’m sure there are a few
parents who would gladly hand over this chore
for money
1. Write Papers
Morally ambiguous territory again, but hey, it’s
not your ass on the line. If you can knock out a
term paper while some college kid gets drunk
tailgating, good for you.
Your Body is a Goldmine
Burke and Hare made a pretty good living
selling stuff (well, bodies) to the medical field.
1. Bodily Fluids
People will pay for them! Well, not just any
people, medical people (mostly). You can sell
plasma for about $35 per donation and
platelets for about $50.
1. Your Genes
This one is more intensive than selling blood
products. If you want to sell your sperm, you’ll
receive between $50-$200 but must donate
two or three times a week for as long as six
months. And you can’t “donate” outside the
clinic.
If I were a guy, that would be a deal breaker no
matter how much they were paying.If a woman
wants to donate eggs, she can make bank!
Between $5,000-$15,000. But it’s no picnic.
You’ll be subjected to a lot of medical and
psychological testing before beginning, you’ll
need to shoot yourself up with fertility drugs
while undergoing more testing during the
process, and the procedure to remove the eggs
is a surgical one.
1. Your Womb
If you want to carry a pregnancy for someone,
again bank. Between $40,000-52,000. But
you’ll go through lots of testing and medical
appointments and have to be pregnant for nine
months, so not exactly easy money
1. Sell Your Hair
Why give it away to Locks of Love when you
can sell it for cold, hard cash? That’s where
hair extensions come from. You can make
anywhere from $100 to $4,000 for your hair! I
wouldn’t expect to make $4,000 though. That
was probably unicorn hair or something to
make Elton John a wig.
1. Sell Your Breast Milk
And not just to babies. If a baby needs it, you
probably should donate it. But believe it or not,
adults are buying the stuff too. And they’re
paying a fair penny, about $2.50 an ounce.
Athletes are buying it for the energy it provides,
and some people buy it believing that it
increases immune function.
1. Clinical Trials
You can get paid to have drugs and things like
MRI’s tested on you. You can make between
$50-$300 per day. CenterWatch is a good
place to search for trials near you. Hopefully,
you get lucky and are in the placebo group
1. Kidneys
Not legal in the states but don’t let that stop
you! You can make between $5,000-$25,000
for your extraneous kidney. (Please don’t do
this.)
1. Poo!
Fecal transplants are a thing. I worked in
functional medical offices for years and have
been interested in this as a medical treatment
for a while.
Your gut biome is extremely important and
having a healthy one may have implications
medicine is only beginning to understand. So
poo is big business.
You can make about $40 per sample. The
catch is, you have to be super healthy yourself.
OpenBiome pays for poo if any of you are local
to Massachusetts.
X-Rated
Puritans, please turn back now.
1. Your Underwear
You all better appreciate this one, and at least
one of you better do it and send me some of
the money you made. I googled this and forgot
to use Tor. I suggest Reddit for this.
The subreddits Used panties and FetishItems
are the most active. I’m not going into any
detail, but there are ways to make your panties
more desirable to buyers. That’s enough now;
my parents will read this
1. FinDo
I might be down for this one even though I
didn’t have the stomach (but I do have the
ass) for the panty selling one. FinDom is a
subset of the BDSM community. The dominate
demands cash and gifts from the submissive.
That’s all I’m going to say, but I assure you, it
is a real thing. You can google the details. Use
Tor.
1. Squashin
If you’re a BBW, there are men out there who
will pay you to sit/lay on top of them and
squash them. Learning all sorts of things in the
X-Rated section!
1. Sex Tape
Do you have a tenuous connection with
someone famous? Can you find another Z-lister
who wants to have sex with you? Do either of
you have a pimp for a mother and are
absolutely devoid of shame? The path to riches
is clear.
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