How to make extra income.

[emilywebster]

How to extra money ,besides what you get paid at work?

[Cheapchick]

Sell books/stuff parttime on the weekends at a fleamarket. My Mom does this in her retirement. It also gives her social time plus she gets paid and is her own boss. I built a blog with the hope that one day it can be a parttime job (takes a long time to get there). Buy things at garage sales, fix them up and resell on craigslist or kijiji. I know someone who sells cupcakes for parties, showers and even wedding cupcakes.

[starshard0]

I've got a lot of stuff I'd like to get rid of for a few extra dollars, but most of it is pretty useless.

[MNfrugal]

Originally Posted by starshard0

I've got a lot of stuff I'd like to get rid of for a few extra dollars, but most of it is pretty useless.

We used to think that our "extra" stuff was pretty useless, too. A few years ago, we were moving (so I could finish my masters degree) and had a moving sale to get rid of extra stuff. We didn't want to pack it all, move it, pay to store it while in school, and move it again when I finished. My parents thought we wouldn't get much for it. But, as I recall, altogether we made more than $1000. Almost everything was priced really cheap. When people asked us to lower the price, we always did. And still we came up with a big chunk of change.

We also felt good about who the stuff was going to. A lot of the people who came to our sale were people in difficult financial circumstances. We knew that they really appeciated getting a good deal on our stuff.

It did take a lot of time (I spent several weeks going through everything in our house). But it was really worth it.

[lucille]

We sold our piles of old and left over computer stuff. We also found pallets of left over returned or phased out computer stuff at a warehouse that the company didn't want back. We sold some on ebay and some at local flea markets. People were able to get good deals and we turned a decent profit at it. We quit as computer technology shifted since the supply of in demand items waned. I am looking seriously at doing the book reselling thing. I have a good idea of what is wanted in some niche areas and I hit the thrift stores and garage sales anyways.
My blog also makes quite a bit of money. Even for the small audience and it just starting out my google adsense has been generating money every month for something I do because I enjoy it and get to network with people with the same interests.

[mobilephone7]

i do some part time job to earn more money,such as teaching student after school.

[starshard0]

As soon as I get married I'll probably make a list of all the stuff I have and get rid of all the useless stuff.

[financialnut]

"One man's trash is another man's treasure?"

eBay is a great place to get rid of stuff you don't need for a little under market value. I have gotten rid of several things over the years, and though I didn't get what it may have been worth, I was happy to get rid of it.

[Budgets Are $exy]

yeah, I'm with the nut on that one too! same w/ craigslist. I brought in about $900 last year from just walking around and finding things to sell in my house

sometimes blogging can bring in some $ too if you're passionate about it.

[starshard0]

Originally Posted by Budgets Are $exy

yeah, I'm with the nut on that one too! same w/ craigslist. I brought in about $900 last year from just walking around and finding things to sell in my house

sometimes blogging can bring in some $ too if you're passionate about it.

I've definitely go to look into both of those. I'm not terribly passionate about blogging, but I'm definitely passionate about making extra money. I should spend a day this week indexing all of my stuff. I've got some papers that need filing as well.