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Non-financial investments

Posted 11 weeks 15 hours ago by Philip Brewer

Making Extra Cash, Entrepreneurship, Investment

Gateway in formal gardens at Allerton Park

Talk about investments and most people think stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, plus maybe real estate and commodities like precious metals. Let's call those "financial investments." You buy them with money and you hope that they will eventually return money in the form of interest, dividends, or a profit when you sell it. Financial investments are great, and everybody should have a plan for building a portfolio of them, but there are also non-financial investments, and non-financial investments can often yield a higher return.

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Make your hobby pay its way

Posted 22 weeks 3 days ago by Philip Brewer

Art and Leisure, DIY, Lifestyle, Making Extra Cash

Spinning wheel with yarn

Hobbies generally end up in the expense category. Depending on the hobby, you may be paying for equipment, supplies, books and magazines, classes, training--the list goes on. Short of turning your hobby into a business, is there any way to get your hobby to pay its own way? Very possibly.

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8 fun ways to make money

Posted 1 year ago by Sarah Winfrey

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Making Extra Cash

Funny money

None of these will make you independently wealthy or even allow you to quit your day job (unless you get a serious dose of luck along with your ingenuity), but they just might let you get enough cash to fund something special.

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