Set up an ebay account and sell your stuff.  Look around you.  You know you have junk collecting dust in your house.  Shine it up, write it up and auction it off.  You could also do the local version of it.  Post up some flyers and and put your stuff on the front lawn or driveway for a yard sale.

Test out eBay, though.  You may find that you have a knack for writing up auctions and if you sell out an entire collection of something, you omay be ale to find a source for that item and keep on selling.

Back to your local area.  Are there any services you could perform for others?  Babysitting, cleaning services, cooking meals, running errands, that sort of thing.  One local community has recently passed a law stating that your garbage cans need to be at the curb no later than 7:00 am and back off the curb before 7:00 pm or you’ll face a hefty fine.

One local college kid went door to door offering to pull back the trash cans for $5 per house per week.  He gets paid in advance and lined up twenty five houses out of one subdivision.  That’s $500 per month for an hours work, following a garbage truck for about an hour and a half twice per week.  That’s thinking outside the box, right there.

Try to think beyond the usual – lawn care, pet care, gutter cleaning.  Find an underserved niche and you’ll rake it in.

Back to the internet.  You can get paid to take surveys.  I know you’ll read a lot of folks saying its a scam or a rip-off.  It’s not.  What it is, is boring.  You can make good money doing it but you had better be organized and have a good amount of time to spare.  Surveys and ‘complete this offer’ type programs often have you jump through hoops to get the big prize or the big money they promised you.  So, you can do it.  Like every thing else.  It’s not as easy as it sounds.

IF you can string words together, spend a couple minutes each day writing an article or two.  Send them to associated content where they will pay between $3 and $20 (but closer to $3) for any article they buy.  It’s not great money but if you get faster and better, it’s a good way to pick up $25 or more per day.  It helped me out when I had to buy two new tires and an alternator all in the same week.  I got the money for that bill before it landed in my mailbox.