What do you do to earn extra money?

[disneysteve]

I live by a food company and they have paid sample tastings.

Getting paid to eat. Tough to beat that.

[disneysteve]

I thought of something else I just did recently. I did it more as a favor but I did get paid for it.

We have a friend who wrote a book a year or so ago. She used a professional editor in NYC to edit that book which cost her a fortune and she really wasn't all that pleased with the end result.

She has now written a 2nd book and was talking to my wife about needing a new editor. She asked who edited my daughter's novel and my wife said that I did it and that I'm really good at that stuff. So she asked me if I would be willing to edit her book.

It took me a couple of months but she wasn't in any hurry. I worked on it in the evening or on the weekend when I had some down time.

To compensate me, she and her husband took us out to a nice dinner twice and she also paid me $500. Doing the work cost me nothing but my time and I actually enjoy doing stuff like that. She was thrilled because it saved her a ton of money and the end result was much better than what the pro had provided. Also, since the book is medical in nature, having a doctor do the editing was a huge benefit as I caught a bunch of things that a regular editor would have missed.

I wouldn't mind finding more editing jobs but at this point, I'm not going to actively seek them out. If any find me by word of mouth, I'll certainly consider them, though.

[~bs]

Well what I do is small potatoes compared to all you guys but I'm tickled with it just the same. I live by a food company and they have paid sample tastings. I get an email asking if I'm available at a certain day and time to come in and taste test a new product they're thinking of making. There's usually 4-5 samples to taste, it takes a half hour and I get 20 bucks. They even do them for kids, their taste tests only last 15 min and they get 10 bucks(I forgot to mention that on the other thread when I was talking about my kids jobs). Anywho we don't get called too often (once or twice a month?) it depends what the company is concocting. But it's my out to lunch with my girlfriends money.

small potatoes, big potatoes doesn't really matter. No sense snubbing a good thing.

I'll get groupons $10 for $5 for a store I normally go to, of course I'll sign up.

I just got the below email from Amazon. Took me maybe 15 seconds to download and sign into the app on my phone. $5 free, why not?

Get a $5 Amazon Gift Card for your first sign-in to the Amazon app

On that note, if you never used the amazon app before, you might want to check your spam email to see if you got the promotion.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Disneysteve made me remember this from 15+ years ago. I edited three doctoral dissertations in engineering. I'm not an engineer, but I can find grammatical errors even when I have no idea what the words and numbers are saying. I did the first one for a guy whose native language is not English, so he was concerned that he might be screwing up the sense of it all through bad grammar. I could also check for stuff like notes placed where they should be, and consistent format of citations.

[AJ444]

Our only source of income not related to our jobs comes from taxable dividends/interest from our index stock/bond holdings.

When I'm not working, I'm in leisure and none of my hobbies pay.

[rennigade]

Been doing DoorDash for my wife's spending money, maybe $2-$300 a week for around 20 hours.

Why doesnt your wife do it? What does she do all day to occupy her time?



Ive been buying and selling fitness equipment the past couple years. Not to earn/keep the money but to put it towards stuff I actually want to keep for myself. Or if I go to pick up a pair of olympic plates or dumbbells and they have something else there...ill try to buy it at a cheap price and resell it. Been working well so far thanks to a strong craigslist market where I live.

I have around $5k of fitness equipment that is completely paid for...so if I ever need to sell it its all profit. Of course I could have put that $5k towards something else but whatevs...whats the point of earning cash if you dont spend it on wants from time to time!

[~bs]

^

bro, to me, the best side business to invest in is normally something you're already interested in. Because you already have the interest, youre vested with years of knowledge of the product/market and want to invest more in understanding the product. So you get to try out all sorts of equipment, use the ones you like, sell the ones you dont, and still have the option to sell the stuff you do use. And everytime you buy something new, your overall knowledge increases, which helps you when dealing with customers.

For example: my cousin worked many years in construction as heavy machine operator. He started out small, but through years of buying construction equipment, renting it out, and doing contractor work himself with his own equipment, he was able to turn it into a very profitable full time business.

If I were to try something like that, I'd face a much tougher uphill battle, as I'd be starting from ground zero with no real construction knowledge, how to operate the equipment, how to maintain and fix it, no network of people that work in the industry, etc.

[msomnipotent]

I used to to a lot of surveys. It takes forever and the pay is paltry, but it came in handy when we really needed money.

I wouldn't say I actually make money doing this, but I sell my stuff whenever I get tired of looking at it. Some things are sold for more than what I paid, though. Antiques seem to do well for me. Unfortunately, I get pretty attached to my antiques so I don't sell a lot. There has a been a few times when I found something for a cheap price at a garage sale or what-not and I resold it. Too many people do that now to make it worth my time, though.

[Jellymint]

I do part time jobs as social media marketing assistant, i signed up in upwork and i get jobs that would require me 2 hours of work a day.

[james.hendrickson]

You can sell your hair to make extra money.

http://buyandsellhair.com/

http://www.onlinehairaffair.com/

Both of these sites charge a listing fee, but no commission.

[disneysteve]

You can sell your hair to make extra money.

I also know several people who sell plasma. Rates vary but I think you're allowed to go once a week and they pay a decent amount. Even if it's only $40 or $50 per week, that's a couple thousand dollars per year.

[greenskeeper]

Our resale apartments are always turning over, so I take the old appliances, etc and resell the good ones. Appliances not worth reselling I take off parts and sell on ebay, the rest gets scrapped at the yard.

Best part is.....everything costs zero dollars to acquire!

[disneysteve]

Our resale apartments are always turning over, so I take the old appliances, etc and resell the good ones. Appliances not worth reselling I take off parts and sell on ebay, the rest gets scrapped at the yard.

Best part is.....everything costs zero dollars to acquire!

Who paid for the appliances? The renters? If so, why do they just leave them behind?

[TexasHusker]

I sell pencils on the street corner.

[PeggyHefferon]

I sell pencils on the street corner.

Stop living in the past. Regular pencils are out of style.