What do you do to make extra money?

[hoyaguru]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a couple of businesses on the side.

customized candy labels
and peddling a cookbook i had published.

Customized candy labels? What is that?

 

[halik]

i pimp teh loose womens

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: hoyaguru

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a couple of businesses on the side.

customized candy labels
and peddling a cookbook i had published.

Customized candy labels? What is that?

I do them for party favors at birthdays, wedding receptions, and what not.

Here is one I did for my grandpa's 80th birthday party.

 

[yllus]

Self-maintaining community websites. Advertising money can be quite lucrative.

 

[wheresmybacon]

Originally posted by: Rob9874
I know you said your wife does it, but eBay. Garage sales Fri/Sat, buy things for $5 or less, list on Sunday (7 day) and sell for a profit. The longer you do it, the better you'll get at finding things that will make a nice profit.

Do you enjoy doing it? I work full time and it seems you'd have to enjoy doing something like that since it eats your weekend...

 

[child of wonder]

I do IT consulting on the side. Only make $35/hr and work about 10 hours per month. It's the same place that I did consulting for in college so I don't charge them much.

 

[DeadByDawn]

You could make peg legs for pirates

 

[skywhr]

I have a part time selling porn

 

[lozina]

shine shoes

 

[Geekbabe]

I enter sweepstakes and contests to win cash and valuable prizes

 

[amdskip]

I work part time at an elementary school doing everything related to technology in my spare time.

 

[Vegitto]

Buy on eBay, sell on some site that makes people e-mail you to bid. That way, you're not obliged to sell for a lower price than you want to. I usually buy something for cheap, give the people a nice story and sell it for 2-3 times as much.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Pick up change off the ground in the most stingiest of all stingy ways.

I've probably found $100-200 dollars doing that. It's truly not worth the trouble of looking where I live.

 

[OutHouse]

by day i am a sys admin

at night i am a certified massage therapist.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Use your hobby - maybe nice decorative boxes for some kinds of items? Come up with something useful that can be a good gift - people are always looking for gifts that will actually be used and not just put to the side.

I read an article in the local paper around a year ago (S.F. Chronicle) about a guy who lives in my town (Berkeley) and he's making a LOT of money making bird houses, I believe. He started out really small and everything he'd make people would buy. He's a serious success story. Lots of people can't wait to get their hands on his stuff. As so often happens, it started out as a hobby. He had other means of support.

 

[hoyaguru]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Use your hobby - maybe nice decorative boxes for some kinds of items? Come up with something useful that can be a good gift - people are always looking for gifts that will actually be used and not just put to the side.

I read an article in the local paper around a year ago (S.F. Chronicle) about a guy who lives in my town (Berkeley) and he's making a LOT of money making bird houses, I believe. He started out really small and everything he'd make people would buy. He's a serious success story. Lots of people can't wait to get their hands on his stuff. As so often happens, it started out as a hobby. He had other means of support.

What's so special about his bird houses? Pics?

 

[tgx78]

I do oil paintings after work and sell them through local galleries.

Some month, I make more by selling paintings than my full time job as an art director.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: hoyaguru
My wife does the Ebay thing as a hobby, I'm looking for something to do to make a few extra bucks. I have a full workshop with just about every tool I need to make almost anything out of wood, but I can't think of what I could make that people would buy. What do you folks do that makes you a bit of extra cash?

Bird houses. They sell well here.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: hoyaguru

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have a couple of businesses on the side.

customized candy labels
and peddling a cookbook i had published.

Customized candy labels? What is that?

I do them for party favors at birthdays, wedding receptions, and what not.

Here is one I did for my grandpa's 80th birthday party.

My cousin had that at his wedding, on Kit-Kats. I thought it was pretty slick

I do computer work. $100 to build a personal computer, $30 an hour for business work. My side business has dropped since I started going to school online, it was a lot better when I did stuff on my local campus, kids were always screwing things up It's really about how aggressive you want to be...if you don't like face time with people it's a bit more difficult.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

homosexual phone sex operator

register with a service, they will fwd the calls to your house

maybe you could run your power tools in the background, might be some guys thing

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
I enter sweepstakes and contests to win cash and valuable prizes

What websites? I remember your early morning thread about a Wii...

 

[gamepad]

Professional gaming.

 

[Toastedlightly]

Deliver local daily newspaper. I got 20 cents a paper m-f and 30 cents a paper sat and sun. I had ~80-120 papers weekdays/sat (took me less than 2 hours) to deliver w/ a car and on sunday I had 140 and took 3-4 hours. Not too bad for me.

 

[KeithTalent]

Make & sell virtual stuff in Second Life: http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2006/11/making-money-in-second-life.html

KT

 

[eplebnista]

I sell on eBay and do some computer repair every so often.