20 ways to make money from home!

Note: this is a re-post from yesterday because I accidentally deleted the post.  Oops!

Regardless of whether you're a SAHM/D (stay-at-home mom or dad) or you work full-time at your dream job, everyone loves to have some extra cash in the bank account!  Or maybe for that great pair of shoes you saw last week... :)  Without further ado, here are 20 easy and fabulous ways to make money from home.

1)  Amazon Mechanical Turk - complete some simple tasks like tagging 5 words that come to mind when viewing a photo, looking at receipts companies have posted, checking online contact info to make sure it's correct, etc. and earn a few cents for each thing!  Note: there is a 48 hour waiting period after you apply.

2)  Go to your local Goodwill,  Salvation Army, Deseret Industries, etc. and find really awesome stuff to sell online through Ebay, Craigslist, Amazon, etc.!  I know someone who does this and she can easily cover her rent each month from the profits.  Granted, she does spend a good 3-5 hours each week hunting through stores, but it's something she enjoys.

3)  Do you sew super cute little baby shoes?  Make your own jewelry?  Take photos that you want to sell?  Open an Etsy shop and spread the word to all of your friends and family.

4)  Have a blog?  Throw some ads up on your blog using Google AdSense and make money off of your page views and from others clicking on the ads.

5)  Do your spring cleaning and sell your unwanted stuff on Ebay!  Don't forget to look through video games, movies, and cd's that you and your family never use.

6)  Find something you enjoy and are good at, and teach it to others.  (Music lessons, tutor students, teach cake decorating, start up a yoga class, etc.)

7)  Virtual Assistants - Become someone's assistant, and...work from home!  I think this would be great for someone who's super good at organizing, handling phone calls, emailing, etc.

8)  Start up a daycare or babysit.  Easy to do if you have the space in your house, or if you have young kids that like to play with other kids a lot.

9)  Write an e-book.  I know quite a few people who have done this and made a good amount of money from it.

10)  Have extra gift cards laying around that you know you'll never use?  Trade them for cash over at Cardpool.com.

11)  Do online surveys!  I've used Opinion Outpost, Survey Savvy, Zoom Pannel, and Survey Spot before, but my favorite is Toluna!  In the last week alone, I've made $20 from completing surveys on Toluna whenever I have a few extra minutes.  Their app and online site are both extremely user friendly and easy to understand.

12)  Sell old cell phones and electronics over at Gazelle.

13)  Interested in making a few dollars here and there simply for working out, tracking your food, and eating fruits and veggies?  Then check out Pact!  After downloading the app, you connect either a credit card or PayPal account to your Pact account, and you set personal goals for your week.  For example, I set my account to read that I would workout 4 times/week and eat 20 fruits and veggies/week.  Next, you set the amount you want the app to charge you for each missed workout or missed fruit/veggie.  20 fruits and veggies at $5 per missed one is quite a bit!  However, it's super motivating because no one wants to lose money.  Last week I made $4 for completing all of my goals.  It's not a ton, but it's been adding up over the past few weeks!

14)  Check out Zaarly and do random jobs for people whenever you have a spare hour or two.

15)   Find a company that will let you take calls and/or reservations from home.  I know JetBlue does this.

16)  Live in a city?  Download the Gigwalk app and complete tasks as you walk around your neighborhood.  For example, take a picture of a street sign, post a restaurant's hours, take a picture of a street corner,

17)  Teach English from your home through Italki.  I think this site allows you to set your own rate, but $15/hour seems to be the norm.

18)  Although it's highly unlikely you can complete this one from home, donate plasma and receive compensation for your efforts.  You could also sell your hair if you aren't too attached to it. ;)

19)  Download Shopkick and get rewards and offers for walking into stores or trying on clothes!  This is my kind of thing. :)

20)  Rent out a room, or even your entire basement, if you have the extra space!  Or list your place on Airbnb if you'll be gone for a week. 

Am I missing anything awesome out there?  Leave a comment with other great ways to make money from home! :)

they say ice storms are no joke.

Smoothies:  a daily occurrence.

Quilt:  halfway done.

Flowers:  from my Valentine.

After living in Utah for 20 years, you'd think I'd have had a snow day before, riiiight?  Wrong.  I am proud to say that today I experienced/am experiencing my first snow day--in Missouri.  Ice day, actually.  I don't really mind being sent home from work. :) So it's a yummy dinner in the crockpot, catching up on books, snuggling under blankets, making cookies kind of day over here.  

I'm not complaining.

"cold, cold, cold. comin' our way."

Blogger is showing me that I had 101 views from Russia last month... so "привет!" to all of you who can read that.

I did a terrible thing today.  I made cupcakes to take to work tomorrow for a co-worker's birthday.  But, you see, I have a cold.  I did make sure to wash my hands a million times and not breath on anything.  Pray for the health of 15+ people, will ya?

And you should probably watch this short YouTube video I've conveniently placed here for you.  It's just too over the top and made me do a "bowl full of jelly" kind of laugh.  They don't even know what cold is.

simplicity at its finest.

Seeing as 3 people asked me this week what Ben and I have been up to for the past little while, I'm starting to think that I'm a bad blog updater.  ;)  So for you 3... voilà.

Ben spends his days studying for finals, serving as the 2nd counselor in the YM's presidency, reading books on building furniture and construction, watching BYU and the Broncos play football, dreaming of Christmas plans to go snowboarding, taking his wife out for date nights, and wishing that he could get out of his last final.

I spend my days working 9-5, writing a final paper for my online class, serving as ward librarian, trying new recipes, reading books on body language (I'm on this super weird kick but it's all terribly fascinating), shopping for & wrapping Christmas presents, dreaming of snow, going to the gym, and anxiously awaiting Christmas break.

We're happy, healthy, and hoping that the week will fly by!

everyone you meet.

I work with some pretty amazing people.  They come from all over the world and have had experiences I will probably never have.  They each bring a new perspective and way of thinking to the table (literally--gotta love lab meetings.), and it amazes me that a group of people can all think so differently.

Today at work, our department had a poster event for post- and pre-docs here at the university, so I had the opportunity to talk to one of my co-workers for a couple of hours as we kept an eye on the food and made sure the coolers were stocked with enough pop.  It was really interesting to hear about her life, schooling, years raising kids, and going back to school.  But through all of that, she said one thing that really stood out to me.

"I try to learn something from everyone I meet.  Even people I talk to for a minute and will never see again can teach me something."

Like, woah.

But in all seriousness, what an awesome perspective to have on meeting new people.  And what a great example.

hobo clothes & pencil skirts.

Guys... this news is like the best things I've heard in months.

I found the perfect job!!!  And got it!

Definitely learned a lot of lessons through it all, but the biggest one was to trust in Heavenly Father's timing.  The craziest thing about it all was that before we moved out here I started applying to jobs and was hearing back from multiple companies, except they wanted someone to start up immediately.  I couldn't do that since we were still in Utah and in school.  Once we got out here, nothing.  I wasn't having very much luck.

Long story short... lots of job searching.  Job interviews.  Discouraged girl.  Jobs came along, but not what was wanted.  Girl figures will have to plan on being a hobo.  More job searching.  More job interviews not going anywhere.  Girl buys hobo clothes and finds perfect hobo corner.  Amazing job comes along.  Lots of praying.  Gets to the final interview stage.  Asked if job is wanted.  Fist pump in front of professor offering job.  (Just kidding.)  Fist pump later in privacy of apartment.  Girl gets rid of hobo clothes and buys a nice pencil skirt instead.

The End.


Happy Friday to you all, and have a fabulous weekend!