"3" Hot Ways To Make Extra Money

My husband and I make money working from home. We don't make a great deal of money, not thousands of dollars, but we average about $150. to $200. A week. We find that this working outside of the home is fun, profitable, and extremely easy to do and provides us with money to eat out or buy the "extra" things we need above our limited income.

The first way that we make extra money is recycling metals. Every two to three weeks we load up our little two wheeled trailer and head to the junk yard. Yes, I said Junk Yard. With the war in Iraq , the price of heavy metals has increased and junk yards will pay you money for metals like Aluminum, Cast iron, Copper, Brass, and others. To date; we have recycled old Stoves, Lawn Chairs, Refrigerators, and Dryers and was able to bring in almost a hundred dollars a trailer load. There was one weekend that we actually made two hundred dollars. If I was working at minimum wage 8 hours a day I would make only about $57.00 dollars a day. Where do we get the junk? Well, many people leave their junk out for the junk man, who if he is resourceful will go through and find the recyclable items and sell them to a metal recycler. Copper is paying $3.00 a pound in our area now. Aluminum cans are 65 cents a can. Check your garage, my husband is a pack rat and fills up our garage with things we really don't need, but when we get a good price for some of them at the junk yard I don't mind. We've all seen old cars abandoned in a field, or behind someone's houses, these cars are worth $50.00 a piece to the junk yard. In Illinois, you just need a abandoned car title paper which says that these cars are abandoned cars, Junk yards provide these papers to individuals when they sell the car to the person. The junk yards or individual people will provide these abandoned or no title papers for you. They will even come and get them from you without charging a fee. This is just one way to make money. Here is another.

Everyone's favorite way to make extra money is to have a yard sale. Go through your home, find all the things that are just taking up space and have a yard Sale. This will not only get you extra money, but you will have fun during the yard sale meeting people, haggling over prices, and even seeing old friends. I have had Yard Sales that make over $200.00 a weekend, or even in one day. You can get all the things you are tired of keeping around and after the sale you could even go shopping for more stuff with the money you made working at home. Flea markets are a good way to make money, but here you have to choose carefully the products you want to sell. Handcrafted items are popular in Flea markets, but many are pricey. A good way to do this is to research flea markets is by going to some close to your home and observing the items that are selling, which item sells best, the prices of the item, location, and foot traffic. Also, some flea markets and trade shows charge entry fees so watch out for that! Advertising your yard sale can be simple. Every weekend in our area, Yard sale signs go up on street corners, newspapers, and in front yards, Yard sale signs are everywhere. You can go to one, or have your very own and make some extra money, enjoy yourself, and visit with old friends or make new ones.

Another Way to make Extra Income is to make something by hand, or find something you don't need or want anymore and list that item for sale on eBay. A lot of money is being made by ebayers online. Ebay is one of the best auction sites online. Listing and selling your items on eBay is made simple by eBay's tools which make the site easy to use. The prompts are there to guide you through everything you need to do in order to list your item for sale. Thousands of people have even made eBay their source of income and do very well. Selling and listing fees on eBay are reasonable and built-in guarantees by the company lower any risk of losing your money to fraudulent buyers. Finding a product to sell on eBay may be your problem. Excitement gets high on eBay. This weekend I watched an IBM Computer being auctioned for .01 cents. It was a 24 hour plus listing. At the end of the auction when I stopped watching the item had reached a bid of $88.00 and still had a a few hours to go. I believe the final cost for the computer was $188.00. Still a good price for the laptop computer. These are just a few of the ways to make honest money and you can do al of them from your home without being scammed. Thanks for reading