Some more ideas (hopefully they're not repeats):

- Organizing home, office, whatever for people

- Sitting with seniors to give caregivers a break

- Working as a temp for a temp agency

- Personal shopper

- Run errands for people

- Do handy work

Jill

Sell thing you don't need anymore on Craigslist.....also there is a section on Craigslist called "gigs" were they list small jobs that you can do to make $$.  I also recycle cans & bottles, we usually make $40-$50 a month on that!!!  I also do temporary jobs through Care.com and Corporate kids.  On care.com you make yourself a profile for caring for children or the elderly and they post job and you can apply all online.  I got a really nice temp babysitting job on there.  Also Corporate kids does corporate babysitting usually at hotels for corporate meetings.  I'm not sure what their web address is, but search it.  They do events all over the US and they pay $10 an hour.  I've worked several events with them.  Swagbucks is another easy way to earn $$, it's slow going but in about a month I earned a $5 amazon card.  You use swagbucks web site to do searches and you when swagbucks and you can turn them in for prizes.......you won't get rich but it's easy!!!!

Kate:

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Pat:

Returning aluminum cans. Around here you could go for a walk down almost any highway, pick up aluminum cans and other things. I haven't measured it, but I suspect you could make $25 to $50 a day.

I recycle both aluminum & tin cans as a little project with one of my granddaughters. If the cans are crushed,we get about $1 per plastic grocery sack, full & tied shut. If you know what you are looking for, you can buy metal items to recycle at yard sales. For example, when I recyled an large cast aluminum pressure canner that finally warped after 3 generations, DGD got $6 for it.  At a yard sale, I wouldn't have paid more than a dollar or two for it, & we still would have made money, but there aren't enough cans here to earn more than a couple of dollars a month.

Here I only get 25 cents a pound. I used to get 50 cents a pound before the economic crisis hit then it dropped to an alltime low of 15 cents a pound. With 8 grocery bags (to fill my car) of crushed cans, which takes us a month or two to accumulate I can only get about $8.

I should have clarified - the $1 a bag is for the crushed aluminum cans only.  We get about a nickle or dime for a sack of the tin cans.  

Last month I had to have a crown replaced.  I asked the dental assistant what they did witht he old crowns & she said they could give it to me if I wanted it, or the dentist would recycle it.  I had them giveit to me, & I just sold it to Check City for a whopping (not) $13.20!  Not much, but it pays for milk for the month, & it wasn't much use to me cut in half!

Just came across another idea, selling digital photographs to microstock agencies. If you have an eye for pictures and a digital camera, I think they pay per download. You upload your pictures to their site along with keywords and customers buy the right to use them. You don't have to be a professional to do that.

Something else occurred to me. If you pick your kids up at school, you could pick up other kids and deliver them safely home. You couldn't charge much for it, but it would help.

Pat:

If you pick your kids up at school, you could pick up other kids and deliver them safely home.

Or you could provide a before and after school daycare for parents who only need someone during that time. My cousin did that while her children were young. She was allowed to have up to 5 children in the house before she needed to be licensed as a daycare. The children arrived at her house about 1/2 an hour before school. She dropped them all off at school and picked them all up afterwards. They came back to her house for about an hour to two hours until their parents arrived to pick them up. She didn't charge much per hour but with 5 children she made enough money in less than 3 hours a day to pay for groceries for her family while her DH worked outside the home. She was also able to claim some of their utility expenses, etc. as part of a home-based business on her tax forms, saving them even more money.

I suppose this doesn't quite fit the "without a job" category but it's an option for anyone who wants to continue to be a stay-at-home mom but also bring a bit of cash into the household.

Here are a few things I have done to make money without a job:

1. Selling craft that I have made
2. A stint as the Craft director at a nearby summer camp; which later became two separate stints as Camp Director
3. Rental of water toys (inflatable slide, kiddy pool etc) to a summer camp
4. Substitute teaching (right now it's a one-day a week gig)
5. Garage sale
6. Collecting plastic bottles for recycling
7. Decorating a small office for Christmas
8. Making craft kits, or sewing simple tote bags for sale to summer camp
9. Made scrunchies and headbands in the uniform fabric of DD's old school that would satisfy the school's strict uniform code - these were sold to the school for sale to the female students.

   It's likely too late for this year, but maybe in the spring .. many cities need poll workers for elections. It's a long day, but it is a bit of money, and the workers usually get fed.

Deliver phone books.  Or contact smaller florist shops to see if they need some seasonal help delivering flowers.

hold a bazzar charge small fee for table  space on some one and do some craft your  self and there you don't have to charge for your table space or hold a garage sale or like my dad and brother do they hold gigs music kind charge a reasoable fee I use to sing along with the gigs but I have not did that in 30 years I let my dad and brother loose on that one...

I do online surveys.  But where I make the most money is couponing, I consider what I save is making money, right now Schnucks has Progresso soup 10 for $10, I was able to print 2 $1 coupons so I consider that making $2, 2 cans will feed 4, 2 adults and 2 children along with grilled cheese sandwichs.  Try me free is one of my fav's.  A couple of weeks ago I saved $40 in coupons at Wal-Mart along with the price matching.  A friend has a pony she uses at childrens partys, I have a stack of business cards with my name on them and when someone uses one I get $5, they say present this card and receive X amount off, she has several people doing this and this is how she pays to keep her horse's. A car salesman I know does the same thing to get customers to ask for him by name, if he sells something the person on the card receives a finders fee, during cash for clunckers he was paying out quite a few fees.  My husbands uncle drives cars from dealership to dealership sometimes an all day drive, he also delivers parts for cars to repair shops and details cars to get them ready for delivery.  I've altered and repaired clothes, cleaned offices, dropped off and picked up kids at the bus stop so they aren't waiting by themselves and are safe and warm in my car, I've been a crossing guard, played the organ at weddings and funerals, made cakes, taught classes in canning, an assistant to a disabled child during school hours, delivered the free weekly papers found in stores, a friend house sits during open houses so a realtor can have more then one a day, another answers the phone for a funeral home during off hours (the phone is transfered so he can stay at home with his children) then he contacts whom ever is oncall that night or weekend.  Temp agencies are a great place to register with.  Look around, if something is being done you can bet someone is getting paid to do it.