Unemployment stinks...Here are 3 ways to make cash today... lets all list some ideas, page 1
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Topic started on 5-9-2010 @ 06:22 AM by bluestar.ranch
Unemployment stinks...Here are 3 ways to make cash today or real fast... lets all list some ideas..here are my ideas to make $$$ what are yours. (keep it clean folks!) LOL

I am on the unemployment train with a lot of other folks... here are some of my obversations. This is how I am making more money in addition to the benefits.

(these may not work for everyone... but we can all look around our area to see what we can do in our own situation.. this varies from person to person)

1) Make tamales or get someone to make them for you... find a store or busy street corner/flea market or bazzar/church... make sure you have permission first.. plug in your steamer/crockpot ans start selling tamales!

One bag of masa and tamale fixin's cost about $10 makes about 200 tamales. (each recipe is different this is an estimate) Charge $8 a dozen (this is our going retail price) thats about $136 income for a $10 investment. this makes about 200 tamales or close to 17 dozen.. try it!

2) Go to Ebay... start an account.. look around your garage, ask friends for unwanted tiems or go to resell shops... post photos of things that you can sell... free stuff from yourself or friends are mostly profit as the buyer pays shipping most cases. Get acct set up with paypal and get ready to make money if your stuff sells.

3) Sell chickens/ and deliver fresh farm eggs. ( I run a chicken farm) I also swap eggs for stuff... local honey, fruits and veg.. you can use eggs like money... they are BETTER than money! Usually I get more than if I just paid cash.
I get free movies , toys, furniture....and my garage is FULL of so much stuff

(I am reminded of a song.... "country folks will survive....." who sang that? )

OK yall (I am from Texas) start listing YOUR ideas to make money? Lets see what we can all do. THIS IS AMERICA !!!! I am pulling myself up by my bootstraps... YOU can too.


reply posted on 5-9-2010 @ 08:46 AM by davespanners
reply to post by bluestar.ranch



The ebay thing can be good. I know a couple of people that make their entire living from going around charity shops buying vintage clothes and then selling them to hipsters on ebay for huge sums of money.

It's harder here in London because a LOT of people do this and a lot of people know how much vintage designer clothes and things are worth but In Texas I doubt you would have the same problem.

A pair of Levi 501 in good condition from the 60's can be worth up to £1500 pounds over here, and you can find them for a few pounds if you know what you are looking for, if you can find a pair from the 40's then you can get some serious money.
You just have to spend time reading about vintage clothes and knowing how to spot them

[edit on 5-9-2010 by davespanners]


reply posted on 5-9-2010 @ 09:25 AM by mamabeth
reply to post by nixie_nox



I have been a member of ebay for a long time.I wanted
to make and sell silk floral arrangements there.I noticed
that a LOT of floral shops started doing the same thing.I
have a business license,but mine is for a home-based business.
I have seen a lot of home based florals go down the tubes
because they couldn't compete with the floral shops...
1.wholesale supplies,I have access to wholesalers',the floral
shops have better contacts.
2.Manpower,I work alone and it can take me two weeks to make
the florals for the average wedding.
3.Shipping, finding the right boxes and supplies for shipping florals.
The arrangements are light weight, but bulky and easily crushed.
4.This day and age,a lot of people don't have the money to spend
on florals and weddings.


reply posted on 5-9-2010 @ 11:14 AM by Frakkerface
I love this thread, thanks so much

I live in a country where I cannot work legally (I'm not a resident or citizen) so I'm looking for exactly these kind of tips.

The cooking and selling is a very good tip. Health food shops sometimes welcome home baked goods. For example, make some flapjack, add loads of seeds and nuts and you have something you can sell to a health shop but is very cheap to make.

I agree with the tips above about ebay, you can make a lot of money but you can actually lose a lot of money as well if you don't know what you're doing. Use 2nd class post (uk people), it is just as fast as 1st class and just as reliable. I sold thousands of items and never had a problem with 2nd class.

Amazon. Again you can lose money if you don't know what you're doing but it's a lot easier than ebay. Go to your local 'pound shop' and get jiffy bags very cheap. My local one sold 8 for a pound. Combine this with 2nd class post and you can make money even if you sell a cd for a penny (you get a fixed postage paid which is more than postage costs if you follow the above tips). Plus, do you need all those CDs? rip them to MP3 and sell them, I made a LOT of money doing this, it soon adds up. One CD (a double) sold for twenty pounds.

The country I am living in now is amazing at finding ways to make money. I've heard all sorts of things such as finding lost dogs and getting a reward for it.

You can speak English? Teach it or at least offer pronunciation/accent classes to people. In western countries there are lots of immigrants who want to improve their spoken skills. Even if you cannot teach the grammar there are a lot of people who just want to improve their accent. Asian people are great for this since they a particular difficulty with certain English sounds.

Same goes for any skill you have. Good at photoshop? Play guitar? Cook a particular cuisine? Put some ads up in supermarkets or free classifieds websites and you would be surprised how many people will pay for particular skillsets.

Foraging for berries, vegetables, mushrooms etc that grow locally could be profitable. You could try to get involved in local markets or sell to market sellers.

I made some money from being involved in a website that wanted to promote itself on facebook. They had thousands of friends and loads of messages and event invites. I had to decline/accept these and add links to their page. I got about $40 per month for doing this, only took 15mins per day.


reply posted on 5-9-2010 @ 11:20 AM by amari
reply to post by Optix



You are so right on, years ago a friend and I would go around oil well

sights in Okla. and asked if we could clean up the scrap metal and old

fittings and valves laying around on the ground. Most owners that

allowed us to clean up around the site were glad to get rid of this

scrap laying around on the ground covered up in many cases with

weeds. We had a torch and off we went and cashing in on the week

ends at the salvage yard. Can you say old unuseable brass fittings

and old oil well bits. ^Y^



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