Welcome back to the channel I'm Suzanne with Arvabelle. In this video I'm going
to give you 10 ideas of different side hustles that you can try out to make
some extra money. Some of these are a little bit unusual, some of them are a
little bit more common, but they aren't stupid things like taking surveys and
they're also not things that rely on huge metropolitan areas like delivering
for UberEats or something like that. They're certainly not get rich quick
methods but they are definitely good ways to bring in a few hundred or even a
few thousand extra dollars every month. The first thing is sharpening blades.
This can be any type of blade - pocket knives, kitchen knives, saw blades. Usually
good quality blades are also really expensive so it's usually more
economical for people to hire someone who knows how to properly sharpen them
rather than going out and buying a whole new set of kitchen knives for example.
You can also get creative and see who you could approach to potentially get
recurring business. Like sure you can go and sharpen Janet's kitchen knives down
the street, but what if instead you started doing it for local restaurants
or for local woodshops? Janet does not go through as many knives
as local restaurants do. That's more business for you, and more money in your
pocket. Number two is growing succulents, house
plants, or cacti. I think it's a good idea to capitalize on current trends, and
succulents and cacti are definitely still very trendy. And what's great about this
is that it doesn't require a lot of active work. As long as you can plant
your plants and just keep them alive you can sort of just leave them alone until
you're ready to sell them. You can sell them at local farmers markets or local
fairs, or even better and you can open up a store on Etsy. If you don't want to
grow or ship entire houseplants I've also seen people just sell cuttings and
that's great if you're selling it online because shipping a small plant cutting
will cost a lot less than shipping an entire plant. The third idea is to make
money by tutoring or by teaching. The great
thing about tutoring is that it's totally up to you
what you want to teach and what level you want to teach at. If you want to teach
3rd grade math, great. If you want to teach organic chemistry, great. There are
people looking for tutors in every single subject and there are also a lot
of parents who are looking for good music teachers for their kids so that
they can learn piano or guitar or singing. Basically you can tutor in
whatever areas you're comfortable in and whatever you're good at. When schools get
into testing season ACT tutors and SAT tutors are in really high demand so
be on the lookout for seasonal testing and those opportunities. If you live in
an area where tutoring isn't in super high demand, or where people just aren't
willing to pay for it, you can also tutor foreign children
online with things like Vipkid. With a lot of these online platforms you do
have to have a college degree to be eligible to sign up for it but I think
that they can be great opportunities to start tutoring or start teaching without
finding clients of your own. The fourth idea is to flip items on Craigslist or
Etsy. When most people think of this they think of just selling random things
that they have around the house or random things that they pick up at
garage sales and if you want to do that great but it can be a lot more
profitable if you choose a specific niche to sell in. This can be especially
good if you have excessive knowledge of a sort of random or weird niche that has
demand. So like I love mid-century modern furniture and I can go into a thrift
store or a garage sale I can tell if something is undervalued, I know about
how much I would get for it, so I know what my profit margin would be. And that
same concept applies to anything that you're knowledgeable about. You know like
if you don't know anything about teapots, and you don't want to learn anything
about teapots, don't try to go and flip teapots.
If you become really good at flipping items of one category that you know a
lot about, you can make a lot of money. I know people who do that with iPhones or
watches or camera lenses, you can really do it with anything, but especially with
higher ticket items like watches you can definitely make a few hundred or a few
thousand dollars a month if you're actively flipping items. If you have a
little bit more money to work with up front you can get into number five
which is flipping vehicles. You can flip legitimately any vehicle from a Honda to
a McLaren as long as you know what kind of deal you're looking for, as long as
you know the costs and damages associated with the vehicle that you're
buying, and as long as you know about how much you would be able to sell it for in
your area. But it doesn't even have to be cars, the same concept applies to boats
if you live near a lake, or tractor equipment if you live out in the country.
You can really do it with any vehicle or large piece of equipment. Number six is
selling political themed merchandise. The key to selling any merchandise is to
sell something that people are either very passionate about or very
opinionated about and people are very very passionate and opinionated about
politics. Any time within the next year or so it's going to be a very good time
to do this because presidential campaigns will start ramping up and no
matter who or what you support you can just take the middle road and make money
from selling political merchandise. Think about what you see people using around
election time and what items you think would sell. So usually you see a lot of
bumper stickers, maybe mugs. I know that on college campuses it seems like
everyone has stickers that they put on their laptops or pins that they put on
their backpacks. And think about also what people have when they go to
political campaign speeches or when they go to protests. T-shirts, hats, signs, water
bottles, I don't know you can sell anything. Going in that same direction
but with a slightly different approach you can also help with local campaigns.
This could be a for city government, for District Attorney, for, I don't know, a
school board or a committee that your neighborhood or your city has. If you're
good at web design you could help put together their campaign
websites. If you're good at taking videos you could help film campaign material. Or
if you're good at graphic design or writing you could help them write
articles or make marketing material. Maybe design those annoying little door
hangers if they leave or the signs that they put at polling locations or in
people's yards. And same thing with merchandise if they are making their own
you can either help design it or help them find a way to produce whatever they
are wanting to make. Number eight is helping out elderly people. A lot of
times with elderly people that their family either doesn't live nearby or if
they do live with their family, their family members are at work during the
day and there's no one home with them. A huge huge need is meal prepping for them.
So think about the type of thing that Meals on Wheels does. But a lot of
older people have very specific dietary restrictions and so they need their
meals and their food made specifically for them. But you could also get paid to
do anything from running errands for them, to picking up their medication, or
making sure that they take their medication on time, cleaning up around
their house, or just doing yard work or housework that they are not able to do.
This one's nice because you get to help someone out and make a little money
doing it too. Number nine is selling textbooks on Amazon - which is a
tried-and-true method that I loved doing. I would do this in high school and in
college. At the end of the year or the end of this semester I would go and buy
textbooks off of people for anywhere between like $20-$50
Sometimes people would just give me their textbooks for free because they
were moving or they just didn't want them or didn't want to go through the
hassle of reselling them themselves. I'd sit on them for a few months until
school started up again and then I would resell them on Amazon for anywhere
between a $100-$300. For a $20-$50
investment that is a huge return. The strategies for flipping textbooks is
really all about timing. They're going to be the cheapest around May/June. Like
end of the school year/early summer. And you'll be able to get the most for them
in August, or even better a couple of weeks after school has already started.
The procrastinators haven't bought their books yet and by
then the school bookstores are completely out. So...supply and demand
my friends. Supply and demand. Number ten is a little bit odd and I've never seen
it mentioned anywhere but it's in demand, and that is photographing raw land. Real
estate photography is pretty competitive and like obviously you have to have a
picture of your house to be able to sell it nowadays, but photography with raw
land listings is a little bit less common. A lot of times with these
listings they'll have this blurry screenshot from Google Earth of like
this much of a tree from two streets over and you're like I have no idea what
I'm looking at. Or even better, and this is so common, it'll be a Google Earth
screenshot but it's just it's the ground. It's - they're not showing you anything.
It's the ground. If you have a camera and you think that you can make the land
look better or even better if you have a drone and you can take some overhead
shots of the area of land, you can make some really good money doing that.
Sometimes the land that's for sale will just be really ugly and there won't be
much that you can do with it, but in my opinion any professional looking photo
is better than just a Google Earth screenshot of the ground. I think all of
these can be great ways to earn a little bit of extra money. If you enjoyed this
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