46 Ways To Get Money When You Are Broke
- One way to get money is to have a yard sale and sell items that you are getting ready to toss away because you don't want them any longer.
- You can always gather shells at the beach and polish and turn into jewelry.
- Get cash surrender from life insurance policy.
- Paint faces on rocks and sell as paper weights.
- Go to a pawn shop and pawn some jewelry.
- Borrow from a relative.
- Go get welfare pay or food stamps.
- Dig small trees from woods and sell to homeowners.
- Learn names of wild plants and plant in pots for sale.
- Roll newspapers up in logs, tie, dye and let dry... then sell (fireplace).
- Cut up old shirts and dresses and make pot holders out of them and sell.
- Cut square towels out of old tossed out clothes and sell as wiping rags.
- Gather driftwood from the beach areas and sell to craft shops.
- Paint old used wine bottles and sell as hand painted vases.
- Go house to house and paint house numbers on curbs for a fee.
- Take the lawn mower house to house to mow lawns for a fee.
- Offer to dig or spade gardens for local neighbors for money.
- Offer to sell fishing (earth) worms as bait - dig in garden to get the worms.
- Paint house exteriors in spare hours. Charge prevailing rate.
- Gather pine cones and sell to craft shops.
- Turn pine cones into useful jewelry, etc. and sell to shops or houses.
- Spray old building bricks gold, sell as "Fort Knox Rejects" paper weight.
- Paint bricks a vibrant enamel and sell as toilet bowl displacements.
- Fill coffee cans full of plaster, paint all over and sell as door stops.
- Gather vegetables from your garden and sell at road side stand.
- Walk pets for your neighbors for pay.
- Babysit for profits.
- House sit for vacationers, get extra by upkeeping grounds.
- Make fudge and sell house to house.
- Do typing for fellow students or fellow workers for a fee.
- Type menus for restaurants for a certain amount per menu.
- Read books and do reports for a fee for students.
- Research any subject (in library) for $25 a page.
- Paint scrolls and designs on plates or make birthday plates, charge $19 each.
- Teach people to do callisthenics, charge $2 an hour and have 10 at time.
- Teach dancing and charge $2 an hour, and have 10 at a time.
- Learn to do juggling and clowning, put on shows for pay.
- Rent out as a clown to birthday parties, affairs, etc.
- Get good at telling jokes and rent out to night clubs.
- Sing for money at night clubs.
- Make crafts and sell them at road side yard stand.
- Teach others to make crafts ($2 each) and have 10 at each class.
- Bake fruit pies and sell house to house (or in stores at holidays)
- Make Christmas wreaths during holiday season to sell, using discarded boughs from your own and neighbors' Christmas trees.
- Make Christmas candles from paraffin wax and sell at Christmas time.
- Polish shoes for office workers by going office to office once a day every day and charge 50 cents a shine - lawyers best bet here. Also see all accountants, clerks, insurance agents, etc.