Part-time Bartend and Make Extra Cash

Photo by Kelleys-Creations. Save Your House & More with Bartending

One of my friends got a divorce and desperately wanted to keep her gorgeous house on five acres. She was now the sole owner of the house and had to take over the high mortgage. Not only did she have the mortgage to pay, she had to pay her ex-husband a share of the equity in the house. Talk about a stressful situation.

My friend had a full-time job that paid well. Still this job was not enough. She decided to part-time bartend and make extra cash three nights a week. She was pleasantly surprised how much money she brought home in tips. I was shocked as the bar she worked at was not fancy at all; in fact, I’d say it is somewhat of a dive. Although a lot of people do come to this establishment so more drinks ordered, means more tips for her.

She made $80.00 per night in tips. My friend then met a man who became her boyfriend. She started working at a different bar that served food. Now her tips were ranging $100.00 to $150.00 per night! Working three nights per week really added to her wages. She happily kept her house and paid off her ex-husband in two years.

You can part-time bartend and make extra cash, too. If you like people, most bars will let you train on the job. Once you are trained you can always go to a high class establishment and make even more tips, especially if food is served along with the drinks that are ordered.

Who knows you may even make more money bartending than you do at your current job. In the end you may quit your 9:00 to 5:00 job and enjoy bartending.

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Be Your Own Boss Selling Cheap Items with Your Added Touch

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You can become your own boss selling items you doctor up. You do this buy ordering items in large quantities. Then once the items arrive you add your own touch to the items. A few examples include:

A nice looking wooden welcome sign with a wire to hang it up. You can add a different bow to each sign such as checkered, striped and solid colors to the sign to match people’s different décor. Or you can add a raffia bow to the wire on the sign.

Order pretty candles that smell divine in all different fragrances. You can add little charms, small pinecones for Christmas, hearts for love birds, gold or silver items, gems, or bows. Each candle will be unique from your creativity.

When you are your own boss, you can even order small items made out of resin, wood and ceramic to paint. You will be ordering hundreds of these to sell online and at craft shows so you may want to hire someone. The going rate is around .10 cents per piece painted. Make sure the person knows they must do quality work. You will want to check the pieces over as buyer’s will be before they buy from you.

Next either you or another employee will glue gun pins to the back of each item. Price each item with your name or business name on the back.

Items that you can sell for the holidays include small snowmen, santas, angels, animals in holiday décor, wreaths, Christmas trees, and crosses. Every day items to paint include flowers, hats, modern shapes, animals, little children, etc.

To find these small items to doctor up and make your own, look online for bulk miniature ceramics, resin and wood items. You can get a discount on items as you will be a person in business buying in bulk versus a person who only wants a few items.

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Sell at a Farmer's Market to Make Cash

Photos by Kelleys-Creations. Bake Goods at a Farmer's Market.

If you love to bake you can sell your goods right now at farmer’s markets. There are plenty of farmer’s markets available to sell your items. Just look at your village hall for brochures or check online for farmer’s markets in your area.

Most farmers’ markets are open on Saturdays, but there are farmer’s markets that are open every day depending on where you live.

Farmer’s markets used to sell only fresh vegetables. These days, you can sell homemade jellies and jams, crafts, fresh pies and other homemade desserts, etc. Depending on what you like to bake or create, you can sell them at a farmer’s market.

You will have to price all of your items. A good idea would be to put your name and phone number on each item. That way, when a customer runs out of the delicious homemade item, he or she can call you and purchase some more.

Make sure you have one or two long folding tables that are easy to carry around with you. Bring a table cloth for each table to display all of your items on to make everything very pleasing to the eyes. Bring enough single dollar bills, five dollar bills, ten dollar bills and change in a safety box or container. You will also need bags so customers can easily keep shopping at the farmer’s market. Either save bags from grocery stores or buy new ones at a discount store.

Arrive early to the farmer’s market so you can set up your items and be ready for the early bird customers. A lot of people get up early and start shopping so you do not want to be setting up your table(s) and missing out on potential business.

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Job Sharing to Earn Extra Money

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If you have been a stay-at-home mother maybe now you want to earn extra money working part-time. Or maybe you are a college student who is taking classes but would like to work part-time. Whatever your situation is, you can supplement your income by job sharing.

Many places are hiring employees part-time versus full-time these days. The reason is so that two part-time employees do not get the benefits such as paid holidays, little or no vacation days or sick time, insurance, etc. This method of hiring saves the employer a fortune.

To find a suitable job to share, you may check the school system. You can find teacher’s aide positions that are job shared. One person may work in the mornings and the second person in the afternoon. You may need to be flexible if the other employee needs to switch times once in awhile. You and the other employee will need to keep a notebook and a basket for some type of communication to stay organized. This will help you to learn what has or has not been done during the hours you did not work. By knowing what is going on, you can better help the students and the teacher who you are helping.

Another type of job sharing to earn extra money is office work. You may work at the receptionist’s desk, as an administrative assistant or even in an office at a bank. It is always important to take notes so you can share them with the person who is taking over for you in the afternoon or following morning. By doing this, things in the office will keep running smoothly.

Think of the type of work you would like to do part-time and you may even want to offer the suggestion to the hiring employer about job sharing to earn extra money while saving the company extra money.

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Free Babysitting

Photo copyrighted by Nik. Enjoy peace with a free babysitter you trust.

If you have not been going out as much due to the economy and having to pay for a babysitter, now you can. There is a simple way to have free babysitting and only have to pay for the outing you are going to. Many parents used to do this back in the seventies.

What you need to do is organize the parents in your town. You can start with the parents you know and trust. Make up a chart with all of the people’s names on it and phone numbers. For example, if you want to go out with your spouse to a wedding than you will ask one of the parents to baby-sit for your child or children. In return, the parents will watch your child or children for and babysit for free. You will get a check mark next to your name that you used a free babysitter one time.

This free babysitting process takes a lot of stress off of your pocketbook and saves you the time to find a trusted babysitter. It is a win-win situation for parents and the children.

Before starting, you all should sit down and make up rules and type them up so everyone has a copy. Have the paper laminated or use a plastic coated cover such as one you find at a discount store for important school papers or photographs.

Some free babysitting rules could be:
*Be in bed by 9:30 p.m.
*No sugar after 7:30 p.m.
*No Internet access without supervision.
Use whatever rules you and the other parents deem necessary so you all feel comfortable.

Make sure you give each other your cell phone numbers and a signed slip that gives the babysitting parents permission to take your child or children to the emergency room or a physician in case of emergency.

Enjoy going out feeling secure and knowing that each hour you stay out you do not owe more and more money.

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Cheap Summer Fun Activities

The local library is one of the cheap summer fun activities. Photo by Kelleys-Creations.

Summer is officially here! If you have lost your job, you need to look at the bright side. You will be able to spend more time with your children doing cheap summer fun activities. You will save money by not having to pay for an in-home babysitter or daycare. You and your children will appreciate the memories you have together for the rest of your lives.

With summer here, surely you all want to go out in the warm weather and do fun things. You may be thinking you cannot afford to take your kids all over the place on a temporary low budget. Get that thought right out of your head. There are plenty of free and low cost things to do for summer.

You can pack a lunch at home and enjoy a picnic at a nearby park. You would have eaten the lunch at home anyways, why not eat outside and let the kids wear off some energy?

A low-cost item is to buy a state or county sticker. Cost is a one time fee of about $20.00 to $25.00 depending on the state you live in. You can enjoy plenty of items with this. Once you have a sticker you can get into many parks, hike on trails and the lakes for free playing on toys such as swing sets, teeter totters, etc., fishing and swimming. You will even get a discount if you camp at the state or County Park. All of these activities are excellent bonding together time.

Eat watermelon outside. Hook the sprinkler up outside on steamy hot days and let the kids run through it for a cheap summer fun and activity. Plus, the kids will easily clean up.

If you have a swing set, buy a little baby pool, you know the plastic type at Wal-Mart for $9.99. Put the swimming pool underneath the swing set slide and fill the pool. The kids will love sliding and splashing into the water for one of the cheap summer fun activities.

Join the library’s summer reading program. Once a week your children have to read a certain amount of minutes and keep record of it. Most libraries will give your children a little book to keep track of it. Parents initial the book. One activity should be done such as an art project, long bike ride, etc. Check books out weekly at the library with your kids for another earned point.

Each week have your child or children take their book to show the librarian their accomplishments. Our library even gives the children a free little prize each week. The final prize, if each week is done, is a gift certificate to a chain restaurant. Last year it was a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. The kids love getting weekly prizes, a free earned pizza and you love it as they are reading and keeping their brains working!

Two days ago our librarian gave us four free tickets to the Bristol Renaissance Fair in Illinois. A $9.50 value for each ticket and we live close by so that was an added benefit. The library has speakers, book clubs, kid’s summer craft times and story times. You cannot go wrong with the local library.

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Make Money with Your Hobby of Pottery

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Perhaps pottery is your hobby. You can start to sell your items to customers to make money.

Choose colors that are popular for people to display your pottery in their homes. Earth tone colors always are in style. Look online or think of what colors people paint their rooms in their homes at this time. Light sage is popular whereas the bold colors are not as popular as they were last year.

Make different types of pottery such as those that will fit in country décor and those that will fit in modern décor. In other words, make a diverse amount of pottery that will appeal to all types of people.

You will need all of the pottery supplies including a kiln. You can save a lot of money and time by having your own kiln at home. Otherwise, you will have to find another person that does pottery

and pay them to use their kiln.

Take pictures of all the pottery you make. Show friends and family. Create your own website. You can buy your own .com or check out freewebs.com and get your own website for free. The template is all set up for you on freewebs.com. You will have to choose how you want your website to look and create each page. It truly is very simple.

Set up a shopping cart page with popular PayPal. This is a very safe way for people to buy and a safe way for you to sell. Both buyer and seller are protected. Once you get your website created, download your pottery pictures. Name each piece of pottery and put a price under the pottery. If you do a variety of pottery you will have a variety of prices for all types of people to afford.

You may want to offer sales and holiday specials every so often. This will give you an excuse to send an e-mail out to your friends and family. This will remind people that you sell pottery to make money.

Once people purchase your pottery, keep their name on a mailing list. That way previous customers will get updates from you and possibly purchase from you again.

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eBay You're Way to Financial Success

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You can get started making money by selling things around your home you no longer want or use. For instance, if you have a lot of Lia Sophia jewelry or Silpada jewelry you can take a picture of it and post it on eBay to make money.

You will need to join eBay and create a profile. You will post the photo of your item(s). It is best to take a couple of photos at different views of your item so customers can see different angles of the product. Take separate pictures of one item unless you plan on selling your items in lots (groupings). You will need to describe your item(s) honestly. If there is a scratch make sure you list that as your customers will rate each item and transaction that is done. You want to create a positive profile that is 100% positive so you can accumulate many customers.

Next, start the item(s) at a certain price. Choose a price that you will be satisfied with receiving in case you only get one bid on the item(s). Make sure you add enough shipping charge so you do not end up losing money. Let people start bidding on your items and start to make money.

You should open up a PayPal account so your customers can easily put money into your PayPal account. To join PayPal you will need to give a credit card number and a bank account number. With PayPal you can transfer the earned money to your bank account for free. Once you belong to PayPal and start to sell items on eBay you will watch your bank account flourish. You may choose to have a check sent to your home for a minimal fee.

If you enjoy selling on eBay, you can start to collect item(s) you think others will want to purchase. Movie collectables sell well such as Star Wars or the cult following of the Saw movies.
You can eBay your way to financial success by following these tips.

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College Kid Jobs--Dog Wash

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If your son or daughter is out of college for the summer and cannot find a job, dog washing is the perfect job. Every Friday your college kid can advertise a dog wash.

The dog wash can be outside at your house. Make the time from 8:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. Some people like to start their day early and get things done so they will want to drop their dog off at your house. While other people need to work all day and do not get home until 5:00 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. If your college kid stays open until 6:00 p.m. the customer still has a chance to make it to your house.

Your college kid can set up the backyard to use the hose and a few buckets of warm water. Also, for large dogs a small kiddie pool works fantastic to wash dogs. Make sure you have good dog shampoo for the dogs and you may even want to invest in whitening shampoo for white dogs. The shampoo does not have to be expensive. You can get good dog shampoo at discount stores such as Wal-Mart.

If you know how to sew, you can create small cute bandanas for the dogs once they are all fresh and clean. This is a nice added touch to give the dog back to the owner with.

Make sure you charge enough to make some money. You could charge $6.00 to $10.00 per dog wash depending on where you live. Check to see the prices with competitive groomers to see what they charge and fix your rate accordingly. You will want to charge less as you will not be trimming nails or cutting the dog’s hair.

To get started hand out brochures, tell your neighbors, and hang up signs at the local stores in your town.

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Prosper in the Economy--Spa Shows

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You can start your very own spa show traveling from house to house doing parties for people. After all, women love to relax after a long days work inside or outside of the home and get together to unwind.

First make a list of the items you want to offer at your spa show. You may want to include a few bottles of your favorite wines. Make sure you include both red and white wines, sweet to more of a dry taste.

Second, choose some of your favorite foot soaks or bubble bath. Include lotions that go with the foot soaks and/or bubble bath. Buy inflatable foot tubs online to take along to the in-home spa shows. You will need at least 10 to 15 small towels for the customers to dry their feet after their foot soak.

Purchase fingernail polish in your favorite colors. If it is fall make sure you buy darker colors to go with women’s outfits; if it is spring purchase lighter colors. A great investment is to purchase the French manicure nail polish as well. A superb brand of nail polish is OPI. Of course, you can choose whichever brand you like.

Next make up a brochure with the supplies you will be using. Take a photo of each item, name the items and write a short informative yet interesting description of each item. You will want to price each item above cost and have the products available for purchase at the spa shows.

Let your family and friends know you are starting up your own spa show business. Ask them to please invite their friends for a party so they can have fun and relax. Make sure you offer some free product and/or discounted product to the hostess for opening up her home to you so you can prosper in your spa business. You may want to advertise that you do wedding party spa parties so the guests can relax and get their fingernails and toenails beautiful for the wedding day.

Once you book your first show, you can take your items to the party. Offer everyone a glass of wine. You can fill each glass half full so each person can try all of the wine you have brought. This will get more people to taste the wine you brought and more sales.

Let the women smell the foot soaks, bubble bath and lotions.

Fill the inflatable tubs with warm water and add the bath soak and/or bubble bath that each customer has chosen. Let the customers enjoy their warm foot soak while sipping wine and laughing with their friends.

For an additional fee, you can offer to massage hands and feet, file nails and paint customer's fingernails and/or toenails.

Check with your state’s rules on serving wine at home parties and being able to file and paint nails. In some states, you may have to be certified to massage and paint customer’s hands, feet and nails.

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Fix Computers for Cash

Photo by Kelleys-Creations. Fix computers to make money.

If you are good with computers there is a load of money to be made. You can fix desktop computers, laptops and notebook computers. You can offer to upgrade hardware and software for people. You can also offer hardware and software replacements. Install new programs for people. You can also get rid of spyware and viruses for people.

To cover yourself you should get insured in case of a difficult customer. Or you may want to have the customers sign a form before you work on their computer. Make sure the form states that you will do the work but in case of an accident beyond your control, you are not responsible.

To advertise to fix computers for cash, advertise in your hometown area’s small newspaper. You can put your e-mail address for people to contact you. Make sure you give your phone number, too, as a lot of people are in need of a computer “geek” to fix their computer when it is too late and their computer is no longer working. You can also advertise online. Make sure you use search engine optimization on your website to help get your website on page one of search engines such as Google or Yahoo to get noticed. You can achieve this by back linking in blogs, social book marking on many sites and posting keyword rich articles that you or a freelance writer have written advertising your business.

You may want to offer to do in-home service to fix computers. You can charge more for having to add mileage to your vehicle. By driving to the customer’s house, this will make things much more convenient for your customers. Also, customers will know that after you leave, most likely their computer will be upgraded and/or fixed. Happy customer, happy you with more cash.
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Cigar of the Month Website to Make Money

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Many men (and some women) like a good cigar. He can relax after a day of hard work and unwind with a cigar and a good book or a glass of scotch.

Father’s Day is approaching and what better time than right now to open an online store of fine cigars. You can have a wonderful variety of cigars offered. Cigars will sell during peek holiday times such as Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Birthdays are a special time to give cigars as well as Bosses Day.

Each month offer to send a Cigar of the Month for people to give as gifts or to treat themselves.
Do a little research and find out which cigars are the best. Ask your friends and family which cigars they like. Perhaps you live near a cigar shop or a store that sells fine cigars. Ask the employee which cigars are popular and why people like them.

You may want to offer to send two cigars per month or a cigar pack per month for a higher cost. This will give buyer’s the choice on how much they want to spend.

If you are a cigar smoker yourself you will have an even better idea on what cigars you would like to sell. Make sure you add a variety of cigars to your merchandise stock.

To get started set up an easy to navigate website or have someone do it for you. Make sure you include pictures of the cigars you will be offering to make your website more appealing. Use a cart check-out system to make it easier for your customers to pay.

To help your website stay at the top page in Google add three blogs per week with your website link posted. You can write about different types of cigars, post photos of cigars, history of cigars, famous celebrities who smoke cigars such as George Burns, etc.

You will need to purchase boxes to ship the cigars, shipping labels, packing tape and packing material so as not to crush the cigars.

Save all receipts for tax time on your business.

As customers order from your website make sure you save their name and address in your computer and have shipping labels for twelve months ready ahead of time to make it easier for you.

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Ways to Save Money on Your Wedding

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You can save money on your wedding with good planning and creative ideas. For instance, you can spend a fortune on table decorations and wedding favors. Why spend a lot when you can creatively make unique wedding favors that will dress up your dinner tables?

You can easily make bath salt packs for each guest to take home as a wedding favor. You can buy all of the items to make the wedding favors online or at a discount store. Choose the color of bath salts that match your wedding and buy in a large quantity to save money. You will also want to purchase mesh and ribbon that will look nice with your chosen color of bath salts. Cut the mesh 5 inches by 5 inches. Fill the mesh with bath salts and tie with a ribbon. Add some candles in the center of the table for ambiance during dinner and while dancing. You now have pretty table decorations and a wedding favor for each guest specially made by you.

Another way to save money on your wedding is to make your own wedding invitations. Use your computer and print out unique wedding cards. You can use pictures of the two of you. A cute idea would be to put both of your pictures as children on the cover. Scan the photos and you may want to make the photos in black and white. In a creative program such as PhotoShop draw a heart on each child’s picture. Make each heart red. The contrast of the black and white photos of the children each with a red heart will be endearing to all who receive your wedding invitation. Choose your favorite font and wedding color when printing out the invitation information.

Purchase envelopes online or at a discount store. If you have set your wedding date for the future, be sure to buy Forever stamps now in case of stamp price increase later.

There are many ways to save money on your wedding. For more information please visit: http://www.preparednessmentor.com/.

Work at Home --Virtual Assistant

Enjoy the freedom of being a work-at-home virtual assistant. Photo copyright by Nik.

Make great money while you work at home as a virtual assistant. A few qualities to ask yourself before becoming a virtual assistant is:

Am I organized?
Am I an accurate typist?
Am I a quick typist?
Do I like talking on the telephone?
Do I work well independently?

If the answer is “yes” to all of these questions, you may make great money while you work at home as a virtual assistant.

Your duties as a virtual assistant may include talking to customers and your boss on the telephone. Make sure you have a cell phone plan with a lot of minutes as most likely you will be in a different state than your boss and most of your customers. You will probably have a lot of data entry to type into the computer so being an accurate and quick typist is very helpful. Being organized is imperative. If you were to work in an office you would need to be organized. Organization and working independently will help with getting the job done correctly and prioritize what needs to be taken care of first.

To find work at home virtual assistant jobs you can look online. Use a search engine to find jobs when you type in “virtual assistant.” Or a popular online company is elance.com. On elance you can bid on jobs after reading information on what the client wants. To join elance you will have to take a test to make sure you understand how the online company works. It is free to join elance, but you will pay a fee of around 6.75% to 8.75% per wages of each job you accept.

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