Write for a Blog

While most blogs don’t pay you right away, there are a few websites that use PayPal to pay you instantly for your articles. This is good especially for college students that have an hour or so out of their day to earn quick cash.

You will need

Odd jobs Internet access People to teach Writing skills Junk to sell Insurance policy Valuable or collector's items to sell (optional)

Step 1 Earn cash quick Earn cash by doing odd jobs in the neighborhood. 50-year-olds and kids alike can wash cars, mow lawns, pull weeds, babysit kids, or haul garbage for fast money.

If your condition is dire, select valuable or collector's items to sell on internet sales or auction sites to make money fast.

Step 2 Generate income online Generate income online by testing products, doing surveys, signing on to do mystery shopping, or reading e-mails outsourced by companies too busy to read them. Read the terms and conditions, which can vary, to avoid delays in payment.

Step 3 Give lessons and do repairs Teach people from home. Give online computer lessons for beginners, if you're qualified, or give music lessons to raise funds. Perform oil changes and small repairs, or teach someone how to do their own.

Step 4 Take in boarders Take in boarders, being careful to draw up a lease agreement to protect yourself in case you have to evict them.

Step 5 Write articles Write articles as a freelancer for several web sites that want content of all sorts and will pay small amounts that add up quickly. Choose how much you'll work and how often.

Step 6 Conduct a yard sale Rid the house of old books, valuables, electronics, furniture, clothes, bikes, and old sports equipment and sell in a yard sale.

Step 7 Raid accounts Cash in an insurance policy or siphon some from an I. R.A. account. Read and abide by the rules to limit the penalty and taxes that will likely be due when withdrawing.

When you're completely tapped out, scavenge for bottles, coins, or discarded metal to sell.

Step 8 Volunteer or sell blood Volunteer for medical tests for a small fee. Sell your blood to a blood bank, or sell your sperm to a sperm bank.

Cash in Reward Points

If you have a credit card, you’re bound to have some reward points stacked up. My personal experience with American Express is that you get 3% back on restaurants and groceries while the rest of your purchases give back 1%. That’s bound to stack up in redeemable gift cards, which in return you can easily turn into cash using CoinStar machines.

Check Classified Ads

Cash making opportunities often show up online or in the newspaper. Keep your eye out because you’ll never know when you’ll find a university study that pays $100 to each participant for a day’s worth of work on the experiment of ADHD. It’s also super easy to find short film jobs where you often get paid $50 for a day of work. Not that I have experience or anything…

Go Scavenging

It’s amazing how many people throw out treasure thinking that it’s just trash. I’ve even seen people walking down streets filled with odd furniture to fix up or just scrap metals to sell using a shopping cart. I wouldn’t go that far, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do to make money fast.

Use Airbnb

Airbnb isn’t just great for you to get deals while traveling instead of spending hundreds on hotels, it’s also a great way to make money. This is an ideal situation if you have a significant other whose place you frequently stay at. If you know that you have an event coming up where you won’t be home for the weekend or just randomly sleep out during the week, you can rent your spot out on Airbnb so you’re earning money while doing theoretically nothing.

Find a Renter

Renting a spare room out in your house can promise you cash every single month. Even if you’re looking for fast cash now, you’ll be earning easy cash over the time by collecting someone’s rent monthly and you’ll be able to either help pay off your mortgage, or send it straight into your rainy day fund.

Be a Street Dancer

This is the same as being a musician, but instead grab a friend and bust a move in the busiest part of your city. Again, this will only work if you have some sort of talent. But if you can’t dance too well, there are tons of YouTube tutorials for that. Trust me, I may have used some at one point or another…

Sell Ads on Your Site

If you have a website, take advantage and sell ads on it. By selling ads, you usually get paid within two days via PayPal. If you’ve never sold ads before, look online for sites similar to yours and contact the ads that are posted. By doing this, you can sometimes earn up to $100, but this all depends on your audience.

Sell Your Plasma

Check online to see if there is a BioLife Plasma Service center near you. While I’ve never done it, I have a lot of friends in college that did it for quick funds as there is a BioLife center across the street from my apartment. You can make up to $200 selling your plasma per month, which is loaded onto a Visa prepaid card.

Flip Craigslist Items

Go on Craigslist and checkout the free section. On here you’ll find tons of different objects that people don’t care to make money off of because they need to get rid of it that badly. Once you pick-up your free item, you can come up with a creative way to turn into something that someone would be willing to buy.

Collect Your Tax Refund

When tax season approaches, the quickest way to get your refund money back is to file electronically and opt to get direct deposit into your bank account. Even though this is the fastest way, you might need your money quicker than two weeks. In order to get the money the day you file, choose the expensive refund anticipation loan route.

Return Your Purchases

You know that thing that you bought as an impulse because you saw it at Walmart on the aisle that sells As-Seen-On-TV items? Yeah, go ahead and return that. You know you’re only going to use it once, MAYBE twice before you abandon it forever. Lucky for you, Walmart is generous enough to give you a 90-day money-back-guarantee on all returns.

Collect Your Loose Change

Dig through your house a little bit and you’re sure to find dollar bills and large quantities of quarters that you didn’t know were underneath of your sofa. After I finish my spring cleaning, I always happen to find a large Mason jar or piggy bank that I forgot that I had. Take these earnings to your bank or a Coinstar for immediate cash.

Tap into Emergency Funds

We all have them. And, if you don’t, do some of the tasks listed above so you can have one! Depending on the scenario, this may well be an emergency. Please, realize that being broke during the Victoria’s Secret Semi Annual Sale does not count as a valid emergency.

Cash in Cans and Bottles

There are ten states in the U. S. that have beverage container deposit laws. If you live in one of these states, you’ll notice that a lot of your containers will either give you 5 or 10 cents back for cashing them in. Before you resort to dumpster diving, go through your recycle bins and move on to close friends who wouldn’t find your new hobby too weird.

Check PayPal

Personally, I’m horrible with my PayPal account. I never pay much attention to what comes and goes since I’m so up and down about the things I actually use it for. Go on, check your account right now. I’m sure you have at least $10 sitting in there for something you didn’t even know you were being paid for.

Work Events

If you search online enough, again usually Craigslist, you’ll find that there may be some carnivals, festivals or just other miscellaneous events coming to your city that need labor. Whether this includes setting up and striking down or just working behind the counter as a vendor, tons of events like this always need help. At the end of the day, you’ll typically be paid cash.

Haul Junk

If you have a big pick-up truck or a big van that you don’t mind getting a bit dirty, offer your services to pick up their unwanted junk. Beforehand, make sure you check out the price it costs to empty your truck at since each place charges different fees. If you’re the one in your family or social circle with a big vehicle, make it known!

Clean Gutters

HomeAdvisor reported that most homeowners often pay between $100 and $190 to have their gutters and downspouts cleaned. A lot of hardware stores sell gutter cleaning supply kits for roughly $50. So, if you offer services to one homeowner for $50, you’ve already made your investment back.

Do Handyman Work

If you’re a good general handyman who knows how to fix drains, unclog toilets or install counters, you’d make a good handyman. AngiesList is a good place to get your foot in the door when it come to this. Make an account now versus later though, as it may take some time because they require employees to go through background checks.