50 Ways to Make Money From

Home or On the Side as a

Special Needs WAHM.

1. Ebay Have you ever bought or sold anything on ebay? Whether you have ever used the site

before or not, why not make extra money selling on ebay?

While there are a lot of ways to make money on ebay, here are a few of the best ideas.

Find items on wholesale online and sell them on ebay. If you do this you want to stick

with 2-3 main niches or kinds of items. You also want to find a place that will drop ship

to people so デｴ;デ ┞ﾗ┌ Sﾗﾐげデ WﾐS ┌ヮ ┘ｷデｴ ; ｪ;ヴ;ｪW a┌ﾉﾉ ﾗa ヮヴﾗS┌Iデゲ ;ﾐS ゲﾗ デｴ;デ ┞ﾗ┌ Sﾗﾐげデ spend lots of time at the post office.

I also recommend that you find a few books on selling on ebay and that you read them

first so that you can learn to use ebay effectively.

2. Etsy Etsy is like an ebay for crafters. If you are crafty or artistic you can do quite well here.

You can sell all kinds of things such as homemade soap, baby blankets, weighted

blankets and more.

3. Catering If you love to cook and you are good at it, there are lots of people who would love to

hire you to cook for their family reunions, family parties, birthday parties, weddings and

more. You can do this part time very easily by letting your friends, family and neighbors

know that you are willing to cook dinner or other meals for them as needed.

4. Photography This is another great one. If you have a good camera and some experience you can

make money taking pictures of people. Many people just need someone to take a good

family photo, or some nice looking pictures for the web or for other personal or

business users.

5. Direct Sales This is my personal favorite, however it is not for everyone. If you do want to try it, then

you need to choose a company that you are passionate about and one that has products

that you love. You can check out the national site at http://dswa.org for ideas,

companies and training. Ask around and see what options are out there before you

choose one. If you want to work with me you can learn more about what I offer at

http://workwithannalaura.com

6. Scrapbooking How many people do you know that have boxes of photos in their basement? Many

people juゲデ Sﾗﾐげデ ｴ;┗W デｴW デｷﾏW デﾗ ヮ┌デ デｴWゲW ｷﾐデﾗ ;ﾉH┌ﾏゲ ;ﾐS デﾗ IヴW;デW ゲIヴ;ヮHﾗﾗﾆゲく Wｴ┞ not offer to put these together for them for a fee?

7. Substitute Teaching If your children are in school, and you have a college degree, you can sign up for this and

work while your children are in school.

8. Tutoring Many children need tutoring and if you have skills and education in any of the main

subjects you can do this part time and earn an income. This is especially true if you are

good at math or science.

9. Birthday Parties Many parents are busy or get stressed out planning birthday parties for their kids and

┘ﾗ┌ﾉS ﾉﾗ┗W デﾗ ｴｷヴW ┞ﾗ┌ デﾗ ヮﾉ;ﾐ デｴWｷヴ IｴｷﾉSげゲ HｷヴデｴS;┞ ヮ;ヴデ┞ ｷﾐゲデW;Sく

10. Pizza Deliveries Many pizza companies hire drivers to do deliveries part time and they are busiest on

Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. For most moms, this is a time when you could work

and find someone to watch your child.

11. In Home Day Care WｴｷﾉW デｴｷゲ ┘ﾗﾐげデ ┘ﾗヴﾆ aﾗヴ W┗Wヴ┞ﾗﾐWが ┞ﾗ┌ Iﾗ┌ﾉS IﾗﾐゲｷSWヴ デ;ﾆｷﾐｪ ｷﾐ ; aW┘ ﾗデｴWヴ IｴｷﾉSヴWﾐ into your home for an in home day care. Only do this if you can handle it though.

12. Typing There are many business owners and busy people who would love to hire someone to

type letters, and other documents.

13. Special Needs Daycare While this might seem difficult, I have met a few parents who have done this. You can

find a way to take care of 1 or more other special needs children along with your own.

Either all day or for just a few hours. If you really want to go all out, look at what they

are doing at http://playundertheumbrella.com

14. Run Errands M;ﾐ┞ ヮWﾗヮﾉW ;ヴW H┌ゲ┞ ;ﾐS Sﾗﾐげデ ｴ;┗W デｴW デｷﾏW aﾗヴ デｴｷゲく Yﾗ┌ Iﾗ┌ﾉS ｪWデ ヮ;ｷS デﾗ ヴ┌ﾐ errands for people. You could combine them with your own errands to save time.

15. Sewing Depending upon your level of sewing, you could either sew clothing for people, or you

could just do simple alterations such as hems on pants.

16. Piano Accompanist If you can play the piano well, you can earn money accompanying children and adults

who are playing the violin, cello etc at recitals and concerts.

17. Frozen Meals This is similar to catering, but a bit different. You can make extra food every time you

cook dinner, then freeze it into meals and sell these meals to people who are busy and

┘ｴﾗ Sﾗﾐげデ ┘;ﾐデ デﾗ Iﾗﾗﾆく

18. Writing and Selling Ebooks This is another great way to make money. You can easily write these ebooks based on

topics that you have experience with and then sell them online to people who need the

information. See the article below for tips. You can also use the site http://e-junkie.com

to collect payment and manage how they are distributed to your customers.

http://socialfresh.com/ebook-how-to/- a great article on how to get started with this.

19. Insurance Many insurance agents have a lot of leads they need to call and if you are good on the

phone you could get paid to call them or to answer the phone when leads call.

20. Apartment Manager If you could use housing as well, why not find an apartment that needs a manager and

you can usually live there for free and get paid.

21. Book Reviewer Many websites, magazines and newspapers need people to read books and review

them. Look online to see if you can find any that are hiring.

22. Blogger Why not blog and then get a large audience and you can sell ads and make money.

There are lots of moms who do this. For example, check out http://specialhappens.com

or http://5minutesforspecialneeds.com

23. Hair Stylist You can formally go to school for this and open an in home salon, or if you already know

how to do it you can cut the hair of children and get paid.

24. Virtual Assistant If you have computer skills and marketing skills you can do quite well at this. You can do

it as a formal business or just on the side part time working on whatever tasks people

ask you to do that you know how to do.

25. Social Media Marketing Lots of business owners need help with their ゲﾗIｷ;ﾉ ﾏWSｷ;が ゲﾗ ┘ｴ┞ Sﾗﾐげデ ┞ﾗ┌ ｪWデ ヮ;ｷS デﾗ do it for them? You can do simple things such as creating facebook fan pages and

opening up twitter accounts, or you could do more complex things such as installing

wordpress blogs. To make this a success you will need to get some training and

experience yourself but this can be quite profitable.

26. Nails You can get formal training as an esthetician or you can learn how to paint nails and

other similar tasks and many people will be willing to pay you for this. One company

that sells nice looking nail products is called Jamberry.

27. Makeovers Many people need someone to do their hair, makeup and other similar things for

weddings, photos and other special events. You could offer this service and get paid to

do it.

28. Personal Shopping Busy people and especially corporate executives need someone to do their shopping for

them. If you have a sense of style and fashion this can be even more profitable.

29. Gift Wrapping Wrapping gifts at Christmas and for other holidays can be very time consuming. You

could arrange to offer this service for a few hours each day around all the major

holidays or all day long every day the week or 2 weeks before Christmas and earn some

extra money.

30. Editing If you have good English spelling and grammar skills many people will pay you to edit

and proofread anything from papers, to rough drafts of books.

31. Translating If you have foreign language skills, this can be quite profitable.

32. Dance Lessons If you have dancing skills and have taken ballet or other dance lessons, many studios

hire people part time to teach dancing, or if you are very good you could open up your

open studio.

33. Foreign Language Lessons Again this requires foreign language skills but if you have them and are good at it, you

can offer this service to all kinds of people. Lessons for adults or young children are in

especially high demand.

34. Cleaning Who do you know who really enjoys cleaning? Not most people. If you enjoy it or if you

are good at it, many cleaning companies need temporary help especially around the

holidays. You can find cleaning companies and call and ask if they need help, or you can

let everyone you know that you are available to clean for parties, special events and

whenever they need their house or office cleaned.

35. Used Book Seller You can find all kinds of great used books that people would be happy to pay a lot more

for by looking at library book sales and yard sales. Then you can resell them on amazon

or half.com

36. Antique Dealer You can find all kinds of antiques and other treasures at yard sales and estate sales and

then resell them on ebay or other auction sites or at your own yard sale for a profit.

37. Painter If you have painting and art skills you can paint and sell your paintings. You could maybe

even find a local art gallery to partner up with.

38. Event Planner M;ﾐ┞ ヮWﾗヮﾉW Sﾗﾐげデ ｴ;┗W デｴW デｷﾏW デﾗ ヮﾉ;ﾐ W┗Wﾐデゲ ;ﾐS ┞ﾗ┌ I;ﾐ ｪWデ ヮ;ｷS ｴWﾉヮｷﾐｪ デｴWﾏく Whether its family reunions, high school or college alumni events, large family parties,

business conferences or other events.

39. Video filming and editing This one requires some equipment and skills but if you have a video camera and a

computer with at least basic video editing software, you can make money doing this as

well.

40. Ghost writing Many people need articles, blog posts, newsletters, letters, books and other things

written for them and they may not have the time to do it and they will pay you to do it

as long as they can use their name on it. If you have good writing skills this can pay very

well.

41. Graphic Design This is another one that requires a few skills. However, if you have access or you can

purchase adobe photoshop and painter for your computer you can learn how to make

and sell graphics. You can also use free sites such as bannerfans.com and xheader.com

to make banners for websites and sell them.

42. Web Design While creating large sites is quite complicated, there are many people and businesses

who would love to pay you for a simple web site and you can learn how to create these

quite easily.

43. Host an Online Radio Show This one will require some work but it can be quite profitable. You can start your own

show for free at http://blogtalkradio.com and if you work it consistently and you

provide value and a show that people want to listen to then you can eventually start

charging for advertising and make money.

44. Food Sampler You know how when you go shopping on weekends at grocery stores or at clubs like

Sams and Costco and you see people giving out food samples. There are always

Iﾗﾏヮ;ﾐｷWゲ ﾉﾗﾗﾆｷﾐｪ デﾗ ｴｷヴW ヮWﾗヮﾉW デﾗ Sﾗ デｴｷゲく Iげ┗W SﾗﾐW ｷデ ;ﾐS ｷデげゲ ケ┌ｷデW W;ゲ┞ ;ﾐS デｴW ヮ;┞ is pretty good too. If you are available on weekends and can find someone to care for

your child or children you could make money this way and be home with your kids

S┌ヴｷﾐｪ デｴW ┘WWﾆく Yﾗ┌ ﾐWWS デﾗ ｪWデ ; aﾗﾗS ｴ;ﾐSﾉWヴげゲ ヮWヴﾏｷデ H┌デ デｴﾗゲW ;ヴW W;ゲ┞ デﾗ ﾗHデ;ｷﾐく

45. Yard Sales Host your own yard sales. Keep an eye out for bargains at thrift stores, at other yard

sales and wherever else you can and collect things to sell. You can then have your sales

every Saturday during the Summer and you can potentially make enough money to last

you the entire year.

46. Ironing and Laundry Who really loves to do this? Not many people that I know. So if you can handle doing it

or maybe you do even enjoy it, then you can get paid to do it for people.

47. Filing Taxes Tｴｷゲ ｷゲ ;ﾐﾗデｴWヴ ﾗﾐW デｴ;デ ﾏ;ﾐ┞ ヮWﾗヮﾉW Sﾗﾐげデ W┗Wﾐ IﾗﾐゲｷSWヴく Tｴ;デ ゲ;ｷSが ┞ﾗ┌ ﾐWWS デﾗ HW careful with this one since you need training and certification to do taxes for people

who have businesses, who own rental properties or who have other complex items on

デｴWｷヴ デ;┝Wゲく Hﾗ┘W┗Wヴが ﾏ;ﾐ┞ ヮWﾗヮﾉW Sﾗﾐげデ W┗Wﾐ ﾆﾐﾗ┘ ｴﾗ┘ デﾗ aｷﾉW H;ゲｷI デ;┝Wゲ aﾗヴ themselves or for teenagers who worked just one job during the year. You can get paid

to these simple tax returns for these people. You can figure out how to do them by

reading through the tax booklet forms and looking online on the IRS website.

48. Jewelry Repair Many people have jewelry that gest broken. You can figure out how to repair it or how

to get money for the gold and silver by taking it to a reseller and then charge them a fee.

49. Dog walking Aﾉﾉ Sﾗｪゲ ﾐWWS ┘;ﾉﾆゲ ;ﾐS ┞Wデが ﾏ;ﾐ┞ Sﾗｪ ﾗ┘ﾐWヴゲ Sﾗﾐげデ ｴ;┗W デｴW デｷﾏW ﾗヴ ｷﾐデWヴWゲデ ｷﾐ ┘;ﾉﾆｷﾐｪ their dogs. You could become a dog walker and offer this service for a fee.

50. Pet Siting Just like dog walking many people need someone to care for their pets while they are on

vacation or even in some cases while they are at work. Dog kennels and other pet sitting

companies cost a lot of money and so many people would be very happy to have you

care for their pet or pets and to pay you less than a kennel but enough that it can give

you some much needed income. Furthermore, many special needs children can really

benefit from having the company of a dog, or other pet so this can be an added bonus

and your child could even help you care for the pet or feed it.