15 quick ways to make extra money without giving up your day job
Are you looking to earn money from home or in your free time? Here are some realistic ways to do it.
"Easy money" is like a unicorn when it comes to work: everyone wants it, many platforms promise it, but it's rare to find it outside of fairy tales. But we have good news for you: 15 ways to earn extra money doing it without having to quit your plant job. For this list, we consider the value of the time invested, if the job takes time to start generating profits or if it only gives you a little cash, we decided not to include it. From selling your photos to watching movie trailers or looking after houses, here is a summary of the easiest ways to earn extra money in your spare time.
1. Exchange your electronic wallets for money
Search your wallets, bags and drawers, and you will surely find some forgotten gift cards. You may even have received some Christmas gifts that you are not going to use, or that you simply prefer to exchange for money. On sites like CardKangaroo and Raise you can exchange your electronic wallets for an amount of money that can be transferred directly to your PayPal account. A $ 500 pesos iTunes card can give you about $ 300 pesos at CardKangaroo.
2. Check if there is no money that belongs to you in any institution
When people leave money in financial institutions or companies (such as savings accounts, security deposits, taxes, etc.) the government runs an unclaimed property program and a series of global accounts. There are billions of pesos unclaimed there, so it would be a good idea to do a search in the Treasury, in banking institutions, in savings funds and retirement funds.
3. Sell your photos
On websites like Shutterstock, iStock, Getty Images and Adobe Stock you can apply to become a collaborator, upload your photos and earn money when someone buys a photo that belongs to you. In terms of money, you can earn 15% of your photo value on iStock, 20% on Getty Images, 20% on Shutterstock and 33% on Adobe Stock. Just remember to read the fine print in the contract to fully understand the exclusivity clauses (there are companies that prohibit uploading the same photo on different platforms).
4. Drive in your free hours
Would you like to drive when you have time? Consider taking people to their destinations with carpooling apps like Uber, Cabify, or DiDi. If you would prefer to be a courier instead of a driver, you can register on messaging and / or food delivery platforms.
5. There are always weird jobs to do ...
In the United States there is a platform called TaskRabbit that connects people who offer services like building a table, setting up a screen, uploading furniture, etc., with people who need that service. Tasks are paid per hour worked and TaskRabbit delivers 15% of the total payment to the worker. In Mexico there is a somewhat similar platform, but it offers different vacancies such as capturist, office assistant, waiter, bar tender, etc. Apli allows you to upload your profile and apply for vacancies with flexible hours that are on its portal.
6. Take care of children and / or dogs
If you like children you can always consider the idea of offering your services as a babysitter or babysitter on your nights off, it can be with your friends and family, or looking for opportunities with acquaintances and on social networks. But now there is also the opportunity to take care of dogs, either for a few hours to take them for a walk, or taking care of them while their owners go out of town. You can register your profile on platforms such as PaseaPerros.com and hostapet.com and earn extra money taking care of pets.
7. Write app reviews
There are sites like UserTesting.com that pay you money for sharing your user experience ideas for different applications and websites. After registering and answering a very short test, you will be invited to open different websites that will record your screen and your voice as you browse and describe your experience. Some of the clients of this platform are Apple, Adobe and Facebook, and for every 20-minute session you end up you earn $ 10 dollars.
8. Sell your old cell phones and gadgets
In places like Decluttr and Gazelle you can transform your old gadgets like phones, tablets and computers into money. In the United States, a 256-gigabyte iPhone 8 Plus can fetch $ 400 at Decluttr, even with a couple of scratches. You can also sell video game consoles that you no longer use, DVDs, CDs and books.
9. Sell your clothes
Do a deep cleaning of your closet and sell what you find (that is, what you always say you will use but never use). There are many platforms where you can sell your clothes such as GoTrendier, Shopify and Mercado Libre, or in the sales groups on Facebook.
10. Sell everything you don't use
Follow the cleaning to the Marie Kondo and when you get to the KOMONO pass (all that is miscellaneous) sell the things that are still useful but that no longer have a place in your house. You can offer these items on sites like eBay, Mercado Libre, Craigslist and Segundamano, or turn to the always well-liked Facebook groups.
11. Watch movie trailers and earn money
InboxDollars sells information to big brands like Netflix, Target, Walmart, and many more, and then pays consumers for digital activities like polls, reading emails, browsing the web, or watching videos and movie trailers. It is not usually a lot of money, but it is something extra that you can earn from the comfort of your chair with very little effort. A company representative told Entrepeneur that if you spend about 30 minutes a day on InboxDollars you can earn from $ 50 to $ 100 a month (just check the task you are going to do well before starting it, because some 20-minute playlists can pay only 10 cents).
12. Rent your car
If you have a parked car, take advantage and money using platforms to rent it as CarrotShare or even Uber. In CarrotShare you can choose the days and the rate that you consider (taking into account model, year, etc.) and put it to work while you are in the office, leaving it free for the weekends.
13. Rent a room in your house
If you have a room at home that you don't use, Airbnb is the most lucrative platform to earn money in your free time. A 2017 study by Earnest found that you can earn up to $ 10,000 pesos a month renting a room. Use this tool to calculate how much you could be earning.
14. Take care of a house
Generally, jobs to take care of a house come by recommendation, but HouseSitter.com is one of the platforms with the most offers in the United States, although there are also others like TrustedHousesitters.com or housesitmexico.com for different needs. If we consider such a job for a house in New York, you could be earning between $ 44 and $ 96 a night. These types of sites usually charge a monthly fee of about $ 30 dollars to be on their list of caregivers, but considering what you can earn, it would be a great investment.
15. Transcribe texts remotely
In the information age there is no shortage of who needs text transcripts, and it is a good way to earn easy money from home. The payment usually varies depending on the length of the audio and the time it takes to transcribe it, but you can register on different platforms such as GoTranscript, TranscribeMe, Upwork and PeoplePerHour. GoTranscript pays about $ 0.60 cents per minute for audio or video, which could give you about $ 150 a month.
