Easy Ways to Make Money

Quick ways to make extra cash when you're stuck without a job.

Buy a money making machine.

It doesn't matter if you're just a teenager or just want to stay at home and earn money online. You can learn how to get slightly richer. Please note that these suggestions are not for how to make money in GTA, although some of them might work.

All 100 ideas, by category

Free Money and Handouts

  1. Apply for a scholarship.
  2. Become friends with a very rich person.
  3. Apply for unemployment.
  4. Get a bunch of inheritance from a relative who mysteriously died out of nowhere.
  5. Be a jerk and sue somebody for no real reason.
  6. Wait for your birthday. Sometimes it's all you can do.
  7. Insist on only getting money for Christmas.
  8. Get a credit card and ignore the fact that you have to pay the money back.
  9. Run for president and get some campaign money.
  10. Be born with lots of money and watch it continue to grow for no reason.
  11. Ask your parents for money.
  12. Call Bill Gates and ask him if he could spare a few million.
  13. Keep buying more credit cards forever.

Sell Food and Handmade Goods

  1. Sell cookies door to door and compete with the girl scouts.
  2. Tie twigs into bracelets and sell them for way too much.
  3. Find pretty rocks and sell them.
  4. Catch some fish and sell them to whoever buys fish.
  5. Sell sandwiches on eBay.
  6. Sell vacuums door to door and tell people they really suck.
  7. Buy a cow and sell the milk and/or cheese.
  8. Sell hats. People love hats.
  9. Sell lemonade, obviously.
  10. Sell limeade as a lemonade alternative.
  11. Start a taco truck business.
  12. Try to sell an apple to somebody.

Sell Your Stuff and Body Parts

  1. Sell your old cards.
  2. Sell your old toys at a garage sale.
  3. Sell your soul.
  4. Sell used golf balls on eBay.
  5. Sell your stupid overpriced school textbooks.
  6. Sell your old video games you said you were going to beat but never did.
  7. Sell your old movies to whoever will still buy them.
  8. Sell old phones on eBay.
  9. Sell your hair. I think you can do that.

Online and Gig Work

  1. Take 50 online surveys so you can get a dollar.
  2. Become a virtual receptionist that people like to yell at.
  3. Do tech support for old people.
  4. Rent out your room (or part of your room) with Airbnb.
  5. Tutor people in stupid hard boring math.
  6. Deliver food to people with one of those food delivery apps.
  7. Rent out your parking spot if you happen to have a spare one.
  8. Do odd jobs on Craigslist and hope it doesn't end horribly.
  9. Be a life coach, whatever that means.
  10. Have people rent your jacket.

Magic and Wishful Thinking

  1. Buy a money making machine.
  2. Invent a time machine and use it to win the lottery.
  3. Invent a time machine and use it to stop yourself from buying that stupid thing you bought last week.
  4. Figure out a way to clone money.
  5. Keep wishing out loud for money until it magically shows up.
  6. Lose some baby teeth and put them under your pillow.
  7. Ask Santa for money.
  8. Find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
  9. Bury your money and hope it grows a money tree.

Gambling and Get-Rich Schemes

  1. Join some pyramid scheme because clearly you're an exception to the rule.
  2. Sell bitcoin, unless you didn't buy any earlier, which sucks.
  3. Gamble your life savings in Vegas and cross your fingers really hard.
  4. Mine for gold. There's gotta still be some left.
  5. Get super good at blackjack but don't cheat. They don't like that.
  6. Somehow get good at roulette.
  7. Get a metal melting thing for circuits and strip the old copper and gold from the RAM drive. Like 9+ dollars of gold there.
  8. Buy something and sell it instantly at a price $100 more and say that it's "limited edition"

Real Jobs and Trades

  1. Become a plumber since they're in high demand these days.
  2. Become an electrician or something. The world needs more of those.
  3. Get a paper route, if people still do that.
  4. Become a Greenlandic translator because there aren't many of those.
  5. Get a job at McDonald's or whatever. I guess it's something.
  6. Become a janitor. They actually have some nice benefits!
  7. Learn how to repair really large and specific equipment.
  8. Invent a repair kit for old first-aid kits

Found Money and Loopholes

  1. Look on the ground for dropped change.
  2. Pretend monopoly money is real money and hope nobody notices and arrests you.
  3. Just sit around and wait for inflation to happen.
  4. Look for money in the lost and found.
  5. Check your pocket. Maybe you have some money you forgot about.
  6. Exchange your money for Zimbabwe money so you can have trillions.
  7. Take all the pennies from the take a penny leave a penny. Leave none. Be that guy.

Content and Digital Hustles

  1. Write a blog that will definitely become successful. I believe in you.
  2. Write an eBook about sports or something.
  3. Become a social media manager person for a business owner person.
  4. Become a famous youtuber (somehow).
  5. Make an app that "ironically" uses excessive microtransactions.
  6. Become a DJ that plays objectively good music.
  7. Get really really good at a video game and win a competition.

Arts, Crafts, and Photography

  1. Sell gnome stuff on Etsy.
  2. Sell homemade jewelry on Etsy.
  3. Design t-shirts for oddly specific local attractions.
  4. Take pictures of people with a really expensive camera.
  5. Film a wedding and try to pay attention the whole time.
  6. Paint pictures of kittens and sell them in art galleries.

Begging and Street Performing

  1. Keep asking people for money until one of them does.
  2. Play guitar on the street and sing about people walking by.
  3. Play jazz music on the street with a saxophone or something.
  4. Ask people if they'll sponsor you for no reason.
  5. Jokingly charge people for looking at your face but hope they take you seriously.
  6. Dance on the streets. Have a hat out for people to drop money in.

Pet and Kid Sitting

  1. Start a daycare for good kids only.
  2. Walk a dozen dogs at the same time.
  3. Take care of people's cats while they're away.
  4. Find lost pets and gather the rewards.
  5. Babysit somebody's ant farm since that sounds easier than a dog.

What to Do When Bored

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Questions
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25 Shortest Jokes Ever
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17 Things to Do at School
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22 Most Boring Things to Do
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29 Fun Things to Do with Friends
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Why settle for a simple no thank you?
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16 Funny Movie Theater Prank Ideas
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56 Ideas for Cool Things to Draw
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48 Easy Things to Paint
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