Listen up, seniors! If you’re looking for some new ways to make money in the new year, we’ve got you covered. We’ve got 8 easy ways – including delivering food, selling handmade goods, and babysitting. We’ve even discovered a way that you can get paid to lose weight – so you can tick that New Year’s Resolution off your list.
1. Babysitting
Do you love children? If so, you could make some extra money as a babysitter. As well as spreading your services by word-of-mouth, you can sign up to
SitterCity. The platform will connect you with babysitting jobs in your area, and you’ll be able to see lots of jobs advertised along with the hourly pay.
2. Deliver Food
Take away food is big business. So, if you’re in need of a flexible side-gig, UberEATS might be for you. You can choose your schedule, working as much or little as you like. This position pays between $8 - $12 per hour, and you can take home tips too.
Sign up for UberEATS, here.
3. Sell Art on Etsy
One of the greatest perks of retirement is that your free to spend time on the things that you are passionate about. If you have a creative skill, you can make and sell your items on Etsy. It’s a marketplace that only sells hand-made goods, and already has a huge audience of its own.
Get knitting, painting or wood carving etc. or, if you can’t do anything like that, now you’ve got time to start.
4. Write Greetings Cards
If you’ve got a way with words or poems, you could make extra money writing greetings cards. With
Blue Mountain Arts, you can make $300 per poem, or instead submit to
Calypso Card’s popular Selfish Kitty range.
5. Get Paid to Lose Weight
Losing weight and getting paid? That’s killing two birds with one stone. By using HealthyWage, you can place a bet on how much weight you want to lose – and if you win the bet you’ll get paid. Most HealthyWage users who win the bet, triple or double the original amount of money that they place on themselves. The only catch is that if you lose the bet, HealthyWage will keep your cash. There are not many better motivators than money, right?
6. Clean Out Your Closet
Now that you are retired, it might be a good idea to clean out your closet. You’ve likely collected lots of things you don’t need throughout your life, so why not sell them? It’s up to you how you do it, if you prefer a garage sale, go for it. Or, if you’d rather list your items online use Craiglist and eBay, or target people in your local areas with Letgo.
Additionally, if you’ve got lots of DVDs, CDs, or old phones you can sell them on
Decluttr. It’s as simple as scanning item barcodes using the app and printing out a free shipping label. Then, post them in a box and get paid.
7. Participate in a Clinical Trial
You can make money from participating in clinical trials – don’t worry it’s not how horror movies portray it. Instead, you can get paid to track your sleeping habits, for example. Also, if you’ve got a particular ailment, you can take part in a trial to get treatment all while getting paid for it. To find clinical trials in your local area, visit
ClinicalTrials.gov.
8. Enter a Writing Competition
If you like writing fiction, non-fiction or poetry, you can start making money from your skills. There are lots of writing contests online, and some pay the winner $500 or more. Check out
Write Jobs for a huge list of writing competitions on a huge array of subjects.
This article is provided by ImproveBudget. ImproveBudget is a SeniorDiscountsClub content partner offering advice and tips on how to save and make extra money. Read the original article on ImproveBudget. Copyright 2018.
