If You Need Money Right Now....

If you are home for any reason, whether it is to take care of your kids, or yourself even if you're ill, or because you're laid off- whatever, I just think that it stinks that what you are doing while you're home is seen by so many as "worthless" just because it doesn't bring in money. It's a sad state of affairs that our self worth is measured in how many dollars we can get our hands on.

Anyway, I struggle with this sometimes. I did used to be a career woman after all and I was good at my job. Before we had kids, my husband and I spent money all the time on silly things. Now we pretty much just pay the bills!

Anywho....the other day I was wanting something- I forget what it was. I think maybe to take my daughter out or start holiday shopping, but the point was I wanted to make some money RIGHT NOW.

And so I did:

The first thing I did was list a few items on Ebay. I hope to find more to sell as I sift through all the mess from the basement and playroom. I set the auctions for only three days on a Friday so I had money in my Paypal by Monday. As a bonus I signed up for a new Ebay account through Instant Profitz and they'll pay me $10 just for doing that. {A quick tip- If you have some extra cash start buying the Nintendo Wii's and reselling them on Ebay. Those things are selling like mad for double the price!}

So the Instant Profitz thing is good but they only pay monthly like most GPT's (Get Paid To's) but I knew there had to be some daily paying ones so I started searching. Sure enough, I found some nice GPT's that pay you daily or every other day straight into your Paypal account:

Deal Barbie Pays Fast- They pay you ever couple of days into your paypal. They also have the offers sorted really well so that you can only do email and zip code submits if you want to. (That's what I tend to do because it's quick and easy).

*****In case you don't know about GPT's, they are sites that get paid for providing leads and customers to other companies. Since they get paid, they also pay you a percentage. So, what you do is create a few free email addresses on Yahoo, and use them to submit to these things. Those email addresses will get spammed constantly but it's okay because you never have to really use them. And if you find something on there that you were going to buy anyway, buy it through the site and get some cash back (sometimes you get more money than you spend, so if you have a credit card the possibilities are endless).

Cash Lagoon- Pays in less than 24 hours

Gangster Greed- Pays within 24 hours AND has only free offers. (However, a lot of their offers are outdated and you have to sift through them).

They all also have great referral plans as well. If you think you can't make much from referrals, think again. I am still with Treasure Trooper and making about $100 a month from them. Only about a dollar or two of that money is from offers, the rest is in referrals. Just think, if I had put in as much effort to recruit for other programs I might be pulling in close to a grand in referral money every month for doing almost nothing! I pull in about $50-$100 per month from Google Adsense as well that are placed on my websites and blogs. Again, minimal effort for regular checks.

By the way, I think I am about to break $1000 in earnings from Treasure Trooper. (Not to mention a free X Box 360 and I Pod). I love that site!

All the info from my website (for those of you who read it) is still available if you go to www.archive.org and use the "Way Back Machine" to type in www.untroddenroad.com and choose the most recent date there. In fact here is a direct link: UntroddenRoad. I have lots to add as soon as I get the hosting back. I added a few things not mentioned here to the site's blog which is still accessible at http://christenwypy.bravejournal.com/.