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So, you're 13, 12, 14, or around that age, where you want to have money. Maybe for a new game? Or maybe because you just have this sense of accomplishment when you do. Anyhow, here are some wacky ideas on making money!
Summer "Job"...?
Summer's just about here! This is the opportunity you've been waiting for, yes? Fed up of looking on the internet for answers and getting the beloved compound word: Babysit?
Don't want to babysit or your parents won't let you? No problem!
1. Make a blog and set up an Adsense account! It works!
2. Petsit, but not dogs or cats! Research about rodents, like guinea pigs, hamsters, rats, mice, and all that. It's summer, and people want to go on vacation, but there are several people who love their pets to death and won't part with them knowing that no one would take care of them! Five dollars a day is a good start. Remember to ask the owners what they usually do with their pets on a daily basis, and write it all down!
3. Youtube! This is another Adsense thing. Are you overflowing with subscribers? Or you can make people laugh with your own original video (no clips from TV shows or movies, etc)? Advertise your video, and monetize it! Sooner or later, you'll have ads on your videos that some people can't resist clicking (one time when I was fishing for a new game to play, and then, BAM! One pops up in the ad!).
4. Prizerebel. Prizerebel, oh, prizerebel, you fill our emails with spam and JOY. But you also give us enough points to buy stuff that you can sell on Ebay for some money!
http://www.prizerebel.com/
No, it's not a scam, take it from me. I live in Canada and still was able to complete several Canadian offers. Make a spam email address for prizerebel, unless you like a thousand emails in your inbox every month (NO kidding...) from ArcaMax or something.
So once you complete your offers in your spare time, pick an item that will sell for some $ on ebay (of course, you'll need an EBAY account, too).
5. Craigslist. Craigslist is the site that anyone can use to make money. Find your city in it and then scan through the free section. If there's anything you can pick up and then sell later, well, you might've just made fifty dollars. Or, if you have some stuff that you need to sell, this is a very good way to substitute garage sales. :) Just get your parent's permission. You don't want a 50 year old guy knocking on your door looking for you, yes?
Just... jobs! (that require talent)
Play an instrument? Sing? Act? Sew?! This section is for you...
1. Make a band! Are you good at an instrument? Create a band with your friends, make your own tunes, and perform at gigs! Make sure that your parents are okay with it, though.
2. Be a composer! Another music related thing. Are you amazingly, incredibly good at an instrument? Try a 30 day trial of Finale, a music composing program, and make a few songs! If you really want to you can buy Finale Notepad (the simplest, and also cheapest form of Finale) for about ten bucks! (If you ask, you can probably get your parents to buy it for you, since it's considered educational =)) http://www.finalemusic.com/
How will this get you cash? Well, advertise on craigslist if people need composers for their home movies! Don't worry if it isn't a paying gig yet, because it'll build up your experiences until people say: Wow! That guy did all THAT? Wow, he probably wants to be paid...
But there's another option in this category as well.
You can arrange sheet music for a specific instrument and sell it on a website! Simple enough. I do it myself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5isb4gVMEdU Seeee?
3. Sew! Can you sew pretty well, and just plain love doing it? Look up outfits and costumes that people would like to wear for Halloween! You have a few months to prepare. Make a site with the help of your parents (or the help of Google's search engine/Wikihow... or both) and make sure that people can order some of your costumes. Open in September/October, and get your sewing machine ready!
4. Tutor. All right, you've probably heard of this one before. Get a kid who sucks at school and tutor them until they're better. But I'll just put in mind that you can tutor more than just school. You can tutor musical instruments, the internet, writing, etc...
5. Write. Speaking of writing, if you're witty or awesomely dramatic, great at grammar, and can put your trust in the spell check, become an author! Publish your book for some money, and get paid more back! It isn't just a novel that you can publish, you can publish poems, fan fiction, comics, a book of quotes, even! Although, writing down several quotes would take a while.
A REALLY long while.
6. Become an actor! Okay, at the moment you're probably thinking: Um... NO. I won't be on the big screens or anything like that. I'm more plain than a disabled banana!
Well, if you've been spending your childhood on acting classes, this is your time to shine! I'm not talking about the big screen, I'm talking about a commercial for... er... a Barbecue doll or something.
Good luck with that.
7. Sing, because everybody likes singing kids! If they're really, really good, that is. This is almost like the band. Of course, you can sing in a band, but if you want to be a solo-singer, then I suggest that you pursue your goal and sing at some events in your town. If there's a festival, see if you can perform, it'll help boost your career. (This may actually COST you money, but if you're really good, it'll probably pay back later.) Enter contests, too! The shows like America's Got Talent, Idol (you're probably too young to audition, for idol, though), and The Next Star CAN include you. Except maybe for Idol. I bet you get paid something if you make it around the finals.
But then again, what are the chances of you having a miraculous singing voice? Meh. Just an idea.
REAL not-so-real jobs. (For fourteen year olds and up)
Here is a list of the miniature jobs that the TV shows are all mocking.
1. Would you like fries with that? Fast food, the joy of the world. Need I say more?
2. Clean dishes at a restaurant. Fun.
3. Mop the floors and clean tables at stores or a fast food/restaurant. Er... are you good with a mop and a dishcloth?
4. Bag groceries. It's harder than you think.
5. Be a clown at a birthday party. You gotta be good with kids, funny, and you have to be able to tie balloon animals!
6. Do inventory. One... two... three... four...
7. Work for Microsoft* ... five... six... seven... wait- wh- huh?
The General Odd Jobs... for 10 and up.
Here it is. Babysitting, pulling weeds, all that...
1. Babysit. Duhr.
2. Walk dogs. Duhr.
3. Yard work. Duhr.
4. Bake sale. Duh- wait, you can bake, right?
5. Car wash. Duhr.
6. Paper route. Requirements: A bicycle and time.
7. Pet sit. Cats and dogs, this time. Duhr.
8. Lemonade stand. Duhr.
9. Garage sale. Duhr.
10. Candy at school. Buy some very cheap candy at Costco or your local dollar store, and sell it at school for a profit. This does not deserve a Duhr. It works.
Hobbies that will get you money!
1. Collect coins. I used to collect coins. Just by looking around the home I found a 1914 buffalo nickel, a 1940 silver quarter, several error pennies, a poppy quarter, and many more coins that are worth some money!!! Find a place to keep all your coins. find the oldest coins in your home, and some that look very different from the others. Also, research all the foreign coins, too. And if you see any coins that have an error, keep those in mind, too.
Find a suitable coin dealer once you're satisfied (make sure you have a GOOD coin dealer that you can trust-!!!), and sell them!
Site: http://www.ehow.com/topic_22_coin-collecting.html
2. Collect stamps. Pretty much the same thing, except with stamps! Then again, I clearly know nothing about stamps since email is my friend these days. Here's a site to help you get started! http://www.howtocollectstamps.com/
3. Metal Detecting. It is possible to walk on a beach on day with a metal detector, it beeps, and you pick up a wedding ring that has been lost several days before. You can't really put an ad up for a lost ring worth a lot of money, can you? Well, then...
Can't afford a metal detector? Make your own!
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Homemade-Metal-Detector
4. Collect things. Erm... Yeah. Note 1# and 2#. Google's your friend. I'm not going to put down a million links for every single collecting hobby just to save you three seconds. What? I'm not allowed to be lazy?
Just luck? (A.K.A., good luck on these ideas...)
1. Pearly whites. Or occasionally, purples. Or something. If you're walking along a beach, collecting clams or whatever, you might discover a rare pearl inside one of them. *Snicker...* Good luck on that.
2. BALL PIT! One day at a kid's place when I was little, somewhere like Chuckie Cheese or whatever, I went into the ball pit, and I fished around the bottom. Then I felt a few coins there. I came out with about five dollars in my hand. I know what you're thinking- you're a teenager. Why in the world would you be in a ball pit? Beats me.
3. Just... lying around. Every so often you might find a couple coins on the ground. Something more than a penny, maybe. Hey, who knows? Maybe the Money Fairy will be nice?
Little by little...
1. Underneath the cashier. Okay, you probably all know this, and have done it every once and so often. You're waiting for your parents to pack up the groceries as the cashier runs it through the treadmill thingamabob. Sometimes, coins drop on the floor. Why not pick it up? (Secretly, though. The cashier caught me a few times and made me give it. Humph.)
In the future.
1. Gold. Ask your mom if there's any gold jewelry that she isn't using/you could have. Gather it all up and put it in a safe place. Since the price of gold is increasing every day, in a few years, what was once five dollars might be a hundred (we can only hope.) Send an email to yourself in the using http://www.futureme.org/ , explaining where you stored it, so you can find it again, and how much the price of gold was at the moment. You'd be surprised when you get the email.
SAVING your money.
Yes. SAVING it.
"But what about that new game that I wanted?"
Sure, you can get it, just don't decide to spend the rest of your money on candy!
Ask your parents if you can put it all your money (including your allowance, if you get one) into a bank account (for you). A good idea is to let them transfer the amount of your allowance from their bank account to your account on the days that you usually get it.
You should only spend your money on something that you really need or want, and NOT candy or chocolate or a toy that doesn't even work that well.
And sooner or later, your eyes will turn into this: $_$
... Well, hopefully not, because then you'd have some serious medical problem, and curing it would take all your hard-earned money away!!!
Good luck.
If you have any suggestions or ideas, wacky or not, please post them on the comment section!
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*If you didn't notice, that was a joke.
Right? Haha... joke...
... ri-i-ight...
