What to sell to make money?

In the small town next to ours, a lady sold her car on Craig's List for $1,500. The guy shows up with cash---great! right? Well, it turns out that it was all counterfeit, name, address, phone numbers on the papers---fake. He wouldn't be able to title it--well, maybe he knows a way or part it out. Who knows. Just be careful, nothing is safe. I guess get one of those pens that mark on real money.

about the only way your going to do 13K quick is selling METH.... Unless your in a very tourist based down crafts are not going to cut it.

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Gary in Central Ohio

you need to really think about long term or play the lottery alot and see if you can get the at least 100k that you need have you priced digging wells and having electric and water ran? it adds up fast

and if you want to pay cash for every thing lottery or drugs is the only way your gonna get that kinda cash quick or try to rob a bank or a money truck but that still wont get you what you want but it will get you 3 hots in a cot where every thing is paid for lol

I left the corporate world in 2001 never wanting to go back. It took several more years of going through menial jobs, low-level management, and making wood crafts. Nothing satisfied. The crafts didn't sell all that well and the fees for setting up a booth took most of my profits for the day. I didn't give up and found a niche making furniture which did much better but wasn't enough to keep the house we use to be able to afford.

We've sold our house, downsized, and are living in the country still making furniture but sales have slowed to almost nothing. People must be really worried about the future of our economy. We saw a peak around tax time and were having a good year but something is seriously different. I will probably try a discount sale as I see many other retailers doing the same.

For someone with the space I would think that obtaining usable discarded furniture, repairing and refinishing would bring in some cash. I may try that if sales don't pick up.

If you're looking for work-at-home income, I believe, if you can make things that people need and want you will make money. If more of us stopped buying imported junk and bought from each other our at-home businesses would do much better. I already see this happening with my customers and I always appreciate it when someone tells me that buying from the small business - locally made - is something they believe in.

Mr. Calicoty

A few questions that spring to mind before a better answer can come about. 1) where are you located? 2) LIving arrangements? 3) assets? 4)skillset? Nearest city?

All of these things need to be looked!

Please remember that a penny saved is tuppence earned.

It's nice to go on vacations and such, but unless someone else is paying your way, you need to hang on to your money.

There really is no "get rich quick" scheme. If you believe there is, you're going to find yourself a lot poorer than you are right now.

Slow and steady, be consistent, be tenacious. You'll earn what you need, but you won't make it quickly.

You WILL be there a lot faster if you think long-term, budget, and plan, plan, plan.

Romy's absolutely right about setting realistic goals. A brand new car loses a minimum of 10% of its value the minute you sign the dotted line. The cheapest car you'll ever have is the one you own outright. Repairs are always less expensive than car payments, even if you wind up replacing the drive train!

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Je ne suis pas Alice

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Who buys these backgrounds and for what purpose?

First, get a cheaper car. You can get a nice used reliable car for a whole lot less.

You haven't stated any skills, or starting money or anything else. Yes you can buy from China and sell on ebay, you could also just get up at dawn and hit the best lawn/garage/yard sales, be first there, and get good stuff at cheap prices to resell on CL or Ebay too. Estate sales as well. Or run around talking to old timers with barns and buildings and fields stacked with old stuff they might part with cheap, resell to dealers etc.

If your going to do computers, best bet is to hook up with local businesses on a contract basis to do all their computer and network install, config, repair and maybe even web site. Door to door sales, every business within an area, and knock out anyone who isn't doing a good job and replace them.

We get stuff from garage sales and swap, sell and trade it for money or other stuff but there's not enough of it for full time work. I hatch out eggs and sell chicks but that's not enough for full time work although it does bring in a little pocket money. Which is handy for the garage sales to say the least. There's the occasional clock repair but not enough for full time work. I used to do drafting and that used to pay enough for full time work but it doesn't anymore. Gardening and farming have started providing more food but not much in the cash department. I've been seeing a lot more trading and swapping going on, there's a lot less cash out there these days. For what it's worth, even our local restaurants prefer to swap vegetables for food credit these days.

There are niche markets for farm raised (purpose bred) animals and plants. University, medical, and other research labs follow Federal guidlines that prohibit them from using wild plants and animals in their research, especially research that has lethal consequenses for the animals. The animals must be purpose bred for lab and research use. They must be raised under humane conditions, be parasite and pathogen free, and be available year-round.

Since January I have had inquiries from researchers looking for the following purpose bred animals: Opossums, ground hogs, cottontail rabbits, pikas, jack rabbits, hellbenders, sirens, Colorado River toads, kangaroo rats, Mohave rattlesnakes, Gila monsters, tiger salamanders, leopard frogs, rubber boas, praying mantis, glass snakes, and others.

This type of farm/home business requires a lot of paper work to get started. It takes paperwork to run it. And it will take some time and a lot of work initially to figure out the life cycle of your animal. You can also expect to be inspected by your state dept. of Ag., the USDA, and probably the IRS.
As a part-time business it can pay amazingly well, when you are the only one that can supply your niche market.

There are huge opportunities for ambitious people willing to get off the couch, unplug the TV, gain some skills, develop a market, and work hard for a while.

Nothing worthwhile comes easy or fast.

Why not live in a roomy tent while you build or renovate and haul your water in a tank or buckets from somewhere? Been there, done that and it saves you a lot of money.

A good way to save up a fair bit of money is to move out of your place (this is assuming you pay rent) and do housesitting. Depending on how much rent you currently pay, this will add up very quickly.

I find it a lot easier to make money by cutting down on expenses. When you look really critically at what you actually "need" (as opposed to what you want), the list turns out to be quite slim. Think outside the box and practice some belt-tightening, you'll need that skill anyway once you begin to homestead