Making Money 

1.	Volunteer for something you enjoy: it may lead to a job.
2.	Join organizations that have members who do what you want to do.
3.	Let your acquaintances know what kind of job you are looking for.
4.	Do a good job where you are so that you will have a good reference.
5.	Put up signs in local places for the job you want: hardware store, grocery store, church bulletin board, community bulletin board, library bulletin board.
6.	Put an advertisement in the paper.
7.	Start a home-based business selling things you enjoy, such as cooking gadgets, knives, or automobile parts.
8.	Cook meals and take to families.
9.	Do yardwork or landscaping.
10.	Have an errand-running business for others.
11.	Clean homes.
12.	Babysit.
13.	Offer after-school or summer programs for children.
14.	Tutor children in your favorite subject.
15.	Have a garage sale.
16.	Do garage sales for other people.
17.	Gake bread to sell.
18.	Bake cookies or cakes to sell.
19.	Sell dried flower arrangements.
20.	Plant a flower garden and sell fresh or dried flowers.
21.	Plant a vegetable garden and sell produce.
22.	Pick vegetables or fruit.
23.	Make fruit spread or jelly to sell.
24.	Prepare canned or frozen fruit or vegetables to sell.
25.	Raise an animal to sell at the fair.
26.	Teach music or voice lessons.
27.	Start a paper route.
28.	Have an elderly person live in your home.
29.	Make quilts to sell.

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