639: 30 Ways to Make Extra Money for the Holidays
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There are three ways to make extra money for the holidays. The average american spends close to a thousand dollars on Christmas gifts. And I probably even include any holiday, relate travel and exclude expenses. Because why I only to do an episode on ways to make extra money for the holidays.

What are some of the relatively simple low start up costs, fast to see results, types of science husks to help soften the blow? That upcoming bump in your budget and to help me out with these is someone who took her side as well into a full time business. And those thing to about budgeting as well from inspired budget that com and the inspired budget forecast. Alison bag, well, thanks for having me.

I'm excited to talk about these thirty ways. And I have to say I ve the idea of presenting people with ways that you're not signing up for this full time commitment for months and months and months on end. A lot of things you can do once or twice to get some cash in the bank and spend money on what you want and then call IT today.

right? I don't know you'll find podcasting on this list is there's always another thursday come around. You never know.

Watch your capital to what you signed up for this, but now you've got over a billion downloads on the inspired budget show. Encourage people to check that out after you done with this episode. But this one of my favorite formats, just we're going to throw out a bunch different money making ideas.

I know I promised thirty at top of the show will see how many we end up with. I be bored. I be less as the peril of recording a live intro, know what's gna happen next.

But I want to start off with one that has been fairly consistent for me to the two of, you know, a few hundred dollars a year, and that is paid market research side hustle. I just get a kick out to do with these online focus groups or even one on one interviews. Hey, would you demo this, you know, new software for us? Tell you, tells what you think about IT.

I've got a whole list of different companies that you can sign up for the facilitate this type of thing. We talked about a few of them before uh, like recruit and field. Mavy is a new one for me.

Can like a with a more business to business focus product report card user interviews respond a link up, although as linked up the big list that I have. But you ever participate in this kind of thing? I don't know. I just get a kick because it's like you usually fifty to a hundred hundred beauty box an hour, sometimes retelling your .

opinion about stuff. I have never personally participle, but that does interest. I idea that I don't have to go anywhere to do IT, right?

Like that's my big thing. As a mom, as a busy person, I don't necessarily want to do. You have to go anywhere to do IT.

Both these, uh, nowadays are remote. When I first started doing IT, IT was in person. There was a swim in the parking lot of my econ do in atlantic IT comes up to be after work one day.

Do you like to drink beer? Like, okay, tell me more. Do you have any other White friends that like to drink beer? Like i'm sure I could recruit a friend and they paid us seventy box to go taste this things we we have to go in person to I was like one of the first you paid market is like.

this is very goal yeah you're getting paid to hang out with your friends and drink hopefully good beer. Not bad.

Yeah, not bad at all. You don't give you feedback on that stuff, but that's that's one way to do IT. The chAllenges is not going to be not necessarily something that you can bank on happening every week, every month. So you can have to cast your screener surveys out there and hopefully get picked once or twice. But generally, if you want to box a year for for that offset some holiday give cost.

exactly. Can I throw one out that I really like go for? okay. So number five, on the list here is Christmas light installation.

And I say this because i'm big on Christmas lights at our house. I also big on halloween decorations, but not any other holidays. But anyway, my husband, thankfully, is equal.

Get on the latter and go hang Christmas lights on our two story, which can be a little terrifying, but my friend down the street is not. And he actually paid my husband to hang lights one day. And I was like, no, don't do IT, but he not giving us a gift card.

And I was like, this is a great option for people who what to go out and do that, have a letter. People usually buy the lights. They provide the lights themselves. And you just go up there, hang up, come back after Christmas, take them down. You get a couple hundred box that way for sure.

Yeah, I was looking at because we have of a high peak on our our house, not not the rolls face the south, but just like a point where my latter would not reach. And so was like, would a cost to get somebody I think he would look cool, have lights up there? And IT was hundreds of dollars.

But I remember the tag line on this person's site. You know, they're standing out drenched in rain. IT was a great bit of marketing because it's like the northwest and it's wet and cold is like you really want to be up on the on the later up on your roof.

Do this? I didn't think so. Hi, we instead like that's pretty good market.

I right there. So Christmas slight installation, absolutely a holiday theme. Decide hostel. What I what else .

has stood out to you here? I also really like pet sitting. I know that you mention rover dot com.

I have a dog and a cat. We do travel a lot, not just for the holidays, but just other times during the year. And IT is very expensive to board a dog at a facility in a keno.

They could get sick. I don't always know if they are getting enough energy out. So having a part of my house would be amazing to be able to check on my cats, walk my dog, feed him all the things.

I think it's a really great way for anyone who likes animals, but not necessarily people. You don't have to like people to do IT, which is a plus for some people. It's a really great way to earn extra cash.

We traveled last year over thanksgiving and had a friend of a friend, watch her dog. And I, I forget what SHE charged, but I was not an, they were like, fifty to seventy box and night, I want to say. And for a six night trip or five, nine, three, how long we were gone was like, oh, he was, he was. Notice for IT was significant. So like a great year for her, he was hanging out at home, doing thing, hanging out with the and making some money.

exactly. And people are going to be traveling for thanksgiving. People are going to be traveling for Christmas, even just one night away. I don't want to board my dog for a night, so having someone that can their stay at my house, even just check in in the morning and evening, super easy way. I D happily pay someone fifty dollars a day to do that.

Absolutely over document is worth a look spread. The probably the biggest to pet sitting site out there, wag is another one is on the cat sitting side, if you don't want a little dogs at all. Some different marketplaces out there that we can link up in, in the shown notes for him, I won't tell you the story of you know our neither was having this garage sale.

So another one on our list is this product flipping a reselling hustle where you you're start to cost just limited to whatever inventory risk you're comfortable making. Like what what deals can you find we did to this whole episode with rob, the flea market flipper, and how he finds these crazy unique items that can sell for thousand dollars, fit or more. But this guy, I never had this like nineteen eighties style, like team USA olympics, uh, starter jacket.

And he was like, just amazingly retro vintage, had this crazy cool. You know, I really awkward, dly, aggressive, like bald eagle on the back of IT. I, so I go home and natural. What is what they go for? A eb, and like a hundred box.

And then by the time I went back to see what he wanted for IT, no body want to take IT IT like, oh, you, that an easy thing to go to flip because I think he was, everything must go, like five dollars, five dollar in everything. But that's definitely won that. That could be on your list, if you like that treasure hunt.

take the side as well. Yeah, i'm not a big treasure hunt person. I don't know there's something about like my time. I don't want to know.

Maybe i've just gotten lazy and old age like I like, I don't I don't want to necessarily like be out and about running around doing treasure hunting. And I feel like my lazing. This has shown because one of the things on the list you have here is tutoring.

And like, I have to tell you, i'm a former teacher OK. I taught for ten years, and I hire someone to come in my home every single week and toter my son in seventh grade math. It's not that I can't do IT, it's just that there is a natural battle between parents and children like I could say IT. And then the guy who comes into you to him can say, IT and IT clicks for my son. I pay him a dollar a minute, so he comes every single week, and I pay him cash sixty dollars a week. And I cannot tell you knowing all of these other parents in the area keep people went tutors, the really great way for anyone who is a teacher or even if you're not a teacher, you working with some of the Younger students, even with just reading, so really easy way for you to go into someone s home tuder if you don't want to go into their home, you can meet them at the local library so you have some groups listed here, why is that? But honestly, there are so many different online to turing services, but even just getting out in your community and talking to people and just even like if you have children in school letting those teachers know, hey, I open for tutera doesn't have to be a super consistent thing if you don't want IT to be but as apparent, I will happily pay for tutoring for my child if IT means I don't have this big back and forth.

Comment, this is a good time of year to get into a two. Those those first report cards have come home. I'd like the wake up call like, oh, maybe we need a little bit of help.

Yes, my son was asking us on a hike the other day, why can't we do home school, their friends in the neighbor d or home school, and like what, you need two ingredients to home school. You know, I leave one parent that's not working and you need a kid. There's willing to listen to instruction from that parents and that only we have either right now.

And we've telling you to put periods of the idea sentences for for years and still like now, would world's longer sense. But that's actually my brother's full time business is a tutor. And so he's built this book, a business up and does really well.

I think he's got austerity, something students a week that he sees as got his schedule filled up so I can either aside or so or something that can parlay into a full time business. Now the next one that i've got for you is one that you got a promise, ed, to use responsibly. But if you're going to be spending money over the holidays anyways, my take is you might as well get some free money from a behaved for to IT.

And what i've talked about is credit card sign up bonuses. I don't think i'm allowed to name you know specific offers because they change all the time, but take a look at what sign up bonuses might be available. Like if you're going to be five hundred box, some cards will give you two hundred dollars cash back.

Me, that's a no brainer. It's like you know something that easy to do and then there's travel reward cards with even more. Sometimes they have higher minimum stands. But if you know you're going to spend the money anyways, you might as well get some of that a free cash back in the holidays or a good time to do IT because expenses rise and it's easier to .

hit those minimum spend requirements. Yes, i've actually known someone that uses her credit card word responsibly all year long and then uses those points for cash back for Christmas gifts because he knows that. Okay, all year along, i'm gone to use IT and IT.

This is my essentially my Christmas budget, which works for her. So i'm also a really big fan of credit card sign on bonuses I also love. I'm looking forward on your list maximizing cash back.

A big fan of fetch rewards and record my husband, i've been very lucky. He kindly does the grocery shopping in our house. When the pandemic hit, he was, he said, to have and to take over this responsibility and wipe the groceries.

And he just has never stopped. He continues to go, and every single time he gets back, he hands me that I scan the receipt with my fetch APP and build up those points to get back for gift cards. And if this is something that you're looking to do, you can actually use those gift cards to buy gifts or heck, give those gift cards away as gifts themselves, which i'll save you money on your Christmas spending yeah.

i've got a bunch of these IT seems silly because because each recipe is worth like one to ten sense. I be sometimes a little bit more if you hit the right product. I guess some of one I I bought if you buy the right thing, it's like to five box or more.

It's like shooting know for take a picture you receive cool who cares if I bought spin, drift and pea butter like you know what they're doing with my data? Like that does not really bother me, but hague is one fetch like you I bought to get a whole list to this is easy. It's like free money type of thing and absolutely take a entails of that.

We I know when we hope to have more details on this later this month. Actually, that's a gift rapping service and something mobile gift rapping service because you don't part one, the pain of Christmas is you don't come up with gift ideas, are doing the shopping and everything. And then the second part of the pain hits when you like crap, got a rap all this. But so maybe there is an opportunity to take that pain away and provide bad service for other people or for corporate clients. We are doing gifting for their their customers.

for their employees. That's brilliant. The corporate client like you go well in on one corporation, one company that's going to pay you big money to wrap everything.

We'll probably give you the rapping paper, give you a money for the rapping paper. I did this as a teenager or I one of those wear people that enjoys rapping gifts every holiday. What I do is I lock myself in my bedroom.

I put on some sort of like cheesy hallmark movie. I drink wine and I wrap the present. It's like, I don't know. It's a special time for myself. I look forward to IT every year, but I have family members who do not enjoy IT and literally would pay me money years and years and years ago to wrap their presence that I would know a teenager not drinking wine, the entire process was still the same, minus the alcohol. And there are some people out there that really do love this, which is crazy to other people, but when life is busy, sometimes they are willing to pay to helps someone do those things. And you could be the then that gets the benefit of that.

Yeah, absolutely. That sounds like addressing the Christmas cards. We have the kids like draw something Christmas on the, on the envelope, E, M and M, K. Do the next one, address the card, eat m and m, going to the next one. And it's a lot of you're going to a family activity related to that.

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And the next holiday money making idea that I want to throw out is a Christmas card photos. So my wife does wedding and family photography as a side hustle, and two to four hundred dollars per session. Everybody wants sent nice family picture for their Christmas cards. So for her, season starts a little bit earlier, starts probably september, october.

You know, the weather is still nice ish in the northwest and then kind of tapers off a little, but if you're in a warmer climate in going to november in some cases, but people you know want that nice looking, everybody looking at the camera, everybody smiling, happy. I look, here's a snapshot of our beautiful family. And can this is one that can really pay off prevalence y at the equipment .

and and know how for IT. I love IT. I see one on your list that I almost wish I knew about years ago so that I could have utilized IT not like, I don't want to do this.

I want someone to do this for me. And it's drive by grinches. Nick, I had never heard about this until I read about IT. Can you please tell, talk about IT because IT brings me so much joy as a mom. And i'm like, i'm already thinking of waste level this up.

Yeah, how could I hear this garage? So this was a story that, you know, got some media attention a few years ago. This is A E hecker was the guy feature day.

He, he was a teenager at the time in colorado. Dresses up you, the ginge costume of an amazon, maybe one hundred fifty for, like a really nice one, and then starts going around people's yards. You know, the parents would hire them to do this, messes up the decorations, starts thrown snowballs at the windows.

Know the kids are watching their like grinches. You know, we Better be good for us. If you could do the same thing. You hire a santana to dry by or have have bud the elf, you don't walk by ourself. Then I think plenty of of opportunity to recreate this in your local neighbor d and and make a yes and it's fine.

I mean, it's fine. IT seems like it's IT hasn't end date. So if any ones looking for something that says, you know, I don't want to commit something long term, this has a clear end date, right Christmas day or Christmas eve. And I think IT probably is something that just spreads joy and it's good to do that and earn money at the same time. Yeah.

according to this article, he was charging twenty box of piece and probably got tips on top of that and booked over a one hundred jobs s so a couple thousand box over the period of a few weeks as a teenager.

Not a bad gig. yeah. Like, okay, in a couple years i'm going to have my son do that. That sounds easy. You even just put on like a sign up, genius, just some easy way to sign up, pay and show up at whatever time you're supposed to do. I love IT .

when that kind of maybe piggy backs off. The top of that is doing corporate events or company parties, either as a photographer, as a part time bartender, as entertainment at the event. We talked to brian on the show few years ago who was a kind of like a slighter hand magician, slash comedian type of performer.

And what he says, like Lucy wanted, book me you a tuesday in july. I'm selling cheap, but if you need me, he had a friday evening or saturday evening in december, like the rates go through the roof is just supply and demand. Here he was making, he's like, I I always love magic, is like I make a thousand dollars months doing this started as a side house, and I became peaceful time thing. He was easy toward retirement. I ve.

that's cool because it's something that is almost like a hobby that morphed into a solution for him to make more money, save money. And you say, quit his job. Like, that's, that's incredible.

I love IT. Okay, I saw one on here that is also definitely hasn't end date. And IT is a Christmas tree decorating service, says AManda, where quit her job as a teacher to become a travelling Christmas tree decorator. Rushe only works a couple months a year, takes off the rest of the time, and that is amazing.

And he started an average of a thousand dollars for three, which is at all to have multiple trees. Like to give you a sense of the types of clients that he is that she's targeting. But we had somebody sent me, this was like A A porch pumpkin decorating service.

And IT was like, you know, these nicholai people are spending money on this kind. You can to establish a name in your local area and build a little bit of a social following and take beautiful pictures of your work. And I get and booked up.

What would stress me out is like the the seasonality. I mean, I guess you just have to get over that. Like, well, i'm going to sit around and I guess I got the other eleven ones to do almost nothing and then i'm going to bank on making everything in this really quicker rush of a period.

But everybody, those interior decorator jobs are like have a high appeal, same way, like event planning. And like IT seems like that seems like such a cool job. But here is an example of somebody getting IT done making a living doing the the Christmas style decorating thing we had.

Actually Andrew waggle, our friend from on when the personal finance podcast, he told me the story about starting, uh, a Christmas tree. Stand himself like I think he was, you know, church parking lot, busy intersection you haven't a contact in north CarOlina iner where we got the trees from ship up down to florida. I remember he said, you want the guy who walks up the lot.

Where's the biggest tree you got right? It's like, okay. And so that's going to be like a four hundred dollar sale.

Is not that more overhead, more time required that because you could hire your staff to go and do this. But there's there's a stand down the road from us. It's just kind of a little pop up vacant lot in the corner of this busy intersection.

And I got to imagine that they do a killing over the over the course. five? six.

Yeah, but they do. And it's always fun. It's people enjoy IT that go out as a family gravitate.

Y, i'd did that growing up, and I have amazing memories of being able to do that. And so I don't know. I guess i'm i'm also thinking like you get to provide that for people. You get to provide that joy and make some money in the process. Another one on the list is baking.

Now i'm not a big Baker, but if you do enjoy baking, this can extend beyond those just cookies like the really beautiful cookies I am even thinking of like coffee, even if it's like gourmet popcorn that you make. Imagine selling that two companies that are going to be hosting a party and so everyone walks away with a bag of the your go, my popcorn, the tone aid. There are so many options during this season.

People are busy. They might not have time to bake. They might not want to bake, but they want to show up to parties with something in hand that taste licious looks beautiful. And so this is a really great option for anyone with an oven, with an oven and a love of breaking.

yeah. If you gonna want to expand that, probably going to need to go through some commercial kitchen license or or cotton kitchen kitchen license registrations. And staff know my friend was doing this and liver more, and SHE would sell out in fifty box for a dozen cookies. You know, he got really good at the custom decorations.

And if that was a really significant source of income and kind of became a little bit of of a party on pickup day, right? Should batch process everything and then have people come by the driveway and pick up up like I can? Actually, I can't do delivery and may be you do local delivery just the way that there are license work, but if you come by my place and pick him up and then know .

me and will be good yeah, i've known people personally that have done this and they've haven't done the cookies that are already in the box and IT goes home to the kids and the kids decorate or even a cookie decorating a class where you can go and bring kids or it's just people who want to learn how to decorate cookies. So there some ideas of ways to expand that leaning into that. There's also like reef making the classes.

I've actually gone to one where we made a beautiful Christmas read. I showed up all of the were there, and some very creative person, more creative than me, guided us through how to hand make our Christmas ref. I still use IT to this day because it's something I created. And I probably paid six year seventy dollars to hang out with some of my friends and do this. I saw IT as an opportunity to have a girl's night and walk away with a beautiful Christmas story.

Ah I really like that one. We will call IT the experience economy, whether like it's it's excuse to get out in the real world, hang out with friends, do something creative, crafty with your hands, like the sip, sip paint type places, paint this picture or make this potery thing, and you got the appetizers and the wine going.

We did an epo de last month with an episode or with a woman who was doing these craft workshops, started out on making earrings. I'm trying to sell them them on that. See you try to sell on like you market and step like, wait a minute, I give each other people had to make these years, you know, takes the same man of time.

And all of a certain I got twenty or forty people pay me to come to this class, and I was everything I really like, the idea of what a Christmas been on IT generate uh, decorating class, the cookie decorating class, the read making type of class. SHE specifically said, I want to go after the community center type of venues because they were really cheap to rent. And you bring in your own supplies, materials to your own marketing and getting people in the door.

Yeah, that's a great. We just hit us at a friend's house. A friend knew this person and said, hey, can you get I can get ten women to come in and do this.

And so then IT cost you nowhere. Then I cost you no money to host IT. I think that the person whose home was in like SHE got to do her reffing free.

yeah. So not bad, not very cool. But you know of the kids additions that we've had this year as but a three d preter. And so sometimes we go to these events that we had, salmon days is a cause all about, you know, the return of the salmon like this, a big thing you learned about in elementary school. But there was a spook selling, like three printed dragon's other little figures. And, you know, now having the printer, you know, the cost of the filming in is know there's like maybe two dollars within a worth of material into the twenty five dollar thing that they're selling like H I wonder if three departs of Christmas ornament or other decoration type of items and try and sell those.

Well, nick, my son, my toilet old son, also has a 3 prior when you said the drug and I like， I could probably walk in the next grab, he sells to those at school. In middle school, he he walked around with a backpack full of three printed dragons.

And other thing, he's takes special orders and he's literally selling them and someone came in and started selling them for a lot more and then ever got more business because everyone was like, you're expensive. We're going to go to evan because he's cheap. And so guy, I mean, he's selling these dragons.

And then I said, what are you doing with your money? He said, on buying Candy. So we have some work to do for using that money for good purpose.

But you would be surprised at what a three printer can print. I was surprised to see the type of quality things that he's coming out with. And like you said, the cost of film met and then obviously the three d printer to start up is is another cost. But if you one already.

that's awesome yeah I don't know. It's really cool, creative to see what they can come up with. The terms of the design, terms of the designs are even already out there. You can go out and h and create web created like the the razor scooters are always just all over the garage.

And we end up looking first on amazon as as there are like a little stand you could stick that front will and then of course, like shoot that looks like something that how to behave of the print shit up. Oh, IT works pretty well. So it's become a practical addition, uh, rather than just a fun educational type of thing as well.

The next idea that I will throw out is maybe a little bit more practical hours for dollars. everything. And that's to pick up just additional shifts. There are a bunch of odd job apps or shift work apps or gig apps.

They know as companies look to rap up retail staff, restaurant staff, warehouse staff during the holidays, it's opportunity to come on board and IT pick ups extra hours. If you have the capacity to do that when no low is one that has been reasonably high rated, I think its work now locally will no low back. But you check that out. We've got a few others that we can link up in the resources there generally know our way rates going very based on where you live, but usually in the fifteen to twenty dollar hour arrange or not super, super high earning power, but definitely an option for low, low barrier to entry. Y, and I got to make money quickly.

Another one for a low barrier to entry. Y, and I think guaranteed money. When we talk about all of these creative ideas, sometimes you're wondering, as that actually like how I got to find people pay me for this stuff.

But one that you will not have trouble for is donating plasma. Have you ever donated plasma? Yeah, I haven't either. I was tend to two in college, but I did actually cross barrier. I have known people who did. But that's one of those ways of doing at once, getting getting twenty to fifty bucks in your pocket and being able to say, okay, this is going to help just offset the cost of some of those expenses for Christmas. Like you said, people are spending about a thousand dollars on average. And any way that you can just make a couple fifty dollars here, two hundred dollars there just helps offset the cost so that you don't end up and credit card debt and dredging the day after Christmas when you have to deal with all these financial choices .

yeah exactly if you can find ways to offset the cost to as those costs are coming in. And this is one you, from what I hear, relatively painless, as long as you don't mind needles too much. And a lot of the new rather a lot of the plasma donation centers have this like new donor incentive program, where it's like if you make four donations in your first five weeks or something will give you this bonus.

And so could be a good time to get into that course. Do your own, do experience on long term benefits by understanding is your body regenerates supplies m relatively quickly so you can donate more often than you could donate blood or something like that as well that takes well, other recoup that lost. But this case sounds like it's pretty quick.

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The common thread of all of these trips, though is airbnb. We love being able to get exactly what we're looking for in a place to stay and have a more local experience then staying in some giant hotel chain. And you know me, i'm always thinking about the next hostile idea, the next income stream, right? And one that at the top of the list is hosting our place on airbnb.

While we're traveling that way, the house doesn't have to sit empty. We could the income to help pay for the trip. And we've had from several successful airbnb hosts on the show.

And what's interesting is a lot of them started with almost that exact strategy, running their place or even a spare room while there at home taking inspiration from that. You might have an airbnb right under your nose. In fact, your home might be worth more than you think.

You find out how much at airbnb, that com slash host, that's airbnb dom slash host, to find out how much your home is worth. All right, we're back with Allison from inspired budget that come with more money making ideas for the holidays. We talked about some low berrier to entry types of of side hustles.

Another one that is going to make about everyone's list is to do the delivery game or the ride share game. This is like, I, you know, maybe not the most lucrative long term type aside hustle. But IT is hours for dollars.

IT is something that you can start really quickly. This of courses in starch. This is ubs. This is lift. These are you plug and play type of things where if you don't mind driving around and you've got the time and capacity to do that, absolutely A A way to offset some .

of those holiday costs. One that I will never be doing because I live in is snowy movement. I am not familiar with this, but I am assuming that in areas where he does not a lie, people have to get to work.

And i'm guessing there is definitely a pain when IT comes to early morning snow removal. So snow removal, great idea. You can go go in low cost by doing IT all meaningly.

I'm assuming I have no idea how much IT costs to to IT purchases. No blower. I live know how work, but what I can say is I know people and I know that people don't necessarily like doing chores like this. And so this is a really great option, specifically for the winter time, for you to go round, help neighbors out, get some, get some money in turn for IT and good, good manual labor.

Man, yeah, you could travel the driveway. You could do with the old fashion way, or get that snowplow attachment for your truck. And reminds me of like mr.

Law from the simpsons back in the day, we had some friends that live up in the mountains or had a second home up in the mountains, and they would call the guy like on their way up if they knew that had snowed, and he'd come make a special to things, probably forty box per shot, to just clear the burn after the driveway, because the city plan would come in and do the road. But then, of course, they were pilot like four fourteen stone, so we can get IT to the driveway. So, okay, so the other guy will come out and clear out the driveway. And so you get to recur, especially if you have that winter climate where IT make sense, you could have twenty, forty.

fifty box a job. I imagine people that want you over and over again, you will be just be on speed dial, be the snow person.

Yes, OK, I got one that you could do while you're out a and about doing your Christmas shopping and might might not make a special trip for IT. But what you're out about, and this is field beijing, which is a mystery shopping APP or kind of like a sometimes a product display checking APP. You pull IT up, i'll give you which gigs or nearby and you can stack up three, four, five of them in proximity.

Maybe they're the same store or nearby stores. And like I go check this product display or or go test out this product. Sometimes we will remembrance. You can tell us what you think most of these are not huge, like you know three to ten or or bux A A piece. But if you could get stack up on top of the iron majority running, the shopping majority doing, here is a fun, little fun, little exercise.

us all, one that I actually came up literally today. I went and got coffee with my friend. And when we were driving back, SHE said, Allison, I wish I kid you not.

He said this, not making this up for the podcast. SHE said, I want to to hire someone to come clean my house just before the holidays, like deep clean our house shoes. I want to hire someone necessarily every other week or once a month, but he wants some extra help with getting her house clean ready for company right before the holidays.

So residential or commercial cleaning service, this is a really great opportunity because people want to put their best but forward when IT comes to the way their houses presented, and they also won't help in the process. So looks like Anthony and genoa grew their dallas area residential cleaning service to twenty five thousand dollars a months in revenue. I'm guessing they hired out other cleaners, did do that for them.

But some people like cleaning. I mean, I get myself stuck on like the cleaning tiktok videos, and I don't even enjoy IT, but I definitely would be willing to hire someone to come do that for me. Yeah.

they're probably over one hundred. Great about that several years ago and be another upcoming episode on how to start this cleaning business without having to do the cleaning yourself. It's one of these column super fragmented market.

If if you look you think about your local area, even nationally, there's no dominant player that has more than just a sliver of market share. And so that spells an opportunity kind of create a branded customer, that customer but like a professional presence that a lot of these solo Operator type of businesses don't have. They rely on what a mouth no have a huge um digital marketing presence.

And so if you can come in and provide that and then golf go fine people to do know how to do the cleaning and you'll help them, hey, we're going to help you get more business and fill up your calendar. You can be a win for everybody. So that's kind of the game that they were playing in the way that has been presented on the show in the past.

On the commercial side, IT was going after, you know, restaurants and offices in the site. There is like what's going to happen in the office hours got to happen after the restaurant clothes got after, after people go home for the day from the office. And so made a good side on that front.

And similarly, like the the people that we talk to started off, and I do myself make extra money. And then as he starts to scale, well, I can be three places at once. So i've got to hear a team to go to this and can elevate yourself to that. C E O or you know chief Operating person level, managing schedules and and everything else.

And I love how you said when he starts to scale, because the people who are doing this, maybe one on one, don't know how to scale, but they want to be able to fill their calendar, they want to be able to have that consistent income. So like you said, if you were to kind of become like the person that's in charge of this area of health, keeping our cleaning services, then you are also providing that opportunity for people to have that consistent income, which I think is great, like within your community.

And definitely one that has legs beyond just the holiday season where a lot of the times the brand button is that recurring, we by a weekly, monthly type of service, it's like if I get to cry and they like what i'm doing and they grow accustomed to having their house cleaned a regular frequency, they're likely to stick around for a long time. So you can be a pretty sticky business in that sense to fun.

One that we've done in the past, a little bit less so recently is this print on in the end type asius. So where if you have you are family gathering and you want everybody to have the matching shirt that says your friends giving twenty twenty four or or family reunion, you know something like that, some fancy Christmas saying you maybe pull something from from a move movies I know him, or something like that you can absolutely make this. You do him is on merge.

You do red bubble. You even you don't think just like selling IT to your family or you know, having everybody could to be the cost, but you can also put IT out to a much broader market and see if do what else likes. Your design typically make four, five books per short, so kind of a volume game.

But is is kind of a fun one to play that creativity card. And I enjoy people watching, seeing what people have other shirts, knowing that, you know, somebody on that might just sold. I, I, I saw that you know, six month ago.

Yes, speaking of clothing, a mobile laundry service, clothing and cleaning where you run by pick up boundary for people who are really busy, maybe they don't have in in unit washers driver. If they live in a very urban area, you can do laundry return IT of folded. It's a great way for you to make extra money by literally just you washing clothes and doing something else in you're off time hack. You could be washing clothes and then doing some online surveys and making money doing online surveys while you're making money washing people's laundry y and doing this like mobile laundry service. Yeah.

that's right. The machine is doing the work for most the time. And then yeah, you got to fold IT what IT comes out because of, of course, there's got to be a gigg APP appear appear APP for everything.

The a laundry APP is called pipeline or one of the laundry apps. They're probably not everywhere just yet, but they seem to be doing a little bit of a marketing push. They set me, you know, one of these know, if you want to cover the story, had some people earning up to six dollars a month, which is probably a lot of laundry.

Y and I know what that works to on an hourly basis in the wearing tary put on your own washing machine, but still like that. You know, it's not method. They can add up if if people in your area are starting to use this this type of APP. We had a listener in australia, and you know, she's like I because I I think I put on my about page or something like, I just hate ironing and a very grateful, have a job where this is not required anymore. I was just like this pet people mind, which is like, love you like, I actually love earning and actually turn that into aside and now I get paid to watch movies you wise here and other other people school steps like, okay, three, four hundred box about to do with something to that mobile bo under service.

Another good one to add to this, and it's something you can do after words so you can have a regular nine, five come home, do that at night and you don't have to be out of the house, which I think is great too, because a lot of people don't necessarily want to do that if they don't have to. So it's another. And for that.

yes, we have one that the is usually like the boys out trip does. It's the Christmas tree. Pick up service after the holidays and with ten dollar donation, twenty dollar donation, they'll come by with this big truck with kind of build your trailer with walls and stuff on the side and they're you'll put you take a dream away afterwards like, okay, you could do something that similar or you take a page out of the year one eight hundred got junk playbook.

Probably be Better for you after the holidays where people you get new gift we got to give to this old stuff. What we do, maybe you could sell IT signal often to do that in your neighborhood. Maybe could do the junk or removal service like brian was doing with one eight hundred got junk.

But other ways to take a part of that declaring trend OK, I have to do this one. I have to say IT caregiving. I I used to make a lot of money as a teenager, just whenever parents were wanting to go out to their Christmas parties, friend parties.

So caregiving, you don't have to be a team manager or to do this. I would actually prefer an adult maybe come in to my home and to my kids versus a teenager. There are so many sites care of com at sir cities.

You can even do care giving for older, older people who need help. I have a one of my really good friends. Her mom suffered a stroke and SHE hires a her to come in, and this is a consistent caregiver that just comes in once a day and make sure he is can do her dishes and has taken her medicine. It's a really great way for someone who enjoys being around others and has a epoxy card to make some money in the process. Yeah consistent .

demand for IT. You know sometimes the schools are going to have their charity auction fundraiser. You need a babysitter for the night.

It's again, if you can become the go two percent for their family, likely to add up to to more than just one gig over time. exactly. I actually .

when my kids were Younger, my husband, I would go on go to an events, church event every wednesday and go on a date. And we paid someone fifty dollars every wednesday. Wednesday came over at o'clock or six thirty.

And I was this consistent income for her. And IT was a really great way for her to just make extra. And we were happy to be able to just get out and .

have a date night once a week has hard whenever we hire a babysitter or used to is like we got to go to talk or bill because would pay the babysitter like seventy box expensive out sometimes.

Yes, yeah, I can get expensive. Thankfully, we were going with a group of people to like a friend house. We took weeks providing dinner. So our dinner is free.

That that help? Yes, that's a good. We do IT along the those lines of providing some kind of meal service. There are, you know, there's like private chef apps, or there is eat with which is kind like a hosted dinner type of apps.

This might be interesting for people you know who want to have a holiday part I don't want to do with themselves. Like these are an opportunity to serve those people say, h all host meal. I'm a really good chef.

This is what's all the menu. Find a venue hosted your place. Seems that people do in pretty well with that type of thing. And you given the the number of holiday parties that happened around this time a year, I think that .

could be a really interesting one. Two OK looking at this list. And I like we've gone through a lot of them, and i'm not sure what we haven't covered ng and I have been kind of jump in around the list, which make both exciting for you to stay on your toes here.

Lots of on the one that that I know we have to talk about yet is this, uh, storage rental type of side hustle. And the holiday spain on IT icc is like if somebody has sloopy kids and you're like, I know it's not safe to keep presence around here, so I need them added a house, but I don't need a full time storage unit. There is A I called neighbor dcom, which is like peer to peer storage.

And IT is primarily geared at I need a place to store my R V. I need a place to park this car for a month and you know, like bigger stuff. But in the case of Christmas presents, like, oh, could you keep in your closet? You keep in in real ad? Could you keep the garage something like this? You can maybe a temporary thing, but look around. I do see rates anywhere from, like, fifty two hundred dollars a month for varying size of storage, faces near me, some, and maybe another option to.

I found another one that I have personally paid money to have someone do this for me. And IT is handmade craft or gifts. Obviously, we all know that esc is a wonderful place for creatives to get in front of people who want to buy their work.

And I have personally purchased from esc. Probably every year I buy guessed from esc, and I will purchase handmade ornaments for my children that have their name. And year on them.

I've done this from that. I've also done IT from friends. I had an old co worker that put on facebook, hey, SHE does handleth ing just beautiful handwriting.

And so IT was just a very simple, ornate ament that he got from Michael, probably for fifty cents, and he would use a paint pen to write people's names. And the year and those things, you would sell them for five bucks. But if you think about IT IT, IT took her maybe a minute or two minutes to make IT.

Probably A A dollar total and cost. And so that's four dollars for ornament. SHE was selling them like raising on facebook to people that he knew who wanted this creative, beautiful, memorable ornament on their tree. So there's likely something that you can make if you're got a creative types that you can sell other people and and makes some good money around the holidays with that.

Yeah for sure it's many office be visible. But this is a three printed thing you can put up to the window and is a picture of me, my dad, skiing, because of the different depth of the of the print, like the light shines through IT and IT looks really cool. Somebody, something that a few years ago, but a different correct ideas.

And maybe use something that you you already know how to make other people have found value in a kind of goes back to that crafting workshop s or you know cookie decorating type thing, but lots of opportunity there, either to sell locally or through or through wet, tons of fun. Love the ideas on this list. If you have your own money making ideas absolutely can hit up um by email, hit up on social media.

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what are you excited about? Oh my god, excited about the new year. This this sounds crazy. But nick, I don't know if this is going to be a shocked to you, but people tend to not care about budgeting around like november.

december until you only roll .

around actually one year. The highest amount of traffic ever on my website, inspired by gedt com, was Christmas day. Christmas day, I got a huge Spike in traffic and I realized that that is all of these parents, they are sitting there, maybe the afternoon.

They're seeing all of the money that they have just spent spread out right in one place because when you're buying gifts here and there, you're not always aware of what you're doing because it's just every now and then you're buying things are coming in a different times. It's all in their eyesight and they look at that and they say, what have I done? What have I got myself into? And i'm not here to judge.

I have been there. I know that feeling. And so i'm looking forward to the new year when people are getting to that point where they say, okay, i've see what i've done and I don't like the way this makes me feel.

I'm ready to learn how to write a budget. I want to focus on paying off that. I want to feel Better about my money.

And i'm excited to be that person to say, like, yeah, let's to do IT. Like, i'm here. Let's go. We're going to talk about how to make this work without hating your life in the process. So that is what I am looking forward to is just post Christmas when people are excited about taking actual steps to manage their money Better.

Yeah like your opening day you gave, there's helps people and that let's get to do new crop people in here. It's interest. I see you a Spike into annually as well and maybe immediately post Christmas.

So this is going to be the year that I start. My side has well, maybe it's new year's resolutions. Maybe it's that similar feeling of like we just spend how much should would figure out a way to offset some of that cost.

But definitely interesting inspired budget that comm check out over there. Check out the podcast big thanks to Alice and for sharing her insight. As uh, I mentioned, we've got links to all the different resources, all the ideas that we talk about in this episode, in the show notes.

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