Work From Home Ideas

[Caged Great]

Be extremely organized. If you aren't normally, figure out a system that works for you and stick with it. It saves a bunch of time.

[sclitheroe]

A couple hundred bucks ($200) @ 5 hours a week is $40 an hour. That's serious money, and something to consider in terms of the service or product you are planning to offer - if you want to be successful at this venture, you'll need to be delivering some clear value.

Edit: reading comprehension, I need it..a couple hundred bucks a month is not $40 an hour.

I'll say this then, on the other hand - your time will be more valuable than ever, and you might not want to put so low a price on it. Saving a couple hundred bucks a month might be a better option than trying to pay for the cash with the time. It got like that for me with after hours IT work - unless I was charging outrageous amounts of money, I would way, way rather have the 5 hours.

There are lots of expenses you can trim - for me, it was taking a thermos of coffee to work rather than buying coffee all the time. That's $100+ a month saved based on a two+ cup a day habit right there.

[photon]

Originally Posted by GP_Matt

You should setup shop printing lost Lego pieces. There is always one in every set and it seems like a 3D printer would be perfect.

I'll just write the cease and desist letter to myself now

[Rathji]

Wife did Scentsy during her mat leave. She easily earned more than $200 a party on average and she had at least one a month.

Normally I hate that kind of direct seller stuff, but the value was there compared to some other stuff on the market, like Glade Plugins, it was cheaper (and better).

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Wife did Scentsy during her mat leave. She easily earned more than $200 a party on average and she had at least one a month.

Normally I hate that kind of direct seller stuff, but the value was there compared to some other stuff on the market, like Glade Plugins, it was cheaper (and better).

The problem with those partys is that they prey on your friends feelings of obligation to buy something if they went to the party. The whole concept of inviting a group of friends over for a party, then trying to sell something bugs me.

Some ideas:

Crappy photographer, offer bare bones cheap, no editing photography and give people all of the digital proofs for $200 or so. Dont do weddings just newborns and families. You can make about $50 an hour from this.

Maker of cute crap
My wife buys all kinds of junk (cute stuff for kids)from various stay at home moms, the easiest of which to make are hair clips with some animal or bug glued on or doll diapers. Since your a guy it might be hard to get into their mafia.

Crappy Cake decorator
Take the simple pan cakes from michaels with the charactor designs on them and decorate and sell them. Takes almost no skill just following directions

From seeing most momperneur stuff the basic premise is to produce a low quality product but market it as homemade or green or chemical free or some other parenting buzzword and sell it to other moms.

By and sell things on Kijiji /facebook
Get to know one product niche and the pricing of it, by low sell high and require people to pick up and drop off the items to save yourself the gas money.

[KTrain]

Look for data entry type work. Not at all interesting but you can doiy from home while listening to music and it isn't exactly stressful. It can pay decent too if you're fast.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by GGG

By and sell things on Kijiji /facebook
Get to know one product niche and the pricing of it, by low sell high and require people to pick up and drop off the items to save yourself the gas money.

This can work, but you have to do something bigger ticket to make it worth your while. IE sporting gear (snowboards, kayak, etc), tools, appliances, etc.

Especially if you have knowledge of the hobby and/or can fix things.

If you try to buy DVDs for $3 and sell them for $5 you'll probably just make minimum wage and drive all over town burning gas.