Chances are, if you are reading this article, you are stuck for ideas of things to sell and you need to make money from home right away.
Perhaps you need to make rent money and it’s the 29th of the month.
Perhaps there’s a birthday party you’ve been invited to and you can’t just show up empty handed, but your bank account just gasped for air…there’s nothing left in there.
Whatever the reason may be that you need to make money fast, please know that I’ve been there (several years ago, I was homeless and within one year of blogging, I was making $10,000/month! Now, my sixth year blogging, I have multi 7-figure businesses online!!!) and that I’m praying for you on your journey as well!
Several years ago, I was homeless. It’s too painful to go into details, but the jist of it is that my ex-husband abandoned us and I had been a stay-at-home-mom all my kids lives. He took my debit card and left me with no gas while I called the church to help me get out of the physically abusive situation.
I’d go on to place a restraining order on him, he’d break it several times and I’d stand there to watch the most horrific sight I’ve ever seen in my life. Him thrown against the back of his car, handcuffed, and put in the back of a police car in the parking lot of Walmart…yet another reason I hate that store. Here’s why you should never shop Walmart if you want to scale up and have a better life.
Sometimes, life throws tomatoes at you, I get it. Please know this, it can only get better from where you’re at now.
You’re already at the bottom, feeling like you can’t go any lower. The truth is that you can’t. It only goes up from here! So be encouraged by that!!!
Whether it’s using your time or some creative tangible goods, here are 40+ things to sell right now to make money.
This was my FIRST step after getting out of the homeless shelter to rebuild my life, so I’m all for figuring out creative ways to be home with your family!
40+ Things To Sell Right Now to Make Money
- Sell printables
- Sell courses
- Your kids old toys and clothes/shoes that no longer fit them
- Things around the house that you no longer need
- Books / DVD’s / BluRay’s you have that you never watch or read
- Recycle your old phone or docking station you never use
- Clothes you can’t fit into anymore
- Photos that you’ve taken
- Your ideas and unique perspective of brands in surveys
- Your crafts
- Your collectibles you have somewhere out in storage
- Your couponing stock
- Things in your storage unit
- Babysit friends kids
- Mow a lawn
- Walk a neighbor’s dog
- Clean someone’s house
- Your skills
- Tutoring kids in school
- Do virtual assistant work
- Handcrafted items on Etsy
- Write articles
- Resell a domain name or create a website and then sell it
- Be a workout buddy with someone trying to get in a habit of exercising
- Shovel Snow
- Help someone move in or out (you can get around $25/hour). Offer your services on social media and to friends.
- Wash cars
- Outdoor patio furniture or outdoor kids toys / bikes they no longer use
- Your baking. You and your kids could make cookies to sell around your neighborhood
- Become a taxi and drive friends around or delivery groceries to house-bound people
- Test out websites for money.
- Teach a class – chances are there’s SOMETHING that you can teach someone else that they’d be willing to pay to learn.
- Christmas items you no longer need
- Musical instruments
- Outside furniture – things like a grill or patio set
- Shoes or purses that are just collecting dust
- That formal dress you’ll never wear again
- Return your past purchases that you don’t want that you haven’t used
- Recycle scrap metal, an appliance like a stove, fridge, or car
- Recycle your cans and glass
- Gifts that you didn’t like and won’t use
- Your coin collection
- Artwork you have in your home
- Sporting equipment to Play It Again Sports
- Create a course on Udemy
- Pick up free things on Craigslist and resell them back on Craigslist
5 Ways that Make the >>MOST<< Money
I’ve been making money from home for 21 years now. These are the things that make the MOST money from home that I’ve found. They do require a more long-term building strategy, but the amounts that you can make, are well worth the energy and time to build them up.
1) Sell printables ($3 million/year)
When I first started my blog, I was making pretty good money on ebay ($18k/year), enough to survive. But life isn’t JUST about money. I wanted my life to matter! So I started blogging to help people. That rolled into multi 7-figure businesses.
On Shopify, where I sell printables, I currently make over $3 million/year. Can you believe that?! I love printables, as you can see from this post. 🙂 They’ve organized my life like no other. It’s amazing how much one simple printable can do.
Each month, I give my audience a free binder in my binder of the month club, and they leave reviews. Others come along from Google and social media and purchase the binders because they see so many love them and that’s how I make my money.
My audience also purchases my printables and with so much traffic and the nurtured, healthy email list that I’ve built over the years, it’s really a fantastic way to earn income.
If you’d like to find out if Shopify is the right path for you and your situation and all the different types of things you can sell, for an extremely limited time, you can grab my course, Top 13 Things to Sell in Shopify (That Make the Most Money) for 50% off when you click here and use special discount code (if needed): MAKEMESOMEMONEY
That brings me to my second 7-figure empire, something you can absolutely do as well!
2) Sell courses ($1 million/year)
I started selling courses on Teachable 9 months ago. Within my very first two weeks, I made $97k. I assure you, I thought it was a fluke. lol. But here I am, 9 months later and I feel like I’m just BARELY getting started and I’ve already hit, yep, you guessed it 7 figures. I don’t run any Facebook or paid-for advertising at this time (I hope to start soon, but haven’t as of yet). It’s all just my email list and word of mouth.
Listen, I love what I do, and I’m telling you right now that there’s a goldmine of income you can make online and you can do it in just about any way you want. I’ve been making money online for 21 years! I made money when I first started way back then, I make more money now. Point is, you can absolutely make money online.
Will it be easy? No. Anyone who says it’s easy, is a liar. Unfollow them.
It IS real work, but listen, I work less than part-time each week, and my assistants work 10 hours a week and I make $5.1 million dollars a year right now. I have my dream life and I love teaching others how to do it too. So I hope you stick around, because I have a wealth of knowledge inside me and each week, I’m pouring out my heart and life to help others do exactly what I’ve done over the years. <3
3) Do virtual assistant work ($10/hour)
This is a really great one. In order to run my business (I’m a single mom here, I can’t do it all by myself!) 🙂 I need to have help. Currently, I have one girl who helps me proof articles, so I write all the posts like I’m doing now and then she comes in and proofs them and finds the spelling errors/grammar mistakes, etc. that I’m known to do. haha.
I have another girl do my Pinterest account. She’s really amazing and great at helping my account grow.
And I have another girl who helps me with a lot of random stuff + my emails. She’s FAN-TASTIC at keeping my emails at zero. Never seen anything like it before. It’s just so awesome knowing it’s all taken care of and relieves so much stress off of ME, so I can do what I’m BETTER at: writing.
The emails she can’t do or that need to be answered by me (mostly course stuff), I do them. It just works so brilliantly.
I pay my assistants $10/hour to start and give them great special perks and bonuses. I absolutely adore my team. Each person plays a vital role in my business.
YOU can BE THAT for someone else.
There’s a lot of Facebook groups that you can find a job as a virtual assistant in. Let me give you a few I know about that I’m a part of and are good:
- Virtual Assistant Savvies
- Blogger Resource Room
- Faith Based Blog Content & Services
- Virtual Assistant Buy & Sell Content & Services
You can create things like recipes, how to tutorials, printables, offer blog writing posts, create videos and all those sorts of things and offer them for sale in some Facebook groups.
You just create things like say a recipe and sell your pictures and recipe to bloggers for like $60! No kidding. It’s a really great way to make quick money.
Some time in my blogging career, I would create roundups (collections of posts with a collection picture) for other bloggers. I would gather 25 links and have a collage of pictures and sell it for $30. You can look into Facebook groups to see more of that, but I used to do that for a while, while I was getting my blogging income up.
It’s a fast and easy way to make money. Think about it. Bloggers can’t do it all. They NEED help. They NEED honest, genuine, loving people like you to help them and this is a perfect way.
4) Write articles ($25-$30 per article)
This is also something I did, again in the Facebook groups, but also to bloggers I knew, friends, or people who would ask me to write for them. At one point, I was putting out so many articles, that I had a writer for ME. haha.
I hired my mom and she’d write posts on things like gardening (stuff I know nothing about) and I’d sell it for her on the Facebook group. We’d split the profits or I’d pay her like $10 per article. I’d ask $25 but I’d do the picture for it too.
I also had an assistant helping me and she’d create roundups for me (again, those are a collection of posts all in one post) and there were too many to put on my own blog so I’d sell them. I paid her $10/hour and it took her one hour to do it. I’d sell the article for $25-$30 and make a profit.
As a business owner, those types of things are business expenses (people who work for you), so you don’t have to pay taxes on that money you pay. It’s the same thing when you buy something to resell it on ebay or something, like I did with Littlest Pet Shop toys. You don’t pay taxes on your expenses, which is cool.
So writing articles for bloggers can really help your income pretty quickly.
The one comment I hear a lot with this is that people think they might want to start their OWN blog and are afraid of giving out too much information and just GIVING it away.
I’ll tell you, from experience, just give it away if it makes you money and you’re starting blogging. Because listen, there’s so much inside you that you don’t even know and over the years, you’ll learn even MORE!
Your knowledge never stops and who cares even if there ARE two articles on the best ways to save money on food. Like, this is the internet. There’s nothing new under the sun. Somewhere, someone else has the same ideas and it’s fine. As long as you’re not copying anyone else.
Please note, if you ARE a scammer and copying other people’s work online and passing it off as your own, we know. Bloggers use a very inexpensive tool called CopyScape Plagiarism Checker to make sure there’s nothing scammy going on and to protect ourselves. 🙂
5) Resell a domain name or create a website and then sell it ($54,000)
One of my BEST FRIENDS is an online blogger and here recently, she got sick and is not able to blog anymore. She sold her blog for THREE TIMES her blogging YEARLY income. Yes, she’s had the blog like 8 years, but there is a lot of people who buy a domain name, fill it up or write a bunch of content and then flip the sites for sometimes, tens of thousands of dollars!
It can be pretty lucrative. I’ve been tempted to do this myself, but decided to just build my own platforms and that’s been the best route for me personally, however, again, it can make you a whole lotta money, so not anything to sneeze at.
10 >>EASIEST<< Ways to Make Money
If you want the absolute EASIEST ways on how to make extra money, you’ll want to check out this article here all about it!
Be sure to print out one of my free printable checklists below also, so you can check off what you’ve done and what you haven’t. There’s five different designs, so you’re sure to find one you like. 🙂
Get the “40+ Things to Sell” free printable checklists by clicking here.
Anonymous says
Those are good ideas but I don’t know how to sell on ebay, how to price things, how to ship or even know what sells. I tried once to sell on ebay but it seemed too complicated; I don’t have much free time. Do you have any tips?
Sarah Titus says
Absolutely! Here’s my eBay section where you can find a ton of information on how to sell and get the most money for your items. Also, look for a lot more information soon!
Alice Gatto says
Thanks for the list. My husband and I were talking today about selling on ebay, so finding you was perfect timing. We are not young but we are hoping to change our lives.
Sarah Titus says
That’s great it was such good timing. 🙂 Good luck in your endeavors!
Corianne says
This is awesome information! I really appreciate all your ideas, but I’m nervous I may mess up.
Sarah Titus says
The only mess up you can do is by not trying. 🙂 Better to try and fail than to not try.
Marie Felski says
How do I sell on eBay.
H says
So Ive had three lifetimes and I’m only 39. 😉
I have so many great stories. Funny mainly, I try to spin all the horror into comedy. but I don’t want to be known. can i become a successful blogger without ever being discovered?? More to the point, my life now and people in it know nothing of my past; but there’s so much to tell!!!!!
I’ve been thinking about this for years. I want to do it, but I’m scared. what do I do. cause obviously I wanna be successful and make money. Help.
H
Sarah Titus says
I think that you could start a blog and use a pen name and keep some anonymity, however, eventually, if you want to make money, you need to show who you are completely for many reasons. One is that it builds trust. You need to be your readers friend. You can’t do that if you’re hiding. I had the same problem when I first started blogging. I wanted to hide the fact that I am a single mom, for security reasons. Eventually, it got to a point where I couldn’t hide anymore, and I ended up getting MORE traffic and publicity because of it. It’s not normal that a single mom could do all I’ve done (through Christ’s help, I assure you). It’s what makes me unique. I was running from the very thing that made my blog a success. Just something to consider. 🙂
Kathy says
Hi Sarah
What a great blog… inspired to keep going! Thanks.
Kathy
Sarah Titus says
That’s great Kathy. 🙂
Anonymous says
These ideas are really good, but try adding more simpler kinds. Selling DVD’s and stuff was a good idea.
Sarah Titus says
Thank you for letting me know. I didn’t add simpler things because I feel like a lot of the other lists out there are focusing on simple and as an eBay seller of 18+ years, my goal is to get people to think outside of the box and realize they have more things to sell than just the basic stuff. 🙂
Wendy says
I appreciate your brutal honesty. I too have a story, I won’t post it here, but you can email me if you’d like to hear it. I’m trying to get my own site going to make money to help my family. If you’ve got any other ideas I would love to hear them.
Loretta Maeder says
Thank you for the encouraging message. I will make my list right now. I was also looking for a way to start a blog but had no idea of where to start. You won me over with the Christian ideals and great customer support. You are an inspiration. God bless you.
Sarah Titus says
Absolutely Loretta. Glad you found exactly what you were looking for. 🙂
krystal headrick says
I always wanted to tell my story to help other people out there. But I’m scared to be so open about what happened to me in my life. Maybe out of embarrassment because of what happened and because I have a learning disability. so it’s harder for me but on the other hand I have this strong feeling that my voice can help a lot of people. feeling that I need to be the voice I just don’t know how. but your blog was really great and you help me understand it’s easy. Thank you, if you have any advice for me I would sure appreciate it. Sorry that I wrote so much.
Sarah Titus says
It would be hard to give personalized advice without knowing the full story. If that’s something you’re interested in, I would encourage you to check out my coaching page.
Anonymous says
Thanks Sarah I’ve been wanting to blog but didn’t know how or where to start. Thanks again and thanks for all the great ideas on how to make money. My mom thanks you also. God Bless.
Sarah Titus says
Absolutely. Glad you like it. 🙂
Joanne | No Plate Like Home says
Great practical ideas almost anyone can do.
Sarah Titus says
Joanne, I’m glad you enjoyed the ideas. I hope you found some you could use!
Brittany says
Hi Sarah! I have recently started a blog and I’m loving the digital products/printables idea! Do you have a blog post that goes into more detail on that? Such as, where to get ideas and what to include in your digital products/printables and how to set it up so the download reaches the customer, etc? I am LOVING YOUR BLOG!!!!
Sarah Titus says
Great questions Brittany. I don’t currently have anything like that, however a few of those questions will be answered within my new series, Making Money Tricks: 30 Days to a Better Shopify Store, beginning April 1. 🙂
Brittany says
Great! Can’t wait to see!
Me too says
Do you really earn 75,000 a month doing this?
Sarah Titus says
After my ex-husband left us, I used these tips and ideas when I had to find ways to earn money to support myself and my children. I continued to use many of them to earn money even after I started the blog. Once I began blogging, that’s when I began earning $10,000 a month. In my third year of blogging is when I began earning $75,000. You can view my latest income reports here. I’m now at 7-figures/year in my fourth year blogging. It takes hard work, but it is possible to make that much money when blogging! If you are considering starting your own blog, I would encourage you to do so – you might be surprised at how well you can do!
Anonymous says
THANKS SARAH
Anonymous says
Thank You Sarah
Sarah Titus says
Absolutely. 🙂
Joan S. says
Sarah I’m a mom of three and need to find away to make more money.I’m behind on some of my bill s.living pay check to pay check .I pray for guidance.I am stressed at my job.I want to do something on my own.
Aly says
Hi Sarah,
I rarely read blogs because most seem to be the same. I actually read yours! What is the best blogging domain to start? Also, I am very indecisive but how did you chose a topic?
Thanks!
Sarah Titus says
Awww, thank you Aly. So glad you like it! <3
I would go with BlueHost. It’s the one I used for years on my niche sites.
For topics, I started with talking about ebay. No one cared. 🙂 Then, I started talking about saving money and it went like gangbusters. So, pick something that a lot of people are ALREADY asking you questions about. What topic do people seek your advice on already? Make a post for each of their questions. 🙂
Laurie says
Sarah, what a great post! I’m going to share this with my daughter.
Really great ideas and things you just don’t think of and easy peasy!
Sarah Titus says
Yes, definitely easy things to do! Lemme know what your daughter thinks. 🙂
Marissa Sanders says
These are awesome ideas! I didn’t know flipping blogs were a thing you could actually make money on! I’m going to be downsizing quite a bit soon and have a lot of things on this list I need to sell so thank you for more ideas!
Sarah Titus says
Absolutely! Yeah, I’ve considered flipping blogs. One of my friends just sold hers and made over $50k! Insane! Honestly, if I had the time, I’d probably do it. haha.
Samantha Gregory says
These ideas are golden! I will refer my single mom audience to this list and the printables. I try to help them understand there are so many ways to make extra money if they are strapped for cash. It just take a bit of imagination and determination.
Sarah Titus says
Yes absolutely, that’s so true, Samantha. 🙂 Thank you for sharing. Checking out your blog now. <3
Barbara Everett says
I am trying to sell printables on Etsy now. However, after creating some videos on Youtube to drive traffic to my site I realized that I love to teach. I couldn’t decide between using Teachable and Teachery. What made you decide to use Teachable?
Sarah Titus says
Several reasons, but mostly when I was researching, they seemed to be the highest QUALITY out there and I’m all about quality. 🙂 I don’t wanna deal with rink-a-dink sites. I want the best. I don’t have time to mess around learning a bunch of platforms, so I figured, start with the best. The only other platform I had tried was Podia and they didn’t get me but a couple sales, so I went with Teachable. Been with Teachable a year now and so happy with my choice. I’ve made over 7-figures (revenue) on Teachable alone in the past year. DEFINITELY happy with my choice!! 🙂 Highly recommend them. 🙂
Megan Brain says
Wow what a great long list! So much helpful advice here but what shines through is the inspiration I get from your story. I would love to do one of your courses especially the one on how to make printables I’ve wanted to learn for so long and think it would be a great skill to have to help with improving my life. I too have seen hard times so hearing your story gives me hope. Thank-you
Sarah Titus says
There’s a current giveaway going on for the next couple weeks for my courses here. You should enter! 🙂
Tammie Poole says
I love your list!! I am currently at a loss for making money online…. I want to learn what to do. I need to be able to help provide for my family from home because of health issues…. I won’t bore you with the details, but I need help learning what to do and how to get started. Love your printables as well!!!!
Sarah Titus says
You would never bore me. <3 Sorry to hear about the health issues. I'll pray God leads you in the right direction. 🙂
Katie says
I love this checklist! It has practical things that you can actually sell or do. Thank you for all the great ideas and creating this printable!
Lynn Leusch says
This is a great resource. Several things I have not thought of before. Thank you for the ideas.
Sarah Titus says
Absolutely, Lynn. 🙂
Brittany Loveall says
Sarah,
You are truly God sent! I love your message and your story. Thanks for giving creators and future entrepreneurs like myself the tools needed to thrive. This list is fantastic and I will definitely be trying to sell as many items on this list to make some extra Christmas cash!
Be blessed!
Brittany
Sarah Titus says
Absolutely. So glad you like it. 🙂
Courtney B. says
Hi Sarah! I am so glad I came across your blog. Not only was I looking for ideas on how to make some extra money, but I have so many ideas floating around in my head but no clue where to even begin. I am excited to learn from your experience. Thanks for sharing!
Sarah Titus says
Absolutely Courtney. Write all the ideas down for sure, then pick the most important ones. 🙂