Best ways to supplement your income

[countrygirl12]

well I use Fusion Cash,,,,  Income Dollars,,,,  i use different apps for grocery stores that give me rebates on food  and I do surveys on different places

Internet search says there is no such site as Income Dollars.

They probably meant InboxDollars.   I use that site too.  Getting hard to get anything on there anymore though.

I been a member of that before and I didn't make any money. Took forever to cash out then they take $3 processing fee.

[countrygirl12]

Anyone have any tips on how I can supplement my income? I'm willing to do just about anything because my employer barely pays me minimum wage (and I'm a college graduate).

What I currently do:

1.) Phone sex (I told you I'd do anything)

2. Fusion Cash

3. Selling sodas to coworkers at a slight mark-up

4. Grocery store couponing apps

5. One tenant who lives in my basement

Any other ideas? I have a $1600/month mortgage and $400/month car payment. I'm gonna be broke for awhile. Lol

LMAO Brian!! I was so about to do number 1 also and number 3 can get you into trouble depending on the state you live in if you don't have a vendors license. But I am so with you on supplementing our income on a whole new level. The economy is crap! But I love your attitude and spunk! lol

How can you get in trouble? If I want to take a 12 pack of soda to work with me and sell them for 75 cents to my co-workers I can't get in any trouble for that.

And the economy is better than it has been in a really long time.

[countrygirl12]

How would they know you were driving for Uber? If I have an issue with my car and take it in for repairs I am not going to tell them where I was headed or who was in the car when it tore up.

Well, I suppose in order for it to get out someone would have to ask and you could choose to lie about it. But sometimes that sort of information just comes out in casual conversation.  I'm just tossing out the warning as a tip because it happened to someone that I know quite well.


I don't know the specifics of how the conversation went, but this happened to my brother in law when the engine in his relatively new car suffered a breakdown that would have normally been covered under warranty, but was voided because he had used the car to drive for Uber. They couldn't afford the repairs and then couldn't make their car payment and it was eventually repossessed from the repair shop, leaving them without a vehicle for pretty close to a year or more until they were able to get another used car.


So lesson learned. IF you drive for Uber, keep it a secret!   

That just does not make sense. If I purchase a car the warranty is good for so many thousand miles and if the car tears up during that time then it should be covered no matter what I am doing. Unless I do something like pour sugar in the gas tank to make my ride sweeter.

[squirrelgirl44]

That's a lot of debt for barely over minimum wage If you aren't currently in school you need to get one better paying job! There is no reason why you should have to work a half dozen part time jobs to pay bills. $400 for a car payment is stifling.

[squirrelgirl44]

As for some of these suggestions, come on, seriously. You can make pocket change, but nothing life changing on any of these sites. I have been on FC for a decade, and still under 4k. I do Cashcrate, maybe can cash out every other month (min is $20), inbox dollars, although that's gotten more difficult too. (If you hit $30, they pay the processing if you can get to $40 in 30 days).

Lyft/Uber is "good," but you have to be willing/able to drive at peak hours to really earn anything. Plus, remember that you have to set aside withholdings for that because you are not having any taxes withheld when you get paid.

Honestly, get rid of those big expenses!!! I have now been divorced almost 10 years and it has just recently gotten to the point where I feel like I am not drowning. I do not have a car payment and my mortgage is under 30% of my take home pay. I do not receive child support.

It is very freeing not worrying about every dime, I hope you can get to that point. Working all your waking hours is no way to live!!

[brian8713]

For the record, I'm not living off credit. I have more paid on my car loan than my car is worth and my house is an investment -- one in which I split the costs for with a tenant. Having a tenant makes it fairly affordable. I was just looking for more money-making ideas. Uber/Lyft ..... ehhhh, I don't like driving, but I'll do it if I ever lose my job.

If you don't know something to be fact, don't assume it on social media.

[bigfoot951]

I supplement my income in a huge way.  I have fun, travel, save money, and make money.  I show other people how to do the same thing.  It's just a matter of time before I make more doing that than I do at my full time job.

[countrygirl12]

As for some of these suggestions, come on, seriously. You can make pocket change, but nothing life changing on any of these sites. I have been on FC for a decade, and still under 4k. I do Cashcrate, maybe can cash out every other month (min is $20), inbox dollars, although that's gotten more difficult too. (If you hit $30, they pay the processing if you can get to $40 in 30 days).

Lyft/Uber is "good," but you have to be willing/able to drive at peak hours to really earn anything. Plus, remember that you have to set aside withholdings for that because you are not having any taxes withheld when you get paid.

Honestly, get rid of those big expenses!!! I have now been divorced almost 10 years and it has just recently gotten to the point where I feel like I am not drowning. I do not have a car payment and my mortgage is under 30% of my take home pay. I do not receive child support.

It is very freeing not worrying about every dime, I hope you can get to that point. Working all your waking hours is no way to live!!

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As for some of these suggestions, come on, seriously. You can make pocket change, but nothing life changing on any of these sites. I have been on FC for a decade, and still under 4k. I do Cashcrate, maybe can cash out every other month (min is $20), inbox dollars, although that's gotten more difficult too. (If you hit $30, they pay the processing if you can get to $40 in 30 days).

Lyft/Uber is "good," but you have to be willing/able to drive at peak hours to really earn anything. Plus, remember that you have to set aside withholdings for that because you are not having any taxes withheld when you get paid.

Honestly, get rid of those big expenses!!! I have now been divorced almost 10 years and it has just recently gotten to the point where I feel like I am not drowning. I do not have a car payment and my mortgage is under 30% of my take home pay. I do not receive child support.

It is very freeing not worrying about every dime, I hope you can get to that point. Working all your waking hours is no way to live!!

I always find it funny when people say get rid of those big expenses. You have to have somewhere to live.  There is a place for rent I saw on FB today in my home town and the rent is almost 3 times what my mortgage payment is.  WHY would I sell my home and live in somebody else's house where THEY control what I do and pay more money?

And you have to have something to drive.  Why would you buy a second hand piece of junk when you have something reliable that will pay off in a few years.  I just don't understand that logic.

[AnnaKiki]

Phone sex? Yeah I wouldn't even consider it! To each his own they say.

[minioncookies]

finding a ninch starting a small online bussiness and selling whatevers in that ninche . Reselling could be very profitable if you know what your doing

[alarisracing]

I complete surveys and have a virtual assistant business on the side.

[NRAJOE]

Go to local Goodwill and cruise the aisles looking for stuff to sell on Ebay....once bought a book there for $3 and it sold on Ebay for $65...

[seesawing]

Go to local Goodwill and cruise the aisles looking for stuff to sell on Ebay....once bought a book there for $3 and it sold on Ebay for $65...

Got a story like that myself.  But I bought the book at Half Price Books (largest family-owned new/used bookstores in U.S., founded in Dallas in 1972) for $1 in the mid-1990s.  Yep, I had been looking for this out-of-print book for many years and there it was (still have receipt).  The book is "Good Vibes," by Jay Cronley who wrote a number of very funny sports-related books (a few were made into movies, as was this cult classic {"Let it Ride" with Richard Dreyfuss}).  It's a first edition, hard back.  I've since seen it on eBay for as high as $264.

In 2012 I finally contacted Cronley, who was writing columns for "Tulsa World" and ESPN, and -- *shock* -- he wrote me back and continued to do so much like a pen pal would!  He knew about the sky-rocketing prices on his out-of-print books (and for that one in particular, Cronley, himself, only owned a worn-out paperback edition of it).  And, yes, I wanted him to sign mine.  I figured I'd have to make a trip to Tulsa, OK to accomplish that.  While toying with that idea, I found out he died in his sleep at home early in 2017.  I don't think I could ever part with his book.    

[king4cash]

Yes, the car is the first to go, in order to slow down the debt...

[shawnix]

Wow!  I would consider:

driving for Uber or Lyft
paid blood donation center
selling Avon
create a YouTube channel 

I also agree with some other posts... the vehicle is a big expense besides the mortgage. Does that include insurance?