Cool Ways to Make Extra Money

Basically, there are two ways that you can get into better financial shape. If you're on a fixed salary, you can take the advice of the frugal crowd and cut down on every single thing you do to indulge yourself, or you could do the smart thing. You could look for ways to make extra money.

You don't have to go to the conventional ways of making extra money - a second job, starting a small business at home, tutoring children in math and so on. You don't have to that. While those are there are good ways, you could go off the wall, too. There are easier and less conventional ways to pocket a little pocket money.

For instance, did you realize that there's when people keep saying "There's an app for that!", that "that" includes making money as well? There are apps like GigWalk that want certain pictures of certain products on certain store shelves. There are apps that will pay you to review apps. There are all these things. Just search on Google for apps that help you make money. You'll find there are plenty.

It is a regular joke on various sitcoms that when you're down and out, the first thing you do is to find a place to make a donation of body fluids - blood or something less mentionable. For each visit, you could get between $35 and $100. While it is not really a pleasant thought, your body doesn't really miss it, and there is no reason we shouldn't go in and do it.

Remember seeing the Jim Carrey comedy Fun with Dick and Jane? It's about how a well-off couple suddenly find that the company employing them is an Enron-like entity. Suddenly, they have no job, their house is upside down and they have no prospects. The try all kinds of things to get by - among them, trying to be a Walmart greeter and trying to sign up for clinical trials.

The clinical trial thing could work really well. Each clinical trial that you qualify for, you could get paid a $1000 or even more. Just look up places like The Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation. You will find information on where to find this.

And finally - one of the best ways to make extra money? Look for money you already have. That's right, there are all kinds of places where you could have money lying in wait for you that you  haven't been thinking of.

It could be tax refunds, unclaimed retirement money lying with former employers, the life insurance that you forgot about and so on. Millions of people in America have these that they don't take advantage of.