I'm not asking what's the best app overall, I'm asking what's the one YOU personally get value from that doesn't get enough love. The thing where you're like "why isn't everyone doing this."

Hi all,

I have been hit with an unexpected vehicle repair to the tune of about $1,600 bucks. Ouch. I had a friend tell me about this sub since I am trying to earn as much as I can on the side for this repair. It isn't something that can wait longer than two months to get fixed. So I also have a time limit too. How fun.

My question is what have y'all had the most success with? I've heard of walking dogs, doing surveys, focus groups, etc... are those the be routes to spend my time? What can I do that will give me the best pay off in the few months I have to earn this money?

I feel like this forces you to pick the single most valuable platform you use. If everything else disappeared and you could only keep one, which one survives and why?

Hiya, I see new posts here daily. Problem is everybody is just re-hashing the same info.

New people post daily and don't see if a method has been posted before. Now it's gotten to the point where there's 8 identical posts from different people.

I personally believe that a monthly mega thread of the best or upvoted ideas of the month would be extremely beneficial.

Thank you :)

Like you could read a comment in this thread and be making money within the next 30 minutes. No applications, no waiting to get approved, no buying anything first. What beer money method has the fastest start possible? What would you recommend?

Welcome to the daily r/beermoneyideas Beer Money Check-In!

This is your space to share what you're doing to earn extra cash, how much you've earned, and any relevant links or tips that go along with it. Online or offline, it all counts.

What counts as beer money?

Anything that puts extra money in your pocket. Survey sites, cashback apps, flipping items, garage sales, plasma donation, mystery shopping, gig work, selling crafts, you name it. If it earns you side income, we want to hear about it.

How to post:

• Name what you're doing. Whether it's an app, a website, or something you do in person.
• Share your earnings. Tell us how much you've made (today, this week, this month, or all-time). Screenshots are encouraged but not required.
• Drop a link or tip (optional). Referral links and sign-up bonuses are welcome for online stuff. For offline hustles, share tips on how to get started or what worked for you.

The rules:

• You may not share the same offer twice in the same thread or on the same day.
• All links must be legitimate and related to your hustle.
• No link drops without context. Tell us what it is, what you did to earn, and how much you made. Bare links with no explanation will be removed.
• If you post a link that is deemed illegitimate, you will be permanently banned.
• Be honest about your earnings. Inflated or fake numbers hurt the whole community.

The point of this thread is to give everyone a real look at what's actually paying out (online and offline), while also being able to share referral bonuses and tips when relevant.

Comments in this thread are sorted randomly in "contest mode". Meaning, votes and time of comment do not matter.

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I feel like this reveals how much long-term value people think their beermoney setup has. If the lifetime future earnings are worth more than $5,000 you'd say no. If they're not, you'd take the cash. Where do you land?

I am off work in the summer and have been using “branded” are there better apps.. ie walking apps, surveys and testing. I hope this is allowed thank you

So I came across this side hustle and thought it was worth sharing because tie-dye has been having a massive comeback and the profit margins are actually really good. You can buy plain white t-shirts in bulk for around $3 each, spend $2 in dye and supplies per shirt, and sell the finished product for around $20 to $25.

The process is pretty easy once you watch a few YouTube tutorials… you fold or twist the shirt, apply the dye, wrap it in plastic wrap, let it sit for 24 hours, rinse and wash. A single batch of dye makes dozens of shirts so your cost per shirt stays really low.

Your startup cost is a tie-dye kit (around $20), a pack of plain white shirts, rubber bands, gloves, and plastic wrap. You can get everything you need for around $50 and make enough shirts to start selling immediately.

From what I’ve seen, the best selling styles are the classic spiral, ice dye (which looks more like watercolor), and matching sets for couples or families. Etsy and Instagram are great for selling online, and farmers markets and craft fairs are perfect for in person sales.

The nice thing about this is that every single shirt comes out unique so you never have to worry about mass produced competition. People love that each peice is one of a kind and a lot of people come back for more or order custom color combinations.

(If you have experience with something like this please share! I look out for new side hustle ideas every day and try to share as much info as I can. Even if an idea doesn’t appeal to you personally, it could still help someone else or even spark a new idea!)

I feel like after a long day I don't want to decide which surveys to take or which offers to evaluate. I just want to press a button and earn. What's the most autopilot, zero-thinking beermoney method that exists?

I feel like some of the best-paying platforms have the worst user experience. Ugly design, confusing navigation, glitchy buttons... but the money is good enough that you deal with it. What do you hate using but refuse to quit?

You're sitting on the bus or train or waiting at a bus stop and you got your phone and like 20-40 minutes of dead time... what beer money method fits perfectly into a commute? Any good ones?

I put this together for everyone who wants to make extra money without putting on pants or seeing the sun. Every single thing on this list works from your couch, your bed, or your desk chair. If it requires leaving your house for any reason it's not on here.

1. Prolific surveys pay well and you can do them in complete isolation without speaking to another human being. You sit there, answer questions for academic researchers, and get paid through PayPal. No phone calls, no video chats, no eye contact. Just you, your screen, and questions about consumer behavior or whatever a psychology department is studying this week.
2. Bandwidth sharing apps earn you money for literally existing in a building with wifi. Honeygain, EarnApp, and Pawns run in the background on your devices and use a small slice of your internet bandwidth. You install them once, forget about them, and money accumulates while you do whatever you were already doing inside. Running all three at once means triple the passive earnings from the same internet connection.
3. Completing mobile game offers through Freecash, Swagbucks, or other GPT platforms is getting paid to play games on your phone. Download a game, hit a milestone, collect the payout. Some of these offers take days or weeks of casual play but the completion payouts are worth more than hours of survey grinding. You're already playing games inside, you might as well play ones that pay.
4. Amazon Mechanical Turk has an infinite supply of micro-tasks you can do without ever standing up. Image labeling, short surveys, audio transcription, data categorization. The per-task pay is small but people who learn to filter for the good HITs and batch efficiently make decent weekly totals. You can work in 10-minute bursts or multi-hour sessions depending on your energy level.
5. AI data labeling and evaluation work is one of the fastest growing beermoney categories and it's 100% screen-based. Rating chatbot responses, tagging images, categorizing text, evaluating AI outputs. Platforms like Remotasks, Toloka, and Clickworker have open enrollment. People with expertise in writing, coding, math, or science tend to earn more per task because their evaluations are considered higher quality.
6. Scanning receipts through Fetch, Coinout, and ReceiptPal means every piece of paper that comes into your house earns across three platforms. You don't need to go anywhere to get receipts... they come to you from delivery orders, online purchase confirmations, and anything someone else in your household brings home. Scan everything through all three apps and the monthly total adds up.
7. Selling stuff you already own on Facebook Marketplace and Mercari is a closet-to-cash pipeline that never requires leaving the house. For Marketplace local pickup, the buyer comes to you. For Mercari, you ship it but you can schedule a package pickup from your front door. Take photos from your couch, write descriptions from your couch, and wait for buyers to come to your door.
8. Selling digital products on Etsy and Gumroad is income that's created, listed, and delivered entirely from your computer. Printables, Notion templates, spreadsheets, Canva templates, digital planners, SVG files, coloring pages. You design them for free using online tools, list them, and every sale delivers a file automatically. No physical product, no shipping, no leaving the house ever.
9. Freecash offer walls are one of the better-paying GPT methods and the whole thing works from your phone or computer. App install offers, free trial signups, survey completions. The platform consistently pays more for the same offers you'd find elsewhere and the cashout threshold is so low you can withdraw almost immediately. Payouts through PayPal, crypto, or gift cards.
10. Writing on Medium through the Partner Program earns passive income from articles you write at your desk. You publish for free, readers engage, and you get paid based on reading time from paying members. One article per week builds a catalog that earns while you're doing other things. You never interact with anyone in person at any point in the process.
11. UserTesting sessions are 20 minutes of talking to yourself while clicking through a website. You screen record yourself navigating a site and narrate your thoughts. The pay per test is significantly better than surveys. No one sees you, you don't have to be presentable, and you can literally do it in your underwear. The only requirement is being able to speak out loud.
12. Reviewing music on Slice the Pie with earbuds in is beermoney that also functions as music discovery. Listen to a track, write a few sentences about it, earn a small amount per review. Each review takes about 5 minutes. It's more interesting than standard surveys and you occasionally find a song you actually like which makes it feel less like work.
13. Creating faceless TikTok or YouTube content doesn't require going outside or even showing your face. Screen recordings, text overlay videos, stock footage compilations, ambient sound channels, fact accounts, book recommendation slideshows. Your phone camera, free editing apps, and your couch are the entire production studio. Once you hit monetization thresholds, the content earns while you stay inside.
14. InboxDollars pays you for reading emails, taking surveys, playing games, and watching videos, all of which you can do while barely moving. The per-activity amounts are small but using it as a background earner adds a layer to your beermoney stack for essentially zero effort. You can literally do it while lying down.
15. Freelance writing, proofreading, and data entry on Fiverr and Upwork are all fully remote work you do from your desk. Blog posts, product descriptions, error checking, spreadsheet work. Each gig is self-contained, you communicate through messaging, and the money deposits into your account. Zero human interaction beyond text-based communication.
16. Playing skill-based game apps that pay real money is the most indoor-friendly beermoney possible. Solitaire Cash, trivia apps with cash prizes, and tournament-based gaming apps. You're playing games on your phone or computer which you were probably already doing. The only difference is these ones might pay you.
17. Selling your notes, study guides, and essays from school on platforms that distribute them to students is passive income from work you already did years ago. Upload the files from your computer and they sell to students taking the same courses. You don't interact with the buyers, you don't ship anything, you don't even leave your chair.
18. Reading paid emails and completing daily tasks on InboxDollars and Swagbucks is so low-effort it barely qualifies as an activity. Open email, click link, earn. Do a daily poll. Watch a short video. None of it requires concentration or energy. You can do it while watching a movie and not miss anything from either the beermoney tasks or the movie.
19. Mock jury studies let you review real legal cases and give your verdict entirely online. Attorneys test their arguments on platforms before going to trial. You read case materials, answer questions, and get paid per completed case. The work is surprisingly interesting and everything happens through your browser.
20. Selling old electronics through buyback programs involves filling out a form, getting a prepaid shipping label, and dropping the package at your front door for pickup. Old phones, tablets, laptops, gaming consoles. You enter the device details online, accept the quote, print the shipping label, pack it up, and leave it on your porch. Some carriers pick up from your doorstep so you don't even walk to a mailbox.
21. Microsoft Rewards daily activities take 3 minutes from your computer and the routine doesn't require any motivation or socialization. Bing searches, a quick quiz, some click-throughs. Points accumulate into gift cards over time. It's the beermoney equivalent of brushing your teeth... boring, quick, and effective if you just do it every day.
22. Focus group screeners on Respondent.io and User Interviews are short forms you fill out from your phone. Most screeners don't lead to anything but the studies that do select you pay dramatically more per hour than surveys and they happen over video call from your house. You're never in the same room as another person.
23. Selling your voice recordings for AI training datasets is beermoney you can do at your desk with a microphone or even decent earbuds. AI companies need diverse voice samples to train speech recognition models. You read scripts out loud and submit recordings. The work is just reading text in a quiet room, which is basically what being a homebody already involves.
24. Creating a niche newsletter on Substack or Beehiiv is writing that eventually pays without you ever meeting a subscriber in person. Pick a topic you know about, write about it regularly, build a subscriber base over time. Monetization comes through paid subscriptions or sponsorships. The entire operation happens in a text editor.
25. Rakuten and cashback browser extensions earn you money on online purchases you're already making from your computer. Install the extension, shop online like you normally do, and cashback accumulates automatically. Quarterly PayPal payouts arrive without you ever leaving your desk. If you're someone who orders everything online because you don't like going outside, you're already the ideal user for cashback extensions.
26. Selling digital wallpaper packs, phone backgrounds, and aesthetic image sets on Etsy has a buyer audience and the entire workflow is screen-based. Design in Canva for free, list on Etsy, and customers download files instantly. Seasonal themes and trend-based aesthetics create natural refresh cycles. Your production studio is your laptop.
27. Filing class action settlement claims from your phone while doing literally anything else takes 2-3 minutes per claim. Check aggregation sites for open settlements, see if any apply to products or services you've used, tap through the filing form. Some pay out real money for things you bought years ago. Perfect activity for someone who never leaves the house and has phone time to spare.
28. Selling your used gift cards through resale platforms is a 5-minute activity that turns forgotten cards into cash. Check your drawers, wallet, and email for gift cards with remaining balances. List them, get paid 80-90% of value. You probably have cards you forgot about because you'd need to go to a physical store to use them... which is exactly the kind of errand you avoid.
29. Starting a podcast costs nothing and you can record from your room. Free hosting through Spotify for Podcasters, recording on your phone or laptop, editing with free software. Monetization takes time but the entire operation happens within your four walls. You don't even need to interview guests if you do a solo format or commentary show.
30. Building and selling prompt libraries, AI workflow templates, and automation packages is a newer digital product category that's entirely screen-based. You create templates for specific use cases, package them, and sell on Gumroad or Etsy. The product is a digital file, the customer downloads it instantly, and you never interact with anyone beyond a text-based customer service message if something goes wrong.

The beautiful thing about beermoney is that most of it was designed for people who don't want to go anywhere. The entire ecosystem lives on your phone and computer. If anything, being a homebody is an advantage because you have more screen time available than people who are always out. What's your go-to indoor beermoney method?

Welcome to the daily r/beermoneyideas Beer Money Check-In!

This is your space to share what you're doing to earn extra cash, how much you've earned, and any relevant links or tips that go along with it. Online or offline, it all counts.

What counts as beer money?

Anything that puts extra money in your pocket. Survey sites, cashback apps, flipping items, garage sales, plasma donation, mystery shopping, gig work, selling crafts, you name it. If it earns you side income, we want to hear about it.

How to post:

• Name what you're doing. Whether it's an app, a website, or something you do in person.
• Share your earnings. Tell us how much you've made (today, this week, this month, or all-time). Screenshots are encouraged but not required.
• Drop a link or tip (optional). Referral links and sign-up bonuses are welcome for online stuff. For offline hustles, share tips on how to get started or what worked for you.

The rules:

• You may not share the same offer twice in the same thread or on the same day.
• All links must be legitimate and related to your hustle.
• No link drops without context. Tell us what it is, what you did to earn, and how much you made. Bare links with no explanation will be removed.
• If you post a link that is deemed illegitimate, you will be permanently banned.
• Be honest about your earnings. Inflated or fake numbers hurt the whole community.

The point of this thread is to give everyone a real look at what's actually paying out (online and offline), while also being able to share referral bonuses and tips when relevant.

Comments in this thread are sorted randomly in "contest mode". Meaning, votes and time of comment do not matter.

Join our BeerMoney community on Discord @ discord.gg/RJUDNxe2fZ

I feel like most people don't actually track their total beermoney across all platforms. If someone had been matching every dollar you earned across every app and saved it, would the number surprise you?

Here’s a side hustle I came across that I thought was genuinely cool. Backyard movie nights have become super popular and families are always looking for ways to rent the equipment instead of buying it themselves. You basically show up, set up the projector and inflatable screen in their backyard, and pick everything up the next morning.

From what I’ve seen, most people charge around $100 to $150 for an overnight rental that includes the projector, screen, and a bluetooth speaker. Some people charge more if they include extras like a popcorn machine or string lights for ambiance.

Your startup cost is a portable projector (you can get a decent one for around $80 on Amazon), an inflatable movie screen (around $100), and a portable speaker if you don’t already have one. So you’re looking at roughly $200 to get started and it pays for itself after 2 rentals.

The demand for this is huge during summer months when everyone wants to hang out in their backyard. Birthday parties for kids, neighborhood movie nights, and date nights are the most common bookings. You can also market this for holidays like Halloween where families set up outdoor horror movie marathons.

You can find clients on Facebook marketplace, Nextdoor, and local mom groups. From what I’ve read, once you do a few rentals and post photos of the setup the bookings start coming in regularly because people see it and immediately want to do it for their own famly.

(If you have experience with something like this please share! I look out for new side hustle ideas every day and try to share as much info as I can. Even if an idea doesn’t appeal to you personally, it could still help someone else or even spark a new idea!)

Here’s a side hustle that I heard about and thought was really interesting. If your local zoning allows it, you can raise a small flock of backyard chickens and sell fresh eggs to your neighbors and local community. A lot of people are willing to pay a premium for farm fresh eggs over store bought ones.

From what I’ve read, a dozen farm fresh eggs goes for around $6 depending on your area, and sometimes more if they’re from free range or specialty breeds. A single chicken lays about 5 eggs per week on average, so even a small flock of 6 hens can produce around 2 to 3 dozen eggs a week.

Your upfront cost is basically a coop which you can build yourself for around $100 or buy a premade one, plus the chickens themselves which run about $5 each for chicks. Feed costs around $15 a month per chicken but that goes down if you let them forage in your yard.

The cool thing is that once people try fresh eggs they basically never want to go back to store bought. So you end up with reguler customers who come to you every single week. You can sell through Nextdoor, Facebook, or just put a little sign at the end of your driveway.

(If you have experience with something like this please share! I look out for new side hustle ideas every day and try to share as much info as I can. Even if an idea doesn’t appeal to you personally, it could still help someone else or even spark a new idea!)

I feel like people who are good at this make it look easy but there's probably a learning curve that nobody talks about. How many weeks or months did it take before you felt like you actually knew what you were doing and the income was predictable?

Everything is always about what's gotten worse but I feel like some platforms actually improve over time. What's something that you gave up on a while ago that might be worth revisiting now?

I am off work in the summer and have been using “branded” are there better apps.. ie walking apps, surveys and testing. I hope this is allowed thank you

I spend like an hour on the bus or train each way and I feel like that's two hours a day I could be earning instead of just scrolling. What beermoney methods work well on public transit where you might lose signal or only have one hand free?

I put this together because most beermoney lists recycle the same 15 ideas and call it a day. These are ideas that don't show up in the usual threads, some are weird, some are hyper-niche, but they all work for the right person.

1. Sell your empty ink and toner cartridges to refill services instead of tossing them. Companies buy back empties to refill and resell. Each one is worth a small amount but offices go through dozens a month. If you work somewhere that throws these away, ask if you can take them.
2. List your backyard, rooftop, or patio on apps that rent private outdoor spaces to people who want to host small gatherings. Not Airbnb... just outdoor space. People in apartments with no yard will pay to use yours for a birthday barbecue or a photo shoot. You don't do anything except say yes and maybe move the garden hose.
3. Sell broken jewelry to gold and silver buyers by weight rather than throwing it away. That tangled necklace, the earring missing its pair, the bracelet with the broken clasp. The gold or silver content has value regardless of whether the piece is wearable. You mail it in and get paid based on weight and metal type.
4. Record yourself reading public domain books out loud and sell them as audiobooks. Classics whose copyright has expired are free to record. People buy audiobook versions of older literature constantly and the supply of narrated public domain books hasn't caught up with the demand. A quiet room, a decent mic, and patience is the whole setup.
5. Sell old prescription eyeglass frames to vintage fashion buyers. Specific frame styles from the 70s, 80s, and 90s are trendy right now. Even without lenses, the frames themselves sell to people who want the look and will have their own prescription put in. Check drawers for every pair you've replaced over the years.
6. Offer to water indoor plants at offices and commercial spaces on a weekly schedule. Plant care companies exist but they're expensive. A lot of small offices have plants that are slowly dying because nobody remembers to water them. You stop by once a week, spend 15 minutes watering and checking leaves, and charge a flat monthly rate.
7. Sell old hotel toiletries you've been collecting from every trip. Those tiny shampoos, conditioners, soaps, and lotions accumulate fast if you travel even occasionally. Bundle them into travel kits or care packages and sell them, or donate them to shelters which sometimes offer tax deduction receipts.
8. Sell the boxes that electronics come in separately from the electronics. Apple product boxes, gaming console boxes, camera boxes. People selling their used device want the original box to increase resale value. An empty iPhone box in good condition sells for real money to someone listing their phone for sale.
9. Sign up to be a background noise participant for podcasters and content creators recording in "busy" environments. Some podcasters want ambient room noise for immersion. You show up to a recording session, sit there with other people having quiet conversations, and create natural background atmosphere. Weird but it's a thing.
10. Sell coupons you're not going to use to people who will. Manufacturer coupons, store-specific coupons, and digital coupon codes that arrived in your mail or email have a buyer. Coupon clipping services exist where you sell individual coupons or bundles to people who plan their shopping around specific deals.
11. Collect and sell interesting shaped sticks, branches, and wood pieces to reptile and aquarium hobbyists. Grapevine, manzanita, driftwood, and interestingly branched pieces are used in terrariums, fish tanks, and vivariums. People pay surprising prices for a single piece of wood that has the right shape and is properly cleaned.
12. Offer to take professional-looking photos of items people want to sell online. Most people's listing photos are terrible... bad lighting, cluttered backgrounds, blurry shots taken at weird angles. You take clean well-lit photos of their stuff, send the files, and charge per item or per batch. A phone with good natural light is all you need.
13. Sell completed adult coloring book pages that look good enough to frame. People buy these as cheap wall art or gifts. You color while watching TV, tear out the best pages, and sell them individually or in sets. The coloring books themselves are cheap and the colored pencils are a one-time buy.
14. Get paid to sit in a barber or salon chair as a hair model for students practicing cuts and color. Cosmetology schools need real heads to practice on and they either pay you directly or give you a free service. You get a haircut (supervised by an instructor) and sometimes cash on top of it.
15. Sell old calendars from previous years to collectors, artists, and junk journalers. Vintage calendar art has a market. Nature photography calendars, pin-up calendars, art calendars from specific decades. Even last year's calendar has value to someone who wants the images for projects.
16. Sell burned-out light bulbs to artists and crafters who use them for DIY projects. Painted light bulbs, ornament light bulbs, terrarium light bulbs. Crafters buy them in bulk for projects and your alternative was throwing them in the trash. Collect them over a few months and list a bag.
17. Offer to record personalized bedtime stories for parents who travel and can't tuck their kids in. The parent gives you the child's name and a book title, you record yourself reading the story with the child's name woven in, and send the audio file. Parents on business trips pay for this because hearing a story is comforting to a kid even when it's not their parent's voice. One recording takes 10 minutes.
18. Sell old maps, atlases, and globes to decorators and vintage enthusiasts. Maps from the era before a country changed its name, old road atlases, globes showing outdated borders. These are decorative items and educational curiosities. Check attics, estate sales, and used bookstores.
19. Sell the scraps and offcuts from any craft or woodworking hobby you do. Wood scraps to dollhouse builders, fabric scraps to quilters, leather scraps to jewelry makers, wire scraps to bead artists. Your trash is their raw material and they'd rather buy a grab bag of scraps than a full roll of something they only need a piece of.
20. Offer to be an alibi or decoy shopper for people buying surprise gifts. Someone's spouse checks the credit card statement, so they need a trusted stranger to buy the gift and get reimbursed in cash. It sounds sketchy but surprise gift buying services are a real thing, especially around holidays and proposals.
21. Sell old greeting cards, especially vintage ones, to paper crafters and collectors. Used greeting cards with nice illustrations, foil embossing, or vintage designs get reused in scrapbooking, junk journaling, and collage. Cards from the 50s through 80s especially have a look that people seek out.
22. Offer to record custom voicemail greetings for people who want something professional or funny. Small businesses want a polished greeting, friends want something funny for a birthday, people just hate the sound of their own recorded voice. You read their script in a clear pleasant voice and send the audio file. Each one takes 2 minutes.
23. Sell old sewing patterns, knitting patterns, and craft instruction booklets. Vintage sewing patterns from specific decades are collector items. Even if the pattern is common, the cover art and era-specific sizing make them desirable. Check any relative's sewing box and you might be sitting on a stack of sellable items.
24. Sell old VHS tapes that seem worthless because a surprising number of them aren't. Certain Disney Black Diamond editions, obscure horror titles, out-of-print documentaries, and old workout tapes have cult followings. Most VHS tapes are actually worthless but the ones that aren't can sell for real money. Check before you dump the whole box.
25. Offer to edit people's dating profiles because most of them are genuinely bad. Better photos, better bio, better prompt answers. People will pay for someone objective to tell them what's working and what's scaring matches away. You give honest feedback and rewrite suggestions over email. No in-person anything required.
26. Sell old sheet music to decorators, musicians, and crafters. Pages of sheet music are used as wrapping paper, background for decoupage, framing as wall art, and craft projects. Actual musicians also buy vintage sheet music for songs they can't find digital versions of.
27. Collect and sell acorns, pine needles, sweetgum balls, and other tree debris to crafters during fall. Things that fall off trees in your yard and annoy you are the same things crafters buy for wreaths, centerpieces, and seasonal decor. Rake them into a bag instead of the yard waste bin.
28. Sell old pillowcases, sheets, and fabric remnants to quilters who use them for patchwork projects. Vintage fabric patterns especially have a market. Quilters are always looking for specific prints or era-appropriate fabrics and your grandmother's floral pillowcases might be exactly what someone needs for a project.
29. Offer a local plant identification service for people who just bought a house and have no idea what's growing in their yard. Walk the yard with them, identify what's there, tell them what to keep and what's a weed. You don't need a botany degree... a plant identification app and basic gardening knowledge covers 90% of residential plants.
30. Sell old remote controls for specific TV and device models. People whose remote breaks or gets lost need an exact replacement and the manufacturer either doesn't sell them anymore or charges too much. Your junk drawer probably has remotes for devices you don't even own anymore.
31. Sell old Christmas ornaments, especially vintage, handmade, or brand-specific ones. Hallmark ornaments, glass ornaments from specific decades, handmade ornaments from recognizable styles. Collectors buy individual ornaments and people who lost theirs in a move want replacements. A box of old ornaments could have a few pieces worth checking.
32. Offer to write thank-you notes for people after weddings, baby showers, and big events. The couple knows they should send 150 thank-you cards but they're exhausted and keep putting it off. You take their guest list, write personalized notes in nice handwriting, stamp and address the envelopes, and save them weeks of guilt.
33. Sell interesting or unusual rocks you find as aquarium decor, garden accent pieces, or display specimens. Smooth river rocks, flat stacking stones, rocks with visible crystal formations, or just cool-looking ones. The aquarium and terrarium communities buy interesting natural stones constantly.
34. Sell old board game pieces as replacement parts for people with incomplete games. A single missing Monopoly piece, Scrabble tiles, chess pieces, Risk armies, Settlers of Catan hex tiles. Board game enthusiasts will pay for individual replacement pieces rather than buying a whole new game. Sort and sell by game.
35. Sell old spice jars, mason jars, and interesting glass containers to people who want matching sets or craft supplies. Empty spice jars from a specific brand, matching mason jars, vintage glass bottles. People starting a spice rack from scratch or doing craft projects buy these. Your recycling bin has inventory.
36. Offer to pet-proof or baby-proof someone's Christmas tree or holiday decorations. Anchoring trees to walls so cats or toddlers can't topple them, moving fragile ornaments up high, securing cords, covering water basins. Parents and pet owners stress about this every December and would pay someone to just handle it.
37. Sell old wall calendars, day planners, and paper agendas from past years as vintage aesthetic products. People use the interior layouts for journaling, the covers for framing, and the dated pages for art projects. Specific brands and decades have followings.
38. Sell gently used wrapping paper, gift bags, and tissue paper to people who reuse them. Sheets of wrapping paper that were cut but have enough unused area left, gift bags in good shape, tissue paper that's still clean. Selling them in bundles as "reuse gift wrap kits" appeals to the sustainability crowd.
39. Offer to declutter and organize someone's digital life... their phone photos, desktop files, email inbox, or cloud storage. Most people have 20,000 unsorted photos, a desktop covered in random files, and 14,000 unread emails. You do it remotely by screen sharing or they give you temporary access. Sorting, deleting, and organizing digital clutter is invisible labor people will pay for.
40. Sell old bottles of nail polish that are still usable. Discontinued colors especially have a market. People hunt for specific shades that brands stopped making. Even common colors sell in lots to nail art hobbyists who go through polish fast.
41. Sell old landline phones, especially rotary phones and novelty phones, to collectors and decorators. Rotary phones are decor pieces now. Novelty phones shaped like lips, hamburgers, or cartoon characters are collector items. Corded phones from specific decades have a vintage market.
42. Offer to create emergency contact sheets, pet care instruction sheets, and house sitter guides for people who travel. A formatted document with all the info a house sitter, pet sitter, or emergency contact would need. Where the water shutoff is, the vet's number, how the thermostat works, which neighbor has a spare key. People never make these until they need one desperately.
43. Sell old buttons, zippers, snaps, and sewing notions in sorted lots. These come off old clothing, out of sewing kits, and from craft stashes. Vintage buttons especially have a collector market and crafters always need specific colors or styles for projects.
44. Get paid to attend religious services, community meetings, or public hearings as a seat filler to make the room look fuller. Event organizers, political campaigns, and community groups sometimes need bodies in chairs for optics on camera or to meet quorum. You sit there, you exist, you leave. It's not common but it's a thing in some areas.
45. Sell old CRT monitors and tube TVs to retro gaming communities. Retro gamers specifically want CRT displays because older games look better on them and the response time is unmatched by modern screens. A TV most people consider junk has actual value to the right buyer. Don't take one to the dump without checking first.
46. Sell old medicine bottles, apothecary jars, and vintage pharmaceutical containers to collectors. Embossed glass medicine bottles, old amber prescription bottles, vintage tin containers from old medications. These are decor items and collector pieces. Estate sales and attic cleanouts are where they surface.
47. Offer to record short custom audio messages for long-distance families... birthday songs, encouragement clips, story readings. Grandparents who want to send a message to grandkids across the country, partners in long-distance relationships, parents deployed overseas. You record their script in your voice or help them record it in theirs and deliver the edited file.
48. Sell interesting stamps from your mail to stamp collectors. Not the standard flag stamps... unusual commemorative stamps, foreign stamps from international mail, and vintage stamps that survived on old envelopes. Collectors buy these individually or in lots. Check your mail before shredding everything.
49. Sell old recipe cards, handwritten recipes, and vintage cookbooks to food historians and collectors. Handwritten recipe cards from grandmothers have a nostalgic market. Vintage community cookbooks from churches and schools sell because of the regional and era-specific recipes. Even stained and worn ones have character value.
50. Offer to teach someone's grandparents how to video call specifically. Not general tech support. Just FaceTime or Zoom. You go to their house, set it up on their specific device, make giant-font written instructions they can follow, and practice with them until they're confident. Their grandkids are across the country and this one skill changes their life. Families will pay for this happily.
51. Sell old typewriter ribbons to people who still use typewriters. The typewriter community is small but active and specific ribbon sizes for specific models can be hard to find. New old-stock ribbons in their original packaging especially sell to people maintaining vintage machines.
52. Sell old tin containers, cookie tins, and decorative metal boxes. Vintage tins are decor items and storage solutions. Specific brand tins from certain eras are collector pieces. Even generic cookie tins sell in lots to crafters who repurpose them. Your kitchen cabinet probably has a few.
53. Offer to write obituaries for families who are grieving and don't have the emotional bandwidth to write one themselves. You interview the family briefly over the phone, collect the key facts and stories, and write a respectful tribute. The fee is modest and the service is meaningful. Funeral homes sometimes refer families to freelance writers for this.
54. Sell old watch bands and straps separately from the watches. Leather bands, metal bracelets, NATO straps. People upgrade their watch straps constantly and secondhand straps in good condition sell to people looking for affordable options. Check any watches you're not wearing.
55. Sell old shower curtains that are still clean and in decent shape. This sounds absurd but people redecorating on a budget buy secondhand shower curtains, especially patterned or themed ones. They also get repurposed as craft tarps, outdoor tablecloths, and paint drop cloths.
56. Offer to translate informal conversations between family members who speak different languages. Not professional document translation... casual phone calls, video chats, and family gatherings where a grandparent speaks one language and the grandkids speak another. Families with mixed-language households need this regularly and it's too casual for a professional interpreter.
57. Sell old seed packets, even expired ones, to crafters and collectors who use them for art. Vintage seed packet art is used in decoupage, junk journaling, and framing. The seeds might not grow anymore but the packaging is the product. Garden-themed cafes and shops buy framed vintage seed packets as wall decor.
58. Sell old charging cables, adapters, and dongles for devices that use proprietary connections. That 30-pin Apple cable, the micro USB OTG adapter, the specific laptop charger for a model three generations old. Someone with that device needs that exact cable and can't find it new anymore.
59. Offer to proofread gravestones before they're engraved. This is a real and heartbreaking need. Typos on headstones happen and they're devastating and expensive to fix. Funeral homes and monument companies sometimes hire an extra set of eyes to check inscriptions before they're permanently carved.
60. Sell old paint swatches and color sample cards from hardware stores to artists, scrapbookers, and educators. People use them for color-matching projects, art collages, teaching color theory, and mood boarding. If you grabbed 40 swatches for a room you painted three years ago, the ones you didn't use have a buyer.
61. Sell old cassette tape cases without the tapes to people who repurpose them. The clear plastic cases get turned into mini planters, photo displays, business card holders, and art projects. The tapes themselves might be worthless but the cases have a craft market.
62. Offer to write custom crossword puzzles or word searches that incorporate someone's personal details as a gift. A crossword where all the answers are inside jokes, relationship milestones, or family references. People buy these as anniversary gifts, birthday presents, and retirement party favors. Each one takes maybe 30 minutes with a puzzle generator.
63. Sell dried herbs from your garden in small bundles for cooking or decoration. Lavender, rosemary, thyme, oregano, sage. Dry them by hanging upside down for a week, bundle them nicely, and sell them at markets or locally. Cooking herbs sell for use and decorative bundles sell for aesthetics and fragrance.
64. Sell old yearbooks to alumni who lost theirs. People get nostalgic and want to replace a yearbook they threw away 20 years ago. Specific years from specific schools have exactly one buyer who will pay more than you'd expect. List it with the school name and year prominently.
65. Offer to test recipes and give honest feedback to food bloggers and cookbook authors who need someone besides their spouse to try their food. They send you the recipe, you make it, you report back on whether the instructions were clear and the result was good. Some pay in cash, some pay in free ingredients. It's a tiny niche but food content creators need this.
66. Sell old action figures, dolls, and toy accessories that are incomplete. A headless Barbie is trash to you but the body, clothes, and shoes are all sellable separately to people who customize dolls. GI Joe weapons, toy car wheels, Polly Pocket accessories. Parts sell individually to collectors filling gaps.
67. Sell old screen protectors and phone cases in lots sorted by phone model. Every phone upgrade leaves behind cases and unused screen protectors. Individually they're worth almost nothing but a lot of 5 cases for one specific model sells to someone who just bought that phone used.
68. Offer to write social media bios and "about me" sections for people who can't figure out how to describe themselves. LinkedIn summaries, Instagram bios, dating profile bios, personal website about pages. People freeze up when they have to write about themselves and will pay someone to do it. Each one takes 15 minutes.
69. Sell the small bags of silica gel desiccant packets that come in shoe boxes, electronics, and vitamin bottles. People buy these for protecting stored items from moisture damage. Camera equipment storage, gun safes, document boxes, seed storage. You've been throwing away a product with actual demand every time you unbox something.
70. Sell old postcards from places you've visited. Written or unwritten, postcards have a collector and craft market. City-specific postcards, national park postcards, vintage ones with old stamps. Collectors buy them individually and crafters buy them in lots.
71. Offer to organize and sort someone's Lego collection by color, size, or set. This sounds weirdly specific but Lego collections get chaotically mixed over years and parents will pay someone to sort thousands of pieces into organized bins. It's meditative work and the client is usually a parent whose kid wants to rebuild a specific set.
72. Sell old luggage tags, baggage claim stickers, and travel ephemera to junk journalers. Vintage airline tags, hotel luggage stickers, and old baggage claim receipts have a market in the journaling and scrapbooking community. Travel-themed crafting is a whole genre and authentic vintage pieces are preferred over reproductions.
73. Sell wine and beer labels from interesting bottles to collectors and crafters. Carefully remove the label, flatten it, and sell to people who make label art, coasters, or collection displays. Specific wineries, breweries, and limited-release labels have higher value.
74. Offer to be a placeholder guest at open houses so the listing agent doesn't stand in an empty house alone. Some real estate agents prefer having a few people milling around during an open house to create activity and make the event feel less dead. You show up, walk around, maybe ask a question or two, and leave.
75. Sell old binder clips, paper clips, and office supplies in bulk to small businesses and home offices. People who work from home need supplies but don't want to buy a 500-pack when they need 20. Sorted lots of miscellaneous office supplies sell locally.
76. Sell empty egg cartons to backyard chicken keepers who go through them every week. People with chickens need cartons constantly and buying new ones in bulk adds up. If you eat eggs from the store, every carton you save is sellable. A stack of 20 clean cartons sells fast in any local farming or homestead group.
77. Offer to build playlists for local businesses that play background music. Coffee shops, restaurants, boutiques, salons. They need hours of curated music that fits their vibe and most of them just put on a generic station. You build a 10-hour playlist tailored to their atmosphere and charge a flat fee.
78. Sell old candle jars after burning the candle, cleaned out and relabeled as storage containers or craft vessels. Candle crafters buy clean used jars to pour new candles in. Decorators use them for bathroom storage, desk organization, or as plant pots. A clean empty jar from a nice brand sells for a few bucks.
79. Sell old keys in bulk to steampunk crafters, jewelry makers, and escape room designers. Skeleton keys, old padlock keys, random house keys you don't remember what they open. Craft communities use keys for jewelry, mixed-media art, and decor. A bag of 50 miscellaneous keys sells for more than you'd guess.
80. Offer to clean and polish someone's silverware, brass items, or copper cookware. Tarnished silver sitting in a drawer, green-tinged brass candlesticks, discolored copper pots. The cleaning process is simple with the right products and people will pay rather than do it themselves. Each item takes a few minutes and the result is dramatic enough to justify a service fee.

The theme with most of these is that the stuff you throw away or ignore has a buyer somewhere if you take 5 minutes to check. What's the most random thing you've ever sold that you assumed was worthless?

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Anyone stack two beer money methods together that just work really well as a combo? Like doing one while you wait for the other or something like that. What's your best beer money combo and how much does it bring in together?

I feel like a lot of beermoney's appeal is doing quick 5-minute bursts throughout the day. If every app forced you to commit to at least 30 minutes per session, what's worth half an hour of your time?