Make Money from Home, Work from Home, MOney Making Ideas at Home

Hanging Plants. Specialize in hanging plants (flowers, ferns, vines) of all sizes and descriptions. Display for sale when in peak condition in attractive pots with interesting holders and hangers. Advertise that you take in trades.

House Cleaning. Offer one-time or periodic house cleaning services. Perform the heavy tasks (shampoo rugs, clean stoves, wash windows, wax the floors, defrost). Have a check-list of jobs to be done and agree on price beforehand.

Home Handyman. Perform handyman services for those who can not or do not have the time. Advertise clearly what you do, keep your appointments and guarantee your work to the extent of your hourly wages. Save customers expensive service calls.

Miniature Gardens. Create various sizes of garden-like display containers of live plants for hospital sick rooms, boxes for balconies, rooftop planters, offices and residences. Include instructions for care to make your products last.

Property Portpolios. Prepare photograph and property description folders. Make up folios for private parties to make sure their property is shown in the best possible light, and for real estate companies to use in sales presentations.

Promotions. Organise community and commercial promotions: order bumper stickers, posters; arrange for news releases, interviews, photo sessions. Plan agenda, schedule workers, coordinate events for a fee or percentage of profits.

Surplus Sales. Buy bargain priced items at auctions and sales. Store neatly in a secure area, advertise to find buyers who need and will pay for them. Open your warehouse one or two days a week or sell large items by appointment.

Word Processing. Produce interim drafts and finished professional letters, manuscripts and documents for students, lawyers, writers and businesses. Make provision for client editing and subsequent re-writing, as a part of your service.

Magazine Subscriptions. Sell a variety of magazine subscriptions from your home-office. Use gimmicky ads, give credit for leads and prizes for multiple sales. Do lots of telephone canvassing. Have a special attention every time you call a customer.

Compiling Mailing Lists. Compile mailing lists from various local and wider area sources - buy voting registration lists, check on buying tax and license lists. Sell names to brokers or keep current and rent them yourself on self stick labels.

Collection Agent. Represent one or more commercial agencies. Solicit delinquent accounts for collection from local businesses for a percentage of money the agencies collect.

Coin Searching. Buy rolls of coins from banks, whatever denomination you can afford. Search through them for coins worth over face value. Keep all of these and replace with regular coins and trade back in.

Collections. Accumulate collectibles (glass, matchbox, baseball cards, comic books). Make up from common specimens, start collections to sell to beginners. Sell valuable pieces individually to collectors.

Concession Booth. Operate a booth or stand at a recreation area, flea market, shopping mall or parking lot. Sell your own products and/or consignment items. Carry some attractively priced items just to attract more customers.

Distress Sales. Buy household items cheap at auctions and close-out sales. Clean them up and sell as your own right out of your living room because you need the money, and never because you have new or better things.

Flyer Distribution. Hire kids or adults to distribute ads, samples, coupons, announcements door-to-door or on parked car windows. Charge extra to record occupant reactions. Contract with individual businesses and advertising agencies.

Client Listings. On your computer, input and maintain customer or business information: customer information, purchases, credit records, employee information, etc. Provide periodic and custom sorts including mailing lists to clients.

Library Research. Use your talent and the public library to provide research data, technical details and background information for clients who need their 'homework' done. Charge by the hour, page or a flat fee for your time and effort.

Pen Pal Service. Advertise in both home and overseas publications for correspondees. Charge for addresses or for a subscription to your club news with paid advertisements placed by those seeking Penpals. Sell names to mailing list brokers.

Business Equipment. Buy surplus equipment from bankruptcy sales and auctions. Store and clean-up, but do not repair, let buyer do that. Advertise bargain prices for qualified buyers and sell at double or triple of your investment.

Yoga Instructor. In today's hectic, fast-paced world - parents, businessmen and students alike can benefit from the deep breathing, relaxation and concentration techniques, you can teach them. Get start by offering classes at health clubs, through your city's recreation clubs and parks or at your own home.

Home Day Care. Spend more time with your family, earn extra cash and work from home by running a successful daycare business. Home day care facilities, sometimes referred to as "family day care" vary greatly. At one extreme, you will find a mother who takes in a couple of other children so she can earn enough money to be home with her own kids. Another centre may be run by someone who thinks of it as her career, has a larger number of children, hires assistants and has a formal program of activities.