You could try selling things on ebay, who knows your trash may be someone's treasure
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You can pet sit
, if there aren't many children around your neighborhood see if there are pets you can watch. Maybe even offer to walk people's pets while they are at work or something like that.
Use your parents :p, or use their "connections". My first job when I was 15 was working at my mom's company for 8 dollars an hour, at my age and considering I had no prior experience, that's very decent. See if your parents can hook you up at their workplace, you are more likely to get a higher paying job that way.
How about tutoring? Are you really good in a particular subject in school? Maybe you can tutor someone, charge them less than a real tutor would and you might get more people looking for help. This is really good if you can play an instrument. My sister used to pay this guy 10 an hour for him to teach her how to play drums
. Or how about teaching neighborhood kids, lots of parents lack the time to do things like this but you can help them.
Or hold like a community party hehe if it's summer where you are, hold a block bbq and charge them to get in :-p
Do you have an indoor pool you can become a lifeguard in? that's a really good paying, fun job
.
Oh and if you are good with making graphics, you can like make them for people and sell them
. Or creating websites for people...or even selling your sketches if you aren't great with computer programs
.
If you are really good with fixing things maybe you can like ask if people need help fixing something around their house...like a handy..umm woman
. Or fixing computers.
I know it maybe too close to christmas by then, but if you didn't get the 400.00 and it's getting close...you can giftwrap presents maybe for people and charge them per present. You can get cheap wrapping paper and material and if you are great at it you can make good money
. I know this girl who was really good at wrapping presents and she worked at her mom's store doing that, made money in tips etc.
OOOOOhh what about helping put out christmas light? That's something people hate sometimes, untangling them lol...you could charge to help them untangle their mess of lights
..okay maybe I'm grasping for straws here but I'm sure someone would pay for that. A lot of people are willing to help people if they need it, as long as they get something out of it I don't know why they wouldn't want to. Even if you have to be cheap about it, as long as you are getting some money
If it's hot for you where you are, you can hold a car wash
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How about holding a holiday bake sale? If you are smart about it you can earn more than you spend on the ingridients and you can have fun...just remember it's important to advertise it. The cheapest way of advertising is word of mouth so get to talking!
There are online sites that pay like cents for spending time online. Some are actually legit, I can't remember the name of one that my friend went to. She actually got checks in the mail from them. You could try researching that.
oooo I was searching online for more things and I read this "Deliver newspapers. If you sign up to deliver a lot, you can make up to $100 to $200 per week!"...so maybe you could deliver papers
oh how about taking cans to the recycling center? Don't they still give money in some states for that
. that idea may be iffy for you, but if you want that ticket you won't care much
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Hope something here helps