Test Out These Easy Ways To Make Money in a Day
If you are looking for fast ways to make money today -- or in any single day -- there are a number of ways to accomplish it.
Most people are familiar with options such as driving for Uber or DoorDash or picking up assignments from TaskRabbit. These platforms have become go-tos for folks who want to earn extra cash in a short amount of time. However, the landscape of quick money-making opportunities goes far beyond those obvious options.
Let's look into some of the lesser-known, yet equally effective, ways to make money in a day.
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Sell Your Old Electronics
If you’re like most people, you probably have an e-graveyard of dead or outdated computers, phones, tablets and other electronics. You can turn them into cold, hard cash by selling them to Gazelle, which will resurrect them and resell them to buyers looking for bargains on the used market.
Just visit Gazelle.com, tell them about your device and send it in for free for inspection. If your device’s condition matches the description you gave, you’ll get paid right away in cash or gift cards — not store credit, like so many competing services.
The payment you receive will depend on the type and condition of your device, but your first trade-in comes with a $5 bonus.
Donate Plasma
When you donate blood, they pull a pint of the stuff from your body and pay you $50 to $75. You can do it only once every 56 days or six times per year.
Donating plasma, on the other hand, is not some desperate hustle for college kids and the indigent. Since the machine siphons off only the plasma and returns the rest of your blood to your body, you can donate much more frequently and collect a whole lot more cash.
A couple can easily earn $1,500 per month donating plasma without much effort, according to Business Insider. CSL Plasma, one of the biggest plasma providers in the world, says individuals can earn up to $1,100 in their first month.
It’s unclear how much you’d make on your first day, but the payments increase as you donate more.
Sell Old Stuff Around Your House
If you’ve got an old end table, baseball cards, a car, a tiara or anything in between that’s collecting dust, you can turn it into money today with OfferUp. It’s a locally based app connecting you with neighbors who want your stuff.
Once you sign up, upload images of whatever you’re selling and list your stuff for sale, you can wave goodbye to your stuff and have cash in your hand that day.
Interested buyers will message you directly, make offers and counteroffers and, when you negotiate a deal, they’ll come and pick it up or you can drop it off within 24 hours.
Rent Your Lightly Driven Car
If you’ve got a second car, or a car that you rarely use, you can convert it into passive income by joining Turo, the world’s largest car-sharing marketplace.
Kind of like the Airbnb of car rentals, Turo lets carless drivers pay you to rent your wheels for a spell — and don’t worry, you’re automatically covered by up to $750,000 in Travelers insurance.
Turo says the average person with one car earns $10,516 per year, which is about $29 per day. They even offer a calculator that helps you estimate how much money you could earn with your particular car.
Sell Your Books
If you’ve got rows of books clogging up shelf space as you peruse all the libraries in the world on an e-reader that’s smaller than a tablet, it’s time to trade in those paper books for paper money.
Bookscouter can help.
Just visit the site and browse the more than 30 vendors that are competing to buy your books, compare prices and seller feedback, find the highest buyback price and then offload your volumes for cold, hard cash.
Open a Bank Account That Pays You Back
If you’ve had it with your current bank, there’s no shortage of financial institutions willing to pay you for your business in the form of sign-up bonuses.
Most come with strings like minimum deposit amounts; but, if you meet the criteria, you can get paid in one day just for parking your money in the right place. SOFI, PNC and Wells Fargo all currently pay you to open accounts with them.
Andrew Lisa contributed to the reporting for this article.
This article was provided by MoneyLion.com for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial, legal or tax advice.
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