(selling greeting cards) is a great home based business.

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I rekey, clean, trashout and take pictures for banks on foreclosures.

Real estate agent in Bergen County, NJ

I work from home five days a week as an editor for an MSC, I do price checks and inventory for a data collection company on Saturdays, and I'm a regular shopper for Mintel.

Mine is not very exciting. I'm on disability . Boo!

I tutor.

I work as a Tech CSR for the Military in the day time and shops and belong to various community organizations and volunteer with them. I also play with EBay and Amazon when have time. I travel up to 200+ miles doing shops and video trained so money is better with that.

Many decades ago, when I was in college and the state I lived in was "dry" on Sunday, I would bootleg Budweiser for $12/six pack.

Full-time employee for the state, doing secret shopping during lunch hours, on the way home from work and on wekends, but seriously considering a transition to full-time mystery shopping and editing.

@tltheob wrote:

I rekey, clean, trashout and take pictures for banks on foreclosures.

Any suggestions on how I could get into that? I've done some fixup/cleanups for sellers. Do you do the rekeying yourself?

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Probably you should talk to a local bank's repo department about that. or local realtors might know.

I'm a corporate tax analyst.

I'm a real estate and securities investor--buy high, sell low is my motto.

This is AWESOME!!!!!

@Shoptilyoudrop wrote:

I shop at Goodwill and then resell on ebay using my Post Office shops for free shipping =)

I work in Credit and Collections (business to business) for a large corporation. In addition I mystery shop every day. The most rewarding field that I work in is volunteering for a free to low income spay/neuter organization.

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Full time mommy!

For those living in a state where electricity has been deregulated (Texas, California, New York, several others), Ambit Energy has a program where you can make money by recruiting customers and other consultants. You get paid $100 for every two customers or consultants you sign up. Then you get income from electricity the customers use. You can also get free electricity after recruiting 15 customers - each month is free that you maintain at least 15 customers. It works sort of like Amway or Mary Kay but there is no product to push - everyone already uses electricity. If you can help someone save on their electric bill, you're golden! If not, thank them for their time and find someone else that you can help save money.

Some people have gotten rich but honestly, for most people it can bring in a few extra bucks each month, more than enough to repay the sign-up fee and free electricity is nothing to sneeze at. Being honest, there are several people who haven't been able to make it work for them. Personally, I'm not quitting mystery shopping and flying to Hawaii anytime soon - but a trip to the mall might come a little sooner than expected

@ph300924 wrote:

(selling greeting cards) is a great home based business.

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I don't want to be in violation of forum rules. Normally the sign-up fee to join is $429 but they are running a special where you can join for $75 until June 5th. If anyone is interested in details, PM me. If even posting this is a violation of forum rules, I'm happy to edit as necessary.

@tltheob wrote:

I rekey, clean, trashout and take pictures for banks on foreclosures.

I did that for some time (the pictures part, at least), but got tired of getting farther and farther away from home to do those jobs. Oddly enough, another company sent me an order for the first time and I knocked that out in between shops the other day and it was for more than the other company I was working for.

For me, other than that, it's theater installs and mostly MF FF shops paying the bills and feeding me (and paying my trainer to make me break a sweat).

Silly refinery strike put a hold on everything down here...

I am on Disabilty and I volunteer at an orgainization that gives out Travel information to the public.

I am an administrator for FSA and HSA accounts. I work four 10 hour days with Fridays and weekends off.

I am a licensed Professional Inspector (real estate.)

I am a retired teacher and I do some substitute teaching in addition to mystery shopping.

I am a Nanny for a family with 4 kids. I also do noon helper at my daughter's school. I just started.

@James Bond 007.5 wrote:

Many decades ago, when I was in college and the state I lived in was "dry" on Sunday, I would bootleg Budweiser for $12/six pack.

I am not at all @#$%& surprised someone who did this in school ended up doing shopping. Hustlers are hustlers haha. I used to sell soda and candy out of my school locker.

I am an Adoption Respite Care Coordinator and do occassional mystery shopping.

I'm retired. Just started mystery shopping to stretch the social security a little further. My original thought was just to enjoy a free meal once in a while with someone else doing the dishes. Now I find that I can actually earn some money as well. I'm enjoying it a lot.

I work for a large retirement plan and will be retiring myself in five months.

I make and sell granola bars and granola at farmers markets and stuff. The kids especially loved them! Its very part time but I love doing it

I also forgot to mention, I pet sit and house sit for wealthy clients whenever they go away on vacation. It's my most favorite job because I get to stay at their mansions and live "the good life" for a week or two

As a retired Human Resources Director, I love reading about people's jobs. So much creativity! Now I work as a Superintendent for a state fair (1.5 months a year), grow veggies and fruit on a mini-farm, write scripts for training videos, and buy for resale. I volunteer at a thrift store in a high income town and do the pricing. I get first choice plus a discount. I have a room full of great buys but not the interest in putting them on eBay. I'm looking for a partner to photo, list, sell, and ship. I have to consider MShopping as a hobby or I'd go nuts. Don't need the stress anymore. Yes, I love getting paid for the Goodwill shops. Also, I do a plant nursery and a feed store where I get supplies for the garden. I house-sit in the winter in Arizona. I've had a renter who was a handyman, fixed everything and mowed the lawn. He paid $500 in cash monthly and was gone most of the time. Barter and trade...a fun way to survive.

I'd love to write a book or blog on living well for pennies.