Please answer my ridiculous $ problem!!!!?

Question

Okay, dont roll your eyes, but...

I'm 15 (16 in November), and I want to raise a lot of money fast.

My mom is going through a financially straining divorce, and I want to raise 1,000 dollars (or in that range) in 6 months. I want to raise money so we can have a nice family vaca., especially to kick my mom's money wows out the door for a while. I dont have a job, no car (until November) - so what can I do to raise money? Dont say babysit or walk dogs, I need a creative way like ebay or something. HELP!

Answer 1

Well if you just made $40 a week for the rest of the year you would have almost $1,000.  You could babysit Friday and Sat. and make more than that.  Go to local grocery store.  Get job as a bagger.  

Doing something smaller and personal for your mom would be better than a $1,000 vacation.

Answer 2

You could make that much doing paid surveys. I made that much last month, so if you even went slow you could do it in 6 months. You can see the places I use at http://www.freewebs.com/free2workathome/

Answer 3

Well ebay and microsoft have an agreement right now where microsoft is giving 20% cash back on buy it now items through ebay paid for with paypal. What you can do is purchase a money order from someone on ebay who offers buy it now, and then collect the 20% from microsoft after 60 days.

To do it, go into ebay, pick the item you want, and waitlist it. Then go to msn live search, and type in "cheap pc". On the top of the page there should be something that says 20% cash back on ebay. Click on that, then buy your item. If its not there, just keep refreshing until it is.

For terms of the microsoft cash back, just go onto google and type microsoft cash back.

You could also sell money orders at a premium. Maybe sell a 1050 dollar money order for 1175, so you quickly make 125 dollars, and the purchaser gets 250 from microsoft after 60 days.

We have a newsletter in October that discusses legitimate ways to make money online. If you would like to join it, send your email address to me.

Answer 4

When you turn 16 get a part time job during the holidays. If you on;y work November,December and January and save all you earn you will enough for the vacation

Answer 5

eBay or something...

Hit up dad for guilt money.

Answer 6

Okay, but I want 10 pts if you like it! LOL!

First, you need to make a list of your friends and your Mom's friends.  The best are folks who might be friends to both of you - your network - relatives, PTA, church - you know your life, I don't.

Here's how the network is important:

Because you don't have transportation, you have to solicit help from people who do.

If you want this money to be a surprise, ask someone in your network if they'd host a yard sale or a car wash or both.

Next, create a flyer.  If you're doing a yard sale, solicit the neighbors to see if they have stuff they want to give away.  Collect it and have a yard sale.  If you get some good stuff that could sell on ebay, list it and sell it there.

Or if you know people with too much nice stuff, ask them if they'd let you sell what they don't want and split the profits with them.  You'll need access to a digital camera.

If it's a car wash, let every one in the neighborhood know you're doing a car wash.  If it's successful, do it again.

Open a bank account and keep the money safe. Make sure you can access the account with an ATM/charge card, so when you're ready to make reservations you can do that.

Then go on a travel website and find out how much the place you want to go will cost, so you know you're raising enough money.  

When you're ready to give the vacation to your Mom, you might even want to do it by giving her the confirmed reservations and some of the money in restaurant gift cards.

I'm sure there's other stuff you could do too.  I know you said you didn't want to walk dogs, but pet sitting can make you a lot of money too.  When folks go out of town and leave their dog or cat, a lot of people make pretty good money going to their houses and making sure he's got food and water.  You could advertise at the local vet's office, pet store or groomer.

Well hope this helps you.