Juggling the heavy responsibilities of home, keeping everyone happy and also bringing in some spare cash on the side might seem like an incredibly complex ask but be sure of one thing; it’s sure do-able.
With thousands of housewives all over the world making money from spare gigs at home, the proof is in the pudding. If you want it hard enough, and you work smartly, you can join those ranks too.
Stuck for ideas on where to start however? Well, here’s where your trust UrbanHouseWife guide comes good again.
Check out these five suggestions the next time you get a bit of free time on your hands and you’re wondering how you might spin it into some extra silver for your purse.
Ebay
Ever thought about opening up your own eBay account and selling off that old discarded stuff your family just never finds the time or interest to use anymore? It’s easy enough to do and lucrative too, should you learn a little better about how to sell through more refined descriptions and higher quality photos.
There’s also the option of raiding other people’s junk too and seeing if you can’t turn a profit on antiques or second-hand items. The options are endless.
Etsy
Etsy is a place that makes it possible to profit from a hobby, especially if arts and crafts are your thing and you’re particularly adept at making things.
With thousands of sellers making all kinds of craft gifts, jump on there and see if you can’t find some inspiration as to what to make and sell with good success. Even if you don’t have a skill already there’s always the chance to spend a couple of months learning one before diving into producing items of your own and exploring the potential of Etsy to help flog them.
Blogging
Blogging too, is a particularly effective way of making a bit of cash on the side of supporting a family from home. Choosing a strong niche to write about and being consistent is the key, then work on developing a community, an audience, and getting social with what you write and produce and see where it takes you.
Making money from blogging can be done in numerous ways that it’s simply too extensive to write about here. Look into affiliate marketing, creating your own products, direct advertising and more should this idea prove interesting to you.
Freelance Writing
Like blogging, it’s getting easier to make money from your words given the boom in content marketing and the number of readers on the web. Look into using sites like Elance or Freelancer to get acquainted with the types of freelancing jobs there are out there and throw your hat in the ring if you think your schedule might permit.
Teaching
Finally there’s also teaching too, which can be done quite literally about anything, that’s well worth looking into as an avenue for extra pennies for busy housewives. Start an online course, get coaching people over Skype or contribute to busier online learning communities and you’ll see just how it works.
There’s no longer any need to leave the house to work while taking care of a family at home. Given the internet age, and the amount of opportunity there is out there, you could quite literally making a breadwinning income while doing all the other superhuman things a modern urban housewife is required to do.