People and businesses are willing to spend money during this season. Take advantage of this by offering in-demand holiday products or services. Here are a few ideas:
- Work as a holiday decorator if you’re good at interior designing. Lots of businesses hire decorators for their offices, stores or establishment.
- Sell sugar cookies- I do this as well. Decorated cookies sell for $2-6 per piece so it’s definitely a great way to earn extra bucks this season. You can sell this on Etsy too!
- Sell Christmas decorations/ cards – If you are crafty, this is a great way to earn money before the holidays. You can sell your crafts on Etsy too!
6. Make Money with Cash Back Apps
Don’t leave money on the table each time you go shopping! Use cashback apps to earn cashback on things you are going to buy anyway. These apps also offer generous welcome bonuses and incredible savings of up to 40% when you use them when shopping.
These are the apps I constantly use to earn cashback from my purchases:
Ibotta
For groceries, I use Ibotta, a cashback site/app affiliated with the stores I go to (Walmart, Kmart, Sam’s Club, Costco, and Walgreens.)
Ibotta has expanded to other categories too such as restaurants, prescription and retail stores. So, there are so many ways to earn free money through this app.
So far, I’ve earned over $1000 in cashback and bonuses from Ibotta!
Rakuten
Like Ibotta, Rakuten (formerly called Ebates) pay you cashback for your online and even in-store purchases. It’s affiliated with thousands of stores including Amazon, Macy’s, Sears, and JcPenny.
Rakuten offers up to 40% cashback which makes you big savings if you do your holiday shopping through it. The company also offers a welcome bonus of $10 (get it here) when you make your first $25 worth of purchases and a generous referral bonus of $25 for every friend you refer to them.
7. Get a seasonal retail job
The busy season comes with a surge of need for extra manpower in many stores. When there’s too many customers to cater to, stores need the extra hands to keep their businesses running. The malls are the first best place to look for seasonal part-time jobs, but you can also look at stores and other establishments where you could work a couple of hours of each week.
8. Get extra work on Fiverr
Fiverr is a platform that allows you to complete small tasks for a fee (typically each at $5). The tasks could range from writing, graphic designing, proofreading, and so much more
9. Work on Amazon Mechanical Turk
The mTurk program provides micro-tasks that you can work on a part-time basis. As a “turker,” you will get access to numerous micro-tasks like answering surveys and spotting errors on sentences, basically what bots cannot recognize. You won’t get paid plenty of dollars doing the tasks, but most of them don’t require a lot of time, so it’s easy to accomplish a lot in a few hours.
9. Make Cash for Christmas by Flipping Items
There is a lot of cash in flipping items. Melissa and Robert Stephenson from The Flipper University make a full-time income from buying and selling items online! The flea market and thrift stores are two of the best stops where you can purchase great products that you can re-sell for a profit.
If you want to learn more about flipping items for a profit, I highly recommend joining Melissa and Robert’s free webinar to start your flipping side hustle today.
10. Work as a website tester
Website testing is another simple job you can do, even without experience. A lot of companies would pay you around $10 to test the functionality of their sites and apps. You don’t have to be very savvy about how a website works, but you need to communicate your observations clearly and provide honest feedback.
11. Task rabbit
The Task Rabbit is an online marketplace for small errands and services. Serving at Task Rabbit exposes you to a wide variety of everyday tasks consumers are willing to pay for including cleaning, handyman tasks, help with moving and more.
12. Baby-sitting
The holidays will expectedly see a surge in demand for baby sitters and house sitters. As parents will have plenty of shopping to do or attend work holiday parties, having someone they can entrust their kids and homes to can be a great point of monetization for you.
If you don’t know where to look for baby-sitting opportunities, consider hitting up Sittercity to see what might fit you.
13. Deliver packages for Amazon
Amazon Flex is a rideshare program that allows you to deliver packages, grocery store purchases and restaurant orders to customers in your area. It is a great side-gig for people with lots of extra time while earning $15-25/ hour part-time income.
14. Put your photography talents to work
Right around this time of the year, people would be looking at holiday-themed photos. If you’re creative with the camera, you can start shooting high-quality photos and sell them to sites like Deposit Photos. Each time someone buys or download your photos, you earn a commission.
Or, you could work as a photographer and shoot family portraits to be used in greeting cards. Either way, you’ll earn from your passion.
15. Shovel snow to make extra cash for Christmas!
Shoveling snow is not everyone’s favorite chore this season, but you can use it to your advantage and earn some extra money for Christmas. You can personally ask your neighbors if they need someone to shovel their snow, as well as send out fliers and post on classified ads online.
Are you ready to make extra cash for Christmas this year?
If you can make extra money for Christmas, you can enter the new year happier and debt-free. You can start scouting for the best jobs that suit your lifestyle and skills that would bring in additional income for the holidays. That way, you can start planning for vacations and go shopping without feeling guilty of how much the season would cost you. And remember, it’s you who controls the money, so don’t let the season be more expensive than it should be. After all, the true meaning of Christmas is not by how much money you’ve spent, but how much time you gave to your loved ones.
