1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (5 page)

20 GET CASH FOR YOUR VIDEO GAMES.
There are two ways to make a pretty penny reselling your video games. One is to beat or give up on the hot game of the moment and then put it up for sale online (or go to a used game shop and sell it to them). The other is to dig through your closets and attic to find cartridges that are in demand for older systems. (At the time of writing, a copy of
Mario Kart
for the N64 sells for upwards of $25 on eBay.)

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21 TURN YOUR LIBRARY INTO A BOOKSTORE.
Usually, you buy a book, read the book, and then put it on your shelf to collect dust. What if it went more along the lines of — buy a book, read the book, and then put it on
Amazon.com
to collect some cash? Don't let your books collect dust. Make them collect dollars instead.

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22 SELL YOUR STACK OF DVDS.
Honestly, how many times can you really watch
Notes on a Scandal
before it just gets creepy? Take an inventory of your movie collection and make “must have” and “must sell” piles. (And yes,
Cut-throat Island
goes in “must sell.”) Create an account on a site like
DVDPawn.com
, or sell directly to other cinema-philes using an auction site like eBay.

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23 TIME TO TRADE IN YOUR TOOLS.
Think of how many times you've really used that belt sander or radial saw sitting in your garage. Go ahead. If it's less than the fingers on one hand (or if you're missing a finger on one hand because of your amateur woodshop), it's time to put them up for sale on any one of the resale sites. The risk increases here because if a home repair project comes up, you may need the specific tool you just hocked online — and you'll have to pay for a new one or to rent one.

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24 SELL YOUR EXERCISE EQUIPMENT.
We get it — it was late one night, you were feeling bad about yourself, and you wanted to change. But now your Bowflex is sitting in the corner of your living room with the week's ironing hanging off its resistance arms. Not really what it's meant to be used for. Put your equipment up for sale on either craigs-list or the Facebook marketplace. You don't want to worry about how you're going to ship this kind of stuff.

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25 MAKE SOME MONEY OFF YOUR CHILDHOOD MEMORIES.
Everyone gets all warm and fuzzy reminiscing about playing with a particular toy way back in the day. Do yourself a favor and hunt down those playthings of yesteryear. You may be sitting on a goldmine if you've got the right doll or action figure. However, even if it isn't a first-generation, Pepsi-version of Optimus Prime (retailing on eBay for $4,950), your once-prized possession could earn some scratch from a nostalgic boomer or too-cool hipster.

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