Being a mom is tough. Other than looking after kids, you are also required to cook, clean and attend to other household chores.
That’s fine as long as you have a steady and guaranteed source of income.
However, consider a scenario where you are forced to eke an existence, living on state dole and charity. Undoubtedly, such situations are unwelcome. Nowadays, it is easy for moms to avoid financial crises and dependency on someone else’s income. You too can make money easily from home or by working in your neighborhood.
Creative Ways for Women to Make Money:
Here we present 20 great ideas that will help you earn a tidy income. Furthermore, these ideas can actually propel you into prosperity and financial well-being.
1: Open an apiary
This is the best business for any housewife. Opening an apiary is easy and fairly inexpensive. Further, if you live near wooded areas and gardens, the more profits you will rake. To open an apiary, you need very basic equipment. You can buy honeybees from any distributor and set up the required cases for housing honey combs.
This business needs extreme caution since handling honey bees requires extreme skills.
2: Make your soda
You do not require any great culinary skills or expensive equipment. Soda machines for domestic uses are available easily in the market or online. Used machines are also available aplenty. Nowadays everyone wants healthy drinks and conventional, commercial brands of soda are considered fattening and unhealthy.
Make your own varieties with herbs, spices and fruit or vegetable juices.
3: Grow fungi
This may sound Yuk. However fungi are something in great demand nowadays. It is increasingly used as exotic food. The most common fungi are mushrooms which can be cultivated round the year in a greenhouse that is cheap to set up and easy to maintain. Additionally, you can grow other types of molds on stale breads and other food products that are used by medical and nutritional supplement companies.
4: Jerky and dried meats
Beef jerky is consumed across the USA. It is readily available at stores. You too can launch a small business and sell home-made beef jerky with exotic flavors. The process is not complex, as anyone will testify. All you need is some simple kitchen equipment and a charcoal fired BBQ to give it that great smoky flavor. You can also dry meats such as pork, beef and lamb for discerning meat eaters.
5: Herbal drinks
Nowadays almost everyone goes for a morning jog or to walk their pet. You can help these joggers and walkers to enhance their personal fitness by making and selling juices of medicinal leaves, herbs and roots. Loads of information about these herbs and their uses can be easily accessed on the Internet.
Indeed, some of these common herbs including mint and cilantro, rhubarb and thyme may already be growing in your backyard. A high-quality juicer and some disposable cups will see you enter this business.
6: Exotic cheese
This is a slightly tricky business. However, done with caution and diligence, you can mint a small fortune by making exotic cheese at home. To make exotic cheese, you will need to tie up with suppliers for milk from various sources. Rennet and other enzymes, as well as equipment can be bought off supermarket shelves or purchased online. High quality, handmade cheese is in great demand round the year and fetches a lot of money.
7: Community newsletters
If you have some knack about news and happenings, launch a newsletter for the community where you dwell. Members of the community can contribute their news and views as well as pictures and write-ups. The newsletter can either be digital or print. You can make money on such newsletter by soliciting advertisements from nearby businesses including grocers, bakeries, supermarkets and other service providers.
8: Military dresses
Here we do not mean you supply uniforms to the US Armed Forces. Instead, it means you may buy patches with military logos and insignias, names of units of the army, navy and air force and stitch them on T-shirts, shorts, denims and other apparel. The American military has scores of stores that sell such surplus paraphernalia.
Clothing with authentic military logos and patches are in great demand in the US and worldwide.
9: Fish farm for aquariums
Involve your kids too in this venture. A good sized fresh water tank and various species of fish that are common to home aquariums can prove extremely profitable. You will require some basic training from the nearest pet store on how to breed aquarium fish in bulk. Such fishes are required by all pet shops and are also in demand by aquarium owners.
10: Edible freshwater fish farm
Freshwater fish for consumption are fairly easy to breed and require relatively lesser infrastructure. You will need a fair sized tank and ample supplies of fresh water drawn from ground or bore-wells. Freshwater fish such as catfish and trout fetch high prices in the retail market. However, you will require some basic training to handle the fish farm.
11: Play agony aunt
Everyone has problems of some or the other sort. Sadly, most people, especially women and teenage girls, have nobody to speak with. They are either shy to open their problems to relatives and friends. Hence, they suffer silently. You can help make a positive difference in their life by playing agony aunt.
As the old adage goes, most problems are self-inflicted and over imagined. With your experience, you can offer some healthy advice that can relieve their agony. Charging a reasonable fee is acceptable to anyone with a problem.
12: Import exotic cosmetics
Body lotions made with snake fat, facial scrubs prepared with fish scales is not everyone’s idea of cosmetics. However, these products are indeed in great demand. You can import such products from scores of Multi Level Marketing companies that are perfectly legitimate and sell their products across the world. Most of such companies are based in the Far East, especially China, Philippines and Thailand. The currency exchange rate gives you a great advantage while purchasing.
13: Breed guinea pigs
The term guinea pig is a misnomer of sorts. These animals are not anywhere near swine. Instead, they are small, cute looking, red-eyed and white furred variety of mice. Guinea pig is easy to breed. Furthermore, they are very prolific in reproduction. Guinea pigs are maintained as pets by kids and a few adults since they are docile.
Further, laboratories and science centers require them in large quantities for testing medicines, vaccines and other lifesaving stuff as well as experiments.
14: Play party character
Kids love their birthday parties. However, not everyone is fortunate or well endowed financially to afford a professionally conducted party featuring a popular cartoon character. You can save the day by designing your own cartoon character and getting a matching costume made. Offer your services to play as a party character to families with kids who reside in your neighborhood. Cartoon characters at parties are required to entertain kids and pose for photo shoots.
15: Make your soaps
The formula for making soaps was discovered accidentally a few centuries ago. It involves boiling oil or fat with caustic soda. However, over decades, soap making has evolved into a fine art with multinational companies falling heads over heels for a piece of the market pie. You can use simple soap recipes and embellish your products with herbs, fruits and leaves to produce and sell your own handmade brand.
Further, you can make customized soaps to suit specific requirements of clients with medical conditions like allergies, dry skin, fungal infections and others.
16: Become a referee
Surely, as female, you would have dreamt of playing some popular sport. Everyone does but some get opportunities while others do not. You can somewhat fulfill your ambitions of participating in your favorites sport by becoming a referee. You can learn all rules from books and practice them while watching games.
Perfect your skills when kids play and offer your services to community matches.
17: Curry powders and pastes
America is a land of migrants. Indeed, there are legal immigrants from almost every part of the world residing in USA. To cater to culinary tastes of these various ethnicity, stores and supermarkets sell imported curry powders and spice pastes. Instead, you can make your own such products with a fairly good sized blender.
You can get recipes and formulas for these pastes and powders off the Internet or some community organization. Your products will definitely be in demand since they will be inexpensive compared to imported varieties.
18: Sell paper shreds
In this era of e-commerce, there is a huge demand for cheap buffering and packaging material. High quality packaging material is required to cocoon delicate and fragile products being sent by mail or express delivery. Here, shredded paper is of great use. You can buy a good quality and heavy duty paper shredder.
Instead of disposing your old newspapers and magazines in trash, begin shredding them. You can also procure such papers from friends and neighbors. Paper shreds are in huge demand among companies that send delicate and fragile wares by mail.
19: Make exquisite mosaics
This can be a bit risky business but if you are confident of your skills, it can earn a neat income. Get pieces of colored glass and ceramic objects. Plus, you will need a few molds, some concrete, glue and paint. Make your own mosaics with these bits of colored glasses and ceramics with concrete poured into molds. A great mosaic can be used for decorative purposes in homes and offices.
You can sell your designs through the Internet from any good online retailer. Risk is involved in handling broken glass and ceramic pieces with sharp edges as well as setting molds properly.
20: Selling painted exotic eggs
Yet another risky but well-paying business is selling painted, exotic eggs. By exotic eggs, we mean those laid by migratory and other birds that generally live in woods. To do this, you will need assistance of some boys who can raid nests and procure the eggs. There are thousands of collectors of exotic eggs around the world. However, for these eggs to fetch a good price, they have to be raw and painted well on the outside to fortify the fragile shells. Remember, cracked eggs do not qualify as collector items.