How would you make a quick $20 ?

[undeterred]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Ask my husband!

[NYC_SKP]

2. .

[undeterred]

3. I have an opportunity to earn $20 if I make a video

of myself replacing the screen on a laptop and explaining how to do it, and then upload it to youtube.

Really exciting, huh? But its an easy $20 and maybe it will lead to more exciting roles...

[bluedigger]

4. Do you have any lines?

What's your motivation?

[undeterred]

7. I guess I could say

"Don't lose the little screws or you won't be able to put the damn thing back together!"

I'll have to work on the script.

[bluedigger]

10. Don't forget to wear safety glasses.

[undeterred]

11. I'll wear safety glasses.

That's all.

[bluedigger]

13. Well now we know what you meant by "more exciting roles".

[undeterred]

14. Actually it will probably just hands.

Talking hands. But hands can be exciting.

[LeftofObama]

23. And a hernia belt!

[agracie]

17. Little screws ? Hey ! What kinda video you makin' ?

[Paulie]

9. We know the style is method acting

Perhaps a cut finger will make this rates R for language.

[marzipanni]

44. Last year my 17 yr old son got a ASUS laptop from freecycle-

its owner had stepped onto it on the floor next to her bed and the screen cracked.
He ordered a screen for ~$45.00 and put it in himself, thanks to an instructional video someone had made and put on the internet.
Pretty good deal!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

49. I have so many snarky comments....

But because I love you, I'll refrain.

[In_The_Wind]

5. I don't know.

Sell something. I guess.

[Taverner]

6. Sell a chair

[krispos42]

8. Photocopier. n/t

[Xipe Totec]

12. For 20 bucks I'll share my secret. nt

[kwassa]

15. something to do with a happy ending.

[agracie]

16. A ten and two fives. n/t

[Xyzse]

18. I write cards in calligraphy

Pretty quickly.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. File>Print

[OmahaBlueDog]

20. Sell blood plasma

Call a temp agency and tell them you are looking for a part time gig.

[pipi_k]

21. I don't know how quick it would be, but...

I could sell my dirty used socks on eBay.

Like this person is doing...be sure to read the description..


http://www.ebay.com/itm/USED-WELL-WORN-DIRTY-SOCKS-WORN-BY-NURSING-ASSISTANT-/261161812305?pt=US_Womens_Socks&hash=item3cce750151



Fool! She's asking $62.00 for hers! I bet I could get at least $20.00 for mine, and I'll bet my feet smell way worse than hers do!


PS...people will buy literally anything.

[Chan790]

22. I'm guessing this is a sexual-fetish thing.

Not unlike the Japanese schoolgirls who sell their dirty panties on the internet. I don't get it but hey if it works for some people.

[pipi_k]

24. It has to be...

I don't get it either.

OK maybe the feet.

But stinky socks?


Oh, and I love the bit about them being "cleaned to eBay standards" but still having to be enclosed in plastic bag to disguise the smell. Hahahaah!!!

[pipi_k]

25. It has to be...

I don't get it either.

OK maybe the feet.

But stinky socks?


Oh, and I love the bit about them being "cleaned to eBay standards" but still having to be enclosed in plastic bag to disguise the smell. Hahahaah!!!

[grasswire]

40. this has been going on for years on ebay

I remember reading descriptions of skanky stinky shoes that sold for hundreds of dollars.

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Freelance, crowdsource writing.

[Chan790]

28. Ugh.

Making no accusations against you personally, the floor of the writing market has fallen out because way too many people who are barely fucking literate fancy themselves a writer and are willing to work for nothing or nearly nothing in order to justify their delusion.

At the same time the quality of published writing has fallen precipitously because content-publishers don't care how good the work is, they're solely looking at the bottom line and advertisers will pay just as much to put an ad on an article written by some HS dropout willing to work for $0 as one written by someone with a humanities BA and substantial writing skill and education (eg. me) who demands to be paid fair value for their work-product.

The whole thing is a mess and as writers I feel the obligation is going to fall to us to protect the quality-standards and viability of our field.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Well thanks.

No, I'm not barely fucking literate. It's what I do on, and off, platforms for very decent money. No, I don't work for TextBroker, Demand etc. The job I am speaking of demands a rather high level of education from its contractors. I'm quite confident I am in no way, destroying the quality of the public written word.

Feeding my son pretty much comes above everything else. Those who fall short for the company I contract with are swiftly shown the door.

[Chan790]

32. You're clearly not who I'm complaining about.

I'm talking about the idiots who can't put together a sentence, present a cohesive thought or spell who are taking money from both of us writing for barely-legitimate content-mills that then peddle that shit-content cheap to everybody from small web-publishers to Yahoo! pushing quality-content out of the marketplace as too expensive. It's driving down compensation for everybody.

We're both getting underpaid because of their cutthroat bottom-dollar practices...there's a time when writing professional-grade web-content paid a hell of a lot more than $20/article. Now, we're both in the same spot, take a pittance to write content or they're just as happy to use the content-mill crap because it's cost-effective to publish unreadable crap that doesn't cost anything and whatever they make on advertisement click-through is all profit.

[Incitatus]

27. Take me empties to the recycling center

[datasuspect]

29. head?

[Lesmoderesstupides]

31. Pimp out my sister!

[dballance]

33. Why Don't You Pimp Yourself Out?

If it's good enough for your sister it's good enough for you.

[Lesmoderesstupides]

34. I would only make about $5 per trick thats why

[dballance]

36. Then I Guess You'll Have to do Four Quick Tricks

The initial question didn't put the requirement on it that the $20 had to be made all at one time.

[Lesmoderesstupides]

37. Well it did say a quick $20

I would have to work fast!

[Baitball Blogger]

35. Craigs list something you own for twenty dollars.

[tabbycat31]

38. sell some jewelry

Shameless plug here, but here is my page

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carolines-Creations/200231186673610

[noamnety]

39. I'm pretty lazy

so I would do something passive. Sometimes I use the endorse app on my phone, last week I got back 10% off gassing up my car, and $3 off a bag of coffee. Since I was buying those things anyway, it was a no brainer to get the cash for it. It was only 7 bucks, not 20, but it took about a minute to check the offers for the week, and another minute to snap/upload the receipts.

[jberryhill]

41. Pay me $20 and I'll tell you

[truegrit44]

42. Sell one or two depending on size of

the dog beds/crate pads that I make and sell

[backwoodsbob]

43. for the right amount of money

I can see or not see damned near anything

[Jamaal510]

45. Ask somebody to make a copy of their $20 bill

in a copying machine and give the copy to you.

[ellisonz]

46. Sell some oregano to some tourists. n/t

[RedCloud]

47. Hug 400 people for $.05 each.

[Neoma]

48. Donate poop.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/12/10/health/fecal-transplants-colon-disease