Generating Extra Cash

At the beginning of the month I wrote that I would be trying to us several of the “102 Ways To Generate Extra Cash” that I read about on SavingAdvice.com to make some extra money to put toward debt.  I’ve been trying them, but haven’t posted about them until now.

I was planning to do #9 “Sell your junk on eBay, Craigslist, Amazon or any of the other good used marketplace websites”, but I haven’t decided what I want to sell.  A few days ago an opportunity fell into my lap.

I have an MP3 player I bought about 2 years ago.  A few of coworkers liked it and bought the exact model.  One broke his and I found a good cheap used one on Ebay for him to replace it.  One of my other coworkers knew about this and came to me to ask if I could find another one because he had a friend who lost his.

He told me how much his friend was willing to pay and I started looking on Ebay for one.  Then I had a thought.  Why not just sell him mine?  I rarely use it and it’d be a good start to my monthly goal of raising extra money.

I sold it for $75.00

I also renewed my membership with Sam’s Club and had a coupon for a $10.00 gift card with a renewal.  That card doesn’t exactly count as extra cash, but I can use it for food or gas and use the $10.00 cash that I save to put toward debt.

I’m counting that as $85.00 so far and I still have a lot of ideas to try.