With the ongoing recession and rising cost of living expenses, making cash from trash is a necessity, not an inevitability. An easy way to help you save money and help the environment is by checking out this cool Environment Impact Calculator which helps you to figure out how to be more frugal energy-wise for the environment and your pocket book!
Sell your Used Ink Cartridges
Toner Buyer will buy a vast assortment of empty/used ink cartridges. It's also a great fundraising idea because most people recycle or throw away their old cartridges and never know how much they can be worth. Easy money if you're willing to do the leg work! You need a minimum amount for the site, but they pay the cost of shipping!
I've sold about 13 cartridges saved up from my parent's house and my Dad's job for about $25. Not bad for something that was going to get thrown away.
Staples and OfficeMax also have programs that pay between $1-$3 per cartridge in store credit by simply returning used/empty ink cartridges to their store.
Sell Your Old Media Tapes
Have used magnetic tape media lying around the house? We Buy Used Tape will pick it up and recycle it for future use! They'll even pay postage!
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Sell Your Cardboard Boxes
Yes, you heard me right. You can sell used boxes! All you need to do is pack them flat, go on the site, and then record what kind you have an how many. Any available local buyers will then contact you to take them off your hands. It's a win/win situation. You get cash, they get cheap boxes!
Sell Your Old Clothes
Is that shirt, soooo last season? Then take it down to the Buffalo Exchange or Plato's Closet, and sell your used duds for new ones! Gently used clothes can earn you cash in hand, or can be exchanged for store credit for a mini-shopping spree.
Sell (or Swap) Your Old Books/CDs/DVDs
Have a bunch of textbooks from last semester? Random cookbooks? Tons of sci-fi paperbacks? Amazon.com offers two ways to sell books. The first option is to trade it in for a gift card--several books of small value add up quickly. They pay for postage, and processing takes about 2 weeks. The second option is to join their Seller's program, and list your item as used/new on their site to other Amazon.com buyers.
I've personally done both over the years and have traded in and sold several hundred dollars in books and dvds.
If your books are worth any monetary value on Amazon, you can always swap them on PaperbackSwap. I've already saved $200+ from using the site and have gotten everything from textbooks to audiobooks in exchange for old paperbacks!
Sell Your Old Laptop, Calculator, and/or Cellphone
Yourenew and Gazelle are just two of many companies that will buy your old/broken cellphones, cameras, dvds, laptops, calculators, and more. The process takes anywhere from 2 weeks to a month, and they pay for the shipping.
I've sold several cellphones in the past through Gazelle and made upwards of $60. Before them, I used a now defunct cell site, and through them I made several hundred.
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