10 Legitimate Ways to Make Money at Home.

Listen – we all know the internet is full of work-from-home scams, so we’ve scoured through thousands of different ideas to find you 32 unique ways to make money from home. I guarantee there are some in here that you’ve never heard of…

These are all ideas that we’ve done before, so we know that they’re real and that you’ll get paid.

Here are 10 legitimate ways to make money from home.

1. Get $5 From Stash to Start Saving

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It’s no brilliant secret that investing can be a smart way to make money.

Sometimes, though, it feels restricted to a few wealthy elite.

But Stash is different. This app lets you start investing with as little as $5 and for just a $1 monthly fee for balances under $5,000. (The first month is free.)

Stash curates investments from professional fund managers and investors and lets you choose where to put your money.

But it leaves the complicated investment terms out of it. You just choose from a set of simple portfolios reflecting your beliefs, interests and goals.

Bonus: Right now, The Penny Hoarder is teaming up with Stash to fund your first investment — so you’ll get an extra $5 bonus to get started.
2. Collect $5 From Dosh — and Cash Back on Your Purchases

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Dosh is a new cash-back app that pays you for making purchases at more than 100,000 hotels, online stores and restaurants — including Starwood Properties, Marriott, Cost Plus World Market, Nike, Target, Chuck E. Cheese’s and many more.

Here’s all you have to do: Download the app and sign up. Securely connect a debit or credit card. Live your life and watch the cash back roll in.

In addition to earning cash back, you collect an immediate $5 bonus for hooking up a card to Dosh.
3. Give Your Opinion to Make $100+/Month

Most of you know surveys aren’t our favorite way to make money from home, but we make an exception when we’re just vegging out on the couch. We figure as long as we’re just watching TV, there’s no reason we can’t click a few buttons at the same time.

PointClub is a legitimate paid survey company.

I’ve heard some of the top-end paid online surveys can pay up to $95, but those are rare and can take awhile to complete. Most surveys pay a buck or two and only take 10 to 15 minutes, making it pretty easy to earn $100 or more per month.
4. Stop Deleting Your Emails

It turns out that deleting your emails could be costing you serious money. Intrigued?

My new secret weapon is called Paribus — a tool that gets you money back for your online purchases. It’s free to sign up for Earny. Once you do, it will scan your email archives for any receipts. If it discovers you’ve purchased something from Target or one of the other retailers listed on its website, it will track the item’s price. Once a price drop is detected, Paribus engages with the retailer on your behalf, requesting a refund – automatically!

You don’t have to do anything!

If something shows up late, Paribus will help you get money back for what you paid for shipping — up to a full shipping refund.
5. Watch TV Online

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The folks over at InboxDollars will actually pay you to watch TV online!The site hosts a ton of stuff to watch, including cooking, entertainment, news and health shows.

The shows are sponsored by brands who need to get them in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Every time you watch one of the ads InboxDollars will credit your account with a little bit of cash.

You’ll get a free $5 just for signing up.
6. Earn Up to $60/Hour as a Part-Time Bookkeeper

Does earning $60 an hour sound appealing? How about the freedom to work from home while helping others succeed?

Those are the perks of working as a bookkeeper, says Ben Robinson, a certified public accountant and business owner who teaches others to become virtual bookkeepers.

And no, you don’t have to have a CPA to be successful in this business. In fact, all you really need are decent computer skills and a passion for helping business owners tackle real-world problems.

It’s a great opportunity for moms who want to work part time, millennials who are just out of college and anyone who wants to bring in real money while working from home.

We talked to Robinson about what it takes to become a virtual bookkeeper, as well as tips and advice for making this career track work for you. You can read the full interview here, or check out his website for more information.
7. Take a Picture of Your Receipts

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Yeah, did you know that you can get paid cash back just for taking a picture of your receipt?

Here’s how it works….

1. Sign up for Ibotta here (you just need a name/email address to start).

2. Browse through the cash-back offers in your area and take note the next time you go to the store (the offers change every week). For example, in my city, Ibotta will give 2% cash back on Best Buy purchases, $0.25 cash back on any Target purchase, and $3 cash back when I buy an appetizer from any restaurant. Pretty cool, right?

Once you’ve reached at least $20 in earnings, you can request payment via Paypal or Venmo. And right now, Ibotta is giving new users a $10 sign-up bonus, just for redeeming their first receipt.
8. Download These Apps

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A number of companies will actually pay you for downloading apps on your smartphone — and you’ll get paid for every month you keep them installed.

The apps collect data and help companies better understand web and mobile usage — such as what times of day people browse, how long they stay on websites and use apps, and what types of sites and apps are popular (or not).
- MobileXpression for Android: After you’ve had this app installed for one week, you get to play an instant rewards game for a prize. (Everyone wins something.) I won a $25 Amazon gift card, but some of the other prizes include iPads & Samsung TVs.
- MobileXpression for iPhone: If you want the iPhone version of the app, we’ve gotcha covered.
- SavvyConnect — You can earn $5 per device (phone, tablet or computer) for each month the app is installed. That’s a total of up to $180 per year to help rank the most popular sites and apps. Make sure you keep it installed at least a month to get your first $5 per device.
- QuickThoughts Missions pays you to become a private investigator for stores and restaurants in your area.Was that CVS you visited last month clean? How do the lines look at that McDonald’s you’ve stopped by for lunch? Using your phone’s GPS technology, the app will prompt you for information from places you’ve visited in the past few weeks, as well as places it detects you’re visiting right now.
9. Get $10 to Invest With Acorns

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Acorns is a simple savings and investment app that rounds your credit or debit card purchases up to the nearest dollar and invests the digital change.

You can connect the app to your credit or debit card and let it automatically round up all your

transactions, or manually round up only the transactions you choose.

Contributor CJ Reid does the latter, accepting round ups of less than $0.50, “like my $3.60 cup of coffee.”

“Rounding up 40 cents here and 25 cents there moves me swiftly enough to $5 so that I can begin investing without putting myself into the red,” she says.

Once your round ups reach $5, that amount will be transferred from your bank to your Acorns account, and invested into your chosen portfolio.

“Acorns makes it easy to invest by removing the responsibility of choosing individual investments or worrying about trades,” Reid explains. “You don’t need any previous investment knowledge or history.”

And once you get the process automated, Acorns investments make your digital change work for you.

“With a conservative portfolio,” Reid says, “I turned $15 into $19 within a few weeks.”

You can sign up and download the app here.
10. Rent Out an RV