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There Is Gold Working From Home If You Know Exactly Where To Look.  Here Are Some Tips On Finding Those Precious Nuggets Of Extra Income.  You may have to adjust your thinking just a bit or think outside of the box a little to fully implement these tips, but all have proven to be practical and a great source of additional income.  Here’s how to get started.Your nuggets of gold can be as simple as collecting plastic bottle caps or Wendy’s soft drink cups in order to redeem them for My Coke Rewards or as complicated as getting with your relatives to order an Apple laptop and getting a free iPod with it.  I will personally admit that I have done the gamut of the simplest make money from home activities, such as collecting Wendy’s cups by dumpster diving and buying the Wendy’s cups with the AirTran Promotion Codes off of Craigslist, in order to get 8 round trip tickets anywhere AirTran flys.  That promotion was about a year or so ago and I sold most of the round trip tickets for cash and took the cash to purchase laptops that were on sale with $100-$250 rebates forthcoming.

So, you don’t have to discover a gold mine to make money from home, but if you’re willing to think outside of the box and use the rebates and coupons that are freely available online and at some of the “brick and mortar” stores, you can save some money and use that money to leverage your purchases of items that are in demand and sell those items for cash.

There is no limit as to how much extra you can make, but you do have to plan and organize your time wisely in order to take advantage of the many time-sensitive deals out there online and offline.  The key is to think about the demand for the item that you may be thinking of purchasing and ascertain whether or not you can make money on reselling the item if you you are getting enough of a discount to make it worthwhile.  Remember the golden rule of making money by buying and reselling is, “that your profit is made when you actually purchase the item, knowing in advance what you can get when you actually sell it.”

Here are 10 Places To Save or Make Money Online:

1. Cashbaq is a great place to search for items that you may be able to resell and get some cash back.
2. eBates gives money back from your purchases online and puts $5 in your account when you join.  eBates also has an affiliate program for those interested in earning some extra cash.
3. Mr Rebate is another cash back program for online purchases and they offer a simple affiliate program through Share A Sale.  Mr Rebate gives you a $5 registration bonus when you sign up.
4. Coupon Cabin list a host of stores and if you’re lucky you can get some pretty decent deals at its auction to resell on Craigslist, Kijiji, (now known as eBay Classifieds), Backpage (Backpage now has an affiliate program, just scroll to the bottom of the page).
5. My Points is a hybrid of sorts in that you can earn points for gift cards and other rewards simply by reading e-mails, but if you make purchases through them online, you’ll rack up points quickly.  My Points is one my all time favorite programs that I have enjoyed the luxury of getting a ton of stuff for free and also purchasing items to resell on their site and racking up even more points to get gift cards that I use to purchase things to resell at a decent margin.  My Points has an affiliate program through Commission Junction.
6. Big Crumbs is partnered with eBay to offer cash back when your friends or anyone else purchases items from eBay.  You can join Big Crumbs affiliate manager eBay, to make additional income.
7. Fat Wallet is a portal of sort of all sorts of money saving opportunities and has a rather large community following also-hint a social marketing opportunity here, as well as cash back, great discounts, a ton of stuff for free that you can resell and an affiliate program.
8. Slick Deals is full of things that you can get for free on their forum and save a considerable sum in the process.
9. Retail Me Not is a portal of 15,000 plus stores that you can save money when you shop and make money from posting on their forum.
10. Tech Bargains is a good place for hardware and other electronics that you may find cheap enough to make a few dollars on or just purchase for yourself.

Okay, that should get you off to a good start, but remember to only purchase what you can resell at a comfortable margin or what you want to keep for yourself.  Remember, there is gold in your thinking, so start thinking.  For example, I get together with my family and friends and purchase in quantity those items that are in demand and resell for a nice profit.

P.S., My lunch was free today.  Late this afternoon, but free, courtesy of Ben’s Bargains where I got a free Panda Thai Chicken for free with a coupon I printed from his site using Cute PDF, which saved me 15 cents on printing costs; but that didn’t influence my decision to include them in this article.  Ben’s Bargains is a great place to visit every day for the quality of his content and you shouldn’t be disappointed.

Also as a side note, while doing the research for this article, I used American Airlines Aadvantage Shopping Tool Bar to get 500 frequent flier miles and purchased a prepaid refill card to get even more points using a Continental debit card, so I earned on American Airlines and Continental Airlines and I sell the frequent flier award tickets for cash.  Also, I earned 32 American Airlines Frequent Flier miles for using their search box for this article and you can too here!