Extra Income Ideas: Provide Newspaper Clipping Services to Make Money

If you want to try a fun way to earn extra income, you can provide one (or several) newspaper clipping services for niche markets. All of these services involve you selling your time, as opposed to the product due to legalities; therefore, you'll advertise yourself as a collector, sorter, and clipper of various items. You won't make a fortune off of these ideas (you'll probably only make a couple of dollars each sale), but they depending on your interest, they have the added benefit of helping yourself as well as others. If any of these sounds like they could be fun and beneficial for you, give them a try.

First Newspaper Clipping Idea for Extra Income:

Get the Sunday paper, and look through any junk mail you get to find coupon booklets. Look for Smart Source and Valassis in particular. These booklets will have approximately 100 coupons for food, household, pet, health, beauty, and baby items. Then clip out the coupons and offer them in bunches on Craigslist, eBay, or you could set up your own site to sell your services.

Some people who sell their coupon services will offer a bunch of coupons at once, while others will offer the coupons separately for interested buyers to pick and choose. If you want to save some money, you can keep some of the coupons of items you regularly buy for yourself.

Second Newspaper Clipping Idea for Extra Income:

Have you heard stories of people with boxes full of recipes that they or a family member have collected? You can clip out recipes and sell batches of them. Look in newspapers and magazines and on the inside and outside of food containers and packaging.

You may want to separate the recipes into categories, such as desserts/baking or easy meals, and sell them to niche markets. And if you love cooking, you can come across some great, new recipes you may want to try in the process.

Third Newspaper Clipping Idea for Extra Income:

When you're out in a public waiting area, you may have come across people who have their nose stuck in one of those little crossword puzzle and word game books. You can find, clip, and collect those puzzles in your newspapers and magazines (TV magazines especially) and sell bundles of these at a time to word puzzle/game enthusiasts.

You may even want to take it to the next level and create your own crossword puzzle and word game books. In addition, you'll now have a new idea to keep yourself entertained while waiting at the doctor's office or for a bus.

Other Newspaper Clipping Ideas for Extra Income

- comic strips and jokes
- political cartoons and jokes
- tips and how-to articles on crafts and hobbies (like home decoration, travel, and gardening)