Quick and Crazy Ways to Make Money Today

Today's tough economy can make even the most optimistic person desperate. If you are in immediate need of cash you need to take matters into your own hands. These quick and crazy strategies below can have seeing green today.

1. Sell your services - whatever they may be. Mow your elderly neighbor's yard, do the grocery shopping for a busy executive, drive a bachelorette party around for an evening. If you can think of it, someone will pay for you to do it.

2. Be "that guy" that stands at a busy intersection with a sandwich board advertising a going out of business sale. You can make it fun by wearing appropriate costumes, like a cow suit for a steakhouse. Many businesses will pay you daily for advertising their business.

3. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Offer to be that someone that scoops pet waste from backyards. Many people will pay a few bucks to have this unappealing job done for them. Get enough clients on the same street and you will be rolling in the dough.

4. You would be amazed at the money your hair can bring in. If you have long hair consider selling it for salons to make wigs or weaves. Many beauty schools will also pay you for their students to cut your hair. Rest assured that most students have already been sufficiently trained and have practiced on wigs before graduating to cutting your hair.

5. Start selling your artwork. And if you don't have any artwork, start making it. People buy weird and crazy items and call it "art". Your scrap metal, old glass bottles; or start snapping pictures and frame them. You might be amazed at what you can sell as art.

Don't let these ideas be limiting, but rather the start of more inspirations for making quick and easy money starting today. There are literally thousands of things and services people will pay for. The trick is to be that someone offering your service before they realize they need it!