Supriya's List to Make Money

Supriya is doing the personal finance and investments class I am teaching at Voyagers. The assignment I sent out for next Monday was: Write down 25 ideas which you personally could use to make money. I also sent out a list of ideas I can see myself using for making money. I told Supriya about it and the next thing I knew, she was sitting down with her notebook and writing down her list! Here it is:

• Walk a dog
• Clean some windows
• Make a movie and sell it
• Get a job for money
• Buy a home and fix it up
• Sing for money
• Get a farm, grow beans and sell them
• Be an actor
• Make background for plays
• Do work such as watering tomatoes
• Read for little kids
• Find lost toys
• Babysit pets
• Teach how to do stretches, handstands, monkeybars
• Make newspapers
• Make books for all
• Make game consoles (Wii, Playstation, Gamecube etc.)
• Make clothes and sell
• Make TV shows
• Help people with problems such as directions and safety
• Help little kids to keep them safe
• Be a clown
• Sell art (drawings and paintings)
• Make playgrounds (climbing structures)
• Make websites to visit and learn

I am still impressed by this list. My purpose behind giving this assignment was to encourage out-of-the-box thinking. Evidently it worked!