Moneymaking Opportunities For Women

Here's an excellent collection of over 2OO easy business ideas for women that can be started with little training and investment All these ideas are capable of producing additional income.

Most of these businesses can be conducted in the privacy and comfort of home, in between household chores, during weekends or at your leisure. All of these ideas do not require extra help, brawn and best of all, some are extensions of hobbies or skills developed or acquired from childhood.

For best results, browse through the business suggestions and write down those that sound interesting. List the opportunities you would like to try out. Then narrow the list down to one, two or more related businesses. For instance, if you collect dolls as a hobby, you can start your own doll making business or start designing and sewing doll clothes (specializing in party clothes) for Barbie or Cabbage Patch Kids.

These ideas are intended to stimulate you imagination. Only you can make the decision based on your own experiences, qualifications, interests and the current market in your community. As you compile your list of possibilities, take a critical look around your area. Note what is and isn't available what is overpriced or inadequate that people in your community will pay for. When you find just the right combination, start preparing for a successful business operation!

The first thing you must do is to prepare a BUSINESS PLAN. This is an outline of what you plan to do and how you intend to do it. When you write a business plan, it will make you organize your business in your mind and on paper. This will insure your ultimate business success!

Be sure to check with city hall or county courthouse on local license, tax or permit requirements before making your final selection/s and before investing your money. Sometimes a minor adjustment at the start can prevent future headaches.

Finally, familiarize yourself with your choice/s. Start ordering your office supplies, but don't invest too much in stock because you may make adjustments as you learn your market and adjust to market conditions.

GOOD LUCK IN YOUR NEW BUSINESS!

ADULT DAY CARE CENTER
Operate a center to look after elderly and/or handicapped people. Offer refreshments, games and activities and assistance but not "health care."

ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES
With distributor provided catalogs and samples call on regular customers and supply them with custom imprinted pens, calendars, matches, etc.

ADVERTISING SERVICE
Arrange for the design, printing and distribution of advertising/announcement flyers, mail outs and ad campaigns for clients for fee plus commission.

AFRICAN VIOLETS
Specialize in the propagation and care of this popular indoor plant. Nurture, hybridize and sell when in full bloom. Sell accessories and supplies.

ALTERATIONS
Replace buttons, let out cuffs, shorten sleeves, turn collars repair tears for clothing stores, laundries and cleaners who don't already offer this service.

AQUARIUM SNAILS
Raise red ram's horn snails for home and commercial fish tanks. Sell to pet shops and aquarium dealers. Advertise in fish related trade journals.

ARTIFICIAL PLANTS
Make your specialty artificial flowers and plants. Sell a selection of arrangements, baskets and special occasion creations; take custom orders.

BABY CLOTHES
Specialize in bargain-priced new and hand-me-down infant clothing and supplies. Offer an alteration service; take in trades to refurbish and resell.

BABY FOOD
Specialize in mixing, processing, packaging and selling homemade natural baby foods. Licensing and insurance required, dedicated work area strongly recommended.

BABY SITTING
Go to client's home by appointment and stay with the children for hourly fee. Charge extra for two or more, doing housework or for taking the kids out.

BABY PICTURES
With still or video camera, arrange with the hospital staff to photograph newborns (with parents, nurses, visitors). Sell print sets to proud parents.

BABY SITTING SERVICE
Accumulate a list of qualified, bonded sitters. Advertise your service and rates, deliver and pick sitters. Collect fees and pay sitters a percentage.

BABY DOLLS
Make and attach fine wigs from client baby's own baby hair to keepsake dolls. Try to get cloth from baby's actual clothes to make similar looking outfits for the doll.

BANQUET DECORATING
Take full charge of banquet room preparation: theme decoration, seating arrangements, centerpieces. Advertise your service and list with Chamber of Commerce.

BASKET WEAVING
Design, make and sell a variety of your basket creations: plain and decorated (or with arrangements). Sell various fibers, plans and instruction kits.

BATIK CREATION
Learn this ancient process: dip fabric in wax, crinkle, scratch or melt design into the wax, then dip in dye. Clean, stretch and dry for a valuable decoration.

BEAN SPROUTS
Grow fresh bean sprouts on a rotating basis: have new crop every week or as needed to supply client restaurants, vegetable markets and retail customers.

BEAUTY AIDS
Sell general or specialized beauty (or ethnic) supplies in your home salon or by appointment. Represent established lines and/or sell you own brand.

BONSAI PLANTS
Grow (or buy) and arrange into attractive pots or arrangements. retail from your home, through ads, or wholesale to flower shops, greenhouses and nurseries.

BOOK REVIEWING
If qualified, read current books for publishers or agents. Write reviews to be quoted in book promotions or media reviews; work towards your own column.

BOOK SALES
Sell general subject or specialized books wholesale or retail by mail: through mailing lists or direct advertisements. Warning: lots of competition in this field.

BOOKKEEPING SERVICE
Provide a (even beginning) bookkeeping services to (especially one-person) small businessmen in your area. Expand to more complex systems and computers.

BOTANICA
Stock "magic" potions, roots, powders, candles, good luck charms. Print (buy) and sell related instructions and lore. Careful not to guarantee results.

BREAD SPECIALITIES
Bake and sell unusual varieties of home made breads: low calorie, ethnic, etc. Take orders for loaves fresh from your kitchen, deliver to stores on a route.

BRIDGE LESSONS
Give Bridge lessons in your home when you are qualified. Charge by the lesson, or course. Hold tournaments, award prizes, publicize students.

BROMELIADS
Specialize in culture of these beautiful pineapple relatives with their hauntingly beautiful blooms. Sell growing on driftwood arrangements for highest prices.

BUYER'S GUIDE
Publish and sell or give away your guide to best prices and values available in your area. As it gains in popularity charge more to list the businesses!

CACTUS CULTURE
Propagate, grow, groom and arrange native and exotic cacti for retail and wholesale market. Prepare little information booklets for each species.

CAKE DECORATING
Take orders to bake and decorate special occasion cakes. Retail through small, constant ads ("CAKES- phone number"). Offer to decorate bakery cakes.

CALLIGRAPHY
Easily learned by artistic person: work through ads and stationary stores. Print fancy menus, show cards, place cards, invitations, announcements, etc.

CAN ART
Make and sell pincushion chairs and other unique, decorative items from tin cans and bits of cloth. Write down your plans and sell kits with instructions.

CANDLE MAKING
Turn a hobby into a profitable business. Design your own line, offer custom styling, scents and special effects. Between orders, make standard items.

CANDY MAKING
Specialize in one or more types of candies that you can make in your kitchen. Package with you brand and wholesale to stores or sell through ads.

CANNING SERVICE
Preserve customer's home grown (or purchased) garden products with your canning operation. Use your recipes or theirs, apply personalized labels.

CARPET CLEANING
With steam shampoo equipment, clean and renew residential and commercial carpets. Contact rental agencies, apartments and condos for wholesale jobs.

CATERING SERVICE
Prepare old fashioned, gourmet or special occasion meals for clients to pick up. Use insulated canisters to keep the food hot (charge deposit).

CERAMIC FLOWERS
Learn to fashion, color, fire and arrange ceramic flowers, both singles and in arrangements. Display them for sale; teach the art in your ceramic shop.

CERAMICS
Make ceramic pieces to retail, wholesale and display in your "school". Hold classes, sell greenware, kits and supplies. Charge for finishing and firing pieces.

CHEESE MAKING
Make your own brand of unusual or gourmet cheeses from your cow or goat milk. Sell from your place, on a route to area stores, or in mail order kits.

CHILD PICK-UP SERVICE
Pick up and deliver client's kids after school, theater, games. Pick-up, deliver to parties, charge extra to stay with them until mom returns.

CHILDREN'S TOWN HISTORY
Write and illustrate a booklet about your town just for kids. Sell copies to doctors, dentist offices, stores, hospitals and nursery schools.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
With licensed equipment, "publish" children's books with their name appearing in print throughout the book. Set up booth in malls for holidays.

CHILDREN'S ROOM DECORATOR
Specialize in decorating nursery and children's rooms. Offer varied "package" motifs. Work with or through suppliers for a commission.

CHILDREN'S CLOTHING
Specialized in new (stylish and/or closeout) and outgrown children's clothes, accessories. Alter hand-me-downs, "wash" jeans, monogram sweats.

CHINA and GLASS DEALER
Collect and deal in antique and interesting china and glass items. Buy at auctions, private and public sales and through you advertisements.

CLIENT LISTINGS
Contract to keep customer (or business) information lists: customer birthdays, purchases, credit records, price records, employee records.

MAKE-UP ARTISTRY
Make up women, actors for formal or entertainment situations. Offer classes for beauty or actor application and sell "your" line of make-up supplies.

CLIPPING SERVICES
Review newspaper publications for contracted subjects (wedding announcements, graduations, mention of client products). Sell to agents and merchants.

CLOTH LABELS
Make and sell small orders of fabric labels for small businesses and home crafters on your embroider machine. Offer lower prices for repeated orders.

COMMUNITY COOK BOOK
Publish a theme or organizational oriented recipe collection with entries from each family/member/department. Print and distribute for a fee.

COMPANION SERVICE
Accompany lonely, ailing or elderly people alone temporarily, on shopping trips, to and from the doctor, on short tours or when traveling longer distances.

COOKBOOK PUBLISHING
Publish a cookbook of your own favorite recipes (usually a catchy, interesting subject collection). Promote and sell through ads and stores.

COOKING LESSONS
Give gourmet/ethnic/regional cooking, canning, baking lessons in your specialty from your kitchen, or by appointment in your student's kitchen.

COOKING SERVICE
Prepare complete meals at home, from your traditional or customized (gourmet, ethnic, traditional) menu to be delivered and served hot, or picked up.

COOKING, CUSTOM
An overseas treat: offer genuine American style home-cooking. Prepare and deliver (serve?) complete meals to parties, banquets and private homes.

CURTAIN LAUNDRY
Wash, stretch and pleat curtains in your home laundry. Be sure to learn fabric requirements and have insurance. Offer installation and sell liners.

CUSTOM COOKBOOKS
Assimilate, decorate (personalize the cover) and custom print (on computer), client recipe collections -- into their own "family heirloom" cookbook.

CUSTOM HANDICRAFTS
Use your talents to embroider, tat, sew, crochet products for customers with limited time or talent. Make extra good sellers between custom orders.

CUSTOM CLOTHING DESIGNS
Paint, block print or transfer unique or custom designs on clothing for smocks, aprons or fabrics to be used for clothing, curtains or even upholstery.

CUSTOM KNITTING
Take orders for hand-knitted sweaters, stockings and sets (ski outfits?). Make more fast sellers between orders; attach your labels to all products!

CUSTOM TAILORING
Offer the luxury of hand made clothing: shirts, skirts, coats, uniforms, suits. Good service to add to alteration business when you feel competent to start from scratch.

CUT FLOWER BUSINESS
Grow and supply freshly cut flowers to markets and florists in your area. Offer a variety of seasonal or specialize in one (or two) greenhouse/ shade house grown varieties.

DANCING SCHOOL
Instruct others in your dance specialty in group or individual classes. Be sure to "showcase" students to encourage them and publicize your business!

DECORATIVE PATCHES
Design patches, quilt names and sew-on decals for sweatshirts, garden shirts. Design completed garments and do-it-yourself kits.

DIRECTORY PUBLISHING
Publish local information booklets or maps: where to shop, eat, fish or visit. Booklets can be given away or sold by paid advertisers, businesses.

DOLL CLOTHES
Difficult work for expert seamstresses, but pays well. Work with doll makers, collectors, sell at fairs and through advertisements in doll related publications.

DOLL MAKING
Use ceramic molds, hand paint and finish fine dolls to sell to collectors, children and stores. Advertise in doll publications; attend doll shows.

DOLL COLLECTING
Buy, sell and trade fine and antique dolls with other collectors and investors. Visit shows and fairs regularly to keep abreast of trends and prices.

DONUT MAKING
Make and sell a variety of donuts at home or in public view at fairs, flea markets and public events. Offer "specials": tasty toppings, bargain bags.

DRAPERY SERVICE
Make (have made), clean or alter drapery for private or commercial customers. Sell replacements. Use ads for retail jobs, call on commercials.

DRAPERY CLEANING
Offer in-home (in-office) or pick-up service to renew and re- pleat curtain fabrics. Offer re-lining and expand to do upholstery, walls, and rugs.

DRY CLEANING
Offer a dry cleaning service in your area for clothes, drapes, etc. Send items to processing plant until you are ready to do the cleaning yourself.

ELEPHANT GARLIC
Specialize in growing and marketing this remarkable, delicious giant garlic for gourmet restaurants and stores. Sell fresh, dried and frozen.

ENAMELING / CLOISONNÉ
Create beautiful, unique enameled objects of art to sell: your own designs, themes, plaques, jewelry, trinkets. Sell at shows and via catalogs.

ERRAND SERVICE
Perform errands for individuals and businesses: go to the corner store or across the country. Deliver or pick up messages, packages, important papers.

ESCORT SERVICE
Supply (legitimate) escorts for official and business functions. Advertise for on-call escorts. Interview and qualify; have your entire services bonded.

ETHNIC ARTIFACTS
Buy/create and market one category of products (Indian, Black heritage, German, Asian). Focus all of your advertising and expertise on specific market segment.

EXERCISE COMPANION
Serve as a walking, jogging companion for company, morale support and extra protection (good in cities). Carry any necessary (legal) protection.

EXERCISE FOR SENIORS
Conduct daily passive aerobic classes and sessions for different categories (agility) of senior citizens at your place, and stops on a daily route.

EXOTIC DISHES
Package and sell your "special" recipe: frozen or fresh; wholesale or retail. Advertise the product locally and rent a booth at fairs to publicize it.

EXOTIC VEGETABLES
Grow high value plants (chives, watercress, capers). Use a small greenhouse to produce big profits. Deliver fresh to restaurants and stores.

EXOTIC PLANTS
Raise and sell especially valuable plants, such as four leaf clovers, rare mosses or delicate begonias. Advertise and display often at fairs and shows.

FLOWER ARRANGING
Arrange flowers for parties, banquets, office functions, from general decor to head table centerpieces. Make up displays to sell through stores.

FLOWER DRYING
Raise or buy dryable flowers and shrubs for retail and wholesale customers: one kind packets or arrangements. Sell kits with complete instructions.

FOLK ART GALLERY
Specialize in folk art. Become an "expert" in one or more areas (and receive much free publicity). Buy, sell, take consignments, appraise, teach.

FORMULAS
Research libraries and books for marketable formulas: soap, shampoo, hair tonic, cleaners. Bottle or package under your own label and market locally.

FORTUNE TELLING
If you are good at palmistry or tarot reading, give performances at parties, fairs and at a mall booth and at festivals. Sell booklets, card kits.

FREELANCE HOT FOOD DELIVERY
Contract to use your van to deliver hot food for one or more fast food businesses. Have set of magnetic signs each sponsor. Save them money.

FREEZE DRY FLOWERS
With your equipment freeze dry and preserve wedding bouquets, corsages, centerpieces. Add this service to florist or nursery business for extra income.

GALLOPING GOURMET
Go to people's homes by appointment; cook them a gourmet meal! Furnish helpers, utensils, condiments, place settings service if desired for extra charges.

GARAGE CLEANING
Contact to clean out garages, sheds and attics for individuals, rental agents and absentee landlords. Get paid for the work AND keep anything of value.

GARAGE SALE SERVICE
Set up, promote and manage garage sales for inexperienced or reluctant clients. Inventory, help price and sell for percentage of the proceeds.

GARAGE SALES
Buy underpriced items at auctions and other garage sales. When sufficiently "stocked" have your own -- or hold "joint" sales at various locations.

GENEALOGY
Trace and document family archives. Provide records and related artifacts to descendants. Charge by amount of research involved and documents produced.

GHOSTWRITER
Write articles, letters, reports, speeches and other papers for busy executives and those with little talent in this area. Provide signed agreement to clients.

GLASS ETCHING
Custom-etch glassware for individuals, and to order for retail stores. Offer monograms, town or company logo, family crest, art designs or scenery.

HANDBAGS
Specialize in ladies handbags. Make them in your "factory" to retail or wholesale, or buy and stock a wide variety of sizes, styles, colors and prices.

HANGING PLANTS
Specialize in hanging plants of all sizes and descriptions. Display when in peak condition in various types of attractive pots, holders and hangers.

HEALTH FOODS
Use only natural fertilizers and pesticides in your garden to produce higher priced organically grown products. Sell as "organically grown" products.

WORD PROCESSING
Produce "editable" drafts and finished professional letters, manuscripts and documents for students, lawyers, writers and businesses. Allow editing prior to final printing.

HERB HOUSE
Grow, process and sell herbs that grow well in your area (or greenhouse). Package products separately and in blends (e.g. pickling preparations).

HERB PLANTS
Provide live, healthy potted herbs (basil, chives, borage) for really fresh seasoning to gourmet restaurants. Exchange for new plants as needed.

HERBAL SEASONINGS
Develop, package and market your own blends of seasonings for local, hopefully wider distribution. Arrange for attention-getting packaging to expedite sales.

HERBAL AND SPICE TEA
Blend and sell different blends of herbal teas. Include leaflets with history and folklore in each package. Use uniquely decorated containers.

HOBBY NEWSLETTER
Originate a newsletter or directory for and about hobbyists and their crafts. Build readership by fostering participation, exchanging ideas, listing fairs and supply sources.

HOBBY KITS
Sell do-it-yourself hobby kits in your field of expertise. Include step-by- step guidance and pictures to help beginners learn the craft.

HOLIDAY, SPECIAL EVENT BASKETS
Prepare holiday and special event baskets of fruit, flowers, "goodies". Wholesale or consign to gift stores and advertise custom retail work.

HOME-CANNED GOODS
Take orders or sell home canned goods from your garden. Offer ethnic, regional, or dietary (low-salt/sugarless) as well as "regular" recipes.

HOME-SMOKED MEATS
With your smoker, recipes and wood selection, smoke and sell your sausage, hams, ribs and chicken. Offer hot smoked meats & sandwiches for holidays and banquets.

HOME PERMANENTS
Specialize in giving "home perms" at "their" place. Go to offices, homes, hospitals, senior citizen centers by appointment or on a route.

HOME STUDY COURSES
Sell/rent new/used home study courses. Buy new courses on sale (when available), buy courses back from students. Sell locally and by mail order.

HOMEMAKER'S HELPER
Provide temporary relief or assistance for sick, vacationing or just plain "pooped" moms. Charge by the hour or job (more than a full-time helper).

HOMEOPATHY
Specialize in natural remedy products and related folklore. Provide information on "reputed" remedial properties. Be very careful not to offer "cures".

HOROSCOPE SERVICE
Provide horoscope/astrology information to clients -- prepare manually or use your computer program to select and/or print out the information.

HOSPITAL GROOMING
Assist patients with nail, hair, skin care in hospitals and nursing homes. License may not be needed to provide an appreciated service on a route.

HOUSE CLEANING
Offer one-time or periodic house cleaning services. Perform the heavy tasks (shampoo rugs, clean stoves, wash windows, wax the floors, defrost, etc.)

IMPRINTED CLOTHING
Print (or have printed) names, designs, slogans on T-shirts, hats, uniforms by heat transfer, screen or sublimation for schools, companies, or tourists.

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS, CASSETTES
Make recordings of yourself or others teaching and demonstrating their crafts and specialties. Market via mail or wholesale to stores.

INVISIBLE MENDING/WEAVING
Repair snags, tears, burns in fine clothing and fabrics. Advertise locally work with cleaners and clothing stores in your area.

JEWELRY SALES
Sell inexpensive to fine jewelry to friends, through party plans, direct from advertisements, or wholesale to local stores. Compare suppliers constantly!

JEWELRY BOXES
Make fine jewelry boxes (lined, lacquered, inlaid, shell covered) for gift stores, catalog sales and retail sales. Add music works for extra profits.

JEWELRY CREATIONS
Use your talent and ingenuity to mass produce or individually create exquisite jewelry -- from virtually anything from diamonds to sliced bamboo.

JEWELRY BUYING (OLD)
Buy old, "worn out" or "outdated" jewelry for "salvage". Actually, rejuvenated old jewelry is quite valuable! Sell "waste" only as salvage.

JUNK JEWELRY ART
Buy old jewelry and create designs on framed velvet backgrounds. Glue on beads, drill holes for lights. Wire and light for a spectacular display.

KID PHOTO DOLLS
Take or use photos of kids to make various size (up to full size) "paper dolls" of client's children. Cut out, seal in plastic and mount in slot on sturdy plywood and base.

KITCHEN SPECIALTIES
Whip up and sell your mouth-watering or prize-winning recipes. Sell to local restaurants or advertise with big posters at the fair booth. Sell hot, canned or frozen!

LAPIDARY (GEM MAKING)
Operate a "rock shop" in your garage. Cut, polish facet, shape and mount gems in commercial findings. Sell mounted,  unmounted gems and jewelry.

LIVE-IN AGENCY
Check out both prospective employers and workers. Charge fee to find a reliable widow to stay with elderly person who would otherwise have to go to a home.

LOCAL WHO'S WHO
Compile and publish a directory or index with biographical sketches of prominent people (pioneers, heros, leaders) in your area, past and present.

LOCAL HEROES
Research and write items about local heroics (police, scouts, lady pioneers, ancestors). Sell to local publications and again later as a collection.

LONELY HEARTS
Advertise for, list and match names of people who would like to meet others. Consider age, interests, hobbies, what they like in others, church affiliation, education.

MACRAME
Make and sell a good selection of hangers and hangings. Take orders for custom work. Find (keep secret) good sources for materials, sell do-it-yourself kits.

MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS
Sell a variety of magazine subscriptions from your "office"; Use "gimmicky" ads, give credit for leads and do lots of telephone canvassing.

MAIL ORDER SALES
Find the right product, "showcase" it, advertise it, and sell it by mail (ad and/or mailing lists). Caution: Heavy competition and many "sharks"!

MAIL ORDER BOOKS
Sell books by mail (most suppliers will drop-ship). Always offer follow-up products and check several sources before "signing" with any one.

MANICURE SERVICE
Provide nail care service in or from your "salon." Check needs in hospitals, nursing homes, even office and factory workers on break.

MINERALS AND GEMS
Where petrified wood, meteorites, jade, or other potential gem minerals are available, gather and process them. Sell finished jewelry and stones.

MINIATURE GARDENS
Create various sizes of garden-like displays of live plants for hospital sick rooms, boxes for balconies, rooftop planters, offices and residences.

MONOGRAM SERVICE
Embroider names, logos, initials on clothing, uniforms and company team jackets. Specialize in a style or service, charge extra for custom work.

MULTI-LEVEL SALES
Work with reputable company (e.g. Amway, Watkins) to make money from sales of merchandise -- both your own sales and those by others that you sponsor into the program.

MUSHROOM CULTURE
Grow and sell mushrooms. Fill standing gourmet restaurant and store orders, advertise for retail sales. Can, freeze or dry leftovers and stems.

NAIL POLISH MANUFACTURING
Buy red lacquer in bulk and bottles in bulk. Mix in various colors, bottle and sell. Add your own nail polish remover (acetone mixture).

NARRATING
Use your speaking ability to narrate private or commercial movies, videos, demos and advertisements. Sell taped versions for slide show presentations.

NATIVE PLANTS
Become an expert on plants native to your locale. Grow, propagate and improve. Raise the value of your plants and seeds by enclosing an informative brochure in each pack.

NATURAL JEWELRY
Make and sell jewelry and decorations from seeds, twigs, berries. Example: China berry seed necklaces, "moose-apple" pins, acorn beads, willow wreaths.

NATURE'S PRODUCTS
When in an area with wild products (hickory nuts, maple syrup) that you can harvest, do so! Process, package and sell as genuine products of nature.

NECKTIES
Make and sell exclusive, hand made ties from exotic materials from all over the world. Offer a wide selection of designs, attach your exclusive label.

NEEDLECRAFT
Make and sell homemade items (pot holders, bonnets, towel rings) to sell on consignment, to mail order catalog companies, or through parties and ads.

PAPER SCULPTURE
Create and sell your own unique "heads", figures, caricatures, abstracts, even effigies! Sell for up to $5O each for holidays, promotions, parties.

PAPIER MACHE SCULPTURE
Create a selection of your "standard" caricatures, pinatas and offer custom versions. Assemble do-it-yourself kits with full instructions.

PARTY PACKAGES
Make up and market complete party packages with innovative games, masks, favors, stunts and entertainment for various age, size and interest groups.

PARTY PLANNING
Take complete charge of customer's planned party: decorate, schedule activities, send invitations. Arrange entertainment, catering and clean-up.

PASTE CRAFT
Glue unusual fabrics onto hard surfaces (trays, dishes) to sell in craft shops. Build stock of fabrics and projects, teach, sell do-it-yourself kits.

PEN PAL SERVICE
Advertise in overseas publications. Offer to enroll host country citizens in correspondence clubs for US or other nationality pen pals. Offer introductions.

PEN PAL CLUB
Advertise for members and arrange into categories by age, location, sex, interests, etc. Charge for membership (or newsletter), addresses or "matches" from your files.

PERFUME BAR
Stock and sell a selection of genuine and/or "imitation" brand perfumes and accessories from your salon (have samples and take orders to start).

PERSONALIZED OFFICE ITEMS
Make and/or sell personalized (engraved or monogrammed) office accessories: logos, coffee cups, desk signs, paperweights, briefcases, etc).

PET SITTING
Feed, water, clean up after and check on pets twice a day in their homes while owners are away. Call owners or veterinarian if there are any problems.

PET HOTEL
Board and care for pets in your kennels or cages while owners are away. Or, work with assistants who provide "foster homes" for unusual or pampered pets.

PET TATTOOING
Offer this permanent identification service to breeders and individuals to deter theft, expedite recovery of lost pets and confirm lineage (e.g., breeder has record of marks).

PIES AND COOKIES
Take orders or contract for baked goods from your kitchen. Deliver to customers or stores daily with your name and logo imprinted on the cartons.

PILLOWS
Make and decorate designer, fancy, or "down home" pillows to sell in boutiques, fairs, party plans, sales catalogs and/or advertisements and mail order.

PLANT SCULPTURE
A profitable specialty: braid trunks, shape into interesting forms. Trim, bend, graft, to create valuable sculptures that bring premium prices.

POMANDERS
Revive this old Egyptian art: process oranges into hardened and long- lasting sachets. Use spice and perfume mixtures and penetrating cloves: sell!

POPCORN PRODUCTS
Make and market various popcorn base products. Give your recipes exotic names. Create your colorful holiday and special occasion containers.

POTTED PLANTS
Learn to start (propagate) and groom popular potted plants. Display in attractive settings, especially when they are in bloom or full foliage.

POTTERY
With your potter's wheel, make, fire and sell your own style of pottery. Encourage onlookers and students and put your "mark" on every piece you offer for sale.

PRINTS, LINOLEUM
Cut your artistic designs into linoleum blocks; make and frame your prints. Teach the art, sell kits, publicize student work (great advertising!).

PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS
Contract with food brokers to demonstrate consumer products (prepare and give out samples) in supermarkets, drug stores and shopping malls.

PRODUCTBROKER
Buy a quantity of a product wholesale (preferably at a close-out price) and advertise it as a "one-time special" locally. Sell leftovers at close-outs! POTTED PLANTS. Learn to start (propagate) and groom popular potted plants. Display in attractive settings, especially when they are in bloom or full foliage.

POTTERY
With your potter's wheel, make, fire and sell your own style of pottery. Encourage onlookers and students and put your "mark" on every piece you offer for sale.

POTTED PLANTS
Learn to start (propagate) and groom popular potted plants. Display in attractive settings, especially when they are in bloom or full foliage.

POTTERY
With your potter's wheel, make, fire and sell your own style of pottery. Encourage onlookers and students and put your "mark" on every piece you offer for sale.

PRINTS, LINOLEUM
Cut your artistic designs into linoleum blocks; make and frame your prints. Teach the art, sell kits, publicize student work (great advertising!).

PRODUCT DEMONSTRATIONS
Contract with food brokers to demonstrate consumer products (prepare and give out samples) in supermarkets, drug stores and shopping malls.

PRODUCTBROKER
Buy a quantity of a product wholesale (preferably at a close-out price) and advertise it as a "one-time special" locally. Sell leftovers at close-outs!

PRODUCT REPACKAGING
Buy bulk products (nails, beans, vinegar) by the ton or barrel. Re-package into neatly labeled packets, pints, boxes and sell for much more.

PUPPET MAKING
Create your own puppets (cartoon, caricatures or custom faces). Give shows at children's parties, train both "actors" and puppet makers. Sell kits.

QUILTING
Make and sell beautiful homemade quilts from "scraps" in your "spare time". Take color photographs of each quilt and make a "catalog" to show them.

RAG DOLLS
Make and sell rag, sock and similar stuffed dolls in your own unique fashion. Attach your label and offer to stores in your area and via mail nationwide.

READING TO PATIENTS
Visit hospitals, nursing homes or individual homes and read stories, novels to patients. If time is limited, read a chapter a week. Charge relatives.

REAL PEOPLE DOLLS
Make and dress doll representations of real people (heroes, historical, actual clients). Include information about the person. Present in attractive glass display boxes.

RECIPE SALES
Perfect your favorite recipes. Promote and sell them individually, in small sets, or collections. Sell something that will make the cook look great!

REPORT WRITING
Write information or "how-to" articles on subjects in which you are well versed. Sell to technical publications or advertise and sell "reports" direct. RESIDENTIAL POSTCARDS. Take pictures of well-kept homes and make.

RESUME SERVICE
A professional resume writing services: interview and review qualifications. Slant for types of job sought: include picture on each resume (computer programs exist).

RUG MAKING
Make sell hand woven (or?) rugs in standard and custom designs. Offer instructions, materials do-it-yourself kits, plus related supplies and equipment.

SCARECROWS
Make and sell authentic scarecrows for gardeners and garden displays. Also, sell kits, complete with frames, straw, and old clothes and face parts.

SCREEN PRINTING
Set up a silk screen apparatus in your shop to print anything from a small badge to a large order of real estate signs, even fabrics and labels.

SEED PACKETS
Collect, sort, label and sell packets of selected wildflowers or plants native to your area. Include instructions, history and folklore on each package.

SEED DEALER
Buy bulk seeds from suppliers or farmers. Repackage into small packets and blends. Add instructions and package along with folklore info; wholesale to local markets.

SEWING SERVICE
Make repairs and do alterations for non-sewing (busy bachelor?) clients needing buttons, adjustments. Charge extra for one-day or "emergency" service. SEWING CLASSES. When qualified, hold sewing classes in your home. Offer full courses as well as special "how-to" seminars for specific techniques. Sell material and supplies to students.

SHELL CRAFTS
Use glue, dyes, toy animals eyes, props and your imagination to make shell decorations and novelties to sell at fairs and wholesale to local stores.

SHOPPING SERVICE
Do grocery shopping for clients. Get their list, buy and deliver. Use your shopping, pricing experience and volume buying to get best values.

SHUT-IN SERVICE
Call and/or visit temporary or permanent shut-ins on behalf of absentee relatives. Take magazines, play games, read to them, and be their friend.

SILK FLOWER RENTALS
Make up silk flower arrangements for weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs and banquets. Sell, rent and offer do-it-yourself baskets, centerpieces, etc.

SNAIL RAISING
Raise and sell fresh "escargot" (edible) snails for gourmet restaurants. Preserve, package and sell leftovers to local stores or a food broker.

SOAPMAKING
Learn as a hobby or adjunct to candle making. Create and sell various shapes, colors, fragrances. Mold prepared solutions or make your soap from scratch.

SPECIALTY FOODS
Represent one or more suppliers of specialty foods (diet, ethnic, gourmet) to restaurants, stores and/or individuals. Advertise for customers.

SPECIALTY MERCHANDISE
Sell a line of merchandise from your catalogs and samples to retail stores, individuals, and sub-sales efforts like parties or group discounts.

SPICES AND HERBS
Grow spices and herbs that thrive in your climate (and greenhouse). Sell dried, blended, freshly cut, in flats or pots, packets and bunches -- ready for use.

SPIDER FARM
Raise different kinds of spiders: sell webs to scientific institutions. Sell to schools and laboratories. Write booklets for each species.

STAMP APPROVALS
Buy U.S. or foreign stamps in bulk; search for valuables (to sell individually); sell the rest in packets or as approvals (e.g., 2 for each one kept).

STAMP DEALING
Buy, sell and/or trade postage stamps of the USA or world. Buy in bulk, sell packets, mixtures, sets and singles to beginning or intermediate collectors.

STENCILING (FABRICS)
Design your own stencils for interesting fabric designs. Apply to clothing and fabrics for sale. Sell stencils, fabric kits paints, dyes and supplies.

STORY TELLER
Narrate stories at children’s' parties. Use props (dolls, pets, puppets) and audience participation. Perfect the stories then tape or put down on paper.

SURPLUS PRODUCE
Buy peaches, tomatoes, etc., when in season and price is low. Preserve (freeze, can, dry) to sell when the price goes later in the season or in winter.

TAILORING
Use your skills to custom tailor men, boys and women's garments (including jackets, uniforms, suits) in or from your home "shop". Attach your own label.

TALENT AGENCY
Locate and list people (and animals) with unusual talents (charge a small listing fee). Send lists to talent agents, producers, show managers, and actors.

TAMALES AND TACOS
Take orders for tamales, tacos (or other specialties) in your kitchen for customer or pick-up (or delivery to restaurants). Freeze leftovers.

TELEPHONE CANVASSING
Contract with salesmen or businesses to obtain leads or potential customer info for them from your telephone operation. Charge by the lead.

TELEPHONE SALES
Call listed or phone book names to sell merchandise or services (yours or client's). Charge a sales commission and keep ALL profits on your products.

TEMPLE RUBBINGS
With lumber (or similar) crayon and rugged, fabric, copy stone or metal relief designs by rubbing onto covering paper or fabric. Seal, frame and sell.

TERRARIUMS
Start and nurture plants in bottles and plastic containers that require little if any watering. Grow plants to peak of attractiveness and sell, container and all.

TOWN HISTORY
If none exists, "publish" a booklet about your town. Sell direct and/or to merchants for resale or to give away (consider including paid advertisements.)

TURTLES
Raise and market various types of turtles: edible, aquarium, decorative, pet shop and possibly larger ones to protect species and/or market to zoos and preserves.

TUTORING
Provide assistance by appointment or scheduled classes to students (anyone in need) of your expertise, whether academic, technical or operational skill.

TYPING SERVICE
Do typing jobs in your home: for doctors, lawyers, business people, and students. Charge less than word processor but still make a nice profit.

USED BOOKS SALES
Buy, sell and trade used books: novels, reference, science, text, even collector editions from your home.

VEGETABLES, OFF SEASON
Grow and sell "vine ripened" (with lights, heat) tomatoes from your greenhouse in winter, fresh corn in spring, ripe strawberries in the fall.

VITAMIN SALES
Sell one or more lines of vitamins and supplements, some with generic or your name "brand." Advertise and/or enlist user/helpers and party plans.

WEAVING, SPINNING
On old fashioned equipment, spin, weave and dye authentic, hand made fabrics that command high prices; sell kits, instructions and folklore.

WEDDING CONSULTANT
Plan and coordinate weddings from start to finish: decor, guests, dresses, schedules, catering, photographer, etc. Receive fee and commissions.

WILD BERRIES
Pick, preserve and sell wild (only!) blackberries, gooseberries, etc. Prepare different forms, but always emphasize that they are genuine wild products.

WILDFLOWER SEEDS
In your travels, gather wildflower seeds. Seal and label, then take home and cultivate to produce seeds for packets "from around the nation."

WILDFLOWER PLANTS
Start, nurture and market when ready, genuine wildflowers and plants of local interest. Have small brochures printed for each plant (this sells them).

WINE AND BEER MAKING
After perfecting your recipes, sell kits, instructions and supplies (not the product) to others who would also like to make their own too.

WORD PROCESSING
Produce "editable" drafts and finished professional letters, manuscripts and documents for students, lawyers, writers and businesses. Allow editing prior to final printing.

WRITE FOR CHILDREN
Write poems, Sunday school stories, puzzles, explanations, riddles, etc., for children. Sell to local papers, children's book publishers or in your own booklets.

WRITING, FREELANCE
Starting with local articles (even "filters"); sell or even GIVE to local paper (to be "published"). Work up to articles and stories that sell.

YOUR-BRAND PRODUCTS
Make or formulate your own line of household (or?) products from "secret" recipes. Design your own packages and advertising and market your products.

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