How to make money by being a celebrity commentator

The internet is a very good place to go if you want to know if celebrities have done anything lately, and what they were wearing when they did it, and whether they are in trouble with the fashion police. In fact, whenever I get curious about what Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are up to,* I always go to the internet and ask it. I am usually able to find out what they are up to pretty quickly this way, and my need for personal fulfillment through the lives of others is temporarily satiated. Without the Internet I would presumably have to find them in the phone book and call them, which has failed in the past, and shows no sign of working any time soon.

The thing is, most people do not know that you can make money simply by following celebrities around, taking pictures of them, posting them on the Internet and saying things like "OMG!!!1!"

In any case, there are lots of people who do this for a living, and there is always room for another. You could dedicate yourself to following an individual celebrity, or just following a bunch of them around. Either way you will soon get rich, and may become a celebrity of your own. At that point you can just post pictures of yourself and not even bother doing any real work

*apparently Angelina and Brad are in Sarajevo right now (true) and Brad is getting prepared for a role in which he plays an extremely ugly old dude.(made up, but with photographic evidence)

Tips for selling things on Ebay

We have blogged recently about selling things you get for free on ebay.  Well, we have started taking our own advice and getting free stuff and selling it on ebay.  So far we have made $32 in the last 3 days.  So far this appears to be our most profitable idea.

Recently we sold an item on ebay and we were able to ship it for $3.50.  Since I was unable to get in touch with our accountant, I had to use my own financial skills.  I assumed I would be able to sell 5 of the same item I was able to ship for $3.50 and ship 5 of them for $4.95.  Well as you can imagine I was a little surprised to find out it actually cost $13.95.  So instead of making $18 off of our recent sale we only made $9.  Its $9 more than we had before,  which is good, but not as good as $18.  So when you are listing an item make sure you know how much it will cost you to ship it before you end up having to pay more to ship it then you get for selling the item.

We have actually blogged about this concept before... but since that was three months ago and we have a short memory we forgot.

Make Money by Recycling Bottles

I'm sure you've noticed that most soda bottles have a label on them that says you can sell them for like .5 cents, or .10 cents in Michigan. Well, that is real money, and it can add up quickly if you know what you are doing. Here is how it works

How to get rich by selling soda bottles:
1. Buy the Coca-Cola company. Buy the whole company. This should set you back at least a thousand dollars because it is a big company, but in business you have to take a risk if you want to succeed
2. If you have any money left you can buy Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch, or Red Bull too.
3. Load all the bottles into a truck
4. Drive to Michigan
5. When you see the "welcome to Michigan" sign on the highway, dump all the bottles out.
6. Someone in Michigan will send you a load of cash.
7. Use the cash to buy another large bottling company
8. Repeat

I can't believe no one has thought of this yet.

Make Money off the Health Care Reform Bill

How to make money off the healthcare bill by setting up a roadside healthcare stand.
You've probably heard about the universal healthcare law that the government just created. Supposedly it is like 3,000 pages long, and very few people have actually read it, and even fewer people actually understand it. All that most people know is that they now have to do something about health care, or the government has to do something, or somebody has to do something, or something. This confusion creates a golden opportunity for you.


1. Get a table
2. Get a big sign that says "Healthcare Reform Sold Here"
3. Offer to provide health coverage to people for $1
4. Pass out little cards that say "My healthcare has been reformed(!)"
5. You can even add a Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid signature on the cards to make them look more authentic.

Sell discontinued items

We recently blogged about how to make money by selling freebies.  If you are able to get a free item, it helps if it is an item that has been discontinued (i.e. nobody makes it anymore).  If the item is no longer being made, that means it could potentially be worth a lot of money.

For example, Polaroid no longer makes film.  But, there are still people out there who want and use Polaroid film.  The fact that the film has expired 10 years ago is not a problem because every remaining piece of film has expired... Polaroid does not make new ones anymore.

Step by Step business plan:
1) Locate stash of unopened Polaroid Film
2) Sell on Ebay

Click on the following links to see our Ebay listing for Polaroid 665 Film or Polaroid 667 Film.

Make your own laptop sleeve protector

At Howtomakeadollar we not only promote making money but also not wasting money buying things you can make yourself.  So today we are going to feature our first Tutorial.  This tutorial will help you save money by making your own laptop sleeve protector instead of spending money buying one.  The laptop sleeve you see featured in this tutorial is for sale... so help support howtomakeadollar by buying one or paying us to make your very own custom design laptop sleeve protector.

Step 1: Obtain laptop.  Preferable a 13 inch macbook pro... because everyone needs one and everyone who has one needs a cool custom laptop sleeve protector for it.

Step 2: Get cool retro t-shirt.  I bought mine at Salvation Army.  Wednesday is half off night so I got each tshirt for $0.50.

Step 3: Obtain sewing machine, needles, thread, fabric, and foam.  Ask your wife, sister, mother, mother-in-law, or uncle Bruce for the aforementioned items.  (Yes, Howtomakeadollar does assume women and uncles named Bruce are the only people that sew)

Step 4: Ask whoever gave you the items from step 3 to show you how to use a sewing machine.  Better yet, ask them to make it for you.  In that case, skip the rest of the steps except Step 4a.

Step 4a: If you have no intention of making your own custom laptop sleeve protector email this page to someone who will or skip to the end and buy one from us.

Step 5: Choose cool tshirt.  I choose Pokemon!  Cut Pokemon tshirt to the appropriate size (a couple of inches larger than the computer).  You will end up with two pieces, one from the front of the shirt and one from the back.

Step 6: Sew the front and back pieces together on one side.

Step 7: Cut extra fabric to the same size as cut tshirt

Step 8: Sew fabric to tshirt.  It helps to pin the two pieces together before you start to sew.  Make sure you turn the shirt so it is facing the fabric.  In the next step you will turn the entire thing inside out so leave a couple of inches unsewn.

Step 9: Turn inside out

Step 10:  Cut foam to appropriate size, stuff it into the shirt.

Step 11: Make sure the computer fits, sew ends together and turn inside out.

Step 12: Take the cool Pokemon tag and make it into a cover to close your new custom design laptop sleeve protector.

Step 13:  Be the coolest kid in school!

Don't want to make your own... buy our Pokemon one for $9.99...

or email us with a specific tshirt you would like made into your very own laptop sleeve protector and we will make one for you for $9.99!

Make Money on April Fool's Day

It is very easy to make money on Fool's Day

1. Walk up to some guy
2. Tell him that he does not owe you any money
3. Wait until he replies
4. Regardless of what he says, immediately shout "April Fool's!"
5. Explain to him that actually, he does owe you money
6. Collect money from him