1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (124 page)

771 ENTER A TRACTOR PULL.
Are you and your John Deere a force to be reckoned with? Show everyone else you mean business and enter the annual tractor pull at your local fair. You could land yourself a blue ribbon and some green bills (or some equipment that you can hock online to put you back in the black).

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772 INSTALL CAR SOUND SYSTEMS.
Car stereos tend to scare people; they think they'll connect the wrong wire in the wrong place and end up with a $1,000 dashboard decoration that doesn't work. Put your skills to use by getting the car owners who want to skirt the cost of having it installed at Sears to take out the middleman and pay you to do it.

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773 DO POST-FACTORY CAR INSTALLATIONS.
Not everyone can afford to buy a car that comes complete with all the bells and whistles — like a car-starter or an alarm system. If you possess the skills to pimp someone's ride, advertise yourself as such on sites like craigslist.

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774 BECOME A LOCKSMITH.
To become a locksmith you need to take a class and then pass the locksmithing certification test. If that sounds like a good time to you, it's time to become a locksmith. And with all of the interesting people you open doors for, you'll have lots of fodder for your lock-smithing memoir!

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775 PICK CORN.
Corn gets “knee high by the Fourth of July” so plan on cashing in around August. As more industries begin to rely on corn (corn syrup, corn-fed beef, corn-based biodegradable forks, etc.) the need for people to pick it also grows.

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776 PICK COTTON.
Picking cotton is not for the faint of heart. Waking up in the middle of the night and working through the heat of the day can be hard, but if you live in a prime cotton-growing area this is a fast way to make some cash.

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