1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (72 page)

444 MANUFACTURE FURNITURE.
You'll be working with power tools; if you have no mechanical aptitude whatsoever, you should skip this one for obvious reasons. If you're handy with an Allen wrench, you might want to offer to assemble premade furniture rather than make an entire bedroom set from scratch.

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445 MAKE CRIBS.
It's sort of like a birdcage (see entry 635) or a doghouse (see entry 634), but bigger and a whole lot more complicated. As they say, think “safety first” when designing these cribs. One surefire way not to make money is to get sued by angry parents whose baby fell out of your faulty crib.

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446 MAKE MOBILES.
Hang more than one of anything from some string and you've got a mobile. You can get as fancy, minimalist, artsy, or ironic as you want to with mobiles. Finish this sentence: “It would be hilarious to see [blank] hanging above a baby's crib.”

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447 MAKE AND SELL STUFFED ANIMALS.
Have extra drapes, pillows, and buttons lying around? Before you think about donating them to Goodwill, consider making stuffed animals out of them. Cut the drapes into shapes, sew together, stuff with pillow stuffing, and sew on buttons as eyes. The best part is it doesn't even have to be cute — Ugly Dolls have opened the door for misfit toys everywhere.

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448 CUT HAIR.
You don't have to go to beauty school to be able to do a quick trim for someone. Haircuts at salons go for $30 to $50 a pop. Who has that kind of money to blow every couple of months? You'll be able to offer a simple trim for a few bucks and you'll get a lot of customers in the process.

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449 BRAID HAIR.
Everyone gets their hair braided when they go on vacation to a Caribbean island. Those native ladies make a fortune off the tourist schmucks. Braid it before they go and charge them less.

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