Ways to make a small amount of extra cash during the pandemic?

Question

I thought it would be interesting to see how people have made a bit of extra cash on the side during the pandemic.I am not talking about SaaS side projects, more exchanging time for money kind of thing. Or anything that just makes money straight away without weeks of upfront 'investment':Here are mine:Got invited to trial out some software for Microsoft, got a gift voucher $150.Did some mentoring on mentorcruise.com, about $160 in total. Stopped as I didn't want to spend the time anymore, so stopped taking on new mentors then let the current ones leave once they were done.Did some mentoring/coding on codementor.io, about $300 in total. Stopped as I didn't want to spend the time anymore.

matt_the_bass · Accepted Answer

My &ldquo;typical&rdquo; side project is making wordclocks [0]. But my neighbor is a dentist and needed a sneeze shield for his office reception counter. So he and I came up with a design for a wooden sneeze shield stand. I&rsquo;ve since put them on Etsy [1] and sold more than $1k worth in the last month.I use some of the tools I bought for making my clocks. It makes me feel good to be able help a few small businesses.[0] http://www.finewordclocks.com[1] http://finewordclocks.etsy.com

giantg2 · Answer

Stocks and options. The drop has provided many opportunities to make some gains.