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Start a Home Business Mom's Club

Many homemakers have started some form of home business from the comfort of their homes. People have many different reasons for trying to work from home instead of in a standard office or storefront business. Some are motivated to start a business because of financial restraints, while others start just to keep themselves busy when they have free time. A few start home businesses
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Forget the Shoes! Women Love Purses

If you are looking for a new and exciting business venture there is one very profitable avenue you could take, selling women's purses. Now you may be asking how this could be profitable. Well, the simple fact is that women love their purses just as much as they love their shoes. In fact, women typically purchase just as many purses through their lifetime as
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Attention Tourists!

There is a man in Hawaii that stands on a main street with seven colorful and bright parrots on his arms and shoulders. As tourists pass, he offers to take their picture with the parrots on them for $15. In just one hour of four photos, he makes $60! He uses a Polaroid


Babysitting Service for Parents

When parents age and can no longer take care of themselves, we usually place them in a nursing home. However, many people choose to move them into their own home and take care of them themselves. These usually generous and caring people often deserve a night out! Offer to "baby sit" their parents so they can have a night out, catch up on work,
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Bread Brings in the Cash

Have you ever made a really, really great sandwich? Not just a regular ham and cheese, but a triple-decker something with


Offer Waxing in Home

It is a stress to go to a salon to get your legs waxed every week. However, most women prefer this method to shaving. It is more convenient, but it is expensive and time consuming. Eliminate both of those problems by offering in home waxing services. You could charge $20 per customer plus the cost of travel. You could even hold waxing parties where
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Funeral Programs

During a special event, you will usually receive a program of what will be taking place during the event. Offer this service for funerals, or memorials, so people attending can be made aware of what will take place during the services, and possibly after. You can hand these programs to people as they enter the church, or other funeral service location.


Help People Keep Their House Plants When They Move

Start a business that promises to move a client's plants to their new home or business. They do not need to let their plants die; they can have them carefully moved. You can charge a minimum of $25 per hour to move their plants. Your competition will be moving companies, but how much do they know about plants? You are the specialist, and know
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How to Put Your Pets to Work

Is your pet your best friend? Do you spend lots of time playing with them and watching them? Have you often wished they could make money for you?


Put Your Green Thumb to Work

Are you one of those gifted folks who can grow anything? Do you enjoy designing gardens and flowerbeds? Wouldn't it be great to earn a living sketching out your ideas and spending days planting? Well, you can do it by starting a landscaping business.