UNIT 11. MAKING MONEY

I. Read the text and comment on its contents.

SOME UNUSUAL WAYS TO MAKE QUICK MONEY

1. Offer To Watch Children, Pets, or House-sit

You're out of cash. What do you do? Hit up Moms and Dads. No, not your mom and dad, silly. Moms and Dads; those worn-out individuals with small children under five who barely remember what it's like to go to a restaurant and not spend the evening quelling tantrums and wiping up spilled water.

There are a lot of part-time jobs you can get in order to turn a quick buck, but exercising the babysitting option is one of the most immediately lucrative. Reliable babysitters are in high demand. You can almost name your price. Babysitters earn upwards of $15 an hour these days. Offer to sit for friends' kids Friday or Saturday night. The parents will be only too happy to hand you cash when they return. Other quick cash options? House-sit for friends of friends (friends by definition, will expect you to feed their cat and take in their mail for free. People you only know by association won't).

2. Collect Your Change

Everyone's living quarters are different, of course, but there's a certain (rather obvious at first) list that everyone should go through first. Your bed stand. Don't most of us have a little spot where we put money, after we toss off our clothes at the end of the day? But, sure, there's probably nothing there, because you've already raided this. Hone in on your home office. Have one? It seems like another natural place where you might have stuffed a few bills or coins aside at one point. Survey your sofa. Underneath those cushions, where pocket change slides out and drops into the crevasses of your couch, is often, quite literally, a gold mine. And possibly half of a melted Hershey's bar. You really do need to get down here more often. Check the car. Most of us have a little spot in the car where rogue coins wind up, when we don't have time to put them in a pocket or purse. They sometimes wind up under the car seats. You probably have something here.

3. Return Past Purchases

Taking recently-purchased items back for cash is really one of the most efficient ways of making quick cash. Not only are you typically able to get your full purchase price back if you have a receipt (except for some categories like electronics, for which stores often charge a "restocking" fee); but you'll reduce your stuff and pay penance for your spending habit, too.

4. Start Your Own Part-Time Business From Home

Married couple, Jacob and Susan D'Aniello, began their own pooper scooper business. Their small start from working out of their home turned into a multi-million dollar franchise called Doody Calls. In the beginning, it was just them, a bag, a little shovel... They started the business when they were dating and basically fell in love over canine feces, and while the business became complicated, in the beginning, it only involved a little time, some exercise and then collecting the fee a short time later.

5. Take A Part-Time Job

Most part-time jobs aren't what they're cracked up to be, when it comes to getting paid quickly. If you flip burgers at a fast food chain or become a retail clerk - it’s probably going to be two weeks, at best, before you receive that first paycheck, and there are circumstance s where it'll work out to three or four.

6. Set Up A Roadside Stand

Fellow blogger Amy Stone shared with me an excellent blog experiment on the potential for selling bottled water at a freeway exit, in which a blogger sold a case's worth of water in less than 30 minutes.

7. Recycle Scrap Metal

One way you can get some quick cash is to sell met alto your local salvage yard or recycling center. One Daily Finance blogger's co-worker bought a used camper for just over $600 and took his old one to get scrapped. The scrap value of his camper almost paid for his new camper purchase.

VOCABULARY ITEMS

to hit up – просить

silly – нелепый, глупый

worn-out individuals – измученные, усталые

quelling tantrums – подавление истерик / вспышек гнева

to wipe up spilled water – вытеретьпролитую воду

to turn a quick buck – крутить легкие деньги

babysitting option – работа няней

lucrative – прибыльный

to be in high demand – иметь большой спрос

toss off smb’s clothes – «протирать штаны»

raid – налет

to hone – горевать, ворчать

stuff – чепуха

to drop into the crevasses – рухнуть на диван

rogue – мошенник

to wind up – сворачивать

recently-purchased items – готовые изделия

charge – оплата

pooper scooper business – бизнес, подразумевающий уборку собачьих экскрементов

canine feces – собачьи экскременты

to flip – щелкнуть, смахнуть

circumstance s – обстоятельства

to get scrapped – сдавать в утиль

camper – дом на колесах

II. Exercises

a. Make up your own sentences using words in bold.

b. Translate sentences into English.

Быть на мели, надежные няни, назначить цену, изголовье кровати, иметь представление о чем-либо, складки дивана, растаявшая плитка шоколадки, сеть ресторанов быстрого питания, кипящая вода, место сбора повреждённой, оставленной техники и утиля, пункт приёма стеклотары, стоимость изделия, сдаваемого в утиль

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