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Weekend Flipping: Small Wins From Local Marketplaces

June 4, 2026 by amelia
Weekend Flipping: Small Wins From Local Marketplaces — Cents That Count

Flipping, buying things cheap and reselling them, has a glamorous internet version full of storage units and four figure scores. This is not that. This is the small, local, weekend version I’ve run for a year: an hour or two on Saturdays, profits between $15 and $80 per item, and everything moves through the same … Read more

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Cash Back Apps, Ranked by Someone Who Tracked Every Cent

May 21, 2026 by amelia
Cash Back Apps, Ranked by Someone Who Tracked Every Cent — Cents That Count

For six months I ran every popular cashback method side by side and tracked every cent in a spreadsheet, because the internet is full of claims and suspiciously light on receipts. Total earned across everything: $118.42. Not nothing, not a salary. Here’s the ranking, with real numbers and the catches nobody mentions. First place: the … Read more

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My First $100 Online: What Worked After Three Failures

April 30, 2026 by amelia
My First $100 Online: What Worked After Three Failures — Cents That Count

Before anything worked, three things failed. I want to put the failures first, because every “how I make money online” story skips them, and the skipping is why people quit. Failure one: surveys. Eleven dollars for a month of clicking. Rate: about $2 an hour. Failure two: a print on demand shop. Forty hours designing … Read more

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