The internet opens the door to a wide choice of work-from-home jobs for anyone wanting to make some extra cash. This article aims to list down seven such jobs that can help you to earn that extra income.

1. Affiliate Marketing
You need to have good entrepreneurial skills to become an affiliate marketer where building trust with a list of subscribers will ensure that they buy what you have on offer.

2. eBay
The most popular choice of work-from-home where all you have to do is look around you to find things that you no longer need and sell it on eBay.

3. Freelance writing
The internet needs good content and search engines are always on the lookout. If you have the writing skills, then you can take up freelance writing jobs.

4. Blogging
Creating your own blog and writing reviews of products sold by Amazon.com can bring money in the form of commissions.

5. Turn your interest and hobbies to sellable products
If you are good at singing, you can record a CD and sell it. Compiling a list of recipes and publishing it as an eBook is another way of making use of your hobbies to make money.

6. Craigslist
Craigslist is similar to eBay where you can sell items online or you can find a suitable work-at-home job or find buyers for any services that you might have to offer.

7. Search the job sites
Major Job listing sites like Monster.com and Career Builder will have work-at-home jobs listed by companies who are looking for a part-time or even a full-time resource to work from their home.

Have you ever wondered if the plastic boxes for storage of food and water in your home are safe to use? Checking underneath the plastic container for the number within a recycling triangle is a simple way to find out if the plastic containers in your house are safe for you, your family and the environment. This is because all plastics are categorized by a number one through seven, representing a different type of resin.

Plastics number three and six are particularly harmful. The number three resin (PVC)–typically used in cling wraps for meat– interferes with hormonal development and its manufacture and incineration release dioxin, a potent carcinogen and hormone disruptor. The number six resin — Polystyrene — can leak a dangerous human carcinogen called styrene into food. While your diecast car displays can be manufactured with this type of plastic, your food containers cannot. A quick check at home can reveal whether or not you own these types of plastics. If you do, it is a good idea to throw them out and purchase new safe plastic containers.

Instead of sending all of those plastic containers off the landfill, one company is using them to create equipment for a new playground in Trumbull, Connecticut, reports the Connecticut Post. Sun Products and more than 150 volunteers will be building a sustainable playground on October 30 at the Trumbull Nature and Arts Center using recycled plastic materials.

The playground equipment is made from the equivalent of 50,000 HDPE #2 clear plastic containers. According to the article, the project is designed to be a learning experience for children at the town’s six public elementary schools and its Early Childhood Education Center. Students are encouraged to bring in clean #2 plastic containers for recycling.

“Sustainability is a priority reflected in all we do to preserve our beautiful and healthy community,” said Raymond Baldwin, Trumbull first selectman in a prepared statement. “The Full Circle Playground represents a true public-private partnership based on a shared commitment to sustainability and the future of our town.”

While most call center services are fully willing to comply with the federal laws that regulate the telemarketing industry, there are also those that do whatever they can to bypass those laws, sometimes to the point of harassing the people that those laws are supposed to protect.

One tricky method involves calls offering a survey. The caller asks the resident during the survey if it would be all right for them to place a follow-up call. Little does the homeowner realize that they’ve just opted in to receive calls from a company trying to hawk goods.

Another trick used by telemarketers can actually result in a homeowner calling a live answering service in order to make the calls stop. This involves companies that sell filtering and call blocking services harassing residents by calling at all hours until they’re desperate for call center solutions that will give them a little peace.

Even though construction in the real world remains soft, apparently the amounts of new skyscrapers, castles and Star Wars craft being built by kids remains strong. Lego is one plastic manufacturer that is bucking the trend of cutbacks recently seen in the industry. The company announced that it is planning on boosting capacity at three international plastics injection molding plants.

The company is planning on installing “hundreds of machines” in plants in Denmark, Nyíregyháza, Hungary, and Monterrey, Mexico between now and 2010, said Lego company spokesperson Charlotte Simonsen.

The expansion makes sense as Lego’s profits continue to grow: the company’s pre-tax profits were up 65 percent in the last year. So if your son or daughter (or husband) is a Lego maniac, it looks like it’s time to invest in some wholesale plastic containers to store the loose pieces, since there will be plenty more parts on the shelf in the near future.

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