Everyone could use some extra cash these days. Have you ever thought about ways to make money at home online? We're not talking garage sale or lemonade stand here. There are definitely some tried and true ways to make money at home online. This is ideal for single mothers, students, or anyone who would like an extra layer of padding in their pockets.

Using the computer, huh? Hour long surveys about things you'll never use are probably flashing through your mind. Well, interestingly enough, you can make money doing surveys. True, there are some survey sites that will redirect you two hundred times in an attempt to get you to spend your money buying their sponsors' products, but there are also some legitimate ones as well. Big companies need one thing to stay big, and that is their customers. How do they know what their customers want? You tell them. Simple enough, but you need to know how to distinguish between the survey sites that are actually helpful, and which ones just want your money.

Well, if you go searching for survey sites, a useful tip is to look for FREE ones. You obviously don't want to pay to join, and if these people want your opinion badly enough, they're not going to charge. There are even really helpful sites that have compiled the top paying survey sites and list them, providing links for you to go and register. You see, the top paying survey sites only send out a few surveys every so often, but if you're registered with twenty or so sites, you shouldn't have problems finding a survey to do.

You can also consider hub pages. If you like to write, these would definitely be good for you. To start off, you can write about whatever you want. Anything. Sounds easy, right? Well, you write your piece, add a picture or two to dress it up and give your readers a visual, and then adds get placed on your page. For instance, say you decide to write an article about football and the fans. Who doesn't love football? Then you may have an add for a football jersey shop or a link to buy tickets to the big game. The best thing is, you decide how many adds are put on your page. If readers go and buy a product, you make a percentage, and you can write as many as you want.

You may also want to consider other options. You can choose to write articles online for extra money. People who need articles for a variety of reasons submit their needs and writers pick up the subjects and write the articles for a price. Not only are you getting paid, but you get to learn all sorts of things as well. There are even things such as medical billing that can be done online to make extra money...all from your cushy rolling chair!

There are things you need to watch out for, though. Giving out your personal information online can sometimes be like dangling a sausage into a kennel full of pitbulls. There are scam artists around every site corner waiting to snap that information up and go on a shopping spree, sending all the bills to you. Another thing to be wary of are the sites that promise you quick money doing nothing, all after you give them your credit card number of course. Mainly, use your common sense. Be suspicious of the 'ancient get rich spell recently found in the attic of a long dead high priestess.' Trust me, these things are never true. That said, if you're careful and keep a watchful eye out, you can actually make extra money at home, and hopefully have a good time doing it.