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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 31, 2025

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Anyone know some ways for a person — one without any particular skills at either coding or handicrafts — to make a few extra bucks online?

How many bucks exactly? There are paid surveys, but the rewards are extremely low. I heard of games where you could grind and farm characters or artifacts and then sell them. Probably also not very lucrative. In general, if you seek something that can be done with any person with a computer, you have over a billion people to compete with, so the expected revenue stream would not be very good.

How many bucks exactly?

Looking at something like $50-$80/mo. range? (Much more than that, and the "welfare cliff" benefit reductions start to really bite.) I just had a change in landlords, along with a $120/month rent increase (when I'm already dirt poor). Basically, rent, utilities, phone, and internet now take up over half my income, with my usual monthly food budget very close to what's left.

And I asked about online, because I doubt many here would have much knowledge about the IRL circumstances, here in Anchorage, AK, for making a bit of extra money.