Free work at home ideas - cleaning, assembly, and tailoring

Seek more "work at home" opportunities online - UK - USA

Free work at home ideas are a vital resource if you're in the early stages of planning a work at home career. Our page of the top ten ideas for working from home should give you information about the most workable ideas, but perhaps you're quitting your current job because you find working in an office too stifling. In that case, this page offers a few extra ideas to get you started, none of which require much outlay on your behalf.

Be a honey-trap

Some people just can't rest until they know for sure whether or not their partner would ever cheat on them. It's the job of the honey-trap to test potentially unfaithful spouses by attempting to chat them up. It's certainly an interesting job, and there is a market for it, but it can be psychologically hard to handle. If you succeed, the person who hired you is usually very unhappy to have their fears realised, and if you fail, the person who hired you may blame you for not doing a good job in unmasking their partner's treachery. Whatever happens, you'll usually end up tangled in the emotional fallout of someone else's relationship.

Do cleaning work

Imagine you're working all hours to pay the mortgage on your dream home, only to find that it's looking more like a nightmare because you don't have time to keep it tidy. Professionals in that situation are your target market.

Assembly work

This can be done in your own time, and requires minimum specialist skills. However, this area of home-working is susceptible to scams and exploitative employers. Read our page on scam-spotting for tips, and always calculate how much work you can realistically do in a given amount of time. If you work out that you're getting less than minimum wage, quit.

Tailoring services

Many people find that they buy the perfect outfit, only to lose or gain weight and find that it doesn't fit any more. If you're skilled with a needle, you can help breathe new life into people's clothes.

Ironing

It's right at the bottom of favorite household tasks, so take the weight off busy people by offering an ironing service. You'll get more business if you can collect and deliver the clothes, but you need to factor the costs of this into your prices.

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