10 Best Side Hustles for Stay-at-Home Moms
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10 Best Side Hustles for Stay-at-Home Moms
As a stay-at-home mom, one effective way to use your time is by starting a side hustle. A side hustle can be a lucrative way to earn extra income for the family. Below are ten amazing side hustles you can start today as a stay-at-home mom.
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Key Highlights
🎯 A side hustle can be an effective way for a stay at home to use her time.
🎯 A side-hustle can help a stay at home bring extra income to the family.
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1. Test Products
As a mom, you know the number of products your family uses every month. Moms are constantly looking for the best soap, detergent, package foods, or gadgets. Most moms test a lot of products monthly.
If you are a mom and you test a lot of products, why not turn it into a side hustle and get paid. Big brands pay good money to have their product tested before they are out to the public.
The expected pay for testing products is around $20 per hour. All you have to do is
- Sign up for a product testing program,
- Get approved,
- Receive free stuff,
- Test the product and answer survey questions about it.
2. Prepare Meals Professionally for People
If you know how to prepare meals very well then this could be a very lucrative side hustle for you. You can get paid for preparing delicious meals for those who can’t or don’t have the time or the energy to do it themselves.
The best thing about this side hustle is that you don’t need to get a different place for it, you prepare the meals at home, package them and drop them off at an agreed location.
The expected pay can be $50-$100 an hour, as long the money for the food materials and ingredients is already provided separately.
3. Sell Handmade Craft Online
Handmade crafts are very beautiful things. If you are a mom who not only loves handmade crafts but also has the skills to make them, then this could be a good gig for you.
There are so many handmade crafts you can make and sell online, like woodwork, jewelry, handmade purses or bags, and many more. All you have to do is make your products, take quality photos, and set up a shop online. You can easily set up an online store in places like Etsy that already has millions of people buying from them.
4. Photography
If you are like most people, pictures speak a thousand words to you. As a stay-at-home mom, you can start a photography business. It is a very flexible side hustle you can venture into if you like photography. You take portraits of babies, families, weddings, engagements, or just pictures of everyday people.
You can get started by purchasing a quality camera and taking pictures of your friends and families and building a portfolio to show to people. Get expected to earn $20 – $50 per hour.
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5. Become a Bookkeeper
If you are good at numbers, then bookkeeping can be a good fit for you. Bookkeeping can be a good side hustle to add to your portfolio. With specialized software now it makes bookkeeping less stressful than how it was before.
With this software, you can send invoices, balance accounts, process payments, and many more. You expect to earn $15- $25 per hour as a bookkeeper.
6. Become a Virtual Assistant (VA)
A virtual assistant is a person who offers administration to people or clients at a remote location. Examples of what a virtual assistant does are things like making phone calls, scheduling appointments, managing email accounts, and so many other activities.
Work remotely from anywhere in the world to assist businesses and busy people, all you need is a quiet place like a small office and some cooperative skills to get started.
7. Become an Event Planner
As a stay-at-home mom, you are used to planning things all the time. You plan to start event planning as a side hustle, you plan events like your neighbor’s kids’ birthday party, baby shower, weddings, engagement parties, small parties, and many other kinds of events.
Just find the type of events you will like to specialize in. Expect to earn $20 to $100 per hour.
8. Start a Blog
As a stay-at-home mom, you have a lot of thoughts, questions, and interests, you can start a blog to explore all these ideas. The truth is a blog takes a lot of time, before you can start earning, especially if you want to monetize it with ads.
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A profitable blog takes time because you need an audience, but when you get some, it can be a very lucrative side hustle. If you can inspire people with your blog post or have interesting topics you wish to share with people you can start a blog.
9. Sell Digital Products
As a stay at home, you can decide to turn your knowledge into digital content. They are so many digital content ideas you can choose from, like creating;
- children’s books
- courses
- workout videos
- food recipes
- photography.
- Digital art
The best part about digital content is that it turns into passive income, and you can sell one product multiple times without changing anything.
10. Airbnb
These side hustles are for moms with a large house with rooms to spare. As a stay-at-home mom, you can choose to rent your rooms or if you have a backyard house.
This side hustle has risen in popularity over the years because of the demand. Most stay-at-home moms go as far as building small houses with extra land in their backyard. You can expect to earn at least $500-$1000 every month.
Final Thoughts
As a mom, your priority is taking care of your family and this is not easy on its own. Most moms look for ways to utilize their downtime and having a side hustle can be the perfect way to use their time. Not only will a side hustle keep you busy it will also bring in extra income for the family.
