I have read all 8 pages and have a few extra ideas to add to the list.
1. I have an old large crock that we put all of coin change in and I turn it in at the bank once a year(they dont charge for turning coins to paper :) ) And I claim all pocket $ found when doing the laundry. Last year I made $316!
2. I pick up pennys and if I am lucky nickles and dimes off the street and add to the jar. 100 pennys equals 100 squats so I multi task and collect quilting $ and excerise at the same time... snicker
3. I made a rag quilt to be raffled off for my daughter's dance team during football season. Very easy, 6.5" squares denim on one side and flannel on the other. At the end of the school year I asked the school newpaper if I could put an add in for fabric for a quilt raffle they let me put it in for free. Feel free to use my wording if you like.
"Going Green for Green...We need overly loved jeans and flannel shirts and flannel sheets to make a quilt to be raffled off during football season for the HS dance team please call ###-####"
I also posted one at the library and postoffice. I would meet those that called that I didnt know at the HS or police station to pick up the donations to be safe.
Once word got out that I was making a quilt to be raffled I was given jeans, yards of denim, new flannel, thread, old flannel shirts/sheets, one widower brought me garbage bags of material and various sewing supplies from his wife's old sewing stash and said she made me promise to give it to someone who quilts. I offered to pay him and he refused. Its been over a year and I still come home and find paper sacks of jeans and fabric on my porch. (we live in a small town).
4. If I receive good clothes/jeans that are still wearable I take them to the consiginment shop and sell them for few a $. They also let me know if they get clothes in that are un-sellable and give them to me for free.
Hugs, Elizabeth