How to Make Money as a Stay at Home Wife

Staying at home can look however you and your family would like. Being able to generate some income whenever you want or need is so helpful when your main job is taking care of the home and family’s needs.

Sometimes it may be hard to see how as a stay-at-home wife or mom you could possibly be able to bring in some money for you or your family. As I write this in 2024 there are so many ways and resources to be able to do so. This is such a blessing.

There are ways to create some type of income when you are a stay-at-home wife. Whether you are wanting to make a consistent income stream or want to be able to have some extra or fun money here and there. Some options will take more time or consistency than others. There are also some options that you can do whenever you are wanting to bring in money. So you aren’t working to make money unless you are wanting to do so.

What can you do to bring in income?

There are so many options! I will only touch on a few that I feel are some of the better ways to generate an income. My hope is for you to be able to get your gears turning on what you want an income stream to look like for you and what jobs would fit best into your life. The income ideas I will be going over today include:

• Blogging
• Apps
• Ugc content
• Selling things 

Blogging

I am not the one who will tell you you can start this and start making money in the first few weeks. This is one of the options that is great if you want consistent income coming in. If you are wanting consistent income you will have to be consistent in putting in time and work to be able to do so.

Blogging is something I absolutely love doing. It takes time out of your day every day or week. This can look differently for everyone, but while you are working to get the views and an income stream from blogging you will need to be putting in lots of work before it becomes some form of passive income.

It can become somewhat passive when you have lots of views coming in each month which is bringing in income. The blog posts you are putting out have the potential to make money as long as they are published. So as time goes on and the more quality blog posts you have out the more money you can make while doing the same or less amount of work to make the income.

If you want to see a real look into what a blogging journey can look like click here to see my experience in the first 6 months of blogging. Spoiler… I didn’t make anything. Even though I made nothing I am absolutely in love with blogging and can see the big picture. It has not discouraged me to give up when I am not seeing the income yet because I knew this is what I was getting into when I started. 

If you want to see everything I do each day to run my blog so that you can see if you may be a good fit for you click here. 

Apps

There are so many apps you can generate income from. Things like Door Dash, Wag, Instacart, Uber, etc. If you are able to work with any of these companies it is a great way to bring in income spending as much time as you’d like. You can work each day or randomly. As well as for an hour or two or spend your day doing it. It’s really up to you and what you make of it. 

These apps are now widely popular. Sadly, because of this some of them will not accept all people who try to sign up, and also may not be available in every area. If you are interested it is still worth looking into as an option for you.

I like having this option because if you are able to use these opportunities you are able to pick up jobs whenever you need the money. Having something you can do immediately to get cash if needed is such a great asset for your family.

UGC content

Okay, you may have heard of this, but don’t know how to go about doing this to create income. I want to say there are many routes of going about this. One way to do this is using platforms like JoinBrands they are platforms that you can apply to take jobs of taking photos of products and it will say what kind of photo they want like a selfie, product photo, lifestyle, etc. 

Some platforms are harder to get into or get jobs. Do some research on what platform(s) would possibly work best for you if you are wanting to get into UGC content.

They don’t pay a ton, but the job isn’t really hard. You may have to apply to a lot to get any jobs. This income stream isn’t consistent because you never know when you will be chosen for a job. If you want an income that you get randomly for fun money and you don’t need to know when or how much you’re going to make it may be a good or a fun option for you.

Selling Things

There are so many ways you can create an income through selling things. There are also so many options based off of how little or much time you’d like to put into it. Since there are so many I will just go into a few.

Redoing furniture

A lot of people have been making a great bit of income through getting cheap furniture and fixing it up and selling it for more. Some people choose to do this often and spend a lot of their time doing this. They also use a lot of tools to be able to do their transformations. Others do it randomly and do not use a lot of tools to fix up the pieces. It can really fit into whatever lifestyle you want it to. Most people sell their pieces on Facebook Marketplace.

Online selling

Many people sell things online on many different platforms like Etsy or their own site if they have a platform or social media that can drive traffic to their shop. You can sell things like physical things that you make, drop ship, or buy, or digital products. This can also be a big job or one you can set up and get started and not put much effort or time into it once it’s going.

Just like blogging, you may hear people saying how easy and quick it is. If it was so many people would be doing it and having so much success. It will typically not be an overnight thing and will take lots of work to at least get it started and begin generating income. If you decide to go into this, go into it with a realistic mindset and with a lot of research done prior to starting.

Selling your things you don’t use or need

If you want to get some extra cash and clean out your house this is a great option. There are many platforms that you can sell your things on or shops you can go to. Facebook Marketplace is a great option for local people to buy your things and you can make how much you’d like to as long as it’s reasonable. There are also places you can sell your things and ship them out or you can go to stores that will buy your things. With stores, you won’t be able to pick how much you make, but it can be a quicker option. Selling your unwanted things can be great, but is not a form of income that you can consistently get.

Selling things locally

There have been many people who find success making items that they can sell locally. Things like making custom signs is a common item I see. You can make a Facebook group to drive sales, sell on Marketplace, word of mouth, or set up booths at markets. There are many ways to do this, but some take more time and effort than others. If you have a skill or are willing to learn one this may be a good option for you if you’d like to keep your sales local.

How are you going to generate income?

Now that you’ve seen different ways you are able to bring in some form of income, how are you going to? You may not even do one that was stated above, but hopefully, it got your gears turning so that you are able to find a stream of income when needed or wanted in your life.

Don’t forget if you are going to make income or start a business of any form make sure to look into your laws and regulations for what you are doing so that you are being compliant and following your tax laws.