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How to make money from cleaning your house like a broke millennial

Sell your extra clothes on ThredUp.

How to make money from cleaning your house like a broke millennial

Save your fanciest items to go up for consignment on the Real Real.

Save your fanciest items to go up for consignment on the Real Real.

If your closet is filled with Chanel, Prada, and Gucci, then make sure you a pick a site that specializes in pricing high-end clothing. The RealReal will either send you a prepaid shipping label or come to your house if you have 10 or more items to send in. Consignors earn 60% of the net sale price of items sold totaling $7,499 or less, or 70% if it's $7,500 or higher. It is consignment though, so you have to wait for the sale to be paid.

Website: www.therealreal.com

Payment: The RealReal will send you a check on the 15th of the month after you ship it in, although there's also a direct deposit option. There's also the option of site credit, and The RealReal will add an extra 5% to your total commission if you spend it on the site.

Send your unused electronics from iPods to cell phones to Gazelle.

Send your unused electronics from iPods to cell phones to Gazelle.

Gazelle is one of the best for exchanging your old electronics for cash. Its site makes it easy to choose the type of phone and its condition and receive an instant offer. Plus shipping is free and you get an extra $20 credit when you sell to buy something different off the site.

Website: www.gazelle.com

Payment: You can receive a check, have it sent to your PayPal account, or turn it into an Amazon electronic gift card.

Get rid of your old textbooks and make bank with BookScouter.

Get rid of your old textbooks and make bank with BookScouter.

If you still have your college textbooks (or really any book) lying around, search for it first on BookScouter.com. The site combs through other resellers, including Amazon, to see how much they'd pay you for the book. User reviews from other sellers help you pick and choose which retailer is the best for you.

Website: www.bookscouter.com

Payment: Depending on the site you sell to

If you have vintage decor items, find them a special home on Chairish.

If you have vintage decor items, find them a special home on Chairish.

Specializing in the vintage style milennials love, Chairish lets sellers post their furniture and set the asking price themselves (although they may offer suggestions to help it sell faster). You take home 80% of the price when it sells, and Chairish will help take care of the shipping logistics for you. If it's a large item, their white glove service will come and take it away. For smaller items, it just requires a trip to the UPS store.

Website: www.chairish.com

Payment: 80% of sale price, and payments are direct deposited 1-2 days after a sale closes

Trade your gift cards for cash so you can spend it where you want to.

Trade your gift cards for cash so you can spend it where you want to.

Nobody likes getting gift cards and feeling obligated to go shop somewhere. Thankfully Raise makes it easy to swap them out for cash. Depending on the balance remaining, Raise will suggest a price, although you can set it higher or lower. While it's free to list your gift card, Raise does take 15% of the sale price once it sells.

Website: www.raise.com

Payment: You can choose between direct deposit, check, or PayPal.

For everything else, there's OfferUp.

For everything else, there

The modern hybrid of eBay and Craigslilst, OfferUp is an app that makes it easy to buy and sell items locally. You take a photo of the item within the app, type out a description and price, and it's added to the marketplace. Like eBay, buyers and sellers can be rated so you can tell who might flake out at the last minute. And, unlike Craiglist, all of the conversations are within the app so you don't need to worry about setting up fake emails or burner phone numbers just to sell a couch.

Website: www.offerup.com

Payment: OfferUp doesn't handle any of the payments itself so you still need to exchange cash with whoever you are selling to. But, that means you get to keep the full payment for yourself and not have to carve out a commission for someone else.

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