How to Make Money at Home: A Textbook

Originally published in 1949, this is a rare textbook on how to make money at home, which will assist you to find the home career suitable just for you. If you answer "Yes" to any of the following questions, you will get some great ideas from the book.

• Are you physically handicapped?
• Do you like to work with people?
• Are you clever with your hands?
• Are you a good cook?
• Do you like animals?
• Can you use a typewriter?
• Do you live in the City?
• Do you live in the country?
• Do you like children?
• Are you bedridden?
• Are you elderly?
• Are you a teenager?
• Do you wish to write?

Book Excerpt:

Roll out your imagination; unlatch your long dormant enthusiasm: you are engaging in an alluring treasure hunt -- the search for a home business of your own.

Within the pages of this book you will find your own appropriate home enterprise -- whether it be a pin-money or a full-time job that you are looking for. It will fit your temperament, your aptitudes, your abilities, your interests, your limitations and your locality. The idea will be here, but only you can find it. A road map will show you the way to travel, but not until you have ended the journey will you understand the topography of the area. This book will point the way, but it cannot show you all the pitfalls and detours you will encounter on the highway to making money at home.

For that large membership in the clan of those who will buy anything written on the subject of making money at home, and who then quickly scan and skim it through, hoping that it will magically show them a quick and simple way to riches -- this book is not intended. This is a textbook; not until you have given it hours of study will you begin to find the home career suitable just for you.

Although you will not be taken step by step through every phase of your home career -- it would necessitate a small library to expand upon the multitude of ideas you will find here -- every attempt has been made to show you where you can obtain further information on those careers which attract you the most.

The author's fervent hope and trust is that by showing you how many others have prospered at home careers, you too will be awakened and will go and do likewise.

Contents Covered:

• Preface
• Before You Start -- Take Stock!
• Money in Fulfilling a Need
• Money at Your Stove
• Money in Your Hands
• Money at Your Typewriter
• Money in Your Needle
• Money in the Soil
• Money in Small Stock
• Money in Ideas
• Miscellaneous
• Home Businesses into Big Business
• Selling Your Home Product or Service
• Packaging, Publicity, and Other Helpful Hints
• Appendix
  • Laws Governing Homemade Food Products
  • Buying Art Supplies
  • Selling the Handmade Crafts
  • Department of Commerce Field Service Offices
• Bibliography
• Index