FEATURE PAGE — Celebrities haunted by tragedy SEE PAGE 3B IN THIS SECTION: HCLASSIFIEDS If you have questions or need assistance with H VA benefit claims. Michael Thompson, an Assistant REAL ESTATE State Field Officer for the VFW, will be available: HFEATURES Tuesday 8am -12 noon Miller Road Chapel HBUSINESS HOBITUARIES Life Style Tuesday 1- 4pm Fenton Chapel HMUCH MORE! SHARP FUNERAL HOMES SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2015 SECTION B How to make Nine ways to make extra cash 1. Make and sell things Crafts can be used to make extra money. Popular websites like eBay and Etsy allow people to show, describe and sell their work. Many people sell money homemade clothes, accesso- ries, greeting cards, items for in your spare time your garden, and many other crafty products. Using these online sites as By Hannah Ball a way to market and sell your [email protected]; 810-433-6792 products is also a great way Craft time isn’t just for fun. to start a business by building One Fenton woman, Karla a brand. You can put as much Hull, 50, works as an adminis- time into your products as trative assistant by day and sells you want. repurposed items in her spare You can also use zazzle. time with her business Tin Can com or cafepress.com. Treasures, LLC to make some extra cash. 2. House or dog sit “I repurpose all sorts of Some people who travel for things and try to keep a vintage Labor Day like to vacation rest- theme,” she said. ing assured their home is safe. Hull paints and distresses old House sitters will often stay pieces of furniture, turns coffee overnight in a house, or simply filters into flowers and wreaths, visit the house a few times a transforms old Yellowbook day to make sure everything is pages into paper cone wreaths in order. With houses that have or they’re modpodged into pets, house sitters become pet Christmas ornaments, and sitters, too, and will feed and she turns tea cups into bird walk the pet. feeders. See CASH on 2B Hull also turns old burlap sacks into pillows. She recent- I’ve always had ly started doing upholstering, and she makes jewelry, like pen- a desire to create dants from vintage silverware and old keys. “I love giving and in doing so, new life to something old and ‘‘ TRI-COUNTY TIMES | SUBMITTED PHOTO giving it a different purpose,” it brings me joy. Karla Hull, 50, of Fenton, has grown Hull said. Having the extra her business Tin Can Treasures, LLC Her favorite items to make by repurposing old items like jewelry, are the pendants and wreaths, cash helps a lot. furniture, and phone book pages to and she does custom orders. make and sell products like flower Tin Can Treasures earns her Karla Hull, Fenton resident wreaths, and necklaces made from about $300 a month on average. vintage silverware and old keys. See EXTRA MONEY on 2B ’’ Look 10 YEARS YOUNGER in 1 HOUR! 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You can earn Visit secretshopper.com for haven't gone on the market yet, are non-profits like ACD Direct, $7.50-$16 an hour on average more information. or simply change your diet for who pay based on the amount depending on the company, ac- scientific research. The amount of minutes you're on the phone. cording to ivetriedthat.com. of money you make depends on You can even work for Apple the trial. To search for clinical by becoming an at-home advi- 6. Use your smartphone EXTRA MONEY trials, visit clinicaltrials.gov. sor and help people with their Smartphones are expensive, Continued from Page 1B so why not get some money out She started her business three years of using them? There are many ago and had a booth at the Fenton free apps you can use to earn Farmers Market two years ago, some extra cash. where she sold items out of a vintage IPoll is an app for Apple and camper. Android products where you “I’ve always had a desire to create take surveys and answer ques- and in doing so, it brings me joy. tions about products or servic- Having the extra cash helps a lot,” es. The app does market re- she said. These items aren’t only search so users can earn money sold online at Facebook, Etsy, and by taking pictures of displays in eBay, Hull’s friend in Ludington stores. carries her jewelry at her store, The Gigwalk is an app for Android Curly Haired Girl and some of her and Apple users that gives users furniture pieces are sold at The Pink money for checking inventory Peony in Milford. levels for area stores. She also sells items through “word ReceiptHog is a market-re- of mouth and great friends,” Hull said. searching app that pays users Some weeks are busier than others for for taking and sending pictures Tin Can Treasures, and she wants to of their receipts. The company dedicate more time to it. creates research reports from “I try to work on things a couple the data. nights a week after work,” she said. The amount of money you “Weekends are better for spending make depends on how fre- bigger chunks of time on things, quently you use these apps. like painting.” Even her boyfriend, Troy, shares the same passion and 7. Take online surveys they make a great team. Anyone with an opinion and “He is great at ‘the hunt’ for fur- access to the Internet can make niture items and building all sorts money by taking online polls at of things like benches, birdhouses, iPoll.com. The site offers a $5 wrought iron gates, and many other sign-up bonus and pays based items. I love to put on the finishing on how many polls you take. touches,” she said. You'll answer questions about Hall wants to learn how to water- products and services you use color, but hasn’t made the time yet. every day on a smartphone, “I would love to get into making iPad, or computer. altered journal pages,” she said, Opinionoutpost.com is an- adding that it would be a great way other online site that gives users to repurpose old books. money in exchange for feed- “I would like to continue my little back and opinions. You'd an- business and grow it into something swer questions about electron- more prosperous,” she said. ics, politics, sports and many www.tctimes.com LIFE STYLE Sunday, August 23, 2015 3B CELEBRITIES BY CopingHAUNTED with personal tragedy is TRAGEDYone of the most difficult obstacles we face in life. These stars are examples of how it is possible to process, heal and move on from the sadness that affects our lives. Source: viralnova.com, ranker.com JENNIFER HUDSON | In 2008, Hudson lost her mother, brother and young nephew when her eldest sis- ter's estranged husband shot them down in a fit of rage.