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People always ask the question "what are some easy and free ways to make money from home that are legitimate and easy?" There are really two ways that I have found that are free, legitimate and will actually pay you.

The first opportunity is that of creating content or what some people would call writing articles. I have found this to be a great free legitimate way to work from home in your spare time that can earn you extra money but also be fun. There are tons of legitimate web sites that will pay you for your unique articles. Helium is a great on but one that I also utilize is and is easy to get up and making money with absolutely free is

Associated Content. The first great thing about AC is that you can write about whatever you want. Since you can write about topics that you are interested in this is a legitimate work from home opportunity that can also be fun. To me this is an important factor when evaluating legitimate work from home opportunities that are free. The reality is if whatever you are doing to earn extra money online in your spare time is tedious or boring you will probably not keep doing it and hence not make money.

Once you join Associated Content for free they pay you for your articles that you submit to them. If they approve your article that you submitted (they have never rejected one of mine) they pay you for it. The payment for the article will be anywhere from $3 to $20. But the money doesn't stop there for this free legitimate work from home opportunity. Associated Content also gives you a performance payment for your article. You basically get a residual income from people coming and reading your articles. That article that you published and got paid for you can keep earning money from month after month if not year after year.

The second legitimate work from home opportunity that you can do in your spare time completely free is paid surveys. DO NOT pay for a list of paid survey sites. You get a list of 400 paid survey sites and only 4 are legitimate and will actually pay you on a consistent basis. The free paid surveys that actually pay you that I belong to can be found here. These are websites that are doing market research and will pay you for your opinion about new products and services. It is really as simple as that. The challenge is finding the legitimate paid survey sites that will actually pay you. The list of my paid survey sites took me about 5 years to compile.

How much money can you make with these two easy and free work at home opportunities? A realistic earning potential just doing these two opportunities is about $450 a month with about 40 hours of work. If you consistently submit and get 4 articles approved a week to Associated Content on average you will make about $200 a month. That does not include the ongoing performance payment. Taking paid surveys earnings can range drastically from month to month. On good months if I just took surveys I have made as much as $500. On slow months taking paid surveys I have made as little as $50. On average I make roughly $250 a month taking legitimate paid surveys.

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