Spend Saturday mornings mowing lawns in your neighborhood.
While Saturdays are typically regarded as a day for kicking back and relaxing, you may consider finding a job, or starting a side business, to keep you busy. Consider opportunities that are part time and that can be done in the course of the day, so that your Saturday job doesn't effect your regular work schedule or other planned activities.
Lawn and Plant-Care Services
From mowing the lawn to watering house plants, you can spend your Saturdays tending to greenery, especially during the warmer months. Your services might include mowing the lawn, planting flowers, trimming shrubs or getting rid of weeds. Advertise your lawn and plant-care services on local websites and blogs, as well as in publications. Set up appointments with people in your community who need help while they're on vacation, or who simply don't have time to tend to their lawns.
Run Personal Errands
Offer errand-running services to busy families, busy professionals or mature adults. Take care of tasks such as picking up and dropping off dry cleaning, getting medication prescriptions filled, grocery shopping, menu planning, making travel arrangements, shopping for gifts, event planning tasks, taking pets for appointments, bill paying, waiting for vendors and assisting with mailings.
Professional Organizing Services
If you're a professional at organizing offices, closets and other areas of homes and businesses, consider offering organization services on Saturdays. From setting up filing systems to helping families sort items to sell during yards sales, you can help keep families and busy professionals organized. Become a certified professional organizer through The Board of Certification for Professional Organizers.
Green Cleaning and Consulting
With much discussion about "going green" and its positive impacts on people and the world around them, it's no wonder families are seeking green consultants to give them advice on making their living spaces "green." If you're well-versed in eco-friendly products and cleaning techniques, your Saturday job can include visiting and "greening" the homes and offices in your area.
Baked Goods
Spend your Saturdays in the kitchen baking cookies, cakes and other delicious sweets. A home-based baking business can serve as a part-time weekend job that combines creativity and your passion for baking. Take a limited number of orders to ensure that you have time to prepare and deliver your baked goods to customers on Saturdays. Set up a simple website to advertise the types of baked goods you plan to offer, your price list and the process for placing orders.
Be sure to look into local and state guidelines related to home-based baking businesses to make sure that you are in compliance with health department and state regulations.
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