So Ive done a stack of research lately on legitimate ways to make money from home, and Ive put together a collection of websites that pay you for your participation, and these are all NOT SCAMS. Please dont think this is a cheap form of advertising for these sites; lately

Ive been speaking with alot of MintiMums who have all been saying they would like to make money from home but arent sure where to start, so that is why Ive written t his advice.

The majority of them require you to use Paypal or to give them your home address and your real name, so they can post out a cheque to you.

Almost all of them are great if you have lots of friends like you who enjoy making money from home, and have a spare hour or two each day that they can spend clicking on ads and writing articles similar to how we do here on Minti.

You can make a residual income from most of these sites, and once you put in the initial effort to sit down, do a bit of stuff at the beginning, the rewards can well be worth it.

This would be most suited to someone who has a few hours spare to sit by the computer, either around your kids or when they are in bed, particularly useful for insomniacs who are up all hours of the night and want to put their 'awake' time to good use, or for people such as myself who are managing a terrible internet addiction and cant tear themselves away from the computer lol.

So what are these sites and what are the benefits of me using them?

MyLot

I rekon this is one of the best PTP sites going around. PTP stands for Paid To Participate and you basically earn money by joining in discussions and referring friends. Its a great place to make friends and have a chat, plus you get paid for it! Your earnings get updated every 24hrs and there is a $10 minimum payout. Granted, your earnings are quite small to begin with, but they vote you on content. So similar to Minti's rankings, the more participation you put in, the more you will be rewarded.

Morachat

Pay a visit to their forums and get paid to post. Also there is a section on there called Extra Work. Im currently talking to one of the admin on there about doing some work for them on their site. They have lots more jobs for u to do, all u have to do is ask.

BuddyPond

Im still new on this one but from what I can gather, you are paid via paypal and you have to view ads and refer friends. Easy money. I really like how easy it is to understand the account stats section. You can also enter contests (kinda like a raffle) but you need 2 Buddy Credits to participate.

Hurraz

Another one that pays to click ads, refer friends etc. Membership is completely free, and they dont charge monthly fees like alot of websites do in their fine print. You can earn incentive rewards for this one too.

MediaDollarz

Get paid to shop, get paid to do surveys, earn media points for media rewards, daily payout and NO MINIMUM PAYOUT for paypal customers. Im still new on this one so cant tell you much else about it just yet but I promise to come in here and edit this advice in about a week whenI have a more sound understanding of the site. For now I am including it as is because I am quite sure that this one is not a scam either.

So I hope I have summed these sites up well enough for you, it really is hard sometimes to determine which are scams and which arent, so I hope Ive taken some of the guess work out for you. Feel free to add links in your reply if you work from home for a legitimate website.