If you can't stand needles, read no further. If you can indeed stand having the sharp little buggers be stabbed into you, read on. One of the fastest and easiest ways I have ever made money is by donating blood plasma. What's that, you ask? Plasma is part of your blood that can be separated out via a centrifuge. It is mostly made of water but also has proteins and other scientific stuff that you probably don't really care about. It is used to treat a myriad of diseases, including hemophilia. Now that the PSA on donating blood plasma is over, let's get onto the good part: how to make money off of selling your blood plasma. There are donation facilities all over the country. You can easily find locations online. After you've found one, call in and set up an appointment. At your first appointment, you will be screened via way too many health questions and a blood test. After this process (which can take 45 minutes), you will go into the donation room. There, they will let you lay down on a reasonably comfortable chair. Shortly thereafter, a phlebotomist will put a pretty good-sized needle into a vein in your arm. A machine next to you will then start up and start sucking your blood out. After it has gotten a decent amount, it will spin your blood in a centrifuge, separating out the plasma. After that, the machine will push what's left of your blood back into your blood stream and start the cycle all over again. The whole process will take around an hour. During this time, you can read or do pretty much any other sedentary activity that you'd like. After it's over, you will be given a pin number and can withdraw money from an atm using your special pin. You should expect at least $40 each time you donate. Many places will give you as much as $75 for your second visit because they can't use your first donation unless you give a second donation. You can usually donate twice each week, which is much different than donating straight blood. So there ya have it. You can make about $100 extra dollars each week for 2 hours of sitting around. It's basically free money for those of you that aren't IB Positive (IB Positive I'm not letting them stick a needle in me...). One last thing: Make sure to drink lots of water and eat healthy food before you go in. Dehydration and high lipid levels (from eating fatty foods) will make the process take much longer.
