Turn Clutter Into Cash

While quality pieces of jewelry should be taken to a store for an appraisal, less-valuable pieces can be sold through Web sites like Broken Gold.

The site buys everything from gold, silver and platinum to junk gold such as tangled gold chains, bent/broken jewelry, unmatched gold earrings and dental gold. That means even those odd and broken pieces of jewelry that you have saved can put some money back into your pocket.

Cell Phones

When you upgrade to a new cell phone, the old one usually ends up in a desk drawer. It may be time to dig through the drawers to find them. There are a number of web sites that actively seek old cell phones like Cell For Cash, Simply Sellular and Sell Your Cell and pay you for them.

Since the newer models are worth more and cell phones outdate quickly, the sooner you sell any cell phones that you no longer need, the better the price you are likely to get.

Electronic Gadgets

Many people simply throw their old MP3 player into a drawer when they upgrade to a new model. As with most electronics, the longer that it sits in the drawer, the less valuable it becomes. Whether it's an Apple(AAPL Quote) iPod or another brand of MP3 player, Second Rotation will pay you money to take them out and send the old model to them.

Older version of electronic gadgets that can be sold aren't limited to MP3 players. Second Rotation offers to buy a large number of gadgets including cell phones, laptops, gaming consoles, digital cameras, camcorders and GPS devices over the Internet. Any of these that have been placed in drawers can be retrieved to earn a few extra dollars.

When you decide to do your spring cleaning, take a bit of time to go through all the stuff that has collected in the drawers around the house that you no longer need or want. You may find that this year's clean-up project will also result in some extra dollars in you pocket.