We're nearing the end of the month and no matter how you handle the numbers, you're still short on cash.

According to a Gallup poll, two-thirds of Americans don't track their monthly expenses against earnings—are you one of them?

You may have run into unexpected expenses and don't have a rainy day fund to cover them. Or maybe you lost your job. If you're looking for ways to earn some extra cash today, these easy tips to make money online can help fill in the gaps in your budget.

Some of these strategies to earn extra cash require you to be in certain areas, while others are location independent, but it all boils down to being resourceful. We've all found ourselves in trouble at one point in our lives or another, but for a committed person, anything is possible.

When you lack money, the thought of scarcity begins. The scarcity mindset is negative and believes that there is not enough of anything that can be done. When you find yourself thinking this way, do everything you can to move into an abundant mindset.

Our thoughts are incredibly powerful. We have over 60,000 thoughts every day, many of them deep in our subconscious mind, and many of them are repetitive. We must be agents of our thoughts. Once you find yourself thinking negatively, you have to get yourself out of it.

1. Test and review websites for cash

If you spend a lot of time on the internet, you may also get paid to do so. Companies want to know if their websites are easy to use and if there are ways to improve the online experience. Get $10 to visit a website or try an app as a user tester and provide your input.

2. Play the roles of someone else

Some people are too busy choosing their dry cleaning, assembling their ready-made furniture, and even queuing at the DMV, which works in your favor because they are willing to pay for these tasks. Your Mission: Sign up the online to become a "Tasker" for the TaskRabbit, which connects people to outsourced individual tasks and jobs, and start receiving notifications of opportunities in your city.

3. Fill out the surveys

For those who love online exams or don't mind completing a survey, you can earn some quick money with online surveys. Share your opinion with market research firms that want to know what people in your demographics really think about a particular topic.

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4. Shop online and let the dough roll

While you can save a significant amount of cash by shopping at sales and entering coupon codes when you checkout from your online cart, you can also get rewards for your online purchases. Earn a small percentage on every purchase in exchange for cash or gift cards.

Get paid to the shop by joining these sites:

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5. Take photos and sell them

These days everyone is a photographer with the smartphone camera filters and photography apps. Now you can sell your photos to use as stock photography and earn some side cash for your photography skills. Who knows where your best shots will turn out someday?

Here are some of the websites where you can sell the photos:

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You can make money quickly and easily online legitimately if you know where to look. Before signing up for any website, look for reviews online so you can be sure that it is being managed by a reputable company that pays its users as promised.

Put some extra dollar signs in your bank account this month with these helpful tips and start creating your own ways to make money from your time online.