There are tons of ways to help fund your inmate. Add your ideas when you get them....
free printable greeting cards: use the websites I posted, and google others like them, to find limitless ways to express yourself for the cost of a ream of paper and a color printer (or access to one). Print out a four-fold card, unfold it, write on the inside (or print your text), fold it back up, and send it. It's a greeting card and a letter at the same time.
yard sales: if you've got the room for it, yard sale. Not just your stuff (cuz you eventually run out of stuff), but go around on sunday afternons and see if you find yard sale castoffs. One mans trash is another mans treasure. What someone doesn't have the patience to sell, you might. You can also ebay certain things.
Look for quality names at thrift stores, rehab the items if you want the best price and know how to, and yard sale it!
crafting: if you have a talent, use it. Small investments can pay off big. The four bracelets you see cost no more than $4-5 to make, and I'm getting $20-25 each for them. Craft something you know will move fast: whatever the next big wave is, catch it, knock it off, and sell the crap out of it. Get creative about where you sell. Not just at work, but fleamarkets, your own little roadside display outside your house, advertise on etsy and craigslist and ebay.
Always looking for ways to make $$$.
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That is great info!