Shoplifting. Lifting hubcaps. Forging checks.
Did a lot as a kid.
Once, no money for food. So posted to craigslist something about a broke dykes dinner. Bunch of fellow gay women showed up, each contributed one item. Memorable night. There was some whipping with green onions in the kitchen. One of the women told me (we were all out of jobs, struggling) that a straight guy would pay her $50 to throw tomatoes at him while he jerked himself off.
Loving the Craigslist anecdote!
But there must have been a couple of rightfully confused girls dedicated into put thumbs into the Hoover dam a la apocryphal Netherlands story.
No euphemisms were included in the making of the above paragraph…
Jailbroke iPhones for $20 a pop in highschool. Blew it all on fireworks.
Flipped broken consoles before the market got too saturated to profit. Blew it all on video games.
Currently breeding fish. Blowing it all on more fish.
I’m bad at saving money.
Sounds like a good life to be honest. I’m probably just romanticizing the days I was a little too young to remember, but I wish I were one of those self-taught programmers, hackers, tinkerers. Everything’s opaque and user-friendly and/or optimized to the point of illegibility now.
You still can fix your fridge, stove, washing machine when it breaks down with a web search and some patience !
But cars seems to be quite out of reach for anything except the most simple.
Personally I have not had my own appliances like those, but I’ll keep that in mind for when I get my own place and my own appliances to fix :)
Good luck finding your place!
I flipped cars for a few years. Im a pretty good diy mechanic.
The amount of people who cant be bothered scraping off stickers, and giving a car a good detail astounds me. Take the car home, wash it thoroughly, detail the engine bay and interior, and if you have the skills change the oil, air filter and coolant. Those were usually good for a few hundred per flip but the bar to entry is low, anyone can do that.
Also buying cars with 4 steel wheels with bald tyres and finding a set of cheap alloy wheels with good tyres that someone was flogging off were also a good flip if you could find the wheels and tyres cheap and negotiate the car down. “Mate a set of tyres is $600” when you can find a legal set on nicer wheels for $200.
The best ones were nice cars with 1 big problem, “needs a new clutch” or “blown head gasket” made a few grand off those usually because I could spend as long as I needed to to do the job on the cheap by myself.
Grindr is a great way to make some quick cash if you like sucking dick.
Scalping crypto (daytrade tactic), turned 300$ into 2000$ in 24h! Was on employment insurance at the time so it went into essential stuff.
Just keep in mind that financial markets are a zero-sum game. For every gain one person makes, other people lose that much.
Eh… Don’t know why that’s relevant here, but keep in mind that any financial gain is a zero sum game?
In the 90s I would buy and sell baseball cards. It wasn’t big bucks but it was enough to put gas in my mom’s car and buy food every day.
My very first job when I was little was a professional grammar nazi for a publisher. Something that was akin to a favor with benefits. It lasted less than a year. I was able to buy my first game with it.
Working… Slow 🥺
short term ways
Yeah I’m only working till I get an inheritance from a mysterious relative. It is short term!
If you already have a bit of capital, a high yield savings account. Just park your money there instead of a regular savings account.
short term ways
Short term can be defined many ways. For some, a year can be considered short term. And depending on how much you deposit, you can get good returns as early as 6 months.
Good point. After the heat death of the universe, we can conclusively say that the single-digit percentage rates gave humans a relatively decent amount of money over their lifetimes. Comparatively.
I mean, I never said it’s life changing money. OP’s question was about different ways to get money, and earning interest off of your savings in a high yield savings account gets you some money with almost no effort. Not to mention it’s better than having your money sit in a regular savings account earning 0.05% or something. It’s a pretty good way to save up for something in the short term, like if you plan to buy a new laptop or phone in a few months.
