Buy and Sell still works if you know the market you're in

My 14 yo daughter made good money on IG selling clothes last year

That kid knows what clothes are worth lol, who knew...not me

She has over 10K followers

I make a few grand every year trapping. Unfortunately raccoon, even western heavies, are not even selling in the auctions. Italy and China are the primary buyers these days and they don't want them apparently.

Not bad funny money. Trying to have a repeat for 2022.

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Ok that's interesting!

Congrats on a good year. Real estate in DFW is bonkers and has been for a while, with no chance of it slowing any time soon. DFW had the highest migration in the nation last year. A LOT of money to be made for good realtors.

Impressive!

My forum name states one of them…but I love to invest. I also wrote business plans, help with startups, tons of small biz consulting, biz loan brokering, patent writing…just generally helping small businesses succeed

Thank you sir. We need to grab a beer, I’ve still got some questions for you.

Thanks gents.. Hope ya'll spend some time watching..
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Cord wood.
There’s a lot of trees that died or just need removing.
You get paid to remove and when you sell the wood.
It’s hard work, but not a lot of over head to get started.
I done a lot of this in my younger years,

I know a lot of firefighters who mow lawns on the side....

You'd have to hit them on the weekends.

I have a couple of buddies that I work with who have their lawn services as well. They usually bring their trailer with them to work and after work start mowing and finish up on weekends. I actually have all the equipment to do it but i don't even like mowing my own yard. They say it's different when you get paid to do it.

Wish i was closer

I know a chick that sells pics of her feet for extra $$.

Uber?

Go hang Christmas lights on houses in nice neighborhoods. People (like my wife) will pay a fortune for it. You could make a ton of money between Thanksgiving and mid-January putting up and taking down lights.

The guy who did our house this year charged about $2/ft. We've had quotes in the past, which we did not use, of up to $4-5/ft.

If you can sell them the commercial lights as well, even better.

Not sure what you do now. I’ve been a salesman in the oilfield for the last 20 years. I worked for the same company the whole time. I always had a side business that paid better than the job furnishing my truck and gas selling everything else my customers needed not directly related to my employer. My old company decided to let accountants run the company and started fing with the salesmen. They lost me and half the sales force. Now I sell it all for myself. Life is much better.

I have a buddy with a pressure washing side business that does really well, if that’s something your interested in.

If you are thinking about sales, I will say it takes a special type of person to be good at sales. There are more jerks, buttholes and people that you will just learn to hate than there are good people that you will have to sell to. I really admire a good salesman, they earn every dollar they get.

Been in sales most of my life. Have been in management rolls, but always wind up back in sales. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart and most people who pursue and education typically don’t make good salesmen, but good salesmen are also hard to handle because they aren’t status quo folks (thus not pursuing education). But if you can do well in sales like I’ve managed to do, there are infinite perks and freedoms that come with it as well as a ridiculous amount of money to be made. Certainly is not a career of monotony or regularity and is a ton of work to do well at it!

My son does instacart shopping and makes $70 to $90 for 3 or 4 hours of work. Not real hard, but by the time you figure in taxes, fuel, wear and tear, it takes a big bite.

And yep, I’ve been a salesman since 1987 and have always had a job. It isn’t for everyone, and i often tell people it pays well because we have to deal with a lot of no, not now, next year, blah blah blah, so yeah, sticking to it til you hear yes means good compensation. Will add, I’ve never had a side hustle because if i have free time, i should be selling.

Over the years I've bought and sold and enjoyed it. I came across a guy a couple of years ago who was buying pallets of tools from auctions. I would take all the popular stuff off his hands for a really good deal and flip them for a decent profit. Did it for a good while and it put some good extra cash in my pockets. I stopped when other people started buying pallets and reselling. Once that happened I wasn't able to buy and sell for a profit anymore and I didn't want to get into the whole buying pallets of tools and having to sit on all that stuff. Was much easier to pick and choose what I knew I could sell quickly.

I still surf the local market for items I can buy and sell but haven't had much luck like before. I did recently just purchase a 2001 Silverado Z71 for $500 that I plan on fixing and flipping unless I decided to keep it once it's back on the road.

Been retired from my firefighting career for over 3 years now, but I have have rented antique mall space for about the last 5 years as a side gig. I was an ebay seller as a side gig for several years before that. I was doing the "pickers" sort of thing long before that show, but mostly buy and sell "smalls". It takes very little of my time and from my years of ebay selling I have developed real good eye of what sells and where to find it. These days rather than sell on ebay I now buy some of that inventory on ebay focusing on small impulse buy type items for the storefront. But I do still often stop in places to buy stuff during hunting fishing road trips too. I do very well for my time, but know that most dealers in that world barely make rent anymore and only do it as a hobby. Taxes are tough too, but since it is not income I need right now, over half of my profit goes into pre tax brokerage accounts. The other half of profit funds my hunting fishing hobbies so it does not come from the family budget.

A side hustle that would be great for anyone that is good with construction type stuff and has the tools would be to offer it on local facebook groups and marketplace and watch for people posting on same needing someone for small projects. If you do good work and price fair, it would not take long by word of mouth to have plenty of small jobs to do. There seems to be a big demand. I did some small construction projects last year for people that could not find anyone else they could afford or just to help them out. By word of mouth I soon had other people contacting me and ended up turning several people away. It's not what I wanted to do because it did not fit my "not taking up a lot of my time" requirement.