10 Weird Ways to Make Money
You've heard it said that necessity is the mother of invention. Before radio, I quit a full time job and was, to my utter shock, in need of money. I started a candy machine route, wrote some e-books, whipped out my typing skills, and took a bookkeeping class, among other things.
Some were more lucrative than others, but along the way I'd read a ton of articles on oddball ways to make money. Here are 10 of the less common ones that seemed to stick. My mind is a scary place.
1Golf Ball Snorkeling
What happens to all those balls at the bottom of the golf course lakes and ponds? Some people collect tens of thousands and resell them. So, it's not exactly legal everywhere, but it's not exactly illegal everywhere... one of those "do your homework first" jobs.
2Penny Collector
The idea is to exchange money at the bank for thousands of pennies in search of old and rare coins for resale.
3Pro Pooper Scooper
Clearly the best part of this job is naming your business. Three quick ideas:
1 - Crap Happy
2 - Peace From Feces
3 - Sh** Happens
4Sell Your, uh, Entire Life?
A guy named Mike divided himself into 100,000 shares, sold them for $1 a share, and let his "shareholders" make his major life decisions for him. I would totally consider buying you.
5Overnight Lawn Ornament Business
It's an option for the nocturnal personalities... pink flamingoes and other surprise lawn ornaments will either delight the recipient, or make them hate you and destroy all your "Old Buzzard" Ornaments.
6Fiverr.com
It's a site where people pay someone else to do something, anything, on video for $5. Impressions, prank calls, eating paper... Which begs the question: how much do you value your dignity?
9Professional Cuddling
I... I have no words, but they're doing it in LA. Except with humans, not elephant seals (pictured).
10Build Cat Enclosures
For the people who want their indoor cats outdoors but still indoors... outdoors.
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