Which things I can find in large quantities that sell well, legally?

[Diamonds02]

Let's try this again.

Fish are out. And apparently flowers are out, even if they aren't in anyone's yard. :(

[alice_in_wonderland]

Labour.

[grude]

Trying picking up salvage from trash day, it got so bad in my old neighborhood in Houston on trash day there were trucks prowling the streets before trash day. I put a old and big but working monitor on the curb, it was gone in twenty minutes!

[sitchensis]

Huckleberries, salal, fiddleheads, bear grass, devil’s club, mushrooms, ginseng, usnea…

A word of caution: (1) You are still going to need to get a permit. (2) For every one of you, there are a hundred Mexicans and El Salvadorians willing to work ten times as hard as you, in worse conditions.

[TriPolar]

water

[drewtwo99]

How about... diamonds! Just find yourself a piece of land in Africa and get to work diggin'

[Euphonious Polemic]

Air. You could buy a bunch of balloons to store it in.

[Dewey Finn]

Trying picking up salvage from trash day, it got so bad in my old neighborhood in Houston on trash day there were trucks prowling the streets before trash day. I put a old and big but working monitor on the curb, it was gone in twenty minutes!
Do you mean like the people who take the tin cans and cardboard out of people's recycling bins before the municipality has a chance to pick it up? If so, that's theft just like stealing plants from the roadside. The municipality counts on the value of the metal, cardboard, glass and so forth to partly subsidize the cost of the trash service.

[johnpost]

grass, the number of grass plants sold if really large.

[Dewey Finn]

Trying picking up salvage from trash day, it got so bad in my old neighborhood in Houston on trash day there were trucks prowling the streets before trash day. I put a old and big but working monitor on the curb, it was gone in twenty minutes!
Do you mean like the people who take the tin cans and cardboard out of people's recycling bins before the municipality has a chance to pick it up? If so, that's theft just like stealing plants from the roadside. The municipality counts on the value of the metal, cardboard, glass and so forth to partly subsidize the cost of the trash service.
On the other hand, you can make a fortune by legally collecting waste paper and cardboard. Zhang Yin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yin_%28entrepreneur%29) is a Chinese woman who started to do this not that long ago and amassed a fortune in the billions.

[SeaDragonTattoo]

Yanno, seeds are cheap. Really, really cheap. You can grow your own, in your yard, your friend's yard, a community garden, whatever.

[The Man With The Golden Gun]

I think a political lobbyist would have more insight into this than anyone here.

[Tom Scud]

Petroleum. Just dig in the right place.

[Lemur866]

Have you ever thought, instead of wandering around looking for random crap that you can collect and sell, how about creating stuff?

Like, you can wander around looking for plants that nobody wants and trying to sell them, but those are, you know, plants that nobody wants. So it's going to be hard to find people who want them. If you want to sell plants, you could grow plants that you know people want, and then sell those plants.

Reminds me of the old joke. Two economists are walking down the sidewalk. One of them says, "Look, a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk! Let's pick it up." The second economist says, "Don't bother, if it was a real $20 bill someone would have picked it up already."

See, if there were large amounts of things lying around that you could legally collect with little effort and sell for good money, there would already be people doing that, and pretty soon there wouldn't be any more of that stuff lying around. People do come up with new business ideas all the time, but those business ideas are a bit more complicated than "Wander around looking for stuff to collect and sell".

[SmithCommaJohn]

@Lemur866 - the OP obviously subscribes to the Sanford and Son school of economics.

[Beastly Rotter]

Your Mum.

[lavenderviolet]

I wouldn't recommend digging up plants from the wild because you can get in legal problems if you dig up plants that are endangered or otherwise protected. And of course digging up plants from people's property without permission is also asking for trouble. Plus a lot of what you find in the wild wouldn't make a good garden plant anyway.

Flower seeds are really cheap and you have all summer to grow them. Figure out some easy to grow plants that you think people will buy, get some seed packets and start some seedlings right away. Once you have some decent sized plants you could try selling them at a garage sale or on craigslist maybe.
If you wanted to sell cut flowers, you could start some zinnia or cosmos seeds and have flowers in a couple of months really easily. Those are annuals though so you'd have to start with seed again next year. You can save the seed from the flowers this year though so you don't have to buy more seed.

[drewtwo99]

What about rocks? You could go down to the local river, pick up a few rocks, glue some little googley eyes on them and sell them as companions to lonely, lazy people.

How about dirt? Go down to the local river, fill up a bucket of dirt, dry it, clean it, and put it into cookie cutters and sell them as "dirt cookies."

What about pond scum? Go down to the local river and collect some scum off of the river rocks and piers and boat ramps, etc. Arrange them into decorative patterns on sheets of paper and sell it.

What about old electronics? Go down to the local neighborhood and ask people for their old cables, computers, monitors, or any other electronics they want to get rid of. Sort them and glue them together to make little electronics figurines/sculptures/dolls, etc.

Try all of these and come back to us with your results.

[expectopatronum]

have you considered just looking for a job instead of some mythical item that is just lying around free for the taking and yet at the same time worth money?

[digs]

IF you're sincere (most of your other threads sound like trolling), another vote for working for your money. I think you'll find that once you find, process/fix up salable items, market and distribute them... you'll spend so much time that your hourly "wage" will be below minimum wage.

[shijinn]

if you're not serious, then you might hunt for virtual items in Diablo.

[Little Nemo]

have you considered just looking for a job instead of some mythical item that is just lying around free for the taking and yet at the same time worth money?Really. If there was some hypothetical item out there that was easy to obtain but desirable enough to be salable, why would people be buying it? People would just go out and get their own.

Of course, Diamonds doesn't want to put a lot of effort into thinking about what such a product might be. We're supposed to figure that out for him.

[digs]

Her.

And compared to her previous boss (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=632961), even carving lawn gnomes out of scrap styrofoam would be a much better job.

[living_in_hell]

What about rocks? You could go down to the local river, pick up a few rocks, glue some little googley eyes on them and sell them as companions to lonely, lazy people.

How about dirt? Go down to the local river, fill up a bucket of dirt, dry it, clean it, and put it into cookie cutters and sell them as "dirt cookies."

What about pond scum? Go down to the local river and collect some scum off of the river rocks and piers and boat ramps, etc. Arrange them into decorative patterns on sheets of paper and sell it.

What about old electronics? Go down to the local neighborhood and ask people for their old cables, computers, monitors, or any other electronics they want to get rid of. Sort them and glue them together to make little electronics figurines/sculptures/dolls, etc.

Try all of these and come back to us with your results.


This post is awesome. I am literally laughing out loud. Thank you for making my day!

[digs]

OMG, Diamonds, I just now saw your "Why can't I overfish a lake and sell the fish off the back of my truck?" (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648919) thread.

Go get some money the old fashioned way (work for it). Relying on your own instincts is going to get you in a lot of trouble.

So I can't go and catch hundreds of fish, fry them, load them in the back of my pickup, and sell em at a flea market?

I'm half expecting to come here someday soon and read a thread titled "How was I supposed to know pickpocketing was a bad idea?" and your OP mentioning that a guy broke all your fingers. Slowly.

[picunurse]

Become an extreme couponer (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=extreme+couponing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8), then sell the stuff you bought for coupons to lazier folk.

[Muffin]

Try canning and selling "Can o' Stupid" novelties. You'd do well.

[cochrane]

nm

[Rachellelogram]

I've got it. You set up a 2-part operation with a friend. Build two lemonade stands a couple of blocks apart in an area with heavy foot traffic. At the first one, advertise FREE WATER! Put saltwater in little Dixie cups and hand them out to everyone who walks by. Then, when they come to the second lemonade stand, you'll be there selling bottles of fresh water for $3 apiece.

By reading this post, you're contractually obligated to send me royalties from your gross profits (10% per sale, non-negotiable, and I prefer cashier's checks). I look forward to doing business with you, ma'am.

[pulykamell]

One word: plastics. I hear there's a great future in it.

[The Man With The Golden Gun]

Actually, I did get an email just now that I'll forward to you if you like. It's worth a shot, I think. Here's the full text in case you would rather see it here:


Dear Friend,
I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of Africa, Ouagadougou . I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may be capable of handling this business transaction which I explained below;
In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of $13.5m US dollars (Thirteen million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 2005 in a plane crash.

Since i got information about his death, The bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because The fund cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin(his son and wife) died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin (I want to present you as his business associate )to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained Unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 55% would be for me . There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as next of kin of the deceased customer.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer..

I expect that you contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter, and send me your personal data including your international passport before i send you the full details for continuation of this transaction.

Hoping to hear from you immediately.

[Bad News Baboon]

I've got it. You set up a 2-part operation with a friend. Build two lemonade stands a couple of blocks apart in an area with heavy foot traffic. At the first one, advertise FREE WATER! Put saltwater in little Dixie cups and hand them out to everyone who walks by. Then, when they come to the second lemonade stand, you'll be there selling bottles of fresh water for $3 apiece.

By reading this post, you're contractually obligated to send me royalties from your gross profits (10% per sale, non-negotiable, and I prefer cashier's checks). I look forward to doing business with you, ma'am.

No, no, no. The problem here is nobody would take free water off the street from a stranger. Would you? More than likely the people that would, won't pay for the fresh water later. They'll just hit up the free water, salt be damned.

Charge 1.00 at the first stand. You'll seem more legit and bam! More money!
I'll split the 10% with you, ok?

[Idle Thoughts]

IF you're sincere (most of your other threads sound like trolling), another vote for working for your money. I think you'll find that once you find, process/fix up salable items, market and distribute them... you'll spend so much time that your hourly "wage" will be below minimum wage.

Don't accuse other posters of trolling in this forum, digs, as it's against the rules.

[Beastly Rotter]

Discarded winning lottery tickets.

[grude]

Do you mean like the people who take the tin cans and cardboard out of people's recycling bins before the municipality has a chance to pick it up? If so, that's theft just like stealing plants from the roadside. The municipality counts on the value of the metal, cardboard, glass and so forth to partly subsidize the cost of the trash service.

I was actually thinking more like PCs, monitors, TVs, applicances, furniture, construction leftovers, trees that had been cut down(some species are highly prized as firewood)etc left at the curb for trash. Often the city won't even take these items, or would charge the homeowner to do so. Dunno how it started but like I said in my old neighborhood it got so crowded with pickup trucks prowling for stuff on the actual garbage day, some early birds started going hunting the night before garbage day. You'd see a pickup truck with a guy or two in the bed slowly driving up and down the streets looking for goodies at the curb.
I have no clue if it was illegal but there were enough trucks doing it and no effort that I saw by the city or police to stop it.

[Wallenstein]

Panning for urban gold. Find a large city with a jewellery quarter and carefully start scraping away at the mud on the street. You'll find enough scraps of gold and other precious items to ell back to the dealers and earn some good money.

A guy in New York claims to earn between $500-900 per week doing this.

[Cheesesteak]

I was actually thinking more like PCs, monitors, TVs, applicances, furniture, construction leftovers, trees that had been cut down(some species are highly prized as firewood)etc left at the curb for trash.They do this at my town's bulk garbage day. People leave out their big stuff, it's all going to the incinerator anyway, the town isn't picking through to get separate the repairable vacuum cleaner from the old mattress. Last week I saw a guy disassembling a 60" rear projection TV at curbside, I assume there are some valuable parts in there.

[An Gadaí]

They do this at my town's bulk garbage day. People leave out their big stuff, it's all going to the incinerator anyway, the town isn't picking through to get separate the repairable vacuum cleaner from the old mattress. Last week I saw a guy disassembling a 60" rear projection TV at curbside, I assume there are some valuable parts in there.

Anytime I'm at my local municipal recycling centre I see maybe half a dozen pieces of electronics I could use, but you're not allowed take things away. :(

[kayaker]

One word: plastics. I hear there's a great future in it.

Dry Cleaning!

[heathen earthling]

How about roadkill animals? Are those legal to remove from their scene of death? Get a tank of dermestid beetles and clean up their skulls and bones (the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens" Skulls Unlimited (http://www.skullsunlimited.com/) sells skunk skulls for $35, opossum skulls for $50, raccoon skulls for $59...), maybe some of the pelts would be salvageable for some purpose too.

[elbows]

Don't forget, roadkill makes for good eats, too!

[ladyfoxfyre]

Mmm, road kill stew. You can fry it up and sell it out of the back of your truck at a flea market!

[Chefguy]

Old record albums! They're worth a fortune! I can get you started with the three or four boxes I have in my basement for a very low investment cost.

1. Buy the records
2. Do stuff
3. Profit!

[aruvqan]

Well, if you live in the Florida Keys and can dive, you can harvest sea life for sale to aquarium folks. Here is a bit of a list (http://www.3reef.com/forums/general-reef-topics/florida-laws-harvesting-marine-fish-inverts-pants-48259.html) to get you started. Some of the exemplars can be sold to professional aquarists, and others to marine biologists who want to study the little critters. You better learn how to live capture and maintain them in a healthy state however.

[Vinyl Turnip]

Why waste time selling stuff?

1) Take out enormous life insurance policy on yourself
2) ???
3) PROFIT!

[tdn]

Dry Cleaning!

Exactly what I was thinking!

[billfish678]

Well, if you can grow peppers here's a way to make some cash:

http://www.ecoseeds.com/Pepper.worlds.hottest.html

Read the text right below the lady with the yellow rubber boots and blue tank top and short shorts (of course I don't know what that lady is thinking do that around the worlds hotest pepper). Each plant appears to be producing between 500 and 3000 dollars worth of Bhut Jolokia peppers.

Of course you gotta find somebody willing to BUY all of these expensive peppers (Craigs list perhaps? :) ). That website has lots of growing tips, which is good , because pepper plants are difficult to germinate and grow apparently. But if you have some space to grow em, the determination to do it right and baby your plants, and somebody to buy em, it looks like you can make some money doing it.

They note that this is one of the most valuable LEGAL things you can grow.

And the homepage is just ecoseeds.com

[Diamonds02]

I already have a job. Again, I'm looking for a SIDE hustle. Plus jobs ate really really hard to get. It was hard enough to find one, let alone two. It seems like a better alternative to just work for yourself.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, keep em coming! :)

[MichaelEmouse]

Well, you could always buy flowers at a florist shop, walk up to someone, offer to sell him the flowers at 1000% mark up and when they're about to say no, casually take your gun out.

[Lemur866]

Then throw your gun on the sidewalk because you're afraid of it.

[Sicks Ate]

Then throw your gun on the sidewalk because you're afraid of it.

Bwahahahahaha!

[Diamonds02]

LOL!

[Kimballkid]

Martinizing!!

[BobArrgh]

Have you considered standing on the street corner and tooting your own horn?

[Kaio]

For a more serious answer, I know a few folks who frequent estate sales for jewelry, rare books, vintage barware, etc., then turn around and sell them on Etsy or eBay.

The caveat on this, of course, is that you need to know enough about jewelry or books (or whatever item you specialize in) to know what's worth something, and what isn't. So you'd need to invest some time in learning that, plus the time required to actually go to estate sales to buy inventory. Those I know who do this recommend showing up the second they open (that is, 5:30 or 6am), otherwise the stock will be picked clean before you get there.

[interface2x]

Old record albums! They're worth a fortune! I can get you started with the three or four boxes I have in my basement for a very low investment cost.Like records by Sergio Mendes - he's got a cult following, they follow him like a cult. He can barely walk down the street in South America.

[Mangetout]

I know a girl who reckons she can make a living locally selling items she picks up at the beach. It's hard to say how she will achieve this.

[kayaker]

^took me a minute. Worth it!

[Maastricht]

I already have a job. Again, I'm looking for a SIDE hustle. Plus jobs ate really really hard to get. It was hard enough to find one, let alone two. It seems like a better alternative to just work for yourself.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, keep em coming! :)
Buy this book (http://http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Cleaning-Jeff-Campbell/dp/0440503744/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336647897&sr=1-1). Start a cleaning service. Start by getting recommended by people you know.

You have one advantage over low wage Latino's. People are generally hesitant about letting a stranger in their homes. If they know you, or even better, know someone who will vouch for you, they will prefer someone "like them" to clean their home for them.

I wouldn't go the selling route. Selling requires room to process, store and display the stuff you sell. If you are homeless, that is even harder. There is no money in that.

One more tip: could you sell space on your car or yourself as advertising space? If you are going to be out in public for hours on end, might as well capitalize on it. This guy made a fortune doing that (http://http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2009/12/16/is-t-shirt-advertising-a-sustainable-business/). You should be reaslonabl attractive, though.

[E-Sabbath]

How about you go to the nearest quarry and clean up all the things people throw down into it? There's got to be some good stuff there.

[pulykamell]

Buy this book (http://http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Cleaning-Jeff-Campbell/dp/0440503744/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336647897&sr=1-1). Start a cleaning service. Start by getting recommended by people you know.

You have one advantage over low wage Latino's. People are generally hesitant about letting a stranger in their homes. If they know you, or even better, know someone who will vouch for you, they will prefer someone "like them" to clean their home for them.

I wouldn't go the selling route. Selling requires room to process, store and display the stuff you sell. If you are homeless, that is even harder. There is no money in that.


And if you live in a state that has sales tax, you might not have to collect sales tax on services (as in Illinois), which is one less bit of paperwork and accounting to deal with.

[Scumpup]

If there is an unsupervised public shooting range in your area, especially an informal one, chances are that it is an eyesore. Go there and gather up expended shell casings. You'll likely find buckets of them. Use a magnet to segregate out the steel casings and dispose of them properly. Sell the brass casings to a scrap dealer. You'll make a few bucks and make the range look nicer too. If said range has a backstop of some kind that users shoot into, it is laden with lead that can be salvaged. That involves more actual physical work, though, and you obviously aren't interested in that.

[Diamonds02]

I know a girl who reckons she can make a living locally selling items she picks up at the beach. It's hard to say how she will achieve this.

Now, that sounds like a reasonable way to make money!

[Diamonds02]

If there is an unsupervised public shooting range in your area, especially an informal one, chances are that it is an eyesore. Go there and gather up expended shell casings. You'll likely find buckets of them. Use a magnet to segregate out the steel casings and dispose of them properly. Sell the brass casings to a scrap dealer. You'll make a few bucks and make the range look nicer too. If said range has a backstop of some kind that users shoot into, it is laden with lead that can be salvaged. That involves more actual physical work, though, and you obviously aren't interested in that.

This one too. :)

[shijinn]

Now, that sounds like a reasonable way to make money! i don't know. you've got to make sure what you sell is authentic, otherwise you'll get a customer with her panties in a twist insisting that what you've sold her is actually some mass produced crap made in _____.

[Maastricht]

Collect chestnuts in fall and roast them. Nice wat to keep warm yourself, too. Or roast and sell corn cobs.
On a sunny day, offer a dab of sunblock from a bottle for people who forgot their own, but dont want to buy another bottle because they already got several at home.

[Diamonds02]

Hey I found something! Just shortly after starting this thread! Holy crap there IS opportunity!

And the flowers thing? My BFF's little brother stole a bunch of flowers from random places including a few wakes. He made around $300, I think. I must admit however that I'm quite embarrassed that I had a hand in that. Seriously who steals flowers from a wake? Now, if you're talking about sociopathy, he might just be one.

I'm still looking for additional ideas. My new side hustle is only bringing me in $50 to $200 per month.

[Enkel]

Huckleberries, salal, fiddleheads, bear grass, devil’s club, mushrooms, ginseng, usnea…

A word of caution: (1) You are still going to need to get a permit. (2) For every one of you, there are a hundred Mexicans and El Salvadorians willing to work ten times as hard as you, in worse conditions.

And written permission from the owner of any land you go onto.

[Muffin]

Can and sell your own shit, à la Piero Manzoni. Shouldn't be too hard to meet the food standards regulations.

[Princhester]

People are generally hesitant about letting a stranger in their homes. If they know you, or even better, know someone who will vouch for you, they will prefer someone "like them" to clean their home for them.

Probably better not to mention that you have a history of having a hand in theft, though.

[kyogi]

How about roadkill animals? Are those legal to remove from their scene of death? Get a tank of dermestid beetles and clean up their skulls and bones (the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens" Skulls Unlimited (http://www.skullsunlimited.com/) sells skunk skulls for $35, opossum skulls for $50, raccoon skulls for $59...), maybe some of the pelts would be salvageable for some purpose too.

Hot diggity! Just found my new career!

[listedmia]

Serious answer: digging up old bottles from privy pits. If you know people who have older homes or live on land where old houses used to be, there's usually a spot where an outhouse was. People would throw random trash and bottles down in there, not just poop. (Finding the right spot to dig is kind of an art form, though) You can dig them up, with the homeowner's permission of course, and sell them to antique stores or people who collect old bottles. This is more "fun hobby that occasionally you make a couple bucks off of" than "full-time job replacement" though.

[Scarlett67]

Some people pay their kids to pick up sticks in the yard. Maybe somebody who doesn't have kids would pay you to do that.

[digs]

Hey I found something! Just shortly after starting this thread! Holy crap there IS opportunity!

What did you find? And why didn't you mention it here?

[Beastly Rotter]

If said range has a backstop of some kind that users shoot into, it is laden with lead that can be salvaged.

And after you've scavenged enough of that, you'll be so brain-damaged you won't care what you do to make a buck.

[SecretaryofEvil]

And the flowers thing? My BFF's little brother stole a bunch of flowers from random places including a few wakes. He made around $300, I think. I must admit however that I'm quite embarrassed that I had a hand in that. Seriously who steals flowers from a wake? Now, if you're talking about sociopathy, he might just be one.



Really?

[allotrope]

Take stuff people give away on freecycle and resell it.

The main goal of freecycle is keeping stuff out of landfills, so although reselling items isn't really what's intended, I can't see it being an issue either. In fact, I think reselling an item provides greater assurance that it will actually be used since it actually costs the recipient something.

Of course you have to scan your local groups 24/7 to the first to respond so as to get the more desirable items and then there is the travel involved in retrieving them and the not insignificant work involved in getting them listed and sold. I guess it all depends on how motivated you are.

[drewtwo99]

I know a girl who reckons she can make a living locally selling items she picks up at the beach. It's hard to say how she will achieve this.

I am so glad this thread got bumped for no good reason, because I missed this the first time around and it is SO goddamn clever and funny.

[Senegoid]

Mangetout (5/10/2012): I know a girl who reckons she can make a living locally selling items she picks up at the beach. It's hard to say how she will achieve this.

kayaker (5/10/2012): ^took me a minute. Worth it!

drewtwo99 (9/10/2012): I am so glad this thread got bumped for no good reason, because I missed this the first time around and it is SO goddamn clever and funny.

Whereas, I've been thinking about this since last May and I still don't get it. What am I not understanding here? Somebody, fight my abject density here!

[shijinn]

what can she find on the beach?
seashells.






























she sells seashells on the seashore.

[Senegoid]

what can she find on the beach?


Got it. Thanks. :smack:
(Apparently, that requires thinking outside of boxes that I just don't know how to think outside of.)

[Filbert]

I know a girl who reckons she can make a living locally selling items she picks up at the beach. It's hard to say how she will achieve this.

Didn't know you knew Mary Anning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning)!

Yes, the tongue twister was based on a real person- though calling Pleisiosaur skeletons 'seashells' is fairly spectacular zoological ignorance to my mind.

[Diamonds02]

Ok, so I've been thinking a lot about cons, hustles, and discovering valuable things lately. Ok, I think about em all the time. So, this question has popped up: when did the mass regulation of resources become common?

Years and years ago, everything was free for all, right? You find it, it's yours. Like people who discovered gold in various parts of the country. We all learned about that in school. Or, did they have regulations on things back then too, but they didnt teach that in school?

[Ethilrist]

Air. You could buy a bunch of balloons to store it in.

Cardboard boxes stack better.

[grude]

Ok, so I've been thinking a lot about cons, hustles, and discovering valuable things lately. Ok, I think about em all the time. So, this question has popped up: when did the mass regulation of resources become common?

Years and years ago, everything was free for all, right? You find it, it's yours. Like people who discovered gold in various parts of the country. We all learned about that in school. Or, did they have regulations on things back then too, but they didnt teach that in school?

There were less regulations but they still existed, ever see stuff about claims and claim jumping in fiction set during the gold rush?