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

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

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

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!

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 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.

Why waste time selling stuff?

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

Exactly what I was thinking!

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? :slight_smile: ). 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

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! :slight_smile:

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.

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

Bwahahahahaha!

LOL!

Martinizing!!

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

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.

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.

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.

^took me a minute. Worth it!

Buy this book. 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. You should be reaslonabl attractive, though.

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.