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.
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.
Now, that sounds like a reasonable way to make money!
This one too. 
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 _____.
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.
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.
And written permission from the owner of any land you go onto.
Can and sell your own shit, à la Piero Manzoni. Shouldn’t be too hard to meet the food standards regulations.
Probably better not to mention that you have a history of having a hand in theft, though.
Hot diggity! Just found my new career!
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.
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.
What did you find? And why didn’t you mention it here?
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.
Really?
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.
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.
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!
what can she find on the beach?
[spoiler] seashells.
she sells seashells on the seashore. [/spoiler]