whats the best "side money" you had

[pockets]

In addition to my regular engineering day-job, I have a couple of side gigs.......
I earn extra cash playing music in sleazy bars, belting out Blues & classic rock to bikers and Boomers.
For the past 15 years I have also manufactured specialized hobby items, selling them around the world via the net.

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[bikerdoc]

Make and sell custom knives and canes.

 

[WVleo]

I have been known to buy and sell Civil war artifacts and other period type objects. I presently have a stereoview card collection I purchased for $100 for roughly 400 cards. A couple have already sold for $90-$100 per piece. One of the ones I like shows the actual Golden Gate of California before the bridge was built ! These are from all over the world. Seems alot of people collect them. .....WVleo

 

[msparks]

My AMSOIL business that I started in 2000 that is now my full time income and growing.

Keys to my success.
#1 Develop a passion for what I do
#2. Keep going, doing something every single day (weekends and holiday's) and even when it looks like you are not growing, in 3 months you will be able to see how you have grown.
#3. Help others even if you don't benefit financially right away. It will come full circle.

Hope this helps.

 

[472x1A/B]

Am now laid off, harvest is finished. Now do junk-metal, $100.00- $400.00 a week depending on ; steel, copper, brass, cast, cars, etc. etc.. Doing this in the rain/snow s***s.

 

[JohnBT]

Remember about 20 years ago everybody with little kids bought these backyard playground sets made out of steel tubes and a 1001 nuts and bolts?

I put one of the big ones together for a couple I know - swings, glider, slide, high bar, a bunch of stuff. They fed me a grilled steak dinner and imported beer.

The next thing I knew, word of mouth brought offers from other friends and friends of friends and parents from day care, etc. I can't tell you how much money I saved on thick steaks (and shrimp and crabs too sometimes) and good beer over the period of a couple of years. It wasn't hard work messing around in a back yard on a sunny day, just keep the kids out of the parts boxes while I'm working.

I spent the money I saved on good stuff.

John

 

[bushmaster1313]

Sell video clips of politicians making truthful statements.

Very hard to find item.

 

[bannockburn]

Overtime is the only source I need for extra cash each payday.

 

[K0ZZZ]

I sell software that I wrote. While the latest thing I wrote for tracking your personal gun inventory (see my tagline below) hasn't gone gangbusters or anything, its fun working with folks to get things they want included added.

Prior to that I wrote security software that during the good years made some good added income.

 

[Vaarok]

I pick auctions and resell treasures found therein. Best score recently was a inter-war dress officer's sword from the Polish Republic- bought an AUG with the profits.

Usually, though, I just buy more than I want at the auctions, keep some, and sell the rest to end up cash-neutral.

 

[kimberkid]

I used to buy parts kits and broken guns at auctions and gunshows and part them out on Gunbroker as well as sold parts and parts kits at gunshows ... and the wife didn't care how I spent it.

 

[JohnBT]

"stereoview card"

People collect stereoview cards? I have stereoview cards. I have bunches of stuff passed down from 4 grandparents who were born in the 1890s.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Since I retired, I started selling my body.

Strange, but I'm not making anything.

 

[Justin Holder]

Scrap metal

 

[leadcounsel]

A treasure trove for the IRS I suspect...

 

[longhair75]

Right now, I stand to make some extra cash when the Republican presidential candidate is selected. A little more once the running mate is selected.

 

[hirundo82]

Most of my gun money comes from being a subject in medical studies--mainly vaccine trials

That seems a little dangerous to me but +1 to overtime

Nah, it's all vaccines In the late stages of development, mainly looking to see that they work as well as they should before they are released to the public. I'm a medical student, so I'm well aware of what I'm getting into.

It's easy money if you have a medical school nearby--several hundred dollars for a few hour-long visits over a couple months.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Buying run down houses in good neighborhoods and fixing them up while living there over a period of 11 years. The last house was finished in 2008, sold it in the nick of time just as we had a new custom house built. That opportunity no longer exists what with credit tightened up and the Obama economy in the toilet.

The wife and I are too old for the house gig now, anyway. My next venture is bullpup rifle stocks. I'm ready to apply for patents, incorporate, and apply for a gunsmith FFL so I can make money at it. Maybe I'll sell the patents. Depends on the market for wooden bullpup stocks.

Woody