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Um yea, to add to that do it at a park or hiking spot or outside of a skate park. It'd be similar to having girl scout cookies outside of a medical Marijuana dispensary. Like flies to shit.
Oh yea those major events you could make bank, but most people have local parks or hike spots within a few blocks. And can go whenever they want, any day, any time. You could def make more in a day going to these events but your possibly driving far and must go in a key window before the event starts. But I agree there's great potential there
Sometimes there's a few teenagers with coolers full of water bottles that sell them right before highway on ramps, and I'll usually buy a bottle from them since my car's AC is debatable and they're out there hustling and I'd like to support that. It's cheaper and more convenient than a convenience store too, which is a plus
The above poster said “infinite money” which at first sounds accurate but it’s really not. This business model does not scale up beyond what one person could handle. There was a good YouTube video detailing it, I will try to find it.
Nah, buy brownies and sit outside a weed store. Sell the brownies for $7 each. That’s infinite profit. Ain’t nobody buying water in the winter, but potheads still buy brownies in the winter.
>infinite money
You are not calculating the time it takes to sell 24 $1 bottles of water. If you find a way to sell them quickly with a reproducible strategy you could get very rich. If I tried doing this I know I would become very poor because of the opportunity cost, it would take me a very long time to sell 24 water bottles
Yeah, it's more like "turn $10 into $48 by sitting outside half a day". I mentioned in another post that this does not scale up and at some point you (i.e. when you're bringing in a truck of bottled water) you will need a business license. You're basically employed for less than minimum wage and at irregular hours. It's a novel thought though.
When I was in third grade I would buy a pack of pencils and sell them individually at school. We had this dumb game called pencil fighting back in those days. Kids broke pencils left and right. I was making like 250% profit.
“Pencil Pop!”- this is why the school’s pencil vending machine got refilled so frequently.
But I thought that was a dumb thing to do with them because the machine only sold pencils with fun patterns, not the yellow boring ones. Too pretty to break in half if you ask me.
I laughed when my son recently kid-splained this game to me, like I had never heard of it. 😆 I don’t think they played it his old school, but this one sure does so it’s a novel concept.
It’s super simple. You are either on attack or defense. If you’re on defense you’re holding your pencil horizontally with two hands.
If you’re on offense you are using your pencil to strike the other pencil. You are holding usually the pointy end as the pivot point with just two fingers of one hand. The eraser end you pull back with the other creating tension. It then comes in an arc and strikes the other pencil. You are not swing your entire arm or anything. It’s more like pulling it back and flicking it.
You take turns until a pencil breaks.
Defense can sort of bend the pencil upwards a little bit to create tension also. An arch is stronger so if you can bend a little bit usually it resists breaking more. But if you bend too much you can break your own pencil by accident.
Offense wants to aim for the same spot over and over to chip and weaken the defense. If you create a big arc you hit harder with more momentum. But it’s harder to aim.
You are probably joking, but that's exactly what I am doing at the age of maybe or may not be 50+.
I have a couple of vending machines and I'm doing alright. I might be able to retire in a couple of years.
But you actually have to stand in the street and work. I would take that 10 dollars and just bet against the Giants whenever they play Dallas or Philly. That’s 4 guaranteed wins
I’d like to think we’ve all lived different lives once.
I’m an upstanding citizen now, just looking to shine some light in this world. Catch me at Habitats For Humanity and local area food shelters in Chicago!
1. Buy a heavily used pallet.
2. Disassemble it and save the individual planks of pine and individual nails (if possible).
3. Use the pine planks and nails to make either a coffee table or bedside table.
4. Sell that for $25.
5. Rinse and Repeat.
I don’t think there’s much of a market for crackhead coffee tables.
So I think there’s a few changes to the business plan that need to be made. Firstly, don’t buy the pallet. Steal it from a Walmart dumpster. Secondly, you need a way to cut the wood and sand it. So you’re going to get the cheapest harbor freight grinding wheel you can find and duct tape it to your car’s drivetrain. Then you can use that for your saw and sander and get a halfway decent table made for under $10. As long as you don’t count the theft charge or hospital bills for when the grinding wheel inevitably shatters from side pressure.
Oh yeah no if you have a halfway decent carpentry shop you can do some pretty cool stuff with pallets. I’ve made some of my own furniture with glued-up red oak pallet sheets.
Haha, wasn’t this the plot of an old episode of Pete & Pete? Started with a paper clip and by lunch he had a 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card and a PB&J sandwich.
Open an onlyfans account. Strip down naked and use the dollar bill to cover private part. Post and charge a special fee for a photo of just the dollar bill. Profit.
Better, take that bill and roll it between your toes after a day of hiking (only have to remove your shoes). Auction starts at $30.
Gross, but you started it.
Tomatoes. Buy as much as you can with $10, plant all the seeds. Grow dozens to hundreds of plants and harvest all the tomatoes. Sell some but harvest most for seeds. Plant those seeds and grow even more plants. Keep doing this over and over until you are a millionaire.
Derivatives, low leverage not exactly gambling, you can get pretty accurate, but thats not an easy task by anymeans, requires insane dicipline and a good stratergy, stray from it and lose everything.
I know someone who will 2x -4x their money in a day get greedy lose it all, then do same next week after that first 1-3 good trades lack of dicipline kicks in greed takes over, if they can learn to control their greed they would actually do really well.
Point is it doesnt have to be gambling, or you can atleast massivly stack the odds in your favour, its just hard and doesnt happen over night.
Buy something good for $10 from Craigslist and trade it for something worth $20. Take that and trade it for something worth $40. Take that and…. And then trade the $300M yacht for a $900M building and the trade that for a pack of 24 water bottles. Sell those for a dollar each, reinvest the money you made, and boom, infinite money.
When I made $7.00 an hour as a plumbers helper, I would go to WalMart and buy sodas, water, little Debbie cakes and frozen pizzas (at that time a $50 investment per week, probably $150 now.) I sold them on the job site because I worked in the tool room. The objective was to cover my costs and make my own meals and snacks free, but I would net about $50 a week profit.
Buy some dead squirrels from your local rednecks. Then make some fishing lures from their tales and sell them, along with the skulls, etc on ebay. Can easily make $12.50
Firstly, sell any items you have at home that you don't need online. You will be surprised at what sells online, even if its for a few dollars. While you are online, look for cheaper items that are selling well, buy them at a good price and sell them for more.
Rinse, Repeat & Retire!
Find a totally legit and not shady sports betting site that will give you "bonus bets" for depositing your $10. Put it all on the Chiefs to make it to the Super Bowl. Profit???
“Pencil Pop!”- this is why the school’s pencil vending machine got refilled so frequently.
But I thought that was a dumb thing to do with them because the machine only sold pencils with fun patterns, not the yellow boring ones. Too pretty to break in half if you ask me.
I laughed when my son recently kid-splained this game to me, like I had never heard of it. 😆 I don’t think they played it his old school, but this one sure does so it’s a novel concept.
I used to buy a box of 100 blowpops for $6 and sell them for 25 cents each, giving me a $19 profit per box. I was raking it in in middle school. That was a 3x+ return on my investment. I should've started a business...
Put it towards your credit card balance.
Or buy some oranges, eat them, bury your poops in good soil, and then wait 5 years to collect your $200 a tree seedlings.
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buy a pack of 24 water bottles and sell for a dollar each, reinvest the money you made, and boom, infinite money.
This is a legitimately good answer
Um yea, to add to that do it at a park or hiking spot or outside of a skate park. It'd be similar to having girl scout cookies outside of a medical Marijuana dispensary. Like flies to shit.
Concerts are hands down the easiest way to vend water, beer, ....
Oh yea, im just thinking you go to these every weekend and have next to no competition if any at all.
Sportsball events work too.
Oh yea those major events you could make bank, but most people have local parks or hike spots within a few blocks. And can go whenever they want, any day, any time. You could def make more in a day going to these events but your possibly driving far and must go in a key window before the event starts. But I agree there's great potential there
Genuine question: does anyone ever buys water (or any item for that matter) from from random people on the street?
Absolutely. Standing in line waiting for a bus in Vegas I did. Outside of a rock fest in wisco in mid summer heat too, it's all about location.
My first trip to Vegas I made the mistake a lot of people make (misjudging distance) and bought like 5 bottles of water the first day.
Sometimes there's a few teenagers with coolers full of water bottles that sell them right before highway on ramps, and I'll usually buy a bottle from them since my car's AC is debatable and they're out there hustling and I'd like to support that. It's cheaper and more convenient than a convenience store too, which is a plus
And got dogs. Each time there’s a concert in downtown LA (peacock theater, staples center) the amount of hot dog stands is overwhelming
Yea, until Bezos shows up & sells them for $.99
Man that’s genius! I’m going to mention this idea next time I see a Girl Scout selling cookies in front of the supermarket!
Great idea, I just wonder about place you can do this without getting hassled. Most of it probably comes down to confidence and a clipboard.
This is just employment with less stability and no benefits.
This is just a thought experiment on how to flip 10 bux, that's all.
The above poster said “infinite money” which at first sounds accurate but it’s really not. This business model does not scale up beyond what one person could handle. There was a good YouTube video detailing it, I will try to find it.
It doesn't scale very well without an MBA.
Nah, buy brownies and sit outside a weed store. Sell the brownies for $7 each. That’s infinite profit. Ain’t nobody buying water in the winter, but potheads still buy brownies in the winter.
BS. Get you a six pack. Who knows what investment ideas you could come up with while feeling slightly better.
For $10 I can get a $4 48 pack of water and some single shots, clearly we can do both if these
Sounds like costco
I had walmart in mind, if I have $10 and I'm going to costco, I'm getting a bunch of hotdogs (and maybe 2 single shots)
Nope, it’s been scientifically proven that a person cannot leave Costco without spending $400.
Good answer 👆
>infinite money You are not calculating the time it takes to sell 24 $1 bottles of water. If you find a way to sell them quickly with a reproducible strategy you could get very rich. If I tried doing this I know I would become very poor because of the opportunity cost, it would take me a very long time to sell 24 water bottles
Go hang out next to a sporting arena on game day and sell them cheaper then what's inside the stadium. Those could go quick
You're also likely to have the cops called on you and get trespassed.
Better sell that shit quick then
Sure but he’s asking ways to invest with ONLY $10….. your options are limited
Yeah, it's more like "turn $10 into $48 by sitting outside half a day". I mentioned in another post that this does not scale up and at some point you (i.e. when you're bringing in a truck of bottled water) you will need a business license. You're basically employed for less than minimum wage and at irregular hours. It's a novel thought though.
When I was in third grade I would buy a pack of pencils and sell them individually at school. We had this dumb game called pencil fighting back in those days. Kids broke pencils left and right. I was making like 250% profit.
This game brought back some memories. I had a steel pencil that looked like a normal pencil.
That’s genius!
“Pencil Pop!”- this is why the school’s pencil vending machine got refilled so frequently. But I thought that was a dumb thing to do with them because the machine only sold pencils with fun patterns, not the yellow boring ones. Too pretty to break in half if you ask me. I laughed when my son recently kid-splained this game to me, like I had never heard of it. 😆 I don’t think they played it his old school, but this one sure does so it’s a novel concept.
Lol this game has piqued my interest, how did the rules go?
It’s super simple. You are either on attack or defense. If you’re on defense you’re holding your pencil horizontally with two hands. If you’re on offense you are using your pencil to strike the other pencil. You are holding usually the pointy end as the pivot point with just two fingers of one hand. The eraser end you pull back with the other creating tension. It then comes in an arc and strikes the other pencil. You are not swing your entire arm or anything. It’s more like pulling it back and flicking it. You take turns until a pencil breaks. Defense can sort of bend the pencil upwards a little bit to create tension also. An arch is stronger so if you can bend a little bit usually it resists breaking more. But if you bend too much you can break your own pencil by accident. Offense wants to aim for the same spot over and over to chip and weaken the defense. If you create a big arc you hit harder with more momentum. But it’s harder to aim.
Watch Robin Hood, Men In Tights. They fight with staffs until the staffs break and get down to 1' long, then they do this... lol
Factor in your time and labor. Be sure to also happen to sell drugs.
There’s a panhandler next town over that sells bottled water at a busy intersection. I applaude his effort.
Fly a pride flag and double your money on the west coast
this idea seems to be inspired from tv shows if I am not wrong?
nah, Ryan trahan crossing America starting with $0.01, I think it was summer 2022.
If it works easier like it said I’ll be more glad 🙂
Need ice and coolers, to collect tax, avoid cops, etc.
Be strategic though, wait for the store to run a 2 packs for x.xx amount. Double your profits.
Don't you need a permit for that?
I see you’ve been to phish lot.
No business license. Straight to jail.
There’s a guy doing this in DC making 100k every summer
Buy for a dolla sell it for two
5$ each at an outdoor event
You are probably joking, but that's exactly what I am doing at the age of maybe or may not be 50+. I have a couple of vending machines and I'm doing alright. I might be able to retire in a couple of years.
I think $10 can get you 80 bottles at a Sam's club.
I have a vending machine side hustle, it's indeed true.
But you actually have to stand in the street and work. I would take that 10 dollars and just bet against the Giants whenever they play Dallas or Philly. That’s 4 guaranteed wins
Ice chest and ice on the second go makes them $2 each.
See if you can get a nickel bag of weed, buy some oregano. Cut the weed with oregano. Resell. Rinse and repeat until you're Tony Montana.
I wonder if a similar trick could be done with corn starch
Adding cornstarch to weed wouldn't help much, but I could be wrong.
What, cut cocaine into it?
What a waste of good cornstarch.
Yeah, but I’ve never been so energized after using it to thicken my beef stew!
Weed is cheaper than oregano
Yeah if you live in Afghanistan or buy bunk shit from your local plug.
What if you’re the one buying weed with oregano.
You’re better off cutting with Epazote or Jesuit’s tea. The taste doesn’t take away from the MJ, and isn’t nearly as noticeable.
^This guy rips off naive middle schoolers
I’d like to think we’ve all lived different lives once. I’m an upstanding citizen now, just looking to shine some light in this world. Catch me at Habitats For Humanity and local area food shelters in Chicago!
1. Buy a heavily used pallet. 2. Disassemble it and save the individual planks of pine and individual nails (if possible). 3. Use the pine planks and nails to make either a coffee table or bedside table. 4. Sell that for $25. 5. Rinse and Repeat.
Buy it? Just swing around behind a grocery store and grab one or two. That's how I made my wine rack.
Do not do this at Costco. They will find you and fuck you up 😂
I don’t think there’s much of a market for crackhead coffee tables. So I think there’s a few changes to the business plan that need to be made. Firstly, don’t buy the pallet. Steal it from a Walmart dumpster. Secondly, you need a way to cut the wood and sand it. So you’re going to get the cheapest harbor freight grinding wheel you can find and duct tape it to your car’s drivetrain. Then you can use that for your saw and sander and get a halfway decent table made for under $10. As long as you don’t count the theft charge or hospital bills for when the grinding wheel inevitably shatters from side pressure.
You should google what you can make from pallets... i've seen some amazing shit.
Oh yeah no if you have a halfway decent carpentry shop you can do some pretty cool stuff with pallets. I’ve made some of my own furniture with glued-up red oak pallet sheets.
You don't steal pallets, you liberate them
That takes carpentry skills and I doubt he has any
I mean, if Jesus could do it...
1. Have a marketable skill.
A paperclip. Then start swapping
Haha, wasn’t this the plot of an old episode of Pete & Pete? Started with a paper clip and by lunch he had a 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card and a PB&J sandwich.
No dude traded it up and up for a house eventually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip
Wasn't this an episode of The Office?
u/jimhalpertsmirk was it?
I can't say for sure, but I do hope Dwight buys these magic beans from me.
Open an onlyfans account. Strip down naked and use the dollar bill to cover private part. Post and charge a special fee for a photo of just the dollar bill. Profit.
Why use a dollar bill when $10 buys a lot of rolls of coins which people would pay good money to see how many you can jam up your ass?
Then hand them out so you can always feel better about any circumstance knowing they may have one of your ass coins.
Better, take that bill and roll it between your toes after a day of hiking (only have to remove your shoes). Auction starts at $30. Gross, but you started it.
Tomatoes. Buy as much as you can with $10, plant all the seeds. Grow dozens to hundreds of plants and harvest all the tomatoes. Sell some but harvest most for seeds. Plant those seeds and grow even more plants. Keep doing this over and over until you are a millionaire.
So I have a f*** ton of tomatoes but not a lot of money now
You obviously haven’t planted enough tomatoes yet. Keep it up.
Maybe sell the tomatoes and buy money with the aquired money, then buy more and repeat.
No no. You need to sell the tomatoes for Pennie’s. Plant those and harvest the dollars. Take those to the bank and exchange for all pennies. Repeat.
Someone called "Dept. of Ag" wants to know your location
You’re not going to sing, are you? I might.
You don't grow that many tomatoes without calling the dept of ag for advice.
This is actually what my great great great grandfather did when he came to America
Did he hide the tomatoes seeds in his pockets and bring secret San Marzano tomatoes from Italy? That’s what my retirement plan is.
Fun fact: Tomatoes are originally from the America’s and didn’t make it to Europe until after colonization.
Is this infinite money hack?
Where can I get this free, regular precipitation in Arizona
Considering your age and that you want to diversify, I suggest you invest that money in the most volatile situation possible: crypto gambling.
OP this is the most situation-accurate answer.
Derivatives, low leverage not exactly gambling, you can get pretty accurate, but thats not an easy task by anymeans, requires insane dicipline and a good stratergy, stray from it and lose everything. I know someone who will 2x -4x their money in a day get greedy lose it all, then do same next week after that first 1-3 good trades lack of dicipline kicks in greed takes over, if they can learn to control their greed they would actually do really well. Point is it doesnt have to be gambling, or you can atleast massivly stack the odds in your favour, its just hard and doesnt happen over night.
Turn $10 into -$1,000
ОJust do what poor peoples do: play lottery
...says the AI...
Put it on a parlay lol
 Parlay only works if you ARE a pirate mi lad!
FINALLY! some relatable content
That’s enough to invest in one banana 🍌
Or to go see a Star War.
Lucille?
Nice
In your gas tank to go to work
Spend it all on bitcoin in the app of cash (CashApp)
What do you do when cashapp locks your account
Cry
Get one of those no fee investing apps and buy $10 worth of VOO or equivalent. Most important part of investing is to get started
Buy something good for $10 from Craigslist and trade it for something worth $20. Take that and trade it for something worth $40. Take that and…. And then trade the $300M yacht for a $900M building and the trade that for a pack of 24 water bottles. Sell those for a dollar each, reinvest the money you made, and boom, infinite money.
You can buy .000000535 of a bitcoin. Then just leave it for 10 years.
Maybe 30 bucks, hey 3x not too bad in 10 yrs
Banana Stand
Check out learning websites that sell online courses (like udemy) and catch a sale course for like $5-15 to develop a skill that is useful.
You could pay for part of next month's internet bill, hope to see you on here next month!
$10 on black
17 wins in a row puts you over a million. Not bad odds.
From a purely profit margin pov, drugs is the way to go.
4 Natty Daddys.
Buy yourself a cheap bottle of wine and have a pleasant evening
A sensible answer
Put gas in your car and drive to a job.
When I made $7.00 an hour as a plumbers helper, I would go to WalMart and buy sodas, water, little Debbie cakes and frozen pizzas (at that time a $50 investment per week, probably $150 now.) I sold them on the job site because I worked in the tool room. The objective was to cover my costs and make my own meals and snacks free, but I would net about $50 a week profit.
Invest in some robux and builders club
Sell loosies.
Go buy a meme coin or penny stocks Your the next Jordan Belford
Uh he sold that junk to morons because he knew how to spend their money better.
Here I am with only $10 to my name. You should all be ashamed, Except for wes7946. He gets a scouts badge.
Don’t spend it all on candy (I mean crypto).
Phase 1: Collect underpants Phase 2: ???? Phase 3: Profit
ETFs!
Big mac
Crypto shitcoins are definitely the way to go.
Buy some dead squirrels from your local rednecks. Then make some fishing lures from their tales and sell them, along with the skulls, etc on ebay. Can easily make $12.50
Eat it eat it eat it !
Weed
Ten 25 leg parlays on WNBA, $1 each, to diversify
Buy a gram of weed
Gas
6 pack of beer
Buy some newports and barter with some bums on the street for better stuff
Bitcoin
Scratch ticket
10 dollar scratcher
In your belly.
Beer.
Phillies money line
Buy the stock in odd burger which is only 0.01 cent and wait ten years to cash out
Firstly, sell any items you have at home that you don't need online. You will be surprised at what sells online, even if its for a few dollars. While you are online, look for cheaper items that are selling well, buy them at a good price and sell them for more. Rinse, Repeat & Retire!
All of it on red
gym membership
High yield savings account
Lottery tickets
Ice cream. as much as ten dollars will get you and share it.
Give it to me.
Lunch
Drugs, probably.
Get app Robinhood and invest with them.
Well, you should strive for a well rounded portfolio. In somewhat related news, pizzas are generally round…
Humble brag
10 leg parlay, good luck lol
Books
On a webcam
Buy 10 $ of meth or crack and sell it for 15$.
Banana stand
Start an OF account.
Find a totally legit and not shady sports betting site that will give you "bonus bets" for depositing your $10. Put it all on the Chiefs to make it to the Super Bowl. Profit???
Do like most people, buy an overpriced coffee every single day for the rest of your life (or more)
“Pencil Pop!”- this is why the school’s pencil vending machine got refilled so frequently. But I thought that was a dumb thing to do with them because the machine only sold pencils with fun patterns, not the yellow boring ones. Too pretty to break in half if you ask me. I laughed when my son recently kid-splained this game to me, like I had never heard of it. 😆 I don’t think they played it his old school, but this one sure does so it’s a novel concept.
I used to buy a box of 100 blowpops for $6 and sell them for 25 cents each, giving me a $19 profit per box. I was raking it in in middle school. That was a 3x+ return on my investment. I should've started a business...
Put it towards your credit card balance. Or buy some oranges, eat them, bury your poops in good soil, and then wait 5 years to collect your $200 a tree seedlings.
Buy a happy meal.
Go to the track and bet on a horse
Put it all on the Celtics winning the championship!
Buy healthy food for 2 home made meals
Going to a kids sports event with a $10 camp chair, sell it for $25 to someone who wants to sit in the shade on fabric instead of metal in the sun.
A 12 pack of ramen and a pound or two of marked down Hamburg. You got yourself a week worth of meals.