• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Scalping crypto (daytrade tactic), turned 300$ into 2000$ in 24h! Was on employment insurance at the time so it went into essential stuff.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    My very first job when I was little was a professional grammar nazi for a publisher. Something that was akin to a favor with benefits. It lasted less than a year. I was able to buy my first game with it.

  • Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca
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    Jailbroke iPhones for $20 a pop in highschool. Blew it all on fireworks.

    Flipped broken consoles before the market got too saturated to profit. Blew it all on video games.

    Currently breeding fish. Blowing it all on more fish.

    I’m bad at saving money.

  • 31415926535@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Shoplifting. Lifting hubcaps. Forging checks.

    Did a lot as a kid.

    Once, no money for food. So posted to craigslist something about a broke dykes dinner. Bunch of fellow gay women showed up, each contributed one item. Memorable night. There was some whipping with green onions in the kitchen. One of the women told me (we were all out of jobs, struggling) that a straight guy would pay her $50 to throw tomatoes at him while he jerked himself off.

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      Loving the Craigslist anecdote!

      But there must have been a couple of rightfully confused girls dedicated into put thumbs into the Hoover dam a la apocryphal Netherlands story.

      No euphemisms were included in the making of the above paragraph…

  • Delphia@lemm.ee
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    I flipped cars for a few years. Im a pretty good diy mechanic.

    The amount of people who cant be bothered scraping off stickers, and giving a car a good detail astounds me. Take the car home, wash it thoroughly, detail the engine bay and interior, and if you have the skills change the oil, air filter and coolant. Those were usually good for a few hundred per flip but the bar to entry is low, anyone can do that.

    Also buying cars with 4 steel wheels with bald tyres and finding a set of cheap alloy wheels with good tyres that someone was flogging off were also a good flip if you could find the wheels and tyres cheap and negotiate the car down. “Mate a set of tyres is $600” when you can find a legal set on nicer wheels for $200.

    The best ones were nice cars with 1 big problem, “needs a new clutch” or “blown head gasket” made a few grand off those usually because I could spend as long as I needed to to do the job on the cheap by myself.

  • edric@lemm.ee
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    If you already have a bit of capital, a high yield savings account. Just park your money there instead of a regular savings account.

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        1 year ago

        Short term can be defined many ways. For some, a year can be considered short term. And depending on how much you deposit, you can get good returns as early as 6 months.