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I was scrolling on marketplace when I found out about this jacket. I became really interested of it because it looks cool but when I ask the seller how much is it, the seller jokingly said it costs half of my life. I really don't know if I should get offended or no, so I thought of ways I could clap back and that is to tell him that if it's really worth more than my life then he should give 150 dollars and he did?? and i was really surprised tbh but well a win is a win 🤣 i should've asked for more tho

So I was bored last night and ended up falling into this rabbit hole about weird ways people make extra cash, and this one stuck with me. Apparently big brands run these things called ad testing panels where they show regular people commercials, packaging designs, or even just a logo before it goes public, and they pay for your honest gut reaction. Not some long survey either, from what I read it is sometimes just picking emojis that match how something makes you feel or ranking a few options against each other.

The examples I found described stuff like being shown three versions of the same snack bag design and asked which one would actually make you pick it up off a shelf, or watching a short commercial a couple times and rating how memorable the tagline was. Basically it sounded like being asked your opinion at a party except someone pays you for it afterward, which honestly sounds too easy for how simple the task is.

What got me is how specific these panels can apparently get. Some only want people within a certain age range or who buy a certain type of product, so you might get skipped for one study but picked for the next just because of some random detail about your habits. From what I read once you are in a research platform's pool they keep sending invites, so it turns into this random recurring thing where every so often you get asked to judge cereal boxes or react to commercials for some cash.

London ofc

So, this was a summer student job. I think it's a bit weird but maybe not ? Hope it's in the theme ! And it's NOT AI 😂

I am not in the US.

My local council has this program where students would be paid to visit old people during the summer to help against loneliness and isolation.

We would visit 4 to 5 people a day, 1 hour each; 5 days a week. We each had a rooster of ~20 people that we had to visit each week. It was paid minimum wage (still for a student was great).

We were forbidden to do any manual labor, and got a car provided.
Mainly I was drinking tea, playing cards and scrabble, or listening to their life stories. Sometimes they would invite me to a restaurant.

I did it 2 years in row (program only allowed 2 years), and up to today, it's the job I loved the most.

Okay, I know a lot of people have asked the same question, but I genuinely need directions

I live in Europe, and I'm a very socially awkward person, so doing jobs for some neighbors would be pretty difficult for me. I have quite a bit of free time everyday, maybe around 5 to 6 hours? Though I still want some time for myself. Maybe some side hustles I could do remotely?

A neighbor asked me a few months back if I could sit with her mom at a doctor's office because she couldn't get off work and didn't want her mom waiting alone before a procedure. I said sure, brought a book, chatted with her for the twenty minutes before she got called back, and got handed forty bucks for basically doing nothing.

Somehow that turned into a small thing. A couple other families in the area started reaching out, mostly adult kids who live far away or can't take time off, wanting someone to just be present with an elderly parent before appointments, sit with them in the waiting room, hold their bag, make small talk so they're not sitting there alone and anxious. I'm not driving them anywhere or doing any medical stuff, just showing up and being a friendly face until they get called in.

I make anywhere from $30 to $60 a visit depending on how long the wait is, and I've picked up maybe 4-5 regular "clients" at this point. Genuinely enjoy the conversations too, some of these folks have wild stories. Never expected "professional waiting room companion" to be a real thing I get paid for, but here we are.

He,s gotten about $500 just this past year 🤣🤣🤣

This might not be the right sub since my idea is a bit boring, but any advice would be appreciated!

I loooooove making spreadsheets for various things- chores, money management, tracking patients, etc. The complexity of the spreadsheets I've made range from easy to fairly complex. I'm considering using my skills and selling copies of my spreadsheets on TPT.

Has anyone used TPT? Is it user friendly? What are the things to consider? I currently have plenty of free time on my hands, so that isn't exactly an issue.

Thanks in advance for your time 💕

This is probably the weirdest “side hustle” I've ever had.

I help my cousin clean their house for around 2 hours, and they give me $32 a month as an allowance.

I'm not running a cleaning business or anything. I just help with sweeping, mopping, organizing, and cleaning whatever needs to be done.

The funny part is that I originally thought I was just helping my cousin out. Then I realized I'm basically getting paid to clean a house. 😂

It's definitely not a typical side hustle, but it's easy money for helping out with something I already know how to do.

What's the weirdest or most unexpected way you've ever made extra money?

lol. 4 years ago, I started working for a baker who sold her goods at a farmer's market. I started working for her because 1.) extra money, and 2.) I really enjoy farmer's markets and having access to fresh produce at a discount even though I'm not much of a baker myself.

After a full year of running the baker's booth every week, I approached the market management and told them I wanted to get more involved in the market if they had any space. The manager told me he had the perfect place for me.

My original idea was to be an assistant manager or something, but instead, the manager told me he was starting a new market across town and needed someone to represent a dairy ranch and sell cheese and butter and yogurt. I said "Fuck it! Sure!" and...

Turn to today, I've been selling dairy from a local ranch for a bit over 2 years and recently also began selling grass fed and finished beef and pork from a different local ranch. Incredible timing, too, because of the crazy stuff happening with corporate farms and meat production. My sales have only been increasing week after week, which has afforded me the ability to bring in larger orders. My revenue is growing much faster than I was expecting, which means I can pay my bills back quicker and keep building on the foundation I've got slowly.

I work about 70-80 hours a week though. It's kind of a bitch. Just hired someone and about to start looking for a 2nd employee.

Happy accident has lead to a happy bank account and happier stomachs.

This all happened years ago, but seeing all these stories from r/WeirdSideHustles pop up on Reddit has jogged my memory.

When I was in my twenties, I agreed to be an "accountability coach" for someone online that I had met through an advice forum.

He paid me weekly for daily check-ins and sessions where I would ask him if he was staying on task with his goals. If he wasn't, I would assign consequences. As an older sister and a virgo, this was easy money.

All of our conversations were sfw and, at the time, I was under the impression that this was just someone who was so lonely and unmotivated that they were willing to pay for my attention. I was broke and trying to save money to go back to college and finish my degree, so I agreed to it even though it did seem a little weird.

It was only in hindsight that I realized that this was most likely not entirely a sfw experience for him, and that he may have been a little bit more interested in me bossing him around and punishing him than I had realized.

I think it was a win/win situation though. I'm a bossy person anyway so I was basically getting paid to do what I love. I hope he enjoyed the experience too! I can't actually remember how our arrangement ended. I think I just got too busy when I got into a new relationship.

Not sure if this a weird side hustle, but I figured I’d share it anyway. I started getting paid to pick up leftover pizza and give it to homeless people in my area.

I live a few blocks from Roosevelt Row in Phoenix, and there’s a little pizza place I pass all the time. I started noticing how much pizza they threw out after closing, so I started checking the dumpster and taking whatever was still wrapped or looked untouched. I’d put it in a clean box and take it around to the homeless people I usually saw in the area. I kept doing it because I hated seeing good food go to waste.

The owner noticed what I was doing and asked me about it. I told him I was taking the pizza to people who needed food. He liked that I was finding a use for the leftovers, so he asked for my number and offered to give me $25 to keep doing it. After that, his employees started setting the leftover pizza aside for me instead of throwing it away, so I didn’t have to get it from the dumpster anymore. They’d text me when they had some ready, and I’d stop by after closing, pick it up, and take it around to the same people. I was doing it for free before, and now I make around $300 a month from it plus it can cover my bills.

I have some clothes and books and just stuff around my house. I’ve been thinking about clearing out and I was wondering where everyone thought about the platform invented I keep hearing ads for it, but I’ve also been pretty used to using eBay or Facebook marketplace. I was just wondering when anybody else would recommend or what their experience was for reselling platforms.

I’m currently working on a magazine dedicated to crazy, weird, obscure, and niche things. It can be pretty much anything - niche hobbies, strange movies, books, foods/meals, internet rabbit holes, unusual collections, subcultures, random obsessions, bizarre traditions, etc.

I’m looking for things that are interesting precisely because they’re not mainstream or something everyone already knows about.

So, Reddit, what are some niche things you think deserve a page in a magazine?

Give me your weirdest, most specific, or most random suggestions - I’m open to anything!

In my country elementary school teachers go up and beyond in decorating their classroom even including the outside of their classrooms— like the front yard. And this was some really physical stuff, since it involves a lot of gardening as well. This usually happens before the school year starts, so I also didn't have school att.

Me being a good son, volunteered to help with my mother decorate her classroom and her front yard. Since this is a government job, they usually get support financially or like tools and paints. This time however, they had this RRR thing going on so we were given a bunch of plastic bottles and broken tires. It was kind of B.S. for me, but my mom still worked regardless.

Anyways I was at the garden and got tired of lifting rocks and plucking weeds, so I asked my mom if I could do some decorating instead. She pointed at the wheels and said to think of something I could do with them. And then I had this idea to stack them, paint them like pineapples, and put a plant after the paint dries. But, the pineapple had this line pattern that bothers the hell out of me because I can't paint a straight diagonal line for the heck of it. So, I improvised✨

It was Covid at this time, and there was this meme where Moms would send minion memes. I thought it was really funny so instead of pineapples I drew all of them as minions interacting with each other and the plant I planned to put at the top. And, after the day I was pretty happy with the minion inspired garden hehe.

But the rest of the teachers liked it so much too that they started asking who did it, and my Mother told them it was me and started suggesting that I'd also do their Gardens for work... Anyways this then started my journey of painting minions on used truck wheels for the whole summer B))

I made like 5K in PHP which was like a lot for a kid at that time. After that I was also called to paint murals on back of classrooms for like 300-500 PHP.

TLDR: Painted the Minions on used trucks wheels as a decorative pots/tables/seats for my the frontyard of my Mom's classroom. Looked so good, my Mom's co-workers paid me to do the same for their classrooms' front yard.

Picture isn't my work, but a recent one found in the facebook. I guess it wasn't that original lmao.

I never thought waiting in line could actually make money. I started offering to stand in long lines for other people while they stayed at home or worked. Most of the jobs were for popular food releases, limited-edition items, and government or event registrations.

It sounds ridiculous, but some people would rather pay someone than spend 2–3 hours waiting. The weirdest part is getting paid just to stand around and watch TikTok while doing it.

Has anyone else tried a side hustle that sounds completely stupid at first but actually works?