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Hobby that made a lot of money

31 replies

LesleyA · 18/03/2023 17:42

Recently read about a teenage kid who made candles in his room to make a bit of pocket money and is now making a fortune. Would love to hear about other success stories and would love to know how to get this post onto Trending Now so it gets a wider audience?

thanks

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Ceryneianhind · 18/03/2023 17:44

love to know how to get this post onto Trending Now so it gets a wider audience?

why?

TomatoSandwiches · 18/03/2023 17:45

Post in chat for more exposure.

determinedtomakethiswork · 18/03/2023 17:45

Such a strange ambition!

Cloverforever · 18/03/2023 17:56

determinedtomakethiswork · 18/03/2023 17:45

Such a strange ambition!

I think the ambition is for somebody to tell the OP how to make a fortune out of a nice and easy little hobby...

LennyThePenny · 18/03/2023 18:08

Placemarking for the revelation. I need more money

Riverr · 18/03/2023 18:15

My friend told me her friend buys clothes from charity shops, washes them. Irons them and sews holes or whatever. She sells them online on vinted and other sites not ebay and last year made £25k. She doesn't need to work and this money is used for holidays.

LadyWithLapdog · 18/03/2023 18:24

@Riverr that must be really hard work, like a proper full time job. Given how cheap clothes are on 2nd hand sites, she must be going through tons of clothes to make the odd fiver here or there that would add up to 25k a year.

Hyperion100 · 18/03/2023 18:32

Poker

Bearpawk · 18/03/2023 18:33

Riverr · 18/03/2023 18:15

My friend told me her friend buys clothes from charity shops, washes them. Irons them and sews holes or whatever. She sells them online on vinted and other sites not ebay and last year made £25k. She doesn't need to work and this money is used for holidays.

Bollocks - to make 25k from this she must be spending FULL TIME WORK hours on it unless it's rare high end designer gear she's happening across in chazzers 😂

QuimIsASwearWord · 18/03/2023 18:42

Ceryneianhind · 18/03/2023 17:44

love to know how to get this post onto Trending Now so it gets a wider audience?

why?

My first thought, with the mention of tending and wider audience, was the that it's an opener for a MLM recruitments, there's a couple of people on my FB who are in mlms like scentsy and often post things like this about how people have turned their hobby into a business and asks people to help it reach a wider audience for exposure and her down line and other members of the mlm flood the comments with their success stories of how they turned their hobby of smelling wax melts into a successful scentsy business.

My sil was in a couple of mlms and anyone comments on her post something like "I'd love to turn my hobby into an income" or "I don't have much time to myself" she'd send them private messages to try and recruit.

Im not saying that's what the OP has done, the thread isn't flooded with mlm huns so I doubt it's that, it's just that was where my mind went at first.

YomAsalYomBasal · 18/03/2023 21:39

Only fans

Riverr · 19/03/2023 08:08

Bearpawk · 18/03/2023 18:33

Bollocks - to make 25k from this she must be spending FULL TIME WORK hours on it unless it's rare high end designer gear she's happening across in chazzers 😂

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I'm just reiterating what my friend told me. She enjoys what she does she doesn't need to work and this is her "hobby " Good luck to her I say.

FusionChefGeoff · 19/03/2023 09:00

Matched betting is a great way to earn money if you're methodical. Bad time to start though as just missed Cheltenham

KnickerlessParsons · 19/03/2023 10:13

Buy wool from charity shops and make granny square blankets. They sell for £££

BarbaraofSeville · 19/03/2023 10:15

It needs to be something where you know what you're doing, are interested in and already have the knowledge or can take the time to learn.

I could probably be good at matched betting but I CBA to learn how to get started, same for share trading.

I have had reasonable success at playing Blackjack before, especially if approached in a similar manner to matched betting, ie by exploiting the starting offers to get free stakes.

There was a boy who drove his parents to despair by spending his entire waking hours online gaming, until he won a million dollars in the Fortnite World Cup.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-49143447

wonderstuff · 19/03/2023 10:18

I did matched betting for a while, it wasn’t difficult, but took a long time and was fairly boring. I made a few hundred pounds but had to tie up quite a few hundred in the process. Didn’t change my life!

HolibobsinApril · 19/03/2023 10:24

The reason they want it in trended is because they are going to come in as many aliases and post about their MLM or similar.

What a strange post

gogohmm · 19/03/2023 10:25

@Bearpawk

I call this out too, vinted clothes are cheaper than many of the charity shops! I work in one and our pricing guide checks vinted!

TheGoogleMum · 19/03/2023 10:31

Charity shops aren't as cheap as they used to be and stuff on vinted doesn't sell if its not a bargain so I'm not sure how she is managing that!

iamnottoofatiamjusttooshort · 19/03/2023 10:37

HolibobsinApril · 19/03/2023 10:24

The reason they want it in trended is because they are going to come in as many aliases and post about their MLM or similar.

What a strange post

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LesleyA · 19/03/2023 10:38

Oh my word talk about cynics … yes just want to reach a bigger audience I’ve often asked things but if I choose a specific category it only gets a small audience you so I wondered how one gets into the main chat. Is it just the juicier stuff (although sometimes I find some quite ordinary). Have asked before but have never got an answer (about getting into the trending). Then no I’m not in recruitment and yes looking to earn extra but also find it so inspiring to hear how people were blown away by something they started small and ended up being their main source of income or a great big part of it. Watched on youtube Rolys fudge that seemed like one of these stories. That’s all.

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BarbaraofSeville · 19/03/2023 10:44

She can't be, it just doesn't add up.

Even if she lives in walking distance of a few charity shops where lots of rich people donate their expensive things and none of the charity shops take advantage of this by pricing accordingly, so her costs are almost nothing, it sounds unlikely.

Charity shops cherry pick anything genuinely valuable and sell separately, so the chances of her finding multiple things that she sells at a big profit is unlikely.

Even if she's buying high end high street/low end designer and buys for a fiver and sells for £100, she'd have to find 5 items every single week that are this profitable for it to add up.

KittyCrush · 20/03/2023 02:28

I used to buy and resell clothes.

Usually the cocktail dress type from Karen Millen, coast, etc.

Someone would chuck it on their unmade bed, photo it and advertise on ebay as 'worn once, needs dry cleaning'. I'd buy for under £10, often under £5, dry clean, take proper photos and measurements and put back on ebay with a buy it now of £50. I'd sell at least 10 a week, huge money spinner but very time consuming.

Unfortunately I must have been just ahead of the curve, after about a year there were loads doing the same which increased the purchase price and decreased the selling price.

I moved onto matched betting and casino offers and made over 30k a year on that, again it was near enough a full time job and I was only slightly ahead of the curve so it died after a few years too.

I dont have any new ideas but if you're a crafty person get along to an artisan market in a middle class area and see what's selling and think about how you could do it better.

Feuillemille23 · 20/03/2023 03:17

When you start dissecting pretty much all of these Get Rich Quick tall tales, you'll usually find a rich mummy/daddy/spouse who invested early on....same applies to the "Aren't I brilliant, I bought my first house with just a £50k deposit at the age of 17" or "I started my business with £10" stories rubbish. There's a splendid one at the minute about a kid in Gloucestershire who's opened an eclectic store...stocked by Daddy and in Daddy's name, yet this kid is being held up as a great example of a college dropout. The days of being able to make a decent monthly income on eBay are long gone. You might have some luck with FBA ( fulfilled by Amazon) but again there's loads of folk on that bandwagon now as well...

barmycatmum · 20/03/2023 03:35

i have a few side hustles that have been life saving since my job let me go unexpectedly.

I refurbish clothing and sell it on Poshmark. You do get quite a feel for what sells and what doesn’t. I’ve made a good amount, but it’s not something reliable- one month you might have quite a lot of sales, and another month not as much.

I have a leatherworking hobby, and have turned that into some income with an online shop, but it’s important to find things you can make that aren’t hugely labor intensive, so you can streamline the building process and still sell quality pieces and keep costs low.
people are impatient these days, and used to paying less due to Amazon and whatnot.

the lovely thing about “side hustles” is that your hours are your own choice, and if you need to close up shop for a bit, you can do that. I’ve found it so helpful.