Two years ago I looked around my apartment and realized I was storing a small warehouse of things I never touched. So I started selling. Slowly, steadily, one listing at a time. Since then I’ve sold a little over $1,900 of my own clutter. I’ve also relisted, discounted, and eventually donated a whole category of … Read more
Let me save you some time. This is not a list of ways to make $5,000 a month from your couch. Those articles are written by people whose actual side hustle is writing those articles. This is the boring version. Five things I actually do, in the real world, that add somewhere between $200 and … Read more
Flipping, buying things cheap and reselling them, has a glamorous internet version full of storage units and four figure scores. This is not that. This is the small, local, weekend version I’ve run for a year: an hour or two on Saturdays, profits between $15 and $80 per item, and everything moves through the same … Read more
For six months I ran every popular cashback method side by side and tracked every cent in a spreadsheet, because the internet is full of claims and suspiciously light on receipts. Total earned across everything: $118.42. Not nothing, not a salary. Here’s the ranking, with real numbers and the catches nobody mentions. First place: the … Read more
Before anything worked, three things failed. I want to put the failures first, because every “how I make money online” story skips them, and the skipping is why people quit. Failure one: surveys. Eleven dollars for a month of clicking. Rate: about $2 an hour. Failure two: a print on demand shop. Forty hours designing … Read more