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I love a good side hustle and boy does TikTok have some ideas. So today I'm reacting to these TikTok side hustles to see if they're giving scam score or side eye and a polite Midwestern wave to our channel sponsor. Delete me for making videos like these possible. Let's get to it.
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So I bought a car wash and I'm going to show you how much money it made. Oh, this is one of my largest vacuums. It's overflowing. Let's dump it in here. And this is the other vacuum. This is my scented car fresheners and quite a bit of money. Let's dump it in here. This is my bill collector.
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Oh, fancy.
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Good chunk of change here. It's time to go to the bank. Let's go.
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That's a nice I like that sound.
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Ended up with 773 out of both bill collectors. Time for the change. I got up to about $450 before the machine filled up and I had to literally call an attendant over and they ran out of bags. So like for part two, if you want to see the total and click the link in my bio, never thought
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I'd be liking for part two of a bag of quarters. This is the slop we have on the Internet today. Well, I don't know much about Hannah. I mean, our car wash is a pretty low key, profitable business. But I have no clue how much it cost her if she's in crippling debt where this thing is. But she's apparently the CEO of side hustles, teaching you what school should have. Want help buying your first car wash or laundromat? Buy my course. Let's check this out. I always like to follow the trail, you know what I mean? How are they really making their money? It ain't but from quarters. It's from her little buy one instead course, which apparently doesn't even work. I can't vouch for this. There is a very large initial investment to just buy a car wash. There's a lot of maintenance, there's seasonal income. Think about it, when it's super cold out or it's raining, people don't really want to go to your car wash. And it's unrealistic for most people, especially a 22 year old, to have the funds to just go buy a car wash. And number two, I'd never tell you to go into debt for a business because there's a high chance of failure, which means you have a bunch of debt and no business so that puts you at a huge risk. Therefore, I am out on this unless you can buy one in cash. And you've done the research, but good for you, Hannah. Here we go.
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These are the side hustles that I did in college to essentially reach financial freedom, which is like $20,000. While going to school full time, the first thing that I did in my free time was do, like, food delivery. So I would like doordash, or you could instacart. That's also pretty lucrative. But I would do it with my friends. So we would either. Or we would go separate and have, like, competitions on who could make the most money in like, three hours. I was making, like $600 a week just by doing this when I didn't have anything else to do.
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Okay, okay. She's doing this on purpose for engagement farming. That's what it's called. Slash rage baiting. Because nobody but a Kardashian would cut a fruit like that. This is insane behavior. Who raised you? You've lost all credibility with these side hustles when you're cutting an apple like a maniac.
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Next thing that I would do would be like dog walk or dog sit, especially if it's like an overnight, because this is where you bring in the most money and you don't have to do a lot of work. You just have to stay at that person's house. So you could be doing homework, studying, being productive in any way while getting paid, and the overnight stays pay the most. Another thing that I would do would be file claims for class actions. I do this in an app called Sparrow. A lot of companies and brands are being sued, like, all the time. And it's products that you probably use every day. For example, Tyson is caught in a beef class action right now. You can get up to a thousand dollars from this, and most of the time for these class actions, they don't require receipts, so it's super easy to file the claim. Another thing that I would do would be, like, resell clothes or furniture. This could mean taking clothes from your closet or finding them at, like, a thrift store for super cheap and reselling them on sites like ebay or depop. People are also always giving away free furniture on Facebook Marketplace. Let me know if you want more tips on how to make money, because I've been doing this for a really long time.
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First of all, don't point your butcher knife at me, girl. Here's the hard part. These are actually good ideas, but I was so distracted with their stupid knife use that they are bad ideas now. But I do want to see the comment section to make sure I'm not the crazy one. Literally. What can you do with the apple after this? Helpful but low key. The way you're precariously cutting this apple made it so hard for me to focus. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thank you, Nat. That knife girl. Thank you. What the knife. So big. Crying emojis. The way you're cutting the apple is stressing me out. What is happening with this apple? I've never seen such chaos cutting. That's it. I'm actually surprised there's not more comments about the apple cutting. Wow. But this is true. I've done a lot of these. I've paid people to do this. I mean things like pet sitting, dog walking, overnight stays. Let's see the other one. Food delivery. That's still a strong one in today's world. We also had. I've never done the Sparrow app. I have done a few class action lawsuits and eventually you get a little check in the mail like months and months and months later for a little bit. I don't know, the whole like up to 1000 bucks. I doubt most people are getting that. And I also am not a fan of filing them if you had nothing to do with it and have no proof that you had that product. So can't vouch for that. I'm a man of integrity if nothing else. But outside of that, decent advice and I guess from my next video I need to try just cutting things haphazardly to try to get some more views. Ya Boi got six stitches in the second grade opening a Kool Aid six pack with a razor blade. So not exactly handy with a sharp object. Moving on. Okay, this one says how much it actually costs to start a vending machine business. Low budget version. All right, we'll see what her definition of low budget is.
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Startup costs for a vending machine business are relatively low, especially in comparison to other businesses. So this is the low budget addition of how much it'll cost to get started. Let's get the most expensive part of this out of the way. The vending machine itself is by far the biggest purchase you're going to be making. There are so many machines out there. But if I was working with a tight budget, the first machine I would get is a haha vending machine. These are cashless and refrigerated. So many less moving parts, which means less repairs. The one you're looking at in this video cost $3,000. I am not sponsored by it's just a really good deal. The next most obvious purchase is going to be product. Definitely want to start small here and work up until you have the need for a warehouse. You're only going to shop at Costco and Sam's club. I live 10 minutes from the world's largest Costco and business center. But for the sake of this video, I just went to a regular one. And they definitely had more than enough to get started. One case of Monster was $41.99. Gatorade was $15.99. Variety packs are the best way to go. At first, this chocolate variety pack was $28.99. These box of crackers was $17.89. And all of these chips were $19.89. I want a variety of sodas. And each of these cases was $18.79. The cost to form me $150. And then I got my EIN number free through the IRS website. Our total for a low budget startup cost is $3,330.22.
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Okay, that one was actually helpful because she got real specific now. Low budget and you got $3,000. That's. That's a lot of money for most people to just have and save up. And I would again, I would never recommend anybody go into debt or put this on a credit card to fund this thing. But overall, I mean, she's right. You could do this. Now you got it. You need a place to store this thing, and it takes a whole lot of time to do this.
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How do you know?
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It's because I ran a snack bar here at Ramsey Solutions back in, what was it, 2015? Maybe I lasted a good four months. Cause your boy is hauling 24 packs of Coke into the building. I had a little. I had to haul it all in, unpack it all, throw away all the cardboard, make it all look pretty, and then restock it three days later. Because these people are addicted to caffeine. All to make, you know, pretty piddly profits. You couldn't charge a lot here at Ramsey. They're, you know, they're doing the research. They're pretty frugal. You can't charge, you know, two bucks for a can charging 75 cents max. So my profits weren't that high, as much as you could charge from a vending machine. But overall, this is decent advice. And I do want to see if this is up to snuff here, this vending machine. And why did it have such bad reviews? Haha. Vending. And why is it called haha? Is It. Are you the joke?
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Ha ha.
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Okay, I do see one that is three grand has better reviews than the one she posted. There's a lot of these out there. You know what? Maybe I should get one and try it out. That would be fun. I don't know how my wife's gonna feel when she sees this Amazon purchase. Smart AI vending machine combo. I'm intrigued. I think that was a decent video and she was honest and didn't promise anything wild. But we also don't know how much she made. Emmy works vending machines, Airbnb and life in between. Okay, very nice. Appreciate the video. I do want to see what the zeitgeist is in the comments here. What if someone pays for one drink but takes more of that? It's a vending machine. It would only dispense one. Unless broken. You get charged based on what you take. You swipe your card before you can open the door. There's multiple cameras inside. Oh, interesting. Okay. Does the location charge a percentage of sales or fixed rent per month? That's interesting. Probably. That's usually how it works. Not a lot of info there, but at least the video was about startup costs and she delivered on that. So you need the cost to buy the machine, all the products. Products, the LLC, it's over 3K. And then you are spending at least 50 to 200 bucks a month for the products. Probably over 200 bucks in high traffic areas. And location is everything. Are people actually going to buy what you have to offer based on the location it's in and how often are they buying? Next up, Jada Blue.
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Okay, I'm just gonna stop gatekeeping my side hustle because the market is huge and there's just no competition. I've been making kids content on YouTube. I know everyone talks about how YouTube doesn't pay like it used to because nobody's watching YouTube anymore. Did you guys forget about the iPad babies? You're in the wrong market. That's where the money's at. I'll show you how I do it. It takes like five minutes. So this is the kind of content we're gonna make. The videos are quick and they're all made with AI. But for context, that's how much YouTube is paying per 100k views. Look at the numbers on these videos. They're going out every single day because they're so easy to make. You're gonna go over to Pixart Flow and you're gonna create a video. Drop a comment if you want the prompt. I used you soar to enhance prompt on couple minutes later. That's all in 4K.
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Guys. Guys, should we stop doing this channel? Absolutely not. I think we just move into kids. You see a million views per video. I got to go all the way to Disney to get a million views. This is crazy. She's doing this laying down. That is wild. I mean, I imagine this gets pretty saturated. I don't know how you. How you get all these views. You got to build up the channel. I imagine there's tons of content that doesn't have this kind of views. And to be honest, as an actual dad, I don't know that I could put this out there. I mean, this is like cocaine for these little kids. Their little brains can't handle it. It's too bright, moving too fast. Cocomelon ruined us all. Let's see if the comments are vibing here. It only pays 30 to 200 bucks for 100k views. Prompt, please. Didn't YouTube demonetize kids content in 2020? Is that true? You just make 50% less now? Apparently. Okay, interesting. You cannot charge for kids content unless it is posted, not tailored to kids. Oh, and YouTube said they're not paying for AI creations. Is that true? No. Slop that doesn't have human involvement. Guys, I can't keep up with this, all right? I'm just gonna keep making the content I make and stay out of the kids AI animation world. Thank God. Although I'd love to have an animated series with me. Editors work on that. Show me cartoon George, because I already kinda look like a cartoon. But hey, if that's a side hustle you wanna try, be my guest. Finally, some bros. Let's see what they have to say. How to flip $10 into $1,400. Easy profit. Already not loving this guy.
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You got $10? Yeah. Let me put you on something real quick. This right here is a 4x4. He gonna buy you a 4x4, and I'm gonna show you what to do with it. To make a killing. Get home. You gonna get your speed square, and you're gonna draw a straight line every half an inch all the way down the whole length of the board. Like this. Half an inch.
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Let's get on some crafts project.
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Then you're left with a bunch of squares like this. Then get you a sander, and you're gonna go over all of them on both sides and on the edges and get them as smooth as you can. And then you're gonna Google wooden drink coasters, and you're gonna see that roughly for about $20. A four pack. So that $10 12 foot 4x4 you bought, you can make 288 cuts out of that piece. And then with those 288, you put them in bundles of four. Just like that. You got 72 bundles. And if you do 72 times 20 on average, that's 14 $40 that you can make off of $1. 10 investment. There ain't no excuse for anybody to be broke.
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Wow. Okay. Guarantee you that guy hasn't sold a single coaster. That's your final product. It's just a raw piece of square wood. It's not even. I mean, who's going to buy all these wooden coasters? I made those wooden coasters. They wouldn't sell. There's a dad joke from Balfi. Yeah. And I don't think it's $20. If you're paying 20 bucks for a four pack, they better be high qual. Now, whatever this guy's putting out there, let me put you onto these wooden coasters. The wooden coaster market after this video. Straight down. There we go. That's a good one. This is. I. Okay. I didn't check out his eye. Should we. Are we worried about his eye? Oh. Oh. It does look like he's got some kind of. I think our boy's got pink eye. Don't like the whole vibe. The whole vibe is just off putting to me. And what's up with guys in under Armor? When did we all decide we're gonna wear Under Armour as a society? Is this like the Lululemon but for men? Huh? I don't know who's impressed. Needless to say, that is one of the dumbest ones I've seen here today. But good for him for knowing how to draw a line. That's the nicest thing I can say. Now, when you're doing all these side hustles, you should at least be comfortable while doing it. And that's why I love the men's everywhere pants. For my friends at Cozy Earth, a sponsor of today's video. They're perfect for the office, the car, or your next big side hustle, like making coasters from a 4x4. And bonus, they're stylish too, unlike those coasters. I'm also a huge fan of Cozy Earth's brushed bamboo joggers. Made with viscose from bamboo, the softest material known to man. It gives you that work from home PJ feel that you can wear just about anywhere. And right now, you can get up to 20% off by going to cozyearth.comgeorge and using the promo code George at checkout. A lot of the money saving advice I give on this channel takes hard work. But you know what doesn't take hard work? Switching to Boost Mobile, another sponsor of today's video. With Boost Mobile, you'll pay just 25 bucks a month forever on their unlimited plan. No contracts, no price hikes. Make the switch today and you can unlock up to $600 a year in savings compared to the big guys. Bring your phone, keep your number. It's that easy. Go to boostmobile.com Ramsey to make the switch based on average annual payment of AT&T Verizon and T Mobile customers compared to 12 months on the Boost Mobile Unlimited plan as of January 2026. See website for full details. All right, back to the Internet. How this Picture Pays My Rent say
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more this is a story of how this picture of a horse literally paid my rent for the past six months. Let me explain. Last year I was on a walk and I was passing by this pasture where I saw a beautiful, majestic horse standing right next to the fence. So naturally, I whipped out my iPhone and I took this quick picture. Little did I know this casual picture would later come to make me thousands of dollars in passive income. Because what I did after the walk is spend five minutes doing some basic edits on the photo to fix the color and the lighting. Then I added a bunch of good metadata tags and keywords to the photo and I uploaded it to multiple stock photography sites. At first, the payouts were really slow, but over the past year, that single horse picture has actually made me a couple thousand dollars in passive income, all from a picture that I almost didn't even take.
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Okay. I mean, I'm intrigued. I just didn't know that stock photo sites were still a hot place to make money. I feel like there's a lot of competition, a lot of saturation, a lot of horse photos out there. So the chances of someone picking her photo out of a, you know, needle in a haystack, that's. That's tough. But she's claiming she's making thousands. Who am I to disagree? Sweet dreams are made of these. And of course, how she's really making her money. The $67 course on how to get paid to take pictures with your phone, which, I mean, to be fair, is something we all have. We all feel like we could do that. I could take a picture of a horse. I've seen a horse before. A horse. Of course I see a horse on my Way to work every day. And it gives me a side eye for some reason. Good for her, I guess, for making content, helping people figure out how to do this if she's actually doing it. I'm not saying she's a bad person. 67 bucks is not a lot to pay. But I think she's overhyping how easy this is to make money from it. And she's making a course telling you how to do it. And that always puts just a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth when they're gatekeeping it all behind the paywall. Passive income is truly how you get rich. What do you mean? You added a bunch of metadata and tags. Show us how you did it. Yeah, that's the point of her course, bro. Examples of keywords, hopefully with the owner's permission, of course. That's what I'm saying. Unsolicited horse picks, no consent. The horse didn't agree to this. It was an innocent bystander. Now you're making thousands off of this horse that's not yours. No, thanks. I mean, if someone took a picture of my dogs while they're out back, that feels creepy. It's a little intrusive. Wow. Okay. Amen. God's teamwork. All right, that's the last comment I need to read. All right, next up, back to the bros. Oh, this guy needs a cheeseburger. All right, let's see what he has to say.
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Testing TikTok side hustle so you don't have to part 13. A ton of people on TikTok say you can make over $100 an hour power washing. So let's see how much money we make. First, I ordered the first power washer I saw on Amazon for, like, $200. Then I ordered about 20 bucks worth of these flyers, and I put them on a bunch of people's doors to advertise. A few days after I passed out the flyers, a couple people hit me up wanting some jobs done. So the first guy wanted me to wash his house and his driveway, so I charged him 100 bucks for the driveway and 100 bucks for the house. It took me two hours in total to finish, so that's about 100 bucks an hour I was getting paid. So you could for sure make like 50 to 100 bucks an hour power washing. And that includes the time it takes to find jobs. Comment which side hustle I should test in the next video and follow for more.
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Now, this one is legit. I still stand by the fact that I don't like his Vibe and I wouldn't hire him, but I have hired young guys who have a little pressure washing business and even young gals to do this at my house because I don't want to sit there for an hour and pressure wash when I can have someone else do it. And I own a pressure washer and I can count on zero fingers how many times I pulled that bad boy out. So yes, this is something I'm willing to pay for. And I think it's actually a decent side hustle because it's a low investment with a good return. Cost you 100 bucks, 200 bucks to buy the supplies, and you can earn 100 an hour. So in the first two hours of doing this business with almost zero startup cost, you got a little business on your hands. But this takes work and you're in the elements. You might be out there in the heat or in the cold and you have to know what you're doing. You don't want to damage someone's property, so you're probably going to need to have some insurance in place and maybe eventually turn it into a full blown, you know, LLC with its own bank account. But great side hustle. And he did have more equipment in the video that he did not show the cost of. So I'm still a little. I'm a little sketched by any. Any guy who's always got a hoodie on. You know what I mean? What are you trying to hide? What's going on back there, bro? Doing side quests, bro. Just starting businesses for fun. I hope you know that what you wrote will actually show up once it's dry. I also had that thought. Pressure washing your name into someone's driveway is. Is not the move. Try detailing. Cleaning cars. That's a good one too, bro. Looks easy to draw. I don't know what that means. What? All right. You know what time it is? Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Producer Alex has chosen a video at random that may or may not be helpful to anyone or have anything to do with today's topic, but I am obliged to watch it for some reason. So here we go. Is that a car on stilts? Are they racing? What? There's an axe on 1 1. Do they race a three stack? Well, that one's upside down. That can't. No, it looks real, but I can't think. I can't. It can't be real, cuz the one going upside down. There's no way is this AI. I'm trying to see if that guy looks real or not.
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How Is it even moving? What is propelling those tires? That one still gets me. Oh, it is upside down. Oh, no. Oh, it does have wheels underneath the roof. I don't understand the axe one. What does that have to do with anything? Why was that so stressful? It was more stressful than it was entertaining, I'll say that. A million likes, over 12,000 comments. Let's see what floated to the top. That's. That's a great one right there. Is it walking on its udders? That's hilarious. I drew these cars when I was six. Went in, was six. Glad to see Top Gear hasn't changed. I knew that last one was gonna be on some BS at first glance. What? Well, that was fun. I still don't know if it's real. My heart wants to believe it's real. I don't even know if AI is creative enough to imagine this world. But it's impressive either way. So my motto today, hustle smarter, not harder. And the best way to do that, take my free 5 minute side hustle quiz to help you figure out the best side hustle based on the time and skills you have. Again, not a scam because it's free. I get nothing out of this. So go to georgecamel.com sidehustle to take the quiz or click the link in the description. And if you like this video, you will definitely enjoy watching me break down the five side hustles I personally use to pay off debt and build wealth. Click here to watch it next or use the link in the description. That's it for today. Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you next time.
Podcast Summary: George Kamel – “22 Minutes of Side Hustles From The Internet” (Ramsey Network, May 8, 2026)
In this lively and snarky episode, George Kamel reacts in real time to viral TikTok videos claiming to offer lucrative side hustle ideas. With his signature humor and skepticism, George dissects the practicality, risks, and hidden pitfalls behind each online side hustle—from vending machines to pressure washing to “passive income” horse photography. He also dives into user comments, debunks short-cuts, and drops personal anecdotes, all while sticking to his core Ramsey philosophies: avoid debt, don’t fall for hype, and prioritize real, sustainable income.
“There's a very large initial investment to just buy a car wash...I’d never tell you to go into debt for a business.” ([01:43])
“Who raised you? You've lost all credibility with these side hustles when you're cutting an apple like a maniac.” ([03:02])
“I’m a man of integrity if nothing else. Not a fan of filing them if you had nothing to do with it.” ([04:16])
On TikTok’s Course Sellers:
“How are they really making their money? It ain’t but from quarters. It’s from her little buy one instead course, which apparently doesn’t even work.” (George Kamel, [01:21])
Pet Sitting Side Hustle:
“These are actually good ideas, but I was so distracted with their stupid knife use that they are bad ideas now.” (George, [04:16])
On the Wood Coaster Guy:
“Guarantee you that guy hasn’t sold a single coaster. That’s your final product? It’s just a raw piece of square wood.” (George, [13:14])
On Kids Content & AI:
“This is like cocaine for these little kids…their little brains can’t handle it. Cocomelon ruined us all.” (George, [10:25])
Regarding Realistic Startup Costs:
“Low budget and you got $3,000...that’s a lot of money for most people to just have and save up.” (George, [07:03])
Hustle Smarter, Not Harder:
“Passive income is truly how you get rich. What do you mean? You added a bunch of metadata and tags. Show us how you did it. Yeah, that’s the point of her course, bro.” (George, [17:01])
George’s tone is witty, slightly snarky, and full of pop-culture references, but always grounded in practical financial wisdom. He mixes skepticism for internet “get rich quick” schemes with moments of sincere advice, especially when side hustles align with Ramsey values (no debt, hard work, real income).
Hustle smarter, not harder—find what fits your skills, budget, and schedule, and don’t fall for internet hype.
(For more honest breakdowns and to test your own side hustle fit, George recommends his free quiz at georgecamel.com/sidehustle.)