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Stop me if you've been here before, you need some extra money so you google side hustles and it tells you deliver doordash, take online surveys or babysit. You want me babysitting your kids, you got another thing coming. Not gonna happen. All of these are giving uninspired and that's why I asked you guys to share the most creative things you've done that actually made you money. And I have parsed through three thousands of comments to hand deliver the best of the bunch. So let's give a quick double thumbs up to deleteme for sponsoring this video and hop right on in. Alexis on Facebook said bartending monthly can obviously range, but I would say 800 to 1500 bucks just depending on what's going on. Certain dinner night, band night, et cetera. And how many nights I pick up my fiance referees and umpires, which is great extra money as well. Edit. This is the money I make from a small town bar. Those small town bars have the most drinking per capita, I'll tell you that much. There's nowhere else to go, girl. They're going to your place. I like this. Bartending is actually a great side hustle and they're always in need of quality. People who show up on time and can sling them drinks just from tips. You can make great money. So I love that one. And refereeing, umpiring, that's a great side hustle a lot of people need. You know, you don't have to be an expert. You just gotta know how the game is played and call the fouls on little Johnny when he, you know, just stiffs that kid for no reason. What are we doing, dude? What are we doing? It's baseball. What are you doing? So I'm a big fan of these and 1500 bucks a month, that's nothing. That's nothing to shake a fist at. I wouldn't be shaking fists at that. Next we have Ruby placenta encapsulation. All right, just took a turn. Certification, wow. There's just constant turns with this M. Night Shyamalan twist with every new word. Certification was around $400. Supplies initially $200 monthly around $20. I average about $700 monthly net. Some months are 350 bucks, others are $2,000 or more. That's incredible. Ruby. I gotta say I'm impressed. So the initial startup cost was 600 bucks, which I assume you cash flowed and the monthly cost is 20 bucks, but you're still netting 700 bucks a month on average. That is a great side hustle. And a lot of crunchy moms out there, they want that placenta encapsulated. Cause that's like a. I mean it's. You can't buy that. You got the nutrients from mom to baby. You kidding me? Incredible. As gross as it sounds, it's just the human body, guys. Get over it. Take an anatomy class. What's wrong with you? Don't you know how you got here? Ask your mom. Don't ask. You don't wanna know. I know there's a lot of kids watching. So, parents, get your work cut out for you tonight at bedtime. That's okay. I just, I need to know more. What supplies? Who's doing the certifying? So many questions here, but I will not be googling that on our computer. No thank you. It is already up my butt. All right, moving on. Elaine on Facebook. Shout out to Facebook. By the way, Elaine said cleaning homes. I will use one as an example. Takes me two hours and I make 180 bucks per clean. If you're doing the math at home, guys, that's $90 an hour is the hourly rate for that. That's two times a month for that client, which is $360 a month. One house. 360 bucks a month for four hours of work. That's incredible. I don't know where else you're getting a $90 an hour rate per hour. That's amazing. Now it's manual labor. It's tough, but anybody can do it. So if you enjoy cleaning, you get some satisfaction out of making, you know, dirty spaces clean. This is a great one to do. You don't need any certifications. You just need to be trustworthy, be professional and get the word out there. And once you do one house, they go, hey, who was that you had clean your house? And they go, oh, that's, that's Sally. Call up, call up Elaine. She does great work. Here's her number. And all of a sudden you got six homes in the neighborhood at 360amonth. And you can do this nights and weekends. It's pretty flexible. Fantastic. All right. Anonymous member said this. I see why they're anonymous now. Nightfall watch. Keeping watch over pregnant horses to notice when they're giving birth and assisting with birth. So many visuals, so little time. Three to $4,000 per month between my husband I doing no more than 35 hours per week total. No more than 35 hours per week. I think you've done enough. At 35. That's a full time job. Anonymous member. If that's even your real name. And between your husband, like, are you guys switching off like you take the graveyard shift and then he's the day shift? I don't know how this works, but 4k a month, I gotta know who's this horse owner who's like, hey, would you mind coming over and staring at my horse while they sleep, just in case they pop a baby horse out? Riches in the niches. That's all I gotta say on that one. And you guys know how I feel about horses. Could you sell the horse? But if you don't own one and you're gonna make money off a horse owner, all the better. Stick it to the horse, man. All right, I think I'm beating a dead horse here. Let's move on to Benaiah. I wish her name was Benaiah Twain and it was a Shania cover band, but it's not. All right, here's what Benaiah said. With 14 yards, I was doing an extra $3,000 a month mowing, working one and a half days per week. That's incredible. I mean, I'm trying to do the mental math here. One and a half days. I mean, I guess it's an eight hour day. So 12 hours a week as a side hustle. 48 hours a month for 3K. Dare I do the math? $62 an hour. What are you doing? Making $62 an hour. Go mow a lawn. That's going to be my new insult. Go mow a lawn. Go make 62 bucks. That's incredible. Now that's 14 yards. And think about this, like the house cleaning. That's something that you have a regular client. They want you to come back every two weeks. Mowing. They want you to come back every week or every two weeks. And you're making that kind of money. I mean, you could get a whole neighborhood because everybody wants a reliable lawnmower. You know, doing the weed eating. I don't want to be out there in the heat and the elements, but people are willing to do it for you. So unless you just love doing it on your own. I love delegating a task like this to someone who's. Who's hustling, making some extra money. So shout out to Beniah for making it happen. Three grand a month is more than most people make in their full time job. It's amazing. All right. I was a single female Lyft and Uber driver in the city of Chicago during the highest period of Lyft and Uber carjackings. Covid is that True. The worst thing that happened to me was a creepy guy cutting my hair. If anybody's cutting your hair and you're not in a seat at a salon or barbershop, I got issues. You're telling me this guy was in the backseat, had scissors with him, and was like gonna take that home for the collection? That's creepy. I'll be honest. If you're a single female, I personally would not be driving Uber and Lyft. That's just me. I wouldn't want my daughter doing that. But I have heard, and you can maybe somebody in this room knows. I've heard you can actually select, you know, if you're a female, you can select the female driver and you'll feel a little safer. Hopefully. Not to say females can't cut your hair from the back seat, but I feel like the chances go drastically down. Yeah, that's a, I guess a creative side hustle. I mean, Lyft and Uber isn't the most creative, but you, you really went for it. I mean, Chicago, I've been to Chicago. It's not a super dangerous city. But I would not want to be, you know, driving around at night, especially as a single female. I mean, as a single. Look at me, I'm like target demographic for a guy getting mugged in the street. No, thank you. And here's the deal. I want to call this out because Uber and Lyft are one of the most common ones. Even I recommend you can make 15 to 25 an hour is what they advertise. And that is true. But after all the expenses, taxes, you got self employment tax, the wear and tear on the car, the maintenance, all of that, the unpaid time when you're not actually in the middle of a ride, that ends up netting you closer to 10 to 14 an hour. Not terrible, but it's not a great long term side hustle to, you know, make significant debts in your debt. And there's hidden downsides, right? You got your car depreciating faster because you're, you're driving it to the ground. You, you got more maintenance. You likely need extra insurance on top of your normal auto insurance, so that can quickly wipe out your earnings. So wouldn't do it long term, but short term, go for it. All right, next up, Bonneville says mystery shopping. Now this one's interesting. This is where you're, you know, it's like Undercover Boss. They'll pay you to go have this experience and sort of give you them a review and rate it. But the problem I have with this one is that most mystery shopping gigs pay very little in cash, like 8 to 25 bucks. And they take two to three hours of total work. So think about that. You made $8 or $25 for three hours of your time. Was it worth it? Was it worth the hourly rate of four to eight dollars to do this? I don't think so. So the hidden cost of this is time. Especially all the detailed reporting you need to do after the mystery shopping, which is less fun than the actual shopping. So it's only worth it in niche cases if it's a really high paying shop plan spending. Otherwise, just call it what it is. It's a hobby. And maybe you get reimbursed and it costs you $0 to have that meal or that experience. But outside of that, not a great side hustle if you're really trying to make some progress with your money. All right, moving on to Carol on Facebook. She got a like and a heart on this one. In. On Canada Day. Oh, sorry. In Canadian flag. On Canada Day, the pricey Chinese restaurant, the Mandarin gives free buffet, but the line is so long you have to wait about five hours to get in. This is crazy. And it was hot outside and no shade in the parking lot. So I went to the dollar store, bought Canada Day hats and water and walked up and down the line selling it while my hubby waited in line with the kids. Free food, made some pocket money and helped people. I love that. Outside of you using the word hubby in a Facebook comment, which is a straight to jail for me. I love this idea of getting really creative, seizing the day, seeing this opportunity and going, hey, I. I can help people and make a buck in the process. Nobody was hurt, nobody got scammed here. It's a hot day, they don't want to lose their place in line, and you're giving them a nice ice cold water for a buck or two and selling these dollar store hats to celebrate Canada existing. That's a win in my book. The buffet still, I mean, Chinese buffet. I didn't know we were still doing that. That feels like, like an OSHA violation at this stage of the game. But hey, you do you. Your small intestine can handle it. I'm impressed. Inhaled radiation as part of a medical research program. Okay, first of all, how do you even know this was a real medical research program? You just responded to a Craigslist ad being like, hey, you want to inhale radiation for a buck? Come on down to my house. This is wild behavior. I don't understand the Circumstances in which inhaling radiation could be okay or helpful. Like, what were they studying? How fast you die? I don't know why you would sign up for this, Samantha. There is no amount of money that could cause me to do this. As a man with a family, you know, I want to meet my grandkids one day. So I don't care if it's $10,000 to inhale radiation. I'm in a hard pass on that medical research program. But good on you and the seven people who gave you the emoji and a heart. I don't wanna support that. I'm not gonna hit the like button. All right. Alicia had this to say. I started a boutique bunny boarding business out of my house and did bunny bonding. Train bunnies how to be friends. Most bunnies naturally hate each other. I'm learning a whole lot today. The buns. Okay, you call them the buns. I guess you can do that. I mean, you have the bunny bonding boarding boutique bunny bonding boarding business. Five bees in there. I think the buns helped to pay off $150,000 of debt. But to do it, I had bunnies living in literally every room of my house except the bathroom for the better part of four years. I mean, at that point, might as well in the bathroom. I mean, what are you scared of at that point? What are they gonna see? Wow. I have so many questions. Is it true that bunnies naturally hate each other? One more reason not to have a bunny, let alone, I don't know, thousands, however many Alicia had. This is crazy. Living in every room. Wow. Well, hey, more power to her if she paid off $150,000 of debt. That is very impressive and definitely one of the most creative. I think Alicia should link up with the Nightfall watchers. Maybe they could start a business together. I feel like they're both in the same wavelength of weird, but also very creative. And again, I didn't know people pay for bunny bonding. I didn't know people pay to wash pregnant horses in the middle of the night. So I have a lot to learn. This show constantly teaches me things I learned against my will. So thank you, guys. But let me tell you, the only thing cozier than a herd of bunnies are the brushed bamboo joggers from Cozy Earth, Sponsor of today's video. 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And there's another business of people whose job it is to feed the pythons when people are out of town. Like, that's the most wild pet sitting I've ever seen in my life. How do you feed it to them? Do you just hold it up and dangle it and they just go? Or do you just, like, throw the rat in the cage and get out of there? I mean, do they smell the rat on your hand and they want to attack you? I just, I wouldn't trust a python. I just, I have trust issues with pythons. And I know people love them. People go to these weird shows where they have all these pythons. You can buy exotic snakes, but I Think those people, their cornbread ain't done in the middle, to be honest. And most of them live in Florida, so. Coincidence? I think not. But good for you for doing it once at least. I don't know how much you got paid, but whatever it was, it was not enough. It was not enough to go full Bear Grylls, Robert Irwin, these people's house while they're in Europe. Why own a snake if you're not going to be around to bond with the snake? You're in Europe half the year, leaving the snake alone. Gosh, snake parents, what can you do? All right, moving on is hopefully something less worrisome. Howard said my consistent was donating plasma about 75 bucks to 100 bucks a week with promotions. I get a bonus at the end. I get a bonus B of month. Not sure what he meant there, but he got a bonus. He could make 700 bucks to 1000 bucks a month with these bonuses and promotions. That's amazing. That's good money for donating plasma. So if you're into that, you got a spot near you donating plasma. Legit side hustle can make legit money. I would encourage it if you are willing and able. All right. Amanda said I enrolled in medical studies for extra cash while I was a student from one of them. I had to lay in an MRI for three hours while they studied my brain. It literally paid my rent for that month. Wow, that is wild. I don't know that I could survive that. That feels like a torture device to be in there for three hours while someone's looking at the. Who knows what's going on up here? Guys, I don't want to know. I don't need strangers looking at that. That's too personal. It's a HIPAA violation of my book. I'm claustrophobic thinking about that. Get me out of there. I need room. I'm a little guy, but I need some room to wiggle. Yummy, yummy. All right, last but not least, Cameron said my father in law sold his horse to pay for my mother in law's master's degree. True story Horse emoji. Race horse emoji, to be exact. That is incredible. I mean, y' all know my infamous sell the horse call. There's other horses out there. It doesn't even know your name. And he sold it as a sacrifice for his wife for her to further her education. I can't think of a more beautiful story. You got rid of a horse and she got a master's degree. Happy endings all around. And I'm sure the horse went to a good home farm upstate. I want to know how much you sold the horse for, because in my situation, the call I took, I think the horse was worth like 20 grand. And if it paid for the master's degree, it probably was more than that. This one must have been a real a prize winning horse. Now, if you don't have a horse or a placenta encapsulation certification, I made a free side that gives you a customized list of normal ways to make more money without feeling like you're in over your head. So check out the Side Hustle quiz at the link in the description. And if you enjoyed this video, you'll definitely enjoy this one where I ranked 20 side hustles from best to worst. And I hold a puppy in the video, which is the real reason to watch. So click here to watch it next or use the link in the description. That's it for today. Hit like on this video. Subscribe to Grow the channel so we can get even more crazy comments when we do it again. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.