Dog hotel. I've a dog. I take in other dogs when their owners are on holiday. Walking 2 dogs isn't much more work than walking 1.
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Taking on one extra dog for a few days seems like the easiest, most chill way to make a little money on the side if you are careful about which dogs you take. Those people who sit 4+ dogs at a time are insane but must pull in a good bit of money.
That makes sense! If they are similar to my dog, I probably wouldn't notice that much, and if they provided the food and stuff, I wouldn't need to charge much.
My side hustle is real estate photography. Very flexible timing and I already had all the equipment. If I didnβt already own the equipment I wouldnβt have done it.
Good excuse to buy a drone.
You have to have a license to do that in the US. It's not super hard to get but not as easy as just buying a drone.
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My wife does the furniture flipping thing. I don't think we make any money on it β but we have much nicer furniture than we could afford otherwise and between reselling the items we get rid of the low prices we pay for the incoming, we're certainly not spending money on it, either, and that's counting the cost of renting trucks to move it around.
Well getting nice furniture from a hobby sounds pretty chill regardless!
Every now and then my eyes pop at the cost of new furniture.
how is nobody afraid of bedbugs?
We don't fick with upholstered furniture for exactly that reason. Tables, dressers, cabinets.
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Maybe if you live in an area with mostly SFHs so bugs can't spread as aggressively? I'd never take furniture off the street. I'd rather sleep on bare floor than deal with bed bugs.
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Higher education tripled my income, so that seemed to work, and I dont have to do anything but sit in an office 40 hours a week.
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I haven't known anyone to do this but I always thought managing social media accounts for small businesses would be a good side hustle. A steakhouse restaurant nearby went out of business in a year. They spent a ton of money on remodeling and a billboard with a logo but weren't even listed on Google Maps. I'll wager some businesses would be willing to barter in order to keep things simple
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If I ever picked up a side hustle, it'd be basic editing. ChatGPT has displaced the ghost writer but it can't polish its own turd.
Editing ChatGPT generated content sounds soul crushing tbh.
I think the thing that would keep me sane is that I'm fascinated in trying to figure out how a single AI-generated paragraph can be accurately detected.
But yeah, the common permutation of multiple pargraphs, the first starting with reaffirm/validate/reiterate is downright obnoxious.
'I'm sorry to hear you're having such difficulties with editing ChatGPT-generated content. It can be challenging and even frustrating at times, but with' lol
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My Etsy shop hit a very niche market and was pulling around $3k a year. I didn't put any effort into advertising, it kinda did that on its own
I'm also a performer which is a great side hustle for my creative fulfillment, but pays nearly nothing
You donβt have to confirm/deny - but Iβm going to pretend this niche is selling tiefling horns/ears.
By "performer" do you mean musician? Playing bars or coffee shops here and there? I've done that for a free drink or two here and there. I think that would be one of my retirement activities if I had loads of free time, but it takes a lot of energy to set it all up and be "on" regularly while also working full time.
I'm a fire and sideshow performer weirdly enough, we're a dying breed. I mostly do shows at bars and host my own, but every now and then I get a nicer gig that pays a bit more, like at a faire.
Oh man I loved when Evermore (RIP) had fire dancers. But it was funny because for their major events they would hire super skilled pros, then their daily shows they would have a staff member that they had taught or was a hobbyist before being hired. They were fun and skilled, but the difference was very obvious in variety of tricks and number of failed tricks.
Which makes sense considering their financial troubles, but imagine being that fire dancer on staff being like "Super hyped for tonight's show!" and them just being like "Ahh, did no one tell you? We hired someone for five times your nightly wage to do tonight's show cause they're a lot better"
The only one Iβve heard of working really well was 3D printing copyrighted material that is usually way overpriced. Board game pieces, figurines, etc.
A little bit of legally dubious action to pay the bills and siphon money from billion dollar companies never hurt nobody!
$50 dollars for THREE, UNASSEMBLED, and UNPAINTED minis? Yeah man, I ain't gonna question why the texture of your warhammer minis are different. Game on.
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Furnace/water heater replacement.
There are lots of states that will straight up ban you from doing this without a gasfitter ticket.
Can low water pressure in the whole house be attributed to a bad water heater?
Low water pressure is usually a sign of low water pressure.
Only if you have good pressure on cold water but weak pressure on hot.
Whole house suggests an issue with the supply line, for example an old galvanized pipe which is filling with rust deposits.
No.
Ours was exactly that, the oulet and inlet pipes in the tank corroded badly. Cold pressure fine, hot pressure was flow restricted
European here without education for a plumber, just barely scratched the profession for a few years.
Low water pressure occurs in bigger complexes with a pipe to small for the consumers. The water pressure in suburbans and cities comes directly from the local water station.
If you have issues with this, there are special armatures for low water pressure.
The cheapest improvement is replacing the water disperser with a current one.
Other then that, one could install a pump to improve the water pressure, but these things are expensive and have high maintainability costs due to pumping drinking water, not water in a heater pipe.
Bad PRV (Pressure Reducing Valve). They only last so long. If you have high water pressure (over 120psi) coming in they last a few years tops. If thatβs the case, get one with 2 diagrams and itβll last you 10 years at a minimum.
Perhaps your pipes are too wide.
Mate at work has made a fair bit of money off crypto
Stay at home mom watching another kid (legally dubious depending on state/situation. But I ain't no narc.)
Wtf is u talking about?
So a baby sitter baby sitting and the home of the child is completely legally fine. If you are doing it at your own home, or watching unrelated children, it can be iffy.
That's why I said it depends on state/situation.
the fact pattern you provided mother watching another child with her own... i don't think that would quality anywhere but i did not check all the rules.
if they are running something resembling a commercial operation that would be a different story.
It fully depends on if you're doing it at your house, or the house of the child you are watching, and the state.
But the rules don't matter as long as no one is a narc!
βFor instance, most states and territories do not require an in-home child care provider to be licensed if they provide care on an occasional basis, provide care in your home, or are related to the children in their care.β
Which my thing "might" break.