Money makes the world go round. And I need to spin until I'm ill. That's how much extra coin I need. I'm always on the look out to make a side hustle lucrative.
Many people have realized that most careers aren't supplying enough financially. So we all have to get creative.
It's expensive to live. And it's near financially impossible to live comfortably. Teachers drive Ubers. Writers work as waiters. Lawyers moonlight as mystery writers. Everybody has a hustle. The key is to find a side hustle that isn't going to be an extra burden.
The main job is always already hard enough.
Redditor u/Kenneth0233 wanted to hear some ideas about upping the amounts in our bank accounts, by asking:
Smart people of reddit, whats your best ideas for passive income?
I act. I write. I walk dogs. All so I don't have to work in hospitality. I like to do things I love and don't consume my life or decay my body. So I do a bunch of passive to avoid the massive. I'll take other ideas.
Soup For You!
"Soup tubes. People pay for a monthly subscription and soup gets delivered by tap to your home from a central soup hub."
Extra Space
"It's not completely passive, but it doesn't take much effort on my part. I have temp controlled storage for motorcycles and other valuables like that. It's seasonal to an extent, but October through May It does well. It's only a 30x40 shed, but I can fit 25 bikes in there easily. Any type of self storage is a good income. If you can specialize a bit, it gets better."
Translations...
"I'll give you a serious answer, that did me well. Goes for people learning or that know a second language. Find some public domain books, translate them. You now have rights over the translation. Get it into a library. Profit. Works really good if you're from an obscure part of the world undergoing political turmoil (Georgia, Armenia, Ex-Yugoslavia) that has been talked about in the media the past 30 years. University students will need primary sources, and there is a lack of supply."
Listen to my Ideas...
"Buy my course and find out."
"My brother actually fell for that. A website advertising a way to make money with very little effort. The instruction could be bought for 10€. He actually bought it, got a mail and the instruction was: Make a website advertising a way to make money with little effort. Send people who buy it a mail with those exact instructions. Stupidity-ception."
Paperwork
"Put ads on your car. A friend has a large sticker on their passenger side door for a local business and they give him $100 a month to just have it there."
I'm not passing out flyers and I hate people who do. Hate is strong. I loathe them. And if I could find something to teach I would. But I don't like students either.
Author! Author!
"Write an ebook then sell it. I'm still earning coin from an ebook I wrote 4 years ago. Digital download means I don't lift a finger."
Spend Smart
"Learn to manage your finances and avoid debt. Always be judicial with loyalty to any employer. Blind loyalty can bite you on the bite. If times get hard you are expendable. If you get a different offer of employment don't reject it out of current loyalties but do weigh your options. Put 15 percent of earnings into investments. An easily obtained 7% yearly average will double your input in 20 years. 40 years would be near 5 times the principle."
"More aggressive investments could be much higher. 12% is a reasonably attainable average and the same 40 year investment would be over 18 times the principle, $400 per month for 40 years at 12% will net you $3.5 mil on $200k investment. Don't underestimate the power of compound interest. When your money makes money is when true wealth happens."
Residuals...
"Anything where you work once and get paid repeatedly. The first option that springs to mind is content creation. Books, courses, videos, whatever. You work your buns off for a period of time, but then once the work is done you can let it earn income while you're not actively working on it. Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't have to be some specialized expertise."
"The first book I bought about woodcarving was a self-published how-to and it was literally as base level basic as you can get. The bare fundamentals. Time and experience has taught me that the author likely learned just enough to teach the basics; his work was very rudimentary and crude, not at the level of even a person with a year of experience."
"He worked a lot once, and since he penned the book in 1999 (it was around that time anyways) he's gotten paid regularly for that one-time work. Ya work an hour at a coffee shop, that hour pays you once. You work that hour on a project like a book, video, course, that hour pays you several times over."
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Renters
"My neighbor in a big city bought a house that has a separate unit above. He just uses it for AirBnB. Because he's in a big city, it's constantly booked. He told me he makes $5K per month from it and is paying off the mortgage x3 per month based on that alone."
Be Stable
"If you aren't maxing out your 401k/Roth IRA contributions already then don't get creative."
Business First...
"Some of the ideas on here are not called passive income. They're called jobs. If you have a bunch of cash, the best vehicle for passive income is and will almost always be municipal bonds in the state where you live. Federal tax free, almost always state income tax free, and will net you a pretty good chunk of cash if you find the right bonds. Otherwise, drop a couple hundred into an index ETF that models the DJIA or Fortune 500 and wait a couple years."
"Other passive income ideas:"
"Buy a partnership in a business that is already managed. You can be a passive partner in the business, but there are some rules that apply to passive partners that don't apply to regular partners that can make this a headache, especially if the business losses money."
"Landlord: buy a house and rent it out. A bit of a crap shoot, since tenants can be either incredible or terrible, but unless you have excellent knowledge on real estate managing already, you're going to want to hire a real estate manager that can handle the calls, maintenance and repair, and other things."
Dividends...
"Save a lot of money, invest wisely and live off the roughly 7% the stock market increases on average."
"Investing can be as simple as you make it. Some people just put their money into a S&P 500 index fund and call it day."
"The Standard & Poor's 500 Index, or simply S&P 500, is a market-capitalization-weighted index of 500 large-cap U.S. companies that make up 80% of U.S. equity by market cap. It is widely regarded as the best gauge of large-cap U.S. equities and often referred to as "the market" because it is comprised of stocks that span all market sectors. Some of the S&P 500's largest components include Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Apple Inc. (AAPL), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), and Facebook Inc. (FB)."
Earnings
"Some ppl here don't understand the difference between an active and passive income, so Il explain. Active income refers to income received for performing a service, using your time and energy to work for money. Wages, tips, salaries, commissions are examples of active income. Passive income is referred as income you don't work for, you only need to set it up. Such as earnings from a rental property, limited partnership, or other enterprise in which a person is not actively involved."
Mark Tilbury
"There was an explanation from Youtuber Mark Tilbury that passive income usually doesn't mean you can completely let go of that gig without any effort what so ever. A better mentality is to build something until you get to a point where you only need to put in a few hours of work a week, just to keep your audience base. This could be a youtube channel, website you own, or even a business you got successful enough to outsource the labour. Any successful market format may change over time and you want to keep what you created."
Start as a Favor
"Not exactly passive, but very low effort: house sit. I live in a decent area, near a good sized city with affluent suburbs. I get paid for basically hanging out, keeping an eye on the place, and taking care of a few pets, which to me is enjoyable, since I love animals and can't have them where I live. I always choose places that are convenient for me to get to and also to commute to my job."
"I house sat as a favor to a friend of a friend, and she gave me great references and recommended me to other people in her fairly affluent circle. I end up house sitting quite a lot at certain times of the year, and in really nice places. This might not be NO effort, but it sure as hell doesn't feel like work."
Gigs...
"Go on fiver and set up a few gigs of a medium price, and then through another fiver account just outsource your jobs to people with that gig of a cheaper price. Video and audio editing is good for this. Make game assets or again, go on fiver and have game assets created and sell them on the unity3d marketplace and other places like that. Sprite sheets, 3d models, scripts, worlds your oyster."
"Any digital product is a good product because they require no physical space nor any manufacture past creation of the one file you upload to have downloaded, game assets are in high demand and good to get into, I'll start building passive income using this myself at some point."
Get a License
"Patent trolling. Extreme fool move, but hey, if you manage to buy a patent for a ubiquitous technology, you can add a tiny licensing fee and you'll probably be set for life."
The Harvest
"Long before the olive harvest, go around and sign contracts to rent all of the olive presses at the time of harvest. When the harvest comes, you can charge the olive growers whatever you want, because you control the machinery they need!"
Those are some nifty ideas. I'm gonna make a list for a "just in case" life phase. Except banking stuff. I get lost with economics unless it's simple counting.
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Dating and the search for love and companionship... What a nightmare.
This journey plays out nothing like in the movies.
Every Prince or Princess (or everything in BTW) seems to have a touch of the psycho.
The things people say during what should be simple dinner conversation can leave a dining partner aghast.
Like... do you hear you?
Redditor detroit_michigldan wanted to discuss all the best ways to crash and burn when trying to make a romantic connection. They asked:
"You're on a date and it's going really great. What can another person say to ruin it completely?"
I once had a guy ask me if I was willing to follow him into the woods, depending on the price of the meal.
Yeah. No steak is worth that.
Plans After...
"Thanks for the ride but I have a date with someone else, I figured you wouldn't drive me if you knew I was going on a date with someone else and I really needed a ride."
"Online dating, talked to her for a while, finally got the courage to ask her out and then she said that as we got there."
iareyours
Mirror Image
“'You look just like my wife!'”
catalinachild
"I did have a guy tell me I reminded him of his son. I don’t believe English has a word to adequately describe my feelings at that time."
UnicornMagicRainbow
"That would definitely do it."
chaotica78
Third Wheel
"'Hope you don't mind if my mother joins us.'"
ofsquire
"Actually had a girl do this on a first date because she had anxiety issues. Honestly wasn’t bad except that 90% of the time she was silent and her mom talked over her."
"I didn’t mind that much and wouldn’t have minded trying again when she was more comfortable except that she was let go at the company we worked at and she deleted her social media profiles and she never responded on her number. Ah well."
Seightx
Liar
"'Hey bro aren't you gay? I made out with you last night.'"
"Random dude I've never seen before in front of my (f) date."
JHXC16
Was he lying though?
Filter Issues
"'You looked better on Tinder.'"
waqasnaseem07
"Isn’t it basic knowledge that everybody looks slightly worse than the worst picture you can find?"
no_user_ID_found
The Past
"'My ex used to do that too.'"
xxIvyOF
"Yep. I’ve definitely had two otherwise-decent-guy date-situations sour because the ex-comparisons just would not stop flowing. No woman wants to be seen as interchangeable—I’m not here to perfectly fill that ex-sized hole in your life. Focusing on the present moment and a future we could build together is a courtesy we need to grant each other in earliest dates of dating."
LarkScarlett
Powerless
"'I'm an alpha, you cant handle my top energy.'"
Midnightgay28
"I actually left a dude in the middle of dinner, in part, for saying this. I ordered an Uber under the table while pretending to listen to him. Went to the bathroom, and never came back. That was when I was young. Now I’d just say, 'How about we enjoy this meal in silence, before we head our separate ways.'”
UnicornMagicRainbow
Mommy...
"'Mother says I should be back by 9.'"
"Saying 'mother says' just feels weird."
bunnyrut
"That gives me Norman Bates vibes."
Werewolf_lover20
"'Mother says alligators are aggressive because they have an overabundance of teeth, but lack a toothbrush.'"
sodaextraiceplease
Obvs...
"'If you were going to be murdered, what method would you prefer. Purely hypothetical. Obvs.'"
Specific_Tap7296
If it looks anything like a Dateline NBC episode... RUN!
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Despite the advancement of technology rendering people left to their own devices–literally–to entertain them, there are some leisurely activities that will never go out of style.
Or so you would think.
Do people still knit to pass the time? Are people actively collecting stamps?
It depends on who's asking.
Curious to hear about hobby trends, Redditor gizehgizeh asked:
"What are once popular hobbies that are slowly dying these days?"

Before we've become conditioned to living on our phones, these activities used to keep people occupied.
Before Texting, There Was This
"Letter writing."
– littlekingMT
Literal And Tangible Joy
"Well the internet killed pen pals for sure. I do remember I had a Japanese girl for a penpal maybe back in 2007 or so. I honestly don't remember how it started, pretty sure some website, but that was a fun experience. But now I can just straight up talk to foreign people real time, lol. But yea getting a physical letter that someone took the time to write and mail still is hard to beat feelings wise."
– skyburnsred
Model Trains
"When I was growing up, every town had a model train store in it. Now I have one in region and everything else has to be bought online."
– Hairy_Effective1172
Pretty Rocks
"Don’t see anyone playing marbles anymore, I had an awesome collection in school."
– sheeple85
"I had some marbles as a kid in the 90s. My grandma got them for me and I had no idea what I was supposed to do with them. I always imagined them as a thing kids in the 40s played with."
– Ryoukugan
People Were Moving Canvases
"Paintball has been dying a slow death since 2006. Sad, really."
– hobo_recycler
Before the general population began hating clutter, collecting was once a "thing."
Precious Coins
"Coin collecting... I'm a silver/gold nut and I'm always hunting for precious metal coins. whenever I go into a shop they get all excited because 'no one under 70 collects coins anymore.'"
– ThatFishySmell99
Post It
"Stamp collecting."
– spooky_scully_mulder
"Collecting in general, really. Of course there are still prominent collectors but it's slipped more into enthusiast and niche territory than being a popular hobby that you might expect anyone to have."
– iuytrefdgh436yujhe2
What A Gem
"Rockhounding was immensely popular back in the 1950's and 1960's. Personally, I think it's a fascinating and fulfilling hobby, but when I go to a meeting at a rock and gem club, I'm usually the youngest one in the room by several decades."
– filthy_lucre
People once enjoyed making things.
Admiring The View
"Stained glass. I learned how to make it from my old man, and my junior high art class teacher also taught it. Very few artisans are still around."
– brobeanzhitler
Metal Vocation
"Black smithing."
– kenworth117
"I bought a forge to try. It’s insanely hard work, and crazy expensive. I still haven’t finished a piece."
– DSentvalue
Scrapbooking
"Yeah. I'm watching the arts and crafts stores around me completely uninstalling their racks for specialty paper. Now the only thing they have is mega packs of repeating colors/images. To boot all the inclusions like papercraft/die-cut things, washi tape, scissors, stickers, etc have gotten so expensive I would rather go buy $5 bags at value village to get an assortment of things versus buying anything new. I really, really miss yard sales for the same reasons."
– Phantasmai
I envy people who have jobs that are basically their hobbies.
Not everyone gets paid doing what they actually enjoy and have a profound level of passion for.
If they do, kudos to them.
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When we first meet someone–whether through mutual friends, at school, or in a new work setting–we generally feel people out to determine if they're worth getting to know.
While the process could take time, some people make our jobs much easier after spotting instant red flags.
Curious to hear about our general radar of people, Redditor xxFluffie asked:
"What is something that makes you immediately dislike someone?"

Some people just think they are absolutely hilarious and never realize they're the only ones laughing.
Next In Line
"They laugh about having screwed someone else over. If you think you're not next, well, you'll learn."
– whiznat
Unfunny
"when you mention you don't like a thing and they immediately do that thing 'as a joke.'"
– wayfinder
Playing Devil's Advocate
"Kneejerk contrarians. People who, no matter what you say you like or believe, just have to dismiss it and say they like or think the opposite."
– BubbhaJebus
People who put others down get slammed here.
Bad Parents
"When they treat their kids sh**ty in public. I don't mean handling tantrums, setting a rule, having to hurry to the train etc. I mean perfectly normal-behaved kids getting in trouble for trailing along peacefully, looking at things, asking questions etc."
"If you don't like tiny humans who learn the world, why have them??"
– raxeira-etterath
Public Humiliation
"Treating people sh**ty in public for laughs. Like being rude to service workers because they think it’s funny. Big red flag."
– Ok_Personality_1080
Simply Uncalled For
"Someone who is a d*ck to other people or animals for no reason."
– xebt1000
Those with ulterior motives rubs people the wrong way.
The Scheme
"If they try to get me to join their MLM scheme."
– spazmcgee1
Hard Sell
"A guy I used to be friends with in high school reached out a couple of years after graduating about a business opportunity he wanted my opinion on because 'you've always been smart', then he set up a Skype call and brought some other dude into the call and they started trying to sell me on what was clearly an MLM scheme. The guy went from friend to 'I'm never talking to you again' in a matter of 10 minutes."
– Mental-Afternoon-164
A Timeline
"Good gawd, this! I've had more than one exposure to this abject bullsh**tery..."
- Back in the late 80's/early 90's I was invited to a meeting of literally the OG "Pyramid" where you're recruited to pay in, and then you go out and recruit others to pay in, and the last in line got f'kall.
- In 1995 I had a coworker try to reel me into Amway, which was a hard no.
- In 2000 it was Pampered Chef, though to be fair they did have useful products.
- In 2009 a coworker tried to get me into some stupid video calling service that was obviously stupid from the description. He even got offended when I called bullsh*t.
– Mystical_Cat
Too much ego is a no-go.
I Can Do Better
"Being a b*tch just to stroke their own ego."
"We get it, you can lift 5lbs more than the 12 year old, you don't have to rub it in their face just because you're slightly better"
– Livia_Pivia
Can't Top This
"Oh, you did <story that's been told>? That's nothing! I did <implausible story>.
"I get the whole empathy through relating common experience, and I'm someone who does that (which drives some people crazy on its own), but there's a big different by empathising through common experience, and one-upmanship."
– Tisarwat
Lacking Conversational Etiquette
"Starting to talk over me when I was already talking."
"Stop it you rude, arrogant jerk."
– R33Gtst
If one or more of these traits sound familiar to you, you're not alone.
We don't have time for braggadocios, pyramid-schemers, and conversation interrupters.
And that's just for starters.
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Children tend to believe just about anything they hear.
That there are monsters under your bed, watching too much TV will make your head explode, and silly faces will be permanent if you make them too often.
The sky is truly the limit when it comes to silly things that children will believe.
Some call it naivitée, other's youthful innocence.
But it's hard not to look back with embarrassment on certain things we believed as a child, that today might simply seem dumb.
Redditor Disastrous_Toe_6548 was curious to learn the multitude of silly things people believed when they were children, leading them to ask:
"What's the dumbest thing you believed as a kid?"
Pleading to deaf ears...
"My dad told me he had hearing loss and couldn't hear me if I whined because my pitch would get too high."
"Would completely ignore me until I asked him questions in a normal voice."
"Trusted him implicitly until I was 12 and he yelled at my younger brother for whining."- Tyrion_Stark.
Get it while you can.
"That they took everything off the shelves when the supermarket closed."- fgyfddg.
Silly superstitions.
"My grandfather used to tell me that if I played with the fire, I'd pee the bed."
"I believed him for a while, until I got older."
"I think he was just trying to protect me from the fire."- teddypa1981.
"Rain, rain go away..."
"That if it was raining where I was, it was raining everywhere in the world."- morningshartz.
Age is just a number.
"My parents used to seem really old to me, so much so I believed they grew up like cave people as children, wearing giant leaves for clothes and what not."- Laleena_.
So that's how they're made!
"That smokestacks from the power plant created clouds."- Scaniarix.
An instant cure.
"The sun gives you sunburns, therefore, moonlight should heal them."- velocipeter.
Better safe than sorry.
"Don't drink and drive meant all drinks."
"My dad was super confused when I told him he wasn't allowed to have any soda until we got home."- hulagirlslovetoparty.
Don't believe everything you see on TV.
"There was an episode of Mickey Mouse where Mickey couldn’t reach something at first, so he tried again and somehow his arm was long enough to reach it."
"As a small kid I believed that if I couldn’t reach something, I should just try reaching for it again and my arm would then somehow be long enough to reach it."- That-Dutch-Person.
The miracle of childbirth.
"That babies are pooped out."
"When I was like 7 I was listening to my aunt as she explained that childbirth was pretty intense and painful for her, and I was all solemnly like, 'yeah, sometimes just my poops are painful, I don’t think I could get a baby out' and she went 'um, WHAT?' and her reaction made me realize real quick that I had f*cked up somewhere and I tried to change the subject while my mind was just reeling lol."- thesoundingfurrows.
Oh to be a child again.
And to believe literally everything you're told.
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