If you have very limited access to cash and credit, where do you get hustle money?
 

I make money on everything I buy and sell but I've been limited to little shit and it is difficult to stay ahead.. I am making some money but the float I have generally has been running out meeting my obligations and I end up not doing any more buying, then.

So I need creative ideas, here. The goal is to get up to having some thousands to mess with, so then, I can go and buy $500 this or $1000 that (items I can make a few hundred at a time on instead of $50-$100 and all)

Any big ideas, geniuses?

How about a little something called a JOB? It works like this, you wake up at 7AM, clean yourself up, get on a bus and go to this place where there's this person called a boss waiting for your arrival, he or she gives you assignments to do. At noon you have an hour for lunch, time to assimilate and converse with your fellow workers. Then you go back and work on your assignments until 5PM, you are now done with your job for the day and are free to go home or anywhere you want. Rinse and repeat this routine Monday through Friday. In return for your participation in this thing called employment you will receive a paycheck. You are free to do what you want with your paycheck including buying stuff and reselling it for a profit online or through tiny classified ads in your local newspaper.

"Hustle" should be a hobby or part-time job. ^^^ See above post ^^^

Alternatively - Sober up, sign up for Chaturbate and start wanking...

You have to start somewhere.. I've definitely realized that I don't want to live the feast or famine life anymore... but at least I am DOING SHIT now- for the first time in YEARS. I gave up for a few years, but I never will again, and last time I was TRYING I made a lot of money .... this time I will get up into something solid the second of the minute I the fuck can. Property. Storage units. Storefronts. Shit like that.

I am sober, and there is nothing on me that anyone would ever pay to see, at my age :1orglaugh

Come on wiseass how about you go get up at 7am, dress how you're supposed to, go submit to some boss, and enjoy being handed toilet paper called a paycheck at set intervals during your month.

I have worked hard at times in my life but I have only been employed for 3 months- my whole life. I have never been on welfare or anything like it and instead of my parents helping me, I have always helped them. I left school when I was 12 and was already making money. I had possession of a 3400sf home by age 15, living alone, paying for the whole thing.. so I obviously have done plenty of work. I will work 24/7- literally- when there is money to be made. I just do not like being employed.

The lapre reference was comical, I have to give you credit for that one.

Nobody LIKES to work... it's called having responsibilities and sometimes doing something you're not 100% satisfied doing, but you have to BECAUSE YOU NEED MONEY TO LIVE :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Mutt's post was dead on.

Fuckin bum. :2 cents:

Having the attitude that you want to have extra money so you can go drop $500 here or $1000 there when you feel about it likely means you will never have any extra money.

I have had a lot of responsibilities that should not have even been my own, all of my life, already. I am no kind of a drain on society in any way. I've had it beat into me, doing something you hate for no money, the lesson is learned.. why repeat it?

You should not call me a fucking bum, I will start thinking you like me

I am not some normal man saying "Hey I want to be able to drop some hundreds here, some thousands over there on another stupid inane thing" .... I mean that way I have a float that does not run out and one that allows me to get all over bigger more profitable deals.

I feel you maxwell but perhaps asking yourself how to save and invest $500/$1000 will bump you up the ladder a bit quicker. When you buy and sell something just pinch out enough for yourself to survive and put the bulk of it back into your hustle. Push yourself to maximize every project and always plan ahead to the next project so that it will be bigger and better.

Not sure of your location. But you can check into task rabbit. They aren't available in my area. But you can get like odd jobs. Check Craigslist too.


Seasonal UPS and department store jobs are coming up.

Pffft That will never work.

Just cut yourself. Call an ambulance. Get thrown in a looney bin and then collect nutty money. Simple as pie.

Agreed. I could be a bit more disciplined. I tend to spend more than I should on food. . I mean in terms of having some fast food garbage here and there and it's adding up. . Sigh. It's hard to take enough off of the top to survive right now because I fucked around and caught two cases at once... they're not huge cases.. but fines and treatments and a machine they put on my car and higher insurance and on and on and on all adds up.... I work for them right now :1orglaugh

PS: Harmon! If you want to see some hard work, you don't ever want to do what I had to do at the community service work... jesus christ walking sideways. I was mowing for 2-3 hours straight without stopping. Then I stopped and drank some water. Then I was mowing for another 2 hours straight. It was 99F outside. Then I had to go through old trash bags which had been rained in and left on in the sun- looking for CANS... Then if that wasn't enough I had to move a pile of water logged old tables onto a deck thing, then 100+ chairs, then I had to go inside and do some cleaning as if I were a woman or something.... So yes, I did bitch up and do some very hard work, when I had to.

It'll never work. My ex over there in orlando she cuts herself all of the time, pops pills anything she can find, drinks like a maniac, and not only do they allow her to have a child but she is also a registered nurse making close to 100k

1. Cut monthly expenses to give you more free cash
2. Raise your income (such as a job)
3. Sell or pawn something to get cash.

Mutt is right about the job if you have no other options. Maybe a temp, gig could work? Do it for a couple weeks or months and then use that money. Dow hat you have to do.

Ah, if I had a job, I would never get anything done :winkwink:

When you say "buy and sell" do you mean .... craigslist ... or? That matters.

Yeah.. just little shit... laptops and desktops and just anything. I even bought ceiling fans and a tv antenna the other day. $2 for both fans $1 for the antenna and $1 for a factory radio. Sold the fans (both) for $20 and the antenna for $25 and the radio for $10. A couple of weeks ago I bought laptops and resold them fairly regularly... they go fast and I do pretty well on them, but can't always find them.

One thing I can tell you for sure- craigslist and facebook are GREAT places to buy automobiles. Especially in larger areas. Some halfwit posts his car for sale in a group with 42 people, or on craigslist where it gets buried under 100s of other posts before it's even live, and you can buy their cars for nothing- especially if you wait until they've been trying to sell it for some time.

Then, just like I use to do back in the day, you park the car where it has visibility or put an ad in the local auto trader/newspapers and BLAM.

Fuck real jobs...

Try Craigslist... You can often find people selling shit way under value and you can often sell shit way over value.

I once saw a guy selling 2 good Android phones for $160 so he could buy an iPhone. I bought them and sold them 10 minutes later for $120 each. Then I bought a total piece of shit car for $350 and turned around and sold it a day later for $600. Just keep your eyes peeled and good deals pop up all of the time.

Once I bought somebodies 50" HDTV for $200. It was broken. They didn't know why. I did. The main board took a shit. I called my FIOS peeps and told them my TV took a shit. They used my FIOS insurance to fix it for me. TV repaired I turned around and sold it for $1200 as like-new/refurbished.

I often find great items in the free section. Or someone is giving away a broken washer, dryer, stove... I grab that and sell it as scrap metal. Cha-ching...

The pisser is trying to get your kids to do it. I have a son that was just turning 18 years old. I tried to show him that he could easily make $800 a week with only about 18 to 24 hours work even if he was fucking up on 1 out of 4 deals. He ended up going to work 36 hours a week for $500 a week and was happy because he didn't make minimum wage like his friends were...

kids...

Just do this over and over. You have a really odd life in that you seem to be broke and manic.

Ok, first, yes, craigslist is a great place to trade time for money. But you need to be an EXPERT in the niches you focus on. The housewife who wants to pay the electric bill tomorrow sells her kids old toys cheap. You need to know what they'll sell for if you have space and a month.

The guy who was let go sells everything to stay in his rental - what will people buy if you wait a month or two?

The trouble is, unless you are in a large suburban setting, not big enough for other experts and not small enough to reduce volume, you'll get sunk. Every 10th trade you'll fuck up and lose your capital. You'll get emotional because you "want" to reach a goal and you'll make a bad purchase or fail to make a good sale.

If you have a formula and you stay frosty you could make that work. But get to know your people and your niche.

Cars, man, that is the ultimate. You can buy a car in Texas for cheap because they repossess easy and creditors are strong, and take it to your own state for like $700, retitle and sell for $2000 up and they ALWAYS go. Everyone searches within 200 miles and like 90% of people know nothing about cars. If I was you I'd make sure I was:

a. a fuckin expert in cars and a serious committed boyfriend to the car models you specialize in
b. had a source for every part, repair, electronics, trick, etc
c. know ALL the laws where you are buyin and selling
d. always take cash only

you can lose your shirt and get in serious trouble over one bad trade

Every hustler I've known has done this. You know why? Because they are hustlers.

You are not a hustler. You are some lazy guy looking for a cheap way to make it big. Stop calling yourself something you are not.

Right wiseass all of those hustlers get up and dress in their employee outfit for the day

I don't know man if anyone goes broke every tenth trade, they should not have put 100% of their roll into one deal :winkwink: I understand what you mean about forced buying... like I have this money left, no good buys came up, now I'm tempted to buy something just to be doing something.... but I resist that temptation fairly well

Asshole! I damn near sprayed iced tea all over my damn desk :1orglaugh

I once bought a car off of a lot, I says to the guy, look it this cad with the bad motor it's been sitting... what do you want for it? He says, well, $1000.. Okay that's space cadet pricing, so let's do something with this thing, I think I can get a buyer over here, I'll give you $300 for it if you'll let it sit without me having to move it.. Okay, fine, done... I sold it the same day for $600 to some guy.. It was some kind of say like a 1999 Seville StS.

How in the world do normal people laugh so often? I laugh about once a week, sometimes less..

Why not just do drop shipping type shit on ebay and the like? Doesn't really require any upfront capital and if you're smart about it and use some common sense you could make a pretty good amount of money from it...

As I tell the people that work for me: I can teach you products/technology and pretty much anything else that we do ... but, I cannot teach you the fire in your belly to make money every single day of the week. That fire only comes from you.

Take what you know and what you are good at. Figure out how to monetize it and scale the fuck out of it.

I started with selling IT services to small firms ... then to medium firms and now large companies that I have a piece of their overall consulting budget.. Across the 50+ clients I service with varying spend levels, I have a business that runs nicely with an average profit at $100k a month in the door after costs for staff/materials/and all the other stuff that a business consumes...

All I did was start small with nothing and when something worked - Scaled the fuck out of it. I met a few guys that shared my vision of excellence in customer service and the abilities to delivery on time and exceed the customer's expectations. Years later - we have relationships with customers that depend on us as their IT team.

What inspired me was coming to GFY and reading posts from guys like Quiet, Brad from Mojo and Minte... That if you work and diversify and really apply yourself, you can make money in this life.. Its up to YOU to decide you want to.

- Jim

That's where they started, yep. That provided them the financing to go out and do what they really wanted to do. You think a magic fairy just handed them the money they needed? Meanwhile you sit around and cry that you don't have the money to do what you want to do, you have been doing this for years. How has your pride been treating you?

On another note, hustlers never call themselves hustlers. They think they don't work hard enough.

You're talking about con men, when you're talking about hustlers, I think.
I'm talking about people who get out every day and do something, anything they can, and stay productive.

Dropshipping can be pretty amazing but just throwing some stuff on ebay from a dropshipper ain't as easy as one might think(unless it's changed over the years- been awhile since I was on ebay)... if you have a way to get enough buyers it's great..

I am a huge fan of scalable business ventures. For sure.
The fire, I lost it for years, but it's back. I will make something work. Find a way make a way. Good post.

So.... no one robs banks anymore for hustle money?

I never said it was easy.

Buy and sell things.

My wife and I hit the free section of Craigslist and pick up furniture and bikes and what not for free, fix them up, and then turn around and sell them. Sounds stupid right? We picked up an old adirondack chair, tighted up the screws, bought a can of stain for $3, and sold the chair on Craigslist for $80. We got a couch and matching chair a few weeks ago, cleaned them up, sewed a little bit, sold it for $120.

All of this goes to my wife's charity, and we usually give about $800 a month.

I also do the same with Alienware laptops. Brand new they sell for $1200, but you can buy them used for $300. I get them, clean them up, reinstall the OS, put them on CL or Ebay and sell them for $600.

they're selling alienware for 300? dafuq.. something wrong with em?

i have an uncle who uses amazon

he buys shit at yard sales and goodwill and sometimes discount stores and just sends it to amazon to sell for him