Speaker 1: Welcome to How Today Afford That, the podcast that peaks
Speaker 1: into the financial lives of everyday Australians. I'm Michael Thompson.
Speaker 1: I'm a writer and the co host of the podcast
Speaker 1: Fear and Greed business news. As always, I'm with Canna Campbell,
Speaker 1: financial planner and founder of Sugar Mummer TV, the financial
Speaker 1: literacy platform covering YouTube, podcasts, books, Instagram threads, TikTok, keynote,
Speaker 1: speeches and more. Hello, Canna, good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm well, I'm excited. I'm actually genuinely I'm always excited,
Speaker 1: but I'm genuinely thrilled about today's episode because it is
Speaker 1: an episode for summer. It is summer, the days are longer,
Speaker 1: many of us have got a little bit of time off.
Speaker 1: It sounds to me like the perfect time to earn
Speaker 1: a little bit of extra cash. And that might not
Speaker 1: just be for summer, like this might not just be
Speaker 1: like a few weeks, little earner. What you set up
Speaker 1: now could actually be a long term thing.
Speaker 2: Oh, definitely the start of something big.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, as the side hustle queen, and you have
Speaker 1: declared yourself to be that in the past, I'm going
Speaker 1: to put you on the spot today to come up
Speaker 1: with six summer side hustles today for us. But but
Speaker 1: we are going to do things a little bit differently
Speaker 1: today because we've talked side hustles in the past and
Speaker 1: you've just breezed through those episodes without any hussles. Going
Speaker 1: to make things a little bit harder for you today.
Speaker 1: I want three side hustles for adults, and then three
Speaker 1: side hustles that the kids can do, perhaps during the
Speaker 1: summer holidays when they're sitting around and bored and they.
Speaker 2: Want to spend your money. Yeah, where they can start
Speaker 2: earning their own money.
Speaker 1: Their own money and spend their own cash. Are you
Speaker 1: up for the challenge?
Speaker 2: I have one request, Oh dear, can we make it ten?
Speaker 2: Because I'm a bit OCD. Six just doesn't work for me.
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Five adults, five children?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, this is this is unexpected.
Speaker 2: Has to be quick though.
Speaker 1: No, that's okay, that's fine. Yeah, that's that's fine. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm reordering my list. You spring this on me
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 2: Take this on me.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that sounds fair. It's a dual springing. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go Number one adult side hustle calling something an
Speaker 1: adult side hustle. Instantly sounds like only fans, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: That's actually a topic for another day.
Speaker 1: I reckon, okay, why not? Well, come on, like, there's
Speaker 1: no judgment here, but it's just like I like the
Speaker 1: least qualified person to talk about only fans. So, but
Speaker 1: this could be an interesting conversation like this. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: actually I.
Speaker 2: Think it's interesting because there's a lot of things that
Speaker 2: people wouldn't think about with that is a side hustle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you can just do feet.
Speaker 2: There lots of things.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go number one side hustle, fur grown ups.
Speaker 2: There we go, all right, Uber Driving sorry, and Amazon Flex.
Speaker 2: So driving for Uber, you know, packages or Amazon Flex
Speaker 2: is a great way to make some flexible income. It's
Speaker 2: a really busy time of the year. You've got lots
Speaker 2: of parties still going on. People are racing to the airport,
Speaker 2: You've got light late night events, so you've put a
Speaker 2: lot of people in demand for rides. So with everyone
Speaker 2: also shopping online, you know, with the post Christmas sales,
Speaker 2: the need for delivery service skyrockets, and who wants to
Speaker 2: go and sit on a beautiful slinny day in traffic
Speaker 2: to go pick up your packages or do your shopping online.
Speaker 2: So with these particular site hustles, Uber and Amazon Flex,
Speaker 2: you set your own schedules so you know you have
Speaker 2: your block that you work essentially like a shift. You're
Speaker 2: in your own car. With Amazon Flex, you can even
Speaker 2: have a pet in the car as a companion, which
Speaker 2: is pretty cool, and then obviously pack some snacks yourself
Speaker 2: if Uber Driving got to have car a nice and
Speaker 2: clean but this is a great way to drive with
Speaker 2: air conditioning on and listen to your favorite podcasts well
Speaker 2: earning some extra money.
Speaker 1: That's great. I like the fact that you did squeeze
Speaker 1: in a mention of podcasts, this one specifically, how do
Speaker 1: they afford that?
Speaker 2: Oh and Sugar Mama's Fireplay.
Speaker 1: And Fear and great. So you got a lot of
Speaker 1: listening to do, so you better get one of these
Speaker 1: jobs straight away and start listening because you've got to
Speaker 1: get through your summer listening. Okay, Uber Driving, Amazon Flex,
Speaker 1: we're combining that into one number two. Shall we go
Speaker 1: all adult and then all kids? Yes? Okay, what's your
Speaker 1: second adult side hustle for summer.
Speaker 2: Decluttering and selling unwanted items?
Speaker 1: It's the time to do it, isn't it because it
Speaker 1: is coming into Christmas. You need to clear some space, right, You've.
Speaker 2: Got to find it home for all those presents you
Speaker 2: got and especially the stuff the kids get given.
Speaker 1: And also people are looking for I'm just taking over
Speaker 1: your tip here. People are looking for things secondhand in
Speaker 1: the lead up to Christmas as well, because if they
Speaker 1: are smart with their money, then you're not buy all
Speaker 1: of your present brand new stuff. You're jumping onto Facebook marketplace,
Speaker 1: so you're jumping onto gum Tree or any one of
Speaker 1: these things, and you're buying good quality things secondhand to gift.
Speaker 2: Exactly as a group is to get some duds of
Speaker 2: a presence, a good way to just quickly offload them
Speaker 2: clear some extra cash. But you know, this is the
Speaker 2: time of the year when you know, if you're not
Speaker 2: going away, you're at home and you're having a breakaway
Speaker 2: from work, you've got the time to do this. You know,
Speaker 2: to take those photographs and upload them so you know
Speaker 2: you can actually even offer this as a service to
Speaker 2: you know, your family and friends and your neighbors, and
Speaker 2: you know, for people who want to do it, or
Speaker 2: don't have the time or couldn't be bothered, but know
Speaker 2: that they've got quite a bit of valuable stuff to
Speaker 2: declutter and sell, so therapeutic and profitable.
Speaker 1: I would say I like selling stuff online. What I
Speaker 1: do not like is the constant message of hi is
Speaker 1: this available? You know you've got that right, and you're like,
Speaker 1: if the ad is still online, yes, it is still available. Oh,
Speaker 1: then they'll follow up with Hi, what size is this?
Speaker 1: It's in the ad? Hi? Where are you located in
Speaker 1: the ad? Hi? How much is it? It's in the ad?
Speaker 1: Read the ad? If you still want it, then message
Speaker 1: me and buy it. I get very angry, and.
Speaker 2: There are also a lot of scammers as well. We
Speaker 2: should warn people, so be very careful when it comes
Speaker 2: to selling things and buying things online, you know, through
Speaker 2: the secondhand economy.
Speaker 1: No, I'm going to steer clear of that one. For
Speaker 1: me this summer. It just realized how angry it makes
Speaker 1: me dealing with people on that platform.
Speaker 2: My dear, why didn't I come over to your house?
Speaker 2: I will for a very I'll give you mate th
Speaker 2: rates not come and declutter your house and we could
Speaker 2: split the profits we make and I'll sell everything for
Speaker 2: you through.
Speaker 1: You cannot joke about that because I will one hundred
Speaker 1: percent take you up on it, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you could actually keep a greater percentage of what you
Speaker 1: sell just because I cannot do it. I cannot do it.
Speaker 1: I have I am you block, I have a block.
Speaker 1: I am borderline hoarder. I'm a border hoarder. Number three,
Speaker 1: what's your third adult side hustle?
Speaker 2: So learning and offering a new online skill. So things
Speaker 2: like video editing, proofreading, copywriting, and you can use various
Speaker 2: platforms like you debm me, I think it's pronounced and
Speaker 2: skiol share, so you can start freelancing and using upwork
Speaker 2: to earn some extra money. And these are things you
Speaker 2: can do from the privacy and covert of your own home,
Speaker 2: low cost, obviously depending on what training and equipment you need.
Speaker 2: But you can, you know do this. You can choose
Speaker 2: the products you want when it suits you, and obviously
Speaker 2: the better you are, the more you can charge.
Speaker 1: So these are not necessarily skills that you currently have.
Speaker 1: You're actually adding a little twist to this of upskill
Speaker 1: yourself and then on sell that skill exactly.
Speaker 2: I've actually had a few people reach out to me
Speaker 2: saying can I edit your videos for YouTube? And they're
Speaker 2: learning how to edit videos at the moment to be paid.
Speaker 2: I think it's brilliant really, and it frees up my time. Love.
Speaker 1: That's a that's great outsource.
Speaker 2: But this is these are skills that people you know
Speaker 2: will happily pay for.
Speaker 1: It does feel like at the moment, if you have
Speaker 1: social media skills, you are in the box seat to
Speaker 1: make some money because every business in the world seems
Speaker 1: to be looking at the moment for social media content creators.
Speaker 2: It might be an extra side hustle for me. I
Speaker 2: could I could do some social media for you. I
Speaker 2: can manage your Instagram account my personal one, yes, which
Speaker 2: needs a lot of work.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. Michael Thompson, author features pictures of my dog.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited to hear you have a dog. As
Speaker 2: I said, when you message me, I now accept you.
Speaker 1: That was the barrier for all of the episodes, the
Speaker 1: what one hundred and something episodes we've done, I've never
Speaker 1: quite felt like you have connected or accepted me. And
Speaker 1: as soon as we've got a dog, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: everything's all right. Now you're in now number five. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's learn a new online skill, learn and then earn.
Speaker 1: Well I like that, learn and earn. I'm sure someone's
Speaker 1: already come up with that, but if not, it's mine.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first.
Speaker 2: Number four pets sitting and dog walking. So with obviously
Speaker 2: summer holidays, a lot of people are going away and
Speaker 2: a lot of people don't really like ourdea or boarding kennels,
Speaker 2: so having someone to come in and take care of
Speaker 2: their pets is great. Keeps the pets in the same
Speaker 2: routine comfortable, and there are apps like mad Paws that
Speaker 2: help this. You make it really easy to find people
Speaker 2: that are actually in your local area wanting some help
Speaker 2: with their dogs and that cats of course, and budgies
Speaker 2: and rabbits and guinea pigs and turtles, sneaks, sneaks.
Speaker 1: Rats, chickens obviously not walking. You wouldn't walk a snake.
Speaker 1: You might, I might have.
Speaker 2: Some free time in the garden. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: you know that is a way of earning special money.
Speaker 2: And I even shared on an episode of a long
Speaker 2: time ago about one of my neighbors who was making
Speaker 2: sixty do all the day just looking after having someone
Speaker 2: else's dog come to her house for the day to
Speaker 2: hang out with her while she worked from home.
Speaker 1: And typically with pet sitting and dog walking. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's one example of the dog coming to you, but
Speaker 1: typically does the pet sitter go and stay in the
Speaker 1: house as well, So it becomes actually pet sitting and
Speaker 1: house sitting at the same time.
Speaker 2: It can it really does vary where some people are happy,
Speaker 2: you know, for their animal to go to that person's house,
Speaker 2: or some people wat she move into the house. So
Speaker 2: it's a bit of a sort of combination of the two.
Speaker 2: It can be whatever you want it to be.
Speaker 1: Is it expensive?
Speaker 2: I well, I don't know. I am very lucky because
Speaker 2: my friend of mine moves into a house when we
Speaker 2: go and we don't pay him other than give him
Speaker 2: lots of wine, and he uses our house to do
Speaker 2: whatever he likes.
Speaker 1: Well, we've talked about that as a savings hack before
Speaker 1: as well. The fact that it's it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a it's a free holiday, or it's like an a
Speaker 1: combinat because it's a change and if you are living
Speaker 1: in a new area, you get to trial and new
Speaker 1: kind of cafes and things around. If you live near
Speaker 1: a beach, you can go to the beach all these
Speaker 1: kinds of things, and so you just treat it as
Speaker 1: a as a breakaway from your own house and a
Speaker 1: break in your own routine. Okay, that's number four. Number five,
Speaker 1: this is our final adult side hustle for summer.
Speaker 2: All right, event assistance?
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 2: You're still thinking about OnlyFans? I am so summer parties
Speaker 2: and weddings, you know, having an extra set of hands
Speaker 2: for setting up, for serving, and for cleaning up. So
Speaker 2: you're most assisting with becoming a little bit of an
Speaker 2: event planner.
Speaker 1: I actually like that. I like cleaning up after a gathering.
Speaker 2: I hate it.
Speaker 1: No, it's really satisfying. Don't you find that? Like, it
Speaker 1: is really really satisfying to just put everything into the
Speaker 1: dishwasher and no, you have to set like four loads
Speaker 1: off in the dishwasher in order to get it all done,
Speaker 1: and you work through it methodically. You get everything looking
Speaker 1: nice and neat and clean. That's just so satisfying. It's
Speaker 1: the best part of the whole gathering.
Speaker 2: Oh, stickiness everywhere. I know. I'm a cleaner, I'd clean
Speaker 2: all the time, but I hate the cleanup of entertaining.
Speaker 1: Would you advertise your services online for this kind of thing?
Speaker 1: Like how do you do the letterbox drop?
Speaker 2: You can put a notice up on you know, community board.
Speaker 2: You could obviously put it online, posted on social media
Speaker 2: all sorts of different ways Facebook let people know, and
Speaker 2: obviously even put it on air tasker. Perhaps that you're
Speaker 2: available to help with parties with setting up, serving food,
Speaker 2: serving drinks, you know, maintaining even the other way to
Speaker 2: at I'm assuming that's a good point. I went and
Speaker 2: working with children as well, because I went to a
Speaker 2: barbecue on the weekend for Christmas and they had a
Speaker 2: nanny there because they had lots of children and there
Speaker 2: was a swimming pool and obviously got to keep your
Speaker 2: eyes on your own children, but just to help take
Speaker 2: the pressure off, she had this danny basically at the
Speaker 2: pool so that she had someone had their eyes, well,
Speaker 2: an extra set of eyes to assist with looking out
Speaker 2: for the kids, keeping them safe, and then also helping
Speaker 2: entertain them. And you know, she sat down and on
Speaker 2: the ground was playing and that was brilliant. And it
Speaker 2: was like I had three kids, so I had my eyeballs,
Speaker 2: could only go so far, but having her there as well,
Speaker 2: you know, it was really comforting and I thought that
Speaker 2: was brilliant. And then everyone chipped in to help pay
Speaker 2: for a cleaner because this house was being seriously trashed
Speaker 2: by so many children and like doing gingerbread houses.
Speaker 1: Oh dear, that's a good idea though. Summer party's, weddings,
Speaker 1: all that kind of thing. An extra set of hands,
Speaker 1: whether it is for cleaning, for serving, setting up all
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Letterbox drop, you could post something
Speaker 1: on you like your local community Facebook group, because every
Speaker 1: summurb has one. Yes, yes you can pop it on there.
Speaker 2: But also let friends dose that and say, Fris, could
Speaker 2: you please speak to it of your friends or family
Speaker 2: that know they're having a party would love an extra
Speaker 2: set of hands to clean up and serve or to
Speaker 2: watch the kids. You know. So the adult's going to
Speaker 2: kind of relax a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, they are the adult side hustles. There's some
Speaker 1: good ones there. We're going to take a quick break
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we are going to talk
Speaker 1: about putting the kids to work and helping them to
Speaker 1: earn a little bit of extra cash over summer and
Speaker 1: hopefully getting them out of your own hair. Can are
Speaker 1: we doing summer side hustles today? What started out as
Speaker 1: a list of six summer side hustles has now become ten,
Speaker 1: so it's not quite as illiterative anymore. But that's all
Speaker 1: right because there's bonus side hustles. We've done five adult ideas,
Speaker 1: things that you might be able to do to earn
Speaker 1: a little bit of extra money across the summer. Now
Speaker 1: for the kids, if they are bored, if they are
Speaker 1: sick of or you're sick of them sitting in front
Speaker 1: of the TV, or sick of.
Speaker 2: Draining your walk because they want to go up to
Speaker 2: the shopping center and hang out with their friends and
Speaker 2: they need twenty dollars to get sushi.
Speaker 1: This feels like a very personal example.
Speaker 2: It is my eleven year old has just become overnight
Speaker 2: very independent and has a bigger social life than me.
Speaker 2: It of course expects me to fund this. So I
Speaker 2: am actually in the thick of the side hustle movement
Speaker 2: with my son Roco.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go through five side hustles and for kids,
Speaker 1: what is the first one on this list? It's actually
Speaker 1: number six on the list overall, So I'm a very
Speaker 1: list based today.
Speaker 2: So number one is car washing. So summer often means
Speaker 2: sandy feet, salty water, and you know in my car,
Speaker 2: if you dare it enough to put your head in
Speaker 2: my car, you'll see it's disgusting. We've got melted ice
Speaker 2: cream wrappers, water bottles, it's quite foul. So great opportunity
Speaker 2: to get these kids cleaning up after their own mess
Speaker 2: and they can safely play with water out in the
Speaker 2: backyard or in the front yard and clean your car.
Speaker 2: And Rocco has actually become quite efficient this. He gets
Speaker 2: the blower and just packing me in the car, he
Speaker 2: blows the car and everything flies out. It's very efficient.
Speaker 1: That does sound very efficient, so like I would create
Speaker 1: an awful mess outside of the car, then.
Speaker 2: It does with its that all the way was here.
Speaker 2: I do make sure he picks up. We don't wan
Speaker 2: stuff going into the ocean. But it is a very
Speaker 2: efficient way to actually clean clear the area so you
Speaker 2: can then start wiping down.
Speaker 1: I love this idea. It's such an old school kind
Speaker 1: of thing, isn't it.
Speaker 2: But it's expensive to go and get your car washed
Speaker 2: these days.
Speaker 1: It is so I remember washing people's cars when I
Speaker 1: was I would have been about probably eleven, in order
Speaker 1: to save money to buy a Super Nintendo. It was
Speaker 1: great and we succeeded.
Speaker 2: Do you still have that Super Nintendo?
Speaker 1: Yes, somewhere. It's probably worth money now it's an antid. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it's car washing. That's number number six overall, number one
Speaker 1: on the kid's sub list. Let's go for number two,
Speaker 1: Stroke seven.
Speaker 2: Lightweight, home and admin. So like folding laundry. As we
Speaker 2: all know, in school holidays there is a lot of laundry,
Speaker 2: and some kids, like my two daughters, like to worry
Speaker 2: about different outfits throughout the day. And if you're going
Speaker 2: to the beach or the pull by the pool, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of linen that needs to be washed, so
Speaker 2: you know, a bit of gardening as well.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling okay, thinking as a child like channeling and
Speaker 1: in a child here this all sounds a lot like
Speaker 1: very boring chores.
Speaker 2: That's the point you can realize that welcome to the
Speaker 2: real world, children, like life is not all like super
Speaker 2: Nintendos and hanging out spending twenty dollars at sushi train
Speaker 2: with your friends like this is part about equipping them,
Speaker 2: equipping them, equipping them, I can't say.
Speaker 1: It equipping equipping equipping that.
Speaker 2: Sounds a bit to many peas there. Equipping them for
Speaker 2: the real world and understanding that you know your priorities. First,
Speaker 2: you've got to have responsibilities before we can gut and
Speaker 2: have fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if we're trying to entice them away from
Speaker 1: say playing Fortnite, for instance, or playing an.
Speaker 2: Xbox, they're getting payment, and they're getting immediate payment the
Speaker 2: moment they're finished.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we're talking home admin, light laundry kind of things,
Speaker 1: so folding clothes, weeding the garden.
Speaker 2: Dusting something that's obviously safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be getting my child to stand my floors,
Speaker 2: for example, But you know I got Rocker to clean
Speaker 2: all the skirting boards the other day and all use
Speaker 2: the feather duster to get into all the corners of cobwebs.
Speaker 1: It was great. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: I may be pushing the boundaries with myself, but he's
Speaker 2: saving up as well.
Speaker 1: If he wants his sushi, well, exactly, he's got to do.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to understand show that it's so hard to you.
Speaker 2: I'm not a tree, a money tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not an ATM. No, So okay, got wee
Speaker 1: are sounding old here?
Speaker 2: Well you I'm old and grumpy because I've been dealing
Speaker 2: with this for a while.
Speaker 1: What I'm hoping is about thirty seconds ago, you said,
Speaker 1: if you these kids need to learn that it's not
Speaker 1: all about super Nintendos. I'm just hoping that at some
Speaker 1: point we take that clip isolation and put it somewhere separately.
Speaker 1: And it makes you sound like you are about one
Speaker 1: hundred years old.
Speaker 2: I feel a hundred oh.
Speaker 1: Good anyway at number eight.
Speaker 2: So cooking and meal prep okay, yes, So obviously the
Speaker 2: holidays are full on. You've got lots of people coming
Speaker 2: and going, you're entertaining, and well you might be going
Speaker 2: to someone's house and need to take a plate with you.
Speaker 2: So teaching your kids about food and how long it
Speaker 2: takes to cook meal and also the nutritional benefits. So
Speaker 2: getting your kids to help with maybe if it's safe,
Speaker 2: chopping vegetables, you know, washing things, laying the table or
Speaker 2: like the things that help make the whole meal go
Speaker 2: by smoother. And obviously it's very you've got to be
Speaker 2: considered of their age and their skill set. But this
Speaker 2: is a great way of bonding experience as well. But
Speaker 2: they're also they're learning a new skill and this is
Speaker 2: something again I'm doing in my own home with Rocco
Speaker 2: and what happened He's been We do Hello Fresh Ones
Speaker 2: a fortnight, which is brilliant. So he's become so good
Speaker 2: and so confident at cooking and food prep. Last night,
Speaker 2: I'm hungry, Do you mind if I go and make
Speaker 2: myself a burrito? I've never made a burrito. He's never
Speaker 2: made a burrito. He found something on TikTok and he
Speaker 2: made the most delicious burrito. He even need to defrost
Speaker 2: things to do this.
Speaker 1: And that's impressive.
Speaker 2: And the rule was that's fine, but you must clean
Speaker 2: up everything afterwards, and he did, and I was so
Speaker 2: proud of himself.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the dream to have kids that will either
Speaker 1: feed themselves or hopefully then one day feed you as
Speaker 1: well well.
Speaker 2: Exactly. But it's funny how that you know, he's been
Speaker 2: doing food prep and cooking with me as a side hustle,
Speaker 2: turns extra money, and he's actually become organically become a
Speaker 2: benefit for him in his life skills.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great, eleven year old.
Speaker 2: I was so proud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is awesome. Yeah, that's actually a good point.
Speaker 1: The fact that this is not just a kind of
Speaker 1: making some money short term, this is actually that is
Speaker 1: preparation for the rest of your life. Exactly, well done,
Speaker 1: that's good. Okay, last one bring home.
Speaker 2: I feel like we haven't.
Speaker 1: It was eight No, we did car washing, then home
Speaker 1: and laundry and things home admin, then cooking and meal
Speaker 1: prep and then I've written meal prep down again. So
Speaker 1: apparently we've done two lots of meal prep. So let's
Speaker 1: get another night.
Speaker 2: You okay? You had me worried. Okay. So babysitting is
Speaker 2: a busy time of the year. You're out barbecues, catch ups.
Speaker 2: You also might just want to break date night. Maybe
Speaker 2: I have babysitting. Yeah, great, and obviously again age appropriate,
Speaker 2: but or even just like sometimes I will get a
Speaker 2: babysitter and I'll just go and sit in another room,
Speaker 2: close the door. Like I had to get some work
Speaker 2: down the other day of the weekend, and I needed
Speaker 2: the kids to be quiet and be safe, so I
Speaker 2: got a babysitter over for a couple of hours so
Speaker 2: I could just get on top of my work and
Speaker 2: clear my emails that were stressing me out.
Speaker 1: It largely becomes more about the entertainment and distraction than
Speaker 1: kind of and you are on hand. Yeah, if anything
Speaker 1: goes wrong.
Speaker 2: And one needs anything, I'm just yeah, knock on the door.
Speaker 1: But it just means that you are not the first
Speaker 1: port of call for every single question that is asked.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, hearing mom, mom, momum, all day. I
Speaker 2: have a ten point a point one for extra for
Speaker 2: good luck.
Speaker 1: Well, so far we're only on number nine, so if you've.
Speaker 2: Got one more, you have got two more.
Speaker 1: It's got to say, I'm gonna put it out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll cap me at ten.
Speaker 1: No, these lists are a mess today, and it's because
Speaker 1: you changed it from six summerside hustles to ten.
Speaker 2: I named ten because I just can't have to do everything, and.
Speaker 1: Then I had to do it as two subsets within
Speaker 1: one master list. So it's just it is diabolical.
Speaker 2: But keeping you on your toes.
Speaker 1: So we have got number nine there, number nine on
Speaker 1: the overall master list and then obviously number four in
Speaker 1: the kids subset list is babysitting great, and you advertise
Speaker 1: that through your local Facebook group again word of mouth
Speaker 1: kind of bait. You can do a letterbox drop also
Speaker 1: letterbox drops. Right, it's actually a sarde hustle in itself.
Speaker 1: It is because and it's a relatively a safe one
Speaker 1: to a degree, because it is typically your own neighborhood
Speaker 1: that you were doing it through and so you can
Speaker 1: google kind of pamphlet delivery and check out kind of
Speaker 1: what's in your area. And also you actually get the
Speaker 1: menu ail box anyway saying hey, do you want to
Speaker 1: be a walker for the local deliveries.
Speaker 2: And it's actually great fitness because you're getting of steps up.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: So obviously slips off, slap, be careful of the sun.
Speaker 1: So that one is good for both kids and adults.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to put that at the top of
Speaker 1: the list as the best tip we've had today because
Speaker 1: it is one that both people can use and it
Speaker 1: came from me. What's your next one is tech help
Speaker 1: for seniors. So kids these days are just so clever
Speaker 1: with technology. Yeah, you know, I had to switch over
Speaker 1: my I find the other day. I was having a
Speaker 1: bit of a meltdown. I was filled with anxiety that
Speaker 1: how this process would go, and things didn't quite go
Speaker 1: as smoothly as I would have liked. This is where
Speaker 1: kids are sober.
Speaker 2: They just come in. They've got so much confidence that
Speaker 2: they'll fix it for you. So if you aren't you
Speaker 2: have a child that is really tech savvy, they can
Speaker 2: sit down with someone who's not and actually helped fix
Speaker 2: all their things in there, whether it be their computer
Speaker 2: or their iPad or their iPhone.
Speaker 1: And chances are they're already doing that for their grandparents anyway,
Speaker 1: they may as well do it for other people and
Speaker 1: get paid for it.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a really good idea, teaching people how to
Speaker 1: use connect their printer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there are those annoying little things that can
Speaker 2: really irritate you, but a child comes through and just
Speaker 2: fixes it's done.
Speaker 1: They just have this kind of natural understanding. Can I
Speaker 1: tell something funny please? Tom and I have really both
Speaker 1: of us have a really bad sense of direction. And
Speaker 1: we had a holiday in Tokyo earlier this year and
Speaker 1: I for twenty twenty four and.
Speaker 2: We got lost. But Rocker was brilliant instructions. He was
Speaker 2: able to we were going in the complete opposite direction,
Speaker 2: and he was like our devour guide as to where
Speaker 2: we were going and how to do it and which
Speaker 2: trained to catch and which connection. It was unbelievable. And
Speaker 2: so when we had to go to a wedding in
Speaker 2: Rome for three days, which was literally a run there,
Speaker 2: run back because we couldn't let the kids we was
Speaker 2: we got bost in Rome, We're like we did call Rocco.
Speaker 2: Let him know where we are on our maps and
Speaker 2: he can help us get to the hotel.
Speaker 1: That is impressive.
Speaker 2: We were stuffed. Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 1: So here is human google maps, google maps. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: All right, is that our full list? What did you
Speaker 1: have a little bonus one that you wanted to?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I do, but I just just a lemonade stand.
Speaker 1: Go on, drop it then lemonade stand stand.
Speaker 2: Well, it's hot and everyone loves supporting a child who
Speaker 2: has some sort of stand, whether they're selling biscuits or
Speaker 2: cakes or I saw the other day kids selling succulents,
Speaker 2: which I thought was really andrew like a hydration station
Speaker 2: like Rocco did for his school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Everyone loves you, and no one like people say it's
Speaker 2: a dollar, oh keep the change.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The big challenge with these ones no one has
Speaker 1: cash anymore. Like if you get people passing by in
Speaker 1: the old days, like everyone would just have some coins
Speaker 1: in their pocket, or they at least have their wallet
Speaker 1: with a five dollar note or something in it, whereas
Speaker 1: now if you get someone walking past you, they will
Speaker 1: be like, I'm sorry, I don't have cash. I've never
Speaker 1: got cash on me.
Speaker 2: Ever, that's why you have that square white square thing
Speaker 2: you can buy from office works, which is not expensive
Speaker 2: at all, and you can just collect money on that tap.
Speaker 1: So kids actually use a little square payment you.
Speaker 2: Can just buy them from office works. Oh, stopping you
Speaker 2: these days from earning a little side hustle.
Speaker 1: That is taking side hustles, particularly for kids, to a
Speaker 1: whole other level.
Speaker 2: And that's why they are like helping seniors with their
Speaker 2: tech help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well said, okay, all right, that's a good list.
Speaker 1: So just to recap adults, first, Uber driving Amazon Flex,
Speaker 1: we put that in the one. Number two was decluttering
Speaker 1: and selling online. Number three is learn a new skill
Speaker 1: online and then monetize that skill, whether it's learning to
Speaker 1: edit videos or edit something and then on sell that.
Speaker 1: I can't think of any examples other than editing things.
Speaker 2: Through freading, copywriting.
Speaker 1: Hmm yeah, good point. Okay, that's number that was number three.
Speaker 1: Number four pet sitting and dog walking, and let's like,
Speaker 1: let's group house sitting in there as well, Yes, if
Speaker 1: we can. Number five, because it's really a bumper list,
Speaker 1: like there are no limits on this list. There are
Speaker 1: just there's tips and ideas all over the place. Number
Speaker 1: five extra set of hand hands plural extra set of
Speaker 1: hands singular hand for summer parties and weddings. That's a
Speaker 1: great idea. Number six getting into the kids zone now,
Speaker 1: car washing, helping around the home in terms of light
Speaker 1: duties inside, cleaning, folding, all that kind of thing. Number
Speaker 1: eight was cooking and meal prep. I like that idea
Speaker 1: because it's a life skill that then can go into adulthood.
Speaker 1: Number nine babysitting. Number ten was tech help for anyone
Speaker 1: else because assuming generally that kids are going to be
Speaker 1: better than most adults and most tech things generalization, but
Speaker 1: I think it's a fairly accurate one. A lemonade stand
Speaker 1: that was ten. A that was a bonus one. And
Speaker 1: then the ultimate tip letterbox delivery. Why wouldn't you? I mean,
Speaker 1: you get fit, you get things delivered, and it's relatively
Speaker 1: easy because everyone's got no junk mail, and so you
Speaker 1: just kind of walk past everyone's mailbox and go, hey,
Speaker 1: I did my job. That's on li Fhile. If everyone
Speaker 1: wants no junk mail, catalogs are the best.
Speaker 2: You really thought this. You're thinking about something about taming.
Speaker 2: This is your own side hustle.
Speaker 1: Do you have a no junk mail thing?
Speaker 2: On your I hate junk mail. I need to go
Speaker 2: and get one.
Speaker 1: Oh catalogs, How do you know you are like the
Speaker 1: Tips and savings queen? How do you know what is
Speaker 1: on sale if you're not getting these catalogs.
Speaker 2: I don't like the waste damage to the environment. I
Speaker 2: think it's just it's just I have a big issue
Speaker 2: with it. I don't If I need a plumber, I
Speaker 2: will go find a plumb. I don't want I don't
Speaker 2: want someone's business card.
Speaker 1: Being dropped now. I don't want business cards. But what
Speaker 1: I do want is the Kmart catalog or the catalog or.
Speaker 2: All those trees, all that ink like and they all
Speaker 2: end up being going blowing everywhere into your neighborhood, and
Speaker 2: well they.
Speaker 1: Do if your son's blowing it out of it out
Speaker 1: of the car to clean it out, just lasting it
Speaker 1: away unto the gutter. All right, that's a good list.
Speaker 1: If we want more information, how do we find you?
Speaker 2: Before I say that? Can I share a couple of
Speaker 2: thoughts As a side hustle queen?
Speaker 1: Please? All right?
Speaker 2: Side hustles are not just about money. It's about, as
Speaker 2: you said, learning new skills, but also building confidence. And
Speaker 2: it might even for children in particular, spike an entrepreneurial
Speaker 2: spirit with you, which is something very special and should
Speaker 2: be nurtured and obviously enhanced. But for adults also they
Speaker 2: can be the start of something bigger and they are
Speaker 2: a brilliant waif also with adults working with children on
Speaker 2: their side hustle to help teach financial independence, but also
Speaker 2: having fun at the same time. And recently Rocker and
Speaker 2: I we're doing this savings plan for a new bike
Speaker 2: and we've had so much fun. It's been a beautiful
Speaker 2: bonding experience. So whether you're decluttering or folding laundry, this
Speaker 2: is a really great opportunity to have a lot of
Speaker 2: fun together and earn cash. And you never know what
Speaker 2: might actually come from a side hustle. I mean I
Speaker 2: would have never have thought I built a three hundred
Speaker 2: and something thousand dollars share portfolio from hustling.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. The fact is that it starts,
Speaker 1: has to start somewhere right, and you can build some
Speaker 1: fantastic habits that might last a lifetime and could actually
Speaker 1: make you quite wealthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you never know what will take you.
Speaker 1: Indeed, a right, so Instagram's the best place to find you, Yes,
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