Speaker 1: Episode five, Side hustles for those short on time. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money,
Speaker 1: embrace simplicity rights, and liver with your life. Here your
Speaker 1: host Jen and Jill What Welcome to another episode of
Speaker 1: the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen, this is Jill,
Speaker 1: and today we are talking about doing side hustles when
Speaker 1: you are short on time. I should you do online
Speaker 1: surveys to make money? Question? Mack No, no cancer, No
Speaker 1: episode over, Yeah, bye, see you next week. No. But
Speaker 1: we know that online surveys are one of the highest
Speaker 1: search for terms on the Internet, and I guess that
Speaker 1: means people are interested in making money in quick and
Speaker 1: easy ways. So these are going to be the quick
Speaker 1: and easy ways that you should really be making money.
Speaker 1: And episode twenty four we talked about side hustles that
Speaker 1: are affordable and lucrative, and today's is specifically going to
Speaker 1: be on those you can do without a lot of time,
Speaker 1: especially the holidays are our myths are upon us and
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of time, but you may
Speaker 1: need some extra money. So this is your episode. Yes,
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Speaker 1: all about side hustles for those people who have an
Speaker 1: hour or less. You don't need more than one hour
Speaker 1: to make money doing any of the side hustles we
Speaker 1: are talking about today, and to prove it to you,
Speaker 1: our first article is actually titled one hour side hustles
Speaker 1: for the time constrained. Yes. So the first one on
Speaker 1: this list is walk dogs. Obviously you have to like
Speaker 1: dogs to do this one, but here's the places where
Speaker 1: you can easily find alliance to walk their dogs. Wag
Speaker 1: and Rover. We've got a friend Greg who who uses
Speaker 1: Rover walks dogs through that does it and Rover. There's
Speaker 1: all kinds of different pet care options. Dog walking is
Speaker 1: one of them, but also just watching a dog, which
Speaker 1: might include house sitting. So if you've got more than
Speaker 1: an hour, this is great too. But he's because of
Speaker 1: that being able to combine it with just working from
Speaker 1: home or Saturday activities or whatever. So exercise, so a
Speaker 1: wag or Rover and again we'll have this article linked
Speaker 1: in the show notes. Those are some great apps that
Speaker 1: you can download to be able to make They pay
Speaker 1: about twelve dollars per half hour walk and eighteen dollars
Speaker 1: per hour for walking a dog, so yeah, definitely a
Speaker 1: little bit of sidecash. Yeah. The girl they mentioned in
Speaker 1: the article uses her lunch hour to do it, so
Speaker 1: get outside, escape the office, make some money. Another one
Speaker 1: is charging scooters, So if your city has Bird or
Speaker 1: Lime scooters, you can get about five to per scooter
Speaker 1: to take them home, plug them in and quote unquote
Speaker 1: re next them to set locations. So this is something
Speaker 1: you can pick them up when you've got a little
Speaker 1: free time and bring them home. You can do it
Speaker 1: while it's on your commute home charge them overnight, and
Speaker 1: then bring them back in your morning commute. So not
Speaker 1: a lot of time investment there. Those scooters are amazing.
Speaker 1: To the cities that we've been to that have them
Speaker 1: are so fum and I recently heard about this that
Speaker 1: that you can charge them and make money. I think
Speaker 1: some people are even will bring batteries and kind of
Speaker 1: just hang out on the corner and charge them. They
Speaker 1: send yeah, burden Lime will send you charge chargers to
Speaker 1: start out with. Yeah. So yeah, if you're just driving around,
Speaker 1: that's worth it to think about doing. This is especially
Speaker 1: good if you have like a truck or a minivan
Speaker 1: or an suv, you can get a lot more scooters.
Speaker 1: That's a whole lot more money than I even thought.
Speaker 1: Five to twenty dollars per scooter. That's really great. Manage
Speaker 1: social media, so there are tons of people out there
Speaker 1: looking for virtual assistance. People who will post to their Instagram,
Speaker 1: to their Facebook to just to keep up their company
Speaker 1: brand and image, particularly for companies that don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of If I could say it this way, millennials
Speaker 1: who this is like second nature of posting to social media,
Speaker 1: that there is money in this, so you know, looking
Speaker 1: online for for virtual assistant positions or social media seen
Speaker 1: to those platforms, and I'll say that you don't even
Speaker 1: have to be good with social media because you can
Speaker 1: find v A positions just to sift through people's emails.
Speaker 1: Like the pastor at our church got a v A
Speaker 1: so that he could have somebody not within the church
Speaker 1: sift through emails that he should be answering or don't
Speaker 1: need to be answering, so the person can be impartial.
Speaker 1: And there are plenty of ways to find v A positions,
Speaker 1: but Ballet and Worldwide one oh one they can find
Speaker 1: them for you. This next one, I had no idea
Speaker 1: was a side hustle, but it's so smart. It's drive
Speaker 1: kids home from school. Yeah. When I read this and
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I hope this is legit. I know,
Speaker 1: but there are a few different websites, so ride zoom
Speaker 1: can go and hop skip drive and all of this
Speaker 1: I forgot to mention is on side hustle dot com.
Speaker 1: Side Hustle without the t um This is a fantastic
Speaker 1: website for side hustlers. They have a great quiz that's
Speaker 1: at the menu bar of their website where you can
Speaker 1: explore um your personality and what you're interested in and
Speaker 1: the side hustles that align with it. So definitely visit
Speaker 1: side hustle dot com. No t but yeah, they found
Speaker 1: these companies that you can sign up for and moms
Speaker 1: or dads can pay you twenty to thirty dollars per
Speaker 1: hour to be picking up kids from school. You have
Speaker 1: to cover your own gas and insurance and auto whatever.
Speaker 1: But if you're in the right neighborhood and have time
Speaker 1: during that hour, that's awesome. And then teaching music, so
Speaker 1: if you happen to have a musical talent, oh boe, clarinet, violin, piano, guitar,
Speaker 1: are if you name it, you can sign up with
Speaker 1: these different online platforms. There's one called take Lessons, another
Speaker 1: one is called lesson Face. So both sites allow you
Speaker 1: to set your own rates and then you take a portion.
Speaker 1: Obviously you pay them a portion for hosting and connecting
Speaker 1: you with students. But it's a great way to be
Speaker 1: able to make some money online teaching music if that's
Speaker 1: the skill of yours. Yeah, and I think the value
Speaker 1: of these websites is that you can make money in
Speaker 1: less than an hour and you don't have to spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time looking for clients. They are coming
Speaker 1: to you, and yes, you're paying a price to do that,
Speaker 1: but it's worth it if you don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of time. So I love that there's so many websites
Speaker 1: that offer so many things for people to take lessons
Speaker 1: and also to offer their experience. I love the internet. Um.
Speaker 1: And then the last one on this list is to tutor.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure a lot of people have heard of
Speaker 1: v I p Kid, but there are other websites too,
Speaker 1: So why zannt with why Varsity Tutors or Chelsea International
Speaker 1: Education are other places that will Um, you can earn
Speaker 1: fifteen to fifty dollars per hour tutoring students. So it
Speaker 1: says that Chelsea International pays the best, but it has
Speaker 1: the most stringent requirements to so usually favors working teachers
Speaker 1: who have been life screened and thoroughly background checked. I
Speaker 1: don't know how life screened. That sounds intense, right, Um.
Speaker 1: But if you are a teacher and um, you want
Speaker 1: to make a little extra money then or have a
Speaker 1: teaching background, than tutoring is definitely something you can do.
Speaker 1: You don't have to just teach English at four o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning. Yeah, exactly. I was going to say,
Speaker 1: I've heard great things about v I p Kid. It
Speaker 1: is an actual company that pays real money. I've got
Speaker 1: friends who work for them and they really like it.
Speaker 1: But that is specifically teaching English, whereas these other ones
Speaker 1: opened the door for more of teaching anything and everything,
Speaker 1: like like this article says anything from algebra to Spanish.
Speaker 1: If you've got knowledge or skill in a certain area,
Speaker 1: this could be the one for you. Yeah, so definitely,
Speaker 1: we'll have the link to this on our show notes.
Speaker 1: But side hustle dot com really thorough reviews of um
Speaker 1: a bunch of side hustles over three hundred, so great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our next article is for people with essentially no time.
Speaker 1: So you don't even have an hour to go pick
Speaker 1: up scooters and bring them home. You just you got nothing.
Speaker 1: So we found this article from vital dollar dot com.
Speaker 1: Twenty things you can rent out for extra money. So
Speaker 1: neither things you already got you're not using because you're
Speaker 1: doing different things. You can rent them out and make
Speaker 1: some money off of it, almost passively. What did you
Speaker 1: like on this list, Jo, because there's twenty of them.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well there's so many. The one that stood
Speaker 1: out to me at first was just office space. If
Speaker 1: you've got space in your home or other building on
Speaker 1: your property that could be used as an office or
Speaker 1: a meeting room or remote work type place, rent it out.
Speaker 1: So there's different ways that you can do this. There's
Speaker 1: website called liquid Space, another one called desk Time, another
Speaker 1: one called share Desk, all of which would connect you
Speaker 1: with people who are looking for spaces to rent, to
Speaker 1: work out of, or host a meeting. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: what Eric and I are doing literally right now. We've
Speaker 1: rented a building specifically for office space, so it's not
Speaker 1: to live in. We're not trying to run crazy businesses
Speaker 1: out of here. We're not setting up a shop, but
Speaker 1: we needed a place to work from, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people. I think as remote work is growing,
Speaker 1: more and more people are realizing I don't just want
Speaker 1: to be stuck in my home all day, or I
Speaker 1: don't have a great spot in my home. I've got kids,
Speaker 1: or I've got other things happening at my house. I
Speaker 1: need to be able to get out, be in a
Speaker 1: different space, maybe even connect with other people. So having
Speaker 1: some space if if you can get creative. I love
Speaker 1: this idea that people are looking for office space. What
Speaker 1: about you. I liked renting out your house or space
Speaker 1: for events, so I think we take for granted the
Speaker 1: Airbnb or vr b OH is the only way you
Speaker 1: can make use of extra space in your house, and
Speaker 1: it is a great way we talked about in our
Speaker 1: house hacking episode. But you can also rent out like
Speaker 1: rooms or living room or something for filming, photo shoots, parties,
Speaker 1: and other types of events. And it doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: have to have like a meticulously kept home. Some people
Speaker 1: are just looking for they're out of town, they're staying
Speaker 1: with their family or something, and maybe they need a
Speaker 1: cheap space to just escape. So different places you can
Speaker 1: list your house or property. Is a Locations Hub set
Speaker 1: scouter that's specifically for like productions like music videos and
Speaker 1: commercials and stuff. Gigster another one for filming or to
Speaker 1: host a party. Peer Space. This one's more wider variety.
Speaker 1: Uh splazer that's an interesting name. And then this open space.
Speaker 1: So if you've got a good look in space at
Speaker 1: your home, but you don't want people staying there overnight,
Speaker 1: list it first for some filming or something. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not just like l a type filming like commercials. B
Speaker 1: Roll all types of things need to be filmed, so
Speaker 1: don't think just because you don't live in LA or
Speaker 1: New York, nobody's gonna want to film in your space. Again,
Speaker 1: more space options, but it's more creative than just renting
Speaker 1: a room for someone to sleep in if you don't
Speaker 1: even have that storage space, So think attic space, think
Speaker 1: extra garage space. Think if you've got barn or even
Speaker 1: a little bit of land. There are people who are
Speaker 1: looking to store RVs, trailers, cars, boats, even if they
Speaker 1: can just put it on your lawn outside. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: don't have the space for that. I mean, at least
Speaker 1: up in p A, you'll see through the winter people
Speaker 1: storing their boats at boat sales facilities or storage facilities
Speaker 1: outside with a tarp ontom. But you could undercut those
Speaker 1: costs for people by charging a little bit less and
Speaker 1: just letting them park their boat or r V behind
Speaker 1: your house for a monthly cost. There are some websites
Speaker 1: again that will connect you with people who are looking
Speaker 1: for spaces like this. If you have this kind of space,
Speaker 1: so stow it. They specialize in vehicle storage, So if
Speaker 1: you do have a space like a garage, barn, land
Speaker 1: for cars, trailers, RVs, so it would be your your platform.
Speaker 1: There's store at my house, so it's like the Airbnb
Speaker 1: of self storage, so maybe people more so with their
Speaker 1: boxes of knick knacks. And then Neighbor is another website
Speaker 1: where it's more just kind of peer to peer storage rentals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like Jill said, like sometimes this is just like
Speaker 1: winter storage or summer storage. It doesn't. It's not like
Speaker 1: you're going to be hosting these people's stuff for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life and then they're going to forget
Speaker 1: about it and you're gonna be like, how do I
Speaker 1: get this off my property? Link. This is monthly and
Speaker 1: it's usually for a short period of time. Another one
Speaker 1: I really love is parking space. So if you live
Speaker 1: near a sporting arena of the sports, if you live
Speaker 1: somewhere where they do the sports, nearby sports sports, or
Speaker 1: somewhere where there are events that people want to park
Speaker 1: at for money, you can sell parking space. Or or
Speaker 1: maybe it's not even like sports or events, maybe it's
Speaker 1: just again somebody needs to park their car for the winter.
Speaker 1: This is great. So park x is a US company,
Speaker 1: so are Spot and spot pog. We went to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And you guys drove down and we were
Speaker 1: wondering where you were going to park your car because
Speaker 1: everything nearby was permit parking and we just needed that
Speaker 1: for a week. So that's like another reason people will
Speaker 1: need that. UK listeners can use just park or your
Speaker 1: parking space. So I I love this idea of the
Speaker 1: super Bowl is coming to our city next year or
Speaker 1: in two years, and I am thinking about renting at
Speaker 1: our whole house, but maybe even some parking in the backyard.
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see. Yeah, So this next one
Speaker 1: I'm super interested in. Eric and I thought about this
Speaker 1: when we lived in our motor home and we drove
Speaker 1: it around a bit more. But advertising space on your car,
Speaker 1: so this is a real thing. I am curious how
Speaker 1: many people actually are able to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: But essentially, you're renting out your car like a billboard.
Speaker 1: You're still driving it, but sites like carver, ties, Rapify,
Speaker 1: and free car media would put advertisements on your car,
Speaker 1: either a full rap or maybe a sticker of some sort,
Speaker 1: and you get paid monthly just for driving around. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would assume it's all the places that you would
Speaker 1: normally go. I don't know what what kinds of specifics
Speaker 1: would come with that if they want to know that
Speaker 1: you're driving a certain amount of miles so that it's
Speaker 1: getting in front of people, but it looks like they're
Speaker 1: paying between one hundred to four hundred dollars a month
Speaker 1: depending on what type of rap they put on your car.
Speaker 1: So if you don't really care what the outside of
Speaker 1: your vehicle looks like, or the outside of your vehicle
Speaker 1: does not look good and you might need an upgrade
Speaker 1: with a wrap, you can consider this and also report
Speaker 1: back because I'm so interested. Yes, I know, I think
Speaker 1: Joel lars Guard, our very first guest on the show
Speaker 1: way back in I don't even know an episode. I
Speaker 1: think he tried it, so he'll probably he might have
Speaker 1: something on on their How to Money podcast about it.
Speaker 1: Another one I found really interesting and useful is photography gear.
Speaker 1: So sometimes if you're not a professional photographer, you might
Speaker 1: want to take some photos on vacation, but maybe you
Speaker 1: don't want to take all your equipment with you, or
Speaker 1: maybe you are a professional and you just don't want
Speaker 1: to take your equipment with you. Somewhere you can rent
Speaker 1: photography gear from a local and so if you are
Speaker 1: a photographer and you have gear you're not using, you
Speaker 1: can make some money off of that. Uh so sites
Speaker 1: like share grid and kit split kit split, um, those
Speaker 1: are two sites where you can post photography gear too.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe rent to so so maybe for
Speaker 1: frugal Christmas photos, you don't want to hire a photographer,
Speaker 1: so you just get a friend. You'd rent a photography
Speaker 1: a photography device, a camera and take a picture with
Speaker 1: a nice camera. And that's how you do it. That's
Speaker 1: amazing this web. I am also interested in this even
Speaker 1: for my own use. Like there's some some of these
Speaker 1: frugal ideas that would be good even in the vice versa.
Speaker 1: Like you can rent your clothes through a website called
Speaker 1: style lend or rent my wardrobe. This would most likely
Speaker 1: be for people who have nice wardrobes, but you can
Speaker 1: rent out your clothes, which makes me think rent the runway. Honestly,
Speaker 1: for me, it's too expensive. I can go to Ross
Speaker 1: and get a cheaper dress that now I own and
Speaker 1: I can wear all the time. I get it that
Speaker 1: for if you're going to a really high end event
Speaker 1: that you would try to spend a ton of money.
Speaker 1: But it's just not my style. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: going to those events. Roe invites me because I go
Speaker 1: to the Dave Ramsey event and I eat all their
Speaker 1: snacks for my dinner anyhow, But yeah, I'm sure what
Speaker 1: this would be a similar style, like somebody on here
Speaker 1: would be having nice clothes but not as expensive as
Speaker 1: rent the rent way. And lastly, this one is sad
Speaker 1: to me, but I feel like it's worth stating so
Speaker 1: that we can even offer other options. Number twenty is friendship.
Speaker 1: You can literally rent your friendship at rent a friend
Speaker 1: dot com. It allows you to create a profile so
Speaker 1: people can hire you to be a friend. It is legal.
Speaker 1: It's strictly friends platonic type interaction. Some people are claiming
Speaker 1: that they're making two thousand a week if they're doing
Speaker 1: it full time, honest to goodness, though, that's that's so
Speaker 1: sad to me, and be our friend our friend. I
Speaker 1: did some research into this to check the validity, and
Speaker 1: I had I heard obviously there's a lot of horror stories,
Speaker 1: just not horror like dangerous, but just you get you
Speaker 1: spend time with people that can't make their own friends,
Speaker 1: and you quickly understand why they're paying for friendship. But
Speaker 1: you also get people that are just new to the
Speaker 1: area and there aren't like friendship apps, like there are
Speaker 1: dating apps, and if you're not interested in dating, maybe
Speaker 1: you don't want to be on one of those apps.
Speaker 1: Or but the paying part is what's weird to me,
Speaker 1: Like just go on Facebook free events and and go
Speaker 1: meet people to pay introvert it's hard. Oh, that sounds
Speaker 1: horrible to me. I would much rather pay for a
Speaker 1: guide around the city. That's what a lot of people
Speaker 1: use rent a friend for is they will just a
Speaker 1: person to bring them to the really sweet spots in
Speaker 1: the new city. And they're not Yeah they're not. They
Speaker 1: don't need friends, they don't need to pay for friendship,
Speaker 1: but they want a one on one guide, or they
Speaker 1: want to do something but none of their friends want
Speaker 1: to do it, so you know, they you know, they
Speaker 1: go for somebody. Yeah, so it almost be like what
Speaker 1: you would hope you get out of an Airbnb interaction
Speaker 1: if that's what you're looking for. But if you're not
Speaker 1: paying for an Airbnb but you still want a local guide. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'm not advocating for this one. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: it's on this list. Yeah, try it out. I can't
Speaker 1: I can't verify that you couldn't make that much money,
Speaker 1: like two thousand. They're saying if you're doing it full time,
Speaker 1: and what's the chances of you finding this full time? Right? Also,
Speaker 1: this isn't as passive as the other things because you're
Speaker 1: actually renting yourself, right, So you might unless it's like
Speaker 1: somebody wants to go Christmas shopping with you and then
Speaker 1: you're already doing your Christmas shopping. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: You can make it work, but it is still you
Speaker 1: run a greater risk renting yourself out than you do
Speaker 1: a room in your house. Do you know what's not
Speaker 1: a risk? Oh? I never feel risky when I do this.
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Speaker 1: It's usually that interesting anyhow, And now for the Lightning round. Oh,
Speaker 1: I knew you were going to do something different. Bones
Speaker 1: she's gonna throw me for a loop. So yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a last minute decision. Oh, I appreciate it. Everybody
Speaker 1: like grabbed their knobs on their their volume, like ready
Speaker 1: to turn it down, and now they still haven't turned
Speaker 1: down because you were Sometimes lightning hits you like a
Speaker 1: soft feather in the wind. Never does that, but sometimes
Speaker 1: the south is quiet. Sometimes you only see it in
Speaker 1: the field, don't hear it. Yes, that's just a little
Speaker 1: flash that you almost miss, Just like this segment, it's
Speaker 1: a flash. And that we're in. We're out, and we'll
Speaker 1: leave you with some good tips. And today's Lightning Round
Speaker 1: is our personal favorite quick and easy side hustles. So
Speaker 1: we haven't tried most of the ones we just named off.
Speaker 1: We like them, they sound good, but we can't personally
Speaker 1: vouch for them. So these are the ones we can
Speaker 1: personally vouch for. So one that I like is labor,
Speaker 1: so of course This would depend on how much time
Speaker 1: you have to determine what type of labor you can do.
Speaker 1: So obviously painting someone's whole house is going to take
Speaker 1: a lot more than an hour. But looking for the
Speaker 1: types of labor jobs that you could do that would
Speaker 1: be short, like possibly painting a piece of furniture. I
Speaker 1: mean maybe if you can spread out your hours, right,
Speaker 1: if you've got one hour every day day for a week,
Speaker 1: then yes, certainly you could uh do some painting for somebody,
Speaker 1: or redo a piece of furniture, or even watch someone's
Speaker 1: kid real quick while they have to run out to
Speaker 1: the store make a little bit of cash. You could
Speaker 1: that This is where you can get so creative with
Speaker 1: the type of labor. Make food for people, you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of lunch. I've got lunches pretty
Speaker 1: much pre made, and try and sell it. Obviously that
Speaker 1: have to be amongst friends, because otherwise you need like
Speaker 1: an industrial kitchen. But well, there are websites too where
Speaker 1: you can cook for people or assemble meals for people.
Speaker 1: You can you can find all of those on side
Speaker 1: hustle dot com where we were in the earlier in
Speaker 1: the show, and there's websites for labor too. You can
Speaker 1: go on task rabbit and find like our long tasks
Speaker 1: to do. Here's a website for everything. Y'all. The Internet
Speaker 1: is a blessing and a curse, but you're mostly a blessing.
Speaker 1: It all has some ups and downs. Yeah, what about you.
Speaker 1: Airbnb is definitely the top. It has been the most
Speaker 1: lucrative for us with the least amount of energy. So
Speaker 1: really I threw it up there and priced it low. Well,
Speaker 1: actually I priced it low for like the first three stays.
Speaker 1: Airbnb will encourage you to do that and do it
Speaker 1: automatically for you if you want. But it was right
Speaker 1: before Christmas, so we just started at a busy time
Speaker 1: where everybody's looking for stays. We didn't really have to
Speaker 1: push it out there. And then it just kind of
Speaker 1: snowballed from there and we are not doing it much anymore.
Speaker 1: But really, all it included was when somebody left, I'd
Speaker 1: clean the bathroom, I would clean the sheets, switch them out,
Speaker 1: and that was it. And I have to clean the
Speaker 1: rest of my house anyway, So it just motivated me
Speaker 1: to just helped you. Yeah. Nice. Another one that I've
Speaker 1: done is plants, So again, this can vary in degree
Speaker 1: of amount of time that you put into it and
Speaker 1: how many you sell. But if you've got a little
Speaker 1: bit of property, certainly especially in the summertime, you can
Speaker 1: grow little seedlings, sell the tiny little plants, or if
Speaker 1: you've only got house plants, make some clipping off of growth,
Speaker 1: root them just by putting it in a little bit
Speaker 1: of water waiting for some roots to start, shove it
Speaker 1: and some soil. Put it in mugs, terra cotta pots,
Speaker 1: whatever you find from the thrift store, and sell them
Speaker 1: either at the end of your driveway just alongside the road,
Speaker 1: or online through Facebook, Marketplace or offer up or any
Speaker 1: of these places. People are constantly looking for house plants.
Speaker 1: You can and yeah, you can sell them at decent prices,
Speaker 1: and certainly quantity will bring you more money. But it's
Speaker 1: not a super time consuming thing. It's like a minute
Speaker 1: here and there until you get the final product that
Speaker 1: you can sell. Another one of my favorite ones while
Speaker 1: we were paying off debt was online data entry and
Speaker 1: different from online surveys, and that I got a subscription
Speaker 1: to flex Jobs, which is a job board, but it
Speaker 1: is a paid job word and it was worth every penny.
Speaker 1: If you've heard of it and you're on the fence,
Speaker 1: I definitely recommend it. And then that's where I found
Speaker 1: data entry jobs that were legit. So lion Bridge was
Speaker 1: one that I worked with. Appen, they work with the AI,
Speaker 1: so you can like speak into the computer and record
Speaker 1: yourself and it helps AI decipher you know what humans
Speaker 1: sound like. Um, so that's kind of fun. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't take much time and they are truly flexible.
Speaker 1: So I did it an hour before I went to
Speaker 1: work in the mornings, made a little more than minimum wage,
Speaker 1: and maybe did in an hour when I got home
Speaker 1: at night, and that was it. So yeah, really good
Speaker 1: for me at that time. Super mind numbing. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna be intellectually stimulated by by this job, but it
Speaker 1: does pay real money. That's great. Yeah, especially if you've
Speaker 1: got a little bit of time to kill and you've
Speaker 1: got a computer, it could be a really great thing.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. So those are our tips. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: need to do a lot of different jobs to make
Speaker 1: some money this holiday, and you don't need to do
Speaker 1: a lot of work marketing yourself because there are all
Speaker 1: of these websites that will market for you, um, and
Speaker 1: you'll just pay them a little extra to do that,
Speaker 1: and then once you're comfortable and you've built up your
Speaker 1: own client, tell go out on your own and and
Speaker 1: make that you know that you're kicking back to the website.
Speaker 1: You can make it yourself. So but don't don't be
Speaker 1: afraid of starting with one of these websites. I think
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing about this topic of side hustles
Speaker 1: is yeah, I've heard of that, but how do I
Speaker 1: do it? And so this offers you all of the
Speaker 1: websites where they might take a cut, but you don't
Speaker 1: have to find find it all yourself, because usually that's
Speaker 1: where it falls flat of. I know that I could
Speaker 1: get paid to do such and such, but where do
Speaker 1: I go? How do I find it? And this kind
Speaker 1: of provides it all for you. Yeah, sometimes working for
Speaker 1: a little less is worth more than trying to do
Speaker 1: it yourself and not getting any work. So you just
Speaker 1: have to decide where you are in your life and
Speaker 1: what your financial goals are and see if that is
Speaker 1: where you are. Otherwise, you can check out our other
Speaker 1: side hustle episode and check out those side hustles that
Speaker 1: might take a little more time. That's where you learn
Speaker 1: that podcasting makes on average three dollars an hour. Yes,
Speaker 1: if you heard us say that joke before, that is
Speaker 1: the episode it is from a dollar fifty each. Then
Speaker 1: you've got to split it, right, because that's the downside
Speaker 1: of having a co host. You split everything. But you
Speaker 1: have more friends, so you do you have more fun.
Speaker 1: Speaking of fun, we are reading Jen's book this month
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Speaker 1: So he sells ten thousand books for everyone book he
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Speaker 1: over here up here. I can't relate. You can't temp.
Speaker 1: What's the temp? So the temperature right now at five
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Speaker 1: my calendar. That will not tell me the temper. Is
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Speaker 1: I ran a ten k yesterday morning, and you yes,
Speaker 1: it was in the sixties seventies. It was glory. Yes,
Speaker 1: like I wanted to sing it was so nice and
Speaker 1: you wanted to sing while you were running? Oh? Got
Speaker 1: not while I was running? No, No, besides the six
Speaker 1: mile run. It was a great morning a six mile run,
Speaker 1: didn't you? Like? Just give birth? Two weeks ago, my
Speaker 1: first race in almost two years, because I didn't run
Speaker 1: any while I was pregnant or since I've had Kai,
Speaker 1: So it felt good to get back out there. I
Speaker 1: love the race atmosphere. It is one of those things
Speaker 1: I will unashamedly spend obscene amounts of money on because
Speaker 1: running races are so fun to Yeah. Sure, good for you, Jen,
Speaker 1: I'm so I'm so impressed by you. Just create a
Speaker 1: baby with your body and then go run six miles.
Speaker 1: It took me a little time, and I didn't do
Speaker 1: it fast. I run like a twelve minute pace, So
Speaker 1: I'm not a run for every for every mile. That's
Speaker 1: like your pace. That's fantastic. Yeah, I'm proud of I'm
Speaker 1: not a runner, so I guess it doesn't mean much
Speaker 1: coming from me, but I think it's fantastic. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's not slow, but it's like and he's probably average,
Speaker 1: but still you're maintaining that for six miles. That's probably
Speaker 1: what I That's probably what my like one mile time
Speaker 1: would be. I got I I'm six minutes over my
Speaker 1: PR for a ten k and that's sounded really good
Speaker 1: to me. And then Travis is like, that's a minute
Speaker 1: every mile, and I was like, shut up, shut up,
Speaker 1: what needs you? Did your body create a human? But
Speaker 1: whenever we run with Kai, he always pushes the jogging stroller.
Speaker 1: So I can't be mad at him as he should.
Speaker 1: His body didn't create, right. I carried him in my
Speaker 1: body and he was cut out of me. You get
Speaker 1: to push him in the jogging stroller. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: her agreement. Yeah, did Travis watch as Kaile was like
Speaker 1: cut out of your belly? No? I wasn't sure what
Speaker 1: kind he was. No, no, no, no, no, no hard
Speaker 1: hard pass. He was on my headside of the of
Speaker 1: the tarp. Tarp. It's not a tarp. I just threw
Speaker 1: a tart down and scissors in and yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a very ster garage. And the thing about when you
Speaker 1: do a scheduled C section is that it's a very
Speaker 1: chill experience walking in there. Like I walked onto my
Speaker 1: own operating table. Everybody was very chill. Nobody was rushed.
Speaker 1: It was such a bizarre experience because you see hospitals
Speaker 1: and these like emergency c sections, and they're like everybody's
Speaker 1: like there's blood and there's chaos, and this was the
Speaker 1: most chill hospital experience I've I've ever experienced. I was
Speaker 1: with my friend Emerald, who went into emergency C section
Speaker 1: while I was with her, and so I was her
Speaker 1: person in the room with her, and I was on
Speaker 1: you know, the other side of the tarp as he
Speaker 1: was so lovingly fall it um and without even having
Speaker 1: time to think, like as they were pulling the little
Speaker 1: baby out, a little Avabeth out of her belly, they
Speaker 1: like the one and and anesthetist is that what they
Speaker 1: would call it, Like the anesthe geologists whatever they like.
Speaker 1: They were like, oh, like look over and like the
Speaker 1: surgeons were like, oh look, look like you know, something's happening.
Speaker 1: And I without even thinking, I just like hop up
Speaker 1: and look over, and I'm like, I probably should have
Speaker 1: thought through like is this something I want to see?
Speaker 1: Or like they should have thought through that, right, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe they just looked at me and
Speaker 1: saw like, oh, yeah, she's she's she's legit, she could
Speaker 1: handle this. You know, she's just a straight dime piece obviously.
Speaker 1: But I don't really remember. It's like it's one of
Speaker 1: those things that's like a little bit of a blur
Speaker 1: where like I didn't have time to to think, and
Speaker 1: then I just look over and just like a ton
Speaker 1: of red, just lots of read. I remember that. And
Speaker 1: then this tiniest, little sweetest baby coming out of the
Speaker 1: like perfect little head. She she was twenty five weeks
Speaker 1: so she was only like one pound nine ounces, but
Speaker 1: like she looked like the most beautiful and I do
Speaker 1: not say that about newborns, but at that stage she
Speaker 1: had hair, she looked lovely. She was just ready. She
Speaker 1: was ready. She was ready. Yeah, she she had like
Speaker 1: a Hallie Berry, you know when Halle Berry, like that short,
Speaker 1: very short hair style. Yeah, about the heartburn she would
Speaker 1: have had if she kept that child full term. She
Speaker 1: is because of the because of growing the hair, it
Speaker 1: not cause heartburn. Yeah, that's amazing. Everybody was like, oh
Speaker 1: my words, you got to like witness the miracle. I
Speaker 1: was like, I mean that baby is in amazing, but
Speaker 1: nothing about that scene was like this is so beautiful
Speaker 1: it was. It was just like, oh, what just happen? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it is. It is one of the most bizarre experiences
Speaker 1: of my life. And I will openly talk about it
Speaker 1: with whoever asked. If you have if you are going
Speaker 1: into for a sea section, hit me up on Instagram
Speaker 1: at Modern Frugality and we can talk about it because
Speaker 1: it please the rest of the world doesn't need to know.
Speaker 1: If they don't need to know, jeez, walk into that
Speaker 1: O R table. Chill you are. You're the straight dime peace,
Speaker 1: bless you. Thanks