Weird Way's To Make Money

Hey! It's Jacob from YouTube!

The guy from the video that went door to door selling address curb painting (the one where the spray paint bottle blew up in my car... hopefully that rings a bell).

Oh and YES, I am still driving that car.

I promised myself when I bought it that I would drive it till it died. I didn't expect this to happen, but so be it.

The girls I take out love it...

If the date is going bad I tell them it is black mold so they never want to see me again.

I need to find something positive to say when the date is going good though so I don't scare em' off. I told one girl it was my take of the sistine chapel ceiling... that joke bombed. So if you have something good I can say just let me know😂.

Anyways, I digress.

You subscribed to this newsletter when you got the free "Starting Your Address Painting Business 101" guide I put together but I am just now getting around to writing the first one.

Life has has been crazy. I will share a bit about that craziness throughout the upcoming weeks.

I plan to write one of these every Saturday (please keep me accountable).

I am chronically curious and always learning about and testing different way's to make money. So, that is what this newsletter will be about....

Ordinary people making money in unordinary ways.

If that is not your cup of tea just scroll to the bottom of this email and click "unsubscribe" and you will never get another one of these emails again. No hard feelings!

Oh, and ALSO, if you have tried the curb painting side hustle I want to hear about your experience. Please share!

Now Time For The Good Stuff... Weird Ways to Make Money

In the future I will summarize the different money making methods for you, but this email is getting long! So I will just put the links to the articles I read. If any of them sound interesting you can click them and learn more!

5 Weird Money Making Method's:

1. These guys are making thousands of dollars per month digging up and selling WORMS! They were featured on the TV show Dirty Jobs and that is where I first heard of it... kinda wild.
2. ​This guy makes $20,000+ per month installing NETS on TREES so kids can play on them. Think tree house but tree net. I am not sure I get the fun in it but others seem to. He does a handful of these installs per month and charges anywhere from $6,000-$12,000 per net.
3. I recently had a buddy of mine go door to door selling garbage can contracts for a new garbage company in Minnesota. He made over $4,000 in just 10 days. He made $55 in commission per house that he switched over to the new garbage company. Everyone already is paying for it so they just went it and made an irresistible offer (cheaper every month, new clean garbage cans, and first 6 months were free) and switched them over. Pretty sweet and something I had never heard of before this.
4. This past summer my family was vacationing in California and we met a guy that rent's his bee's to farmers for a few months at a time. He makes over $200,000 per year doing it. The bee's pollinate the crops and increase crop production so that farmers are happy to pay for it.
5. Iguana hunting. So me, my dad, and brothers went hunting for invasive iguana's in Forida over Christmas break. They are EVERYWHERE and they ruin roads and the infrastructure so the city wants them gone. Unfortunately we didn't get paid for killing them but my brain works in weird ways so I had to ask myself "how can we make money from this?". I figured people would be fascinated by it and if I did a good job telling a story I could probably make a piece of content go viral. Shooting massive lizards and profiting off of them is controversial (don't tell PETA) and controversy goes viral.

So here is my plan to profit from these Iguanas:

I have a TikTok account where I turn random things into wallets. I looked it up and you can actually turn lizard skin into wallets. My plan is to compile these video's of us hunting the Iguanas, turn one into a wallet, make an engaging story out of it, and sell the wallets on TikTok Shop.

I just made the wallet yesterday...check it out.

Editing and Posting the video today...

I will report back next week on how it goes.

Hope this was a fun and valuable read. This one was long. They will be shorter in the future!

Thanks for reading,

Jacob "the immoral iguana hunter" Barben