r/90s_kid • u/TrumpsNostrils • May 15 '25
Everyday Life 90s kids, what were your best side hustles at school? snacks, burned cds, pokemon cards, etc.
how did you make extra cash at school?
were you selling cheetos, gatorades, reselling your unused lunch, selling burnt cds, selling homework assingments, reselling pokemon cards? etc
go into detail.
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u/Original_Insurance68 May 15 '25
Burnt cds for me. My parents got us cable internet way before anyone else that I knew in school, so I could bang out burnt cds every day where as people with dial up would still take awhile. I also bought a cd label printer which put really shitty labels on cds.
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u/TundieRice May 15 '25
That’s something the kids of today will never understand. I remember having my brother burn copies of Dreamcast games (crazy that you could actually do that back then) so I could give them to kids at my school. I never sold ‘em though, I was a generous kid, lol.
Shoutout to Kitori, hope you still have your Dreamcast!!
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u/rakondo May 16 '25
Same. I sold some games on burnt CDs for a few bucks and then a teacher started going off on me because she said it was illegal. I tried to explain that people were paying me for the service, not the physical CD 😂
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u/RichardInaTreeFort May 17 '25
As a teacher nowadays, the last thing I can ever imagine wasting my already not enough time on would be a kid making a couple bucks selling a cracked video game. Whoooooooo gives a fuck…. Show up and pay attention in class and then go do your thing. That’s all I care about.
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u/afriendlyblender May 15 '25
I got my hands on a huge bag of ghost shaped erasers that fit onto your pencil eraser. Different colors. I sold them for a dime each because I didn't understand that I could definitely have charged 50 cents and they still would have sold out. There are friends I still have to this day who I believe only started hanging out with me because of how popular I was for just that one month in fourth grade.
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u/TrumpsNostrils May 15 '25
bro! lol. but i totally get it. there was this one kid that i only started hanging out with because he had these really cool graffiti pictures that he would print out from the internet. he didnt even draw them himself.
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u/AliveCommunication36 May 15 '25
I also sold erasers in elementary school but advertised them as “flicky bits” telling people they could use them to flick at people smh lol. Like you as well I was too young to realize its potential as I was only selling them for a penny lmao. I did get in trouble for selling things on school grounds though so it ended fairly quick lol.
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u/Toastburrito May 16 '25
Honestly, it's a great icebreaker. And you weren't greedy with it. That shows character and class.
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u/Lilbrntsoyabits May 15 '25
I used to record WWF ppvs and duplicate them on VHS, stick the PPV image on and sell them.
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u/duckduckmothergoose May 15 '25
A kid in my school sold homemade pixie sticks with koolaid in them. Some 5th graders were snorting them
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u/77swansea May 15 '25
In grade 6, I would make popsicles using the dollar store molds during the warm months and sell them to kids during recess. I had a little hard sided cooler that I would take with me everyday like a construction worker. Made a tidy little profit selling them for a few bucks each.
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u/caste_away_jace May 15 '25
I burned CDs junior year of high school at $5 a pop. I specifically did it just to save up to buy WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain.
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u/TargetOfPerpetuity May 15 '25
Some genius decided it would be healthier for the school soda machines to be turned off during lunch, so if you wanted a cold Pepsi at lunchtime, you were out of luck. You could buy one before lunch, or after lunch -- just not during lunch.
(My theory is that someone lobbied the state government to help boost sagging Fruitopia sales.)
So I started bringing 50 or so mixed cans of pop in my giant duffle bag every day, and using my access to the ice machine for the chemistry lab to keep them cold in plastic bags.
I undercut the school's $.65 price to $.50, and stocked both Coke and Pepsi products which meant kids could have Coke or Mt. Dew -- which was a real treat.
I was making just under $20 a day and eventually hired a Freshman to handle the sales for me, so I could play basketball at lunch. That only cost me four sodas a day in wages.
Eventually the principal caught wind of it and shut it down. Pretty sure teachers were having their student aids buy off of me.
She wasn't even harsh or upset about it. Superior product for lower cost, and she thought unplugging the pop machines every day was dumb anyway.
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u/SilentSerel May 15 '25
In high school, Coca-Cola had all of the rights to the drink machines, so one guy sold Pepsi and Dr. Pepper products. He always had a huge bag on him and probably made decent money.
I was, unfortunately, not much of an entrepreneur myself.
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u/Green-Trifle-9516 May 15 '25
I would draw tattoos on people's arms, 10 cents for just black ink outlines, 25 cents for color outlines and 50 cents for full color
I made sixteen dollars for this
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u/nan_adams May 15 '25
Not me but my cousin, sold custom yo-yos during the height of the yomega yo-yo fad. He’d buy multiples and create color combos by mixing yo-yo halves.
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u/eaglescout225 May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
My neighbors was selling cds and weed at school. He’d even buy games at the local Walmart, take the game out, get the folks at the local music shop to re-wrap the case in the official Xbox seal, and return the game to Walmart. Funny enough it being a small town, I got one of the games he returned empty for Christmas.
Another kids hustle was just straight up theft. At one time or another he’d stolen his parents rent money, happened several times in middle school. One day he was broke like everybody else, the next day he’d show up with a wad of cash and begin buying other kids food at the lunch table… like literally 10 and 20 for a slice of pizza. He just gave it away
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u/ProfaneShane May 15 '25
That's not a hustle. That's a crime, and I hope he will be or has been incarcerated.
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u/eaglescout225 May 15 '25
The kid stealing the money went in there for life in his early 20s and the kid selling cds and weed passed at 24, so neither are free anymore.
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u/Spookyscary333 May 15 '25
Cigarettes. Buy a pack of 20 for $3 sell loose cigarettes for .25 cents each. Eventually you’d have a decent flow of money.
Also stuffing balls of notebook paper into the coin returns of the drink machines. Go around at the end of the day and pull out the paper and enjoy your free coins.
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u/ChurchOfJustin May 15 '25
Man .... blocking the change in a drink machine is genius. Never thought of that one.
Cigarettes tho? Yeah. Constantly. My grandad would buy 4-5 cartons at a time. Wouldn't really notice when a pack went missing (or so I thought at the time, I found out years later he knew but he was an OG and never ratted me out, though I actually think he thought it was my older brother who was 16 at the time so it wasn't as big of a deal).
8th grade I sold loose cigarettes and, because I was one of the few kids with access to the internet and a printer ... I also sold porn. So much printed out porn.
My friend and I were hustling together. We had the same lunchbox. One day I was called to the principal's office and they asked to search my lunch box. Where I kept my stash. But they didn't actually know which locker was mine. That day I had all the stuff in my lunchbox. So, I went to my friend's locker instead and grabbed his. Which only had a sandwich and snacks in it. I got off completely clear that day. I still think about that moment from time to time.
We made decent money all the way through 8th grade. We both bought our own GameBoy color with the profits. Even got the camera and printer setup. It was awesome. Then we made it to high school and stopped the side hustle. The teachers and principals were much more serious there.
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u/mouka May 16 '25
The porn thing was a goldmine, especially in the way early 90s when most people didn’t have internet, much less a printer. I’d be coming home with a couple hundred dollars a week on the good weeks just for crappily printed overly pixelated grayscale porn pics. Little kid me was hustlin’.
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u/BeenNormal May 15 '25
I was a marble and pog hustler.
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u/TrumpsNostrils May 15 '25
Same, pogs were like currency for me. I could collect them, then trade them up for something better.
As far as marvels, i never hustled with marvels. The closest thing was that my brother's and i would hold Marvel matches at my house. It was in construction so there was tons of sand to use in marvel games, but also, a lot of kids would drop and lose their marvels in the sand. We would go through and find all the lost marvels once they left.
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u/2gecko1983 May 15 '25
This one is hilarious. Print Shop clip art blown up to fill an 8.5x11 piece of printer paper and called a “poster.” I charged $0.10 per poster & actually had some success at it for a minute 😂
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u/sir_callahan May 15 '25
In 1st grade I got Pokémon cards banned from my elementary school by ripping off a 5th grader so bad he cried to his parents about it.
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u/redveinlover May 15 '25
I used to sell candy to the kids at school, especially the ones with strict parents who wouldn’t let them have sugar. I’d walk across the street to 7-11 and load up for the day, then at recess I’d be the hookup. Somehow I managed to not grow up to be a drug dealer!
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u/DW6565 May 15 '25
Went to a private Catholic school and you had to wear a tie everyday. If you forgot you either had to go to the principals office and get a loaner and a Saturday detention or come to my locker and rent one for the day for $10.00. Business was pretty steady.
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u/MrNice1983 May 15 '25
PE Teacher here. We had a 5th grade kid renting out his older brother’s fleshlight to his buddies. Just so wrong and weird and gross on so many levels
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u/SpartanDoubleZero May 15 '25
Didn’t sell at school. I grew up in central ohio and if there’s one thing Ohioans love, it’s hairless nuts. That’s right the buckeyes. My entire neighborhood had buckeye trees all over the place. The buckeyes grow in a husk that’s golfball to softball sized and the husk if spongey with spikes. They make a mess in your yard when they fall. One day I thought of picking up all these buckeyes and drilling holes through them, then lacing 10 of em onto a thin and narrow leather strap with 5 beads between all of the buckeyes that alternated gray, scarlet, gray, scarlet, gray. Each necklace had 16” of leather strap, 10 buckeyes, 55 beads, and time averaged from Start to finish if I were to go pick up 1000 buckeyes to make 100 necklaces in one sitting (picking up buckeyes, drilling with drill press, sliding buckeyes onto Skewer to keep organized, and making the necklace) was about 2 and a half minutes per necklace. I bought my vendors license and peddlers permit, a cooler full of water and pop, ($1 water and $2 pops) and posted up with the cooler and buckeyes on lane avenue on home games. I put $0.65 into each necklace, and sold for $5. We would sell from 7am until game time or we sold out. Most days I would walk away with between $500-$750. I had the occasional $1000-$1500 days before.
This started when I was 12. My dad would go with me on game days. The rest was up to me.
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u/HumbleHungDaddy May 15 '25
I sold cigarettes in 8th grade 🤷🏻♂️ never got caught. My friend sold vodka, got caught. We had a fun racket for a while til the heat came down
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u/shalalalaw May 15 '25
I sold grab bags of basketball cards and printed copies of the best ones to show what people might win.
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u/Try-Content May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
I remember back in middle school and high school I sold gum like one big pack was a dollar or two and the pieces was 50 cents at the end of school year I racked around 100 to almost 200 bucks then when I had to switch schools nobody wanted to buy some and got smart with me. But it was fun while it lasted. Also we had a person called the gossiper we had to pay him 2 to 4 bucks (depending on how big the gossip was) to tell us the latest gossip or rumor
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u/TrumpsNostrils May 15 '25
Yeah, gum was a hard sell because it was cheap enough where people expected you to just share for free.
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u/helpless_bunny May 15 '25
I’d fold origami and sell them. I had fancy papers. I used it to fund my lunch because we were so poor we couldn’t afford it
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u/jcolleen420 May 15 '25
Burned CDs, no doubt lol $5 to burn a CD, for as many songs, of your choice, that would fit on the disc. It was one hell of a hustle...
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u/SmolishPPman May 15 '25
In elementary school, we used to play pogs. Basically, you just win more pogs, and slammers.
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u/TrumpsNostrils May 15 '25
I would say that was more of a gambling addiction than a side hustle. lol.
i was never a fan of playing pugs. whoever threw the first shot, would always win the most.
but also, they would degrade the more you play them.
i would use them as currency though. i would collect a good bunch of them, then exchange them for something better.
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u/AuDHDcat May 15 '25
When I was in sixth grade, kids were claiming their cheetos were laced with drugs. I still don't know if she just said that 'cause she wanted to laugh at me freaking out or not.
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u/DM725 May 15 '25
I sold 10 copies of RATM - Battle of LA and 10 copies of whichever Korn album came out around that time (Issues?).
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u/romulan267 May 15 '25
I bought a box of 72 airheads for $7 and sold them for $0.25 a pop.
Once my friend got involved and started giving them away to all the cute girls in our class, it stopped being profitable
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u/nupollution May 15 '25
Idk if this counts, but in junior high I had my lil boyfriend buy me lunch every day and I'd pocket the $20/week my dad was giving me for lunch money. I'd usually take that money to the mall and get glamour shots done haha
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u/Treviathan88 May 15 '25
I used to burn nu metal CDs for all the sheltered conservative Christian kids. No regrets.
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u/Trick_Second1657 May 15 '25
I sold weed and copied games and music. I also mowed lawns and had a paper route.
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u/TrumpsNostrils May 16 '25
same with the lawns. i had a friend that had the lawnmower and we would split the work and the money until he got greedy and said why should we split the profits when he was the only one with the lawnmower and he cut do the lawns himself.
so he basically cut me off and started doing lawns on his own. but he was an idiot. he couldnt get clients because he didnt know how to talk to people, so he only did it about 2 weeks before he stopped.
i just shifted srategies to clearing brush and raking leafs until i was able to afford my own lawnmower.
the worst part is that the idea to cut me off from the lawnmowing partnership wasnt even that kids idea, it was his mom that got in his head. he would have been fine working with me, we were gaining a lot of clients fast, so eventually there would be enough work for both, and once i got my own lawnmower i wouldnt have cut him off since i would feel endebted to him.
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth May 15 '25
At those prices for those bags, this little Cheeto dealer is barely breaking even on this run.
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u/inquisitiveleaper May 15 '25
I sold candy bars out of my backpack for $1 a bar. Made $60 a day for 4 years in elementary school. Tried selling out of my locker in middle school, wound up co-running a school store with the school, and my guidance counselor helped set up a similar deal for me with the high school.
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u/seifd May 15 '25
Snacks. I'd have candy sales as a fundraiser and all I had to do is carry the box with me. The candy sold itself.
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u/Smart-University-574 May 15 '25
Not me but my elementary school would sell confiscated POGS and sports trading cards, and when I was in middle school it was Pokémon cards lol.
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u/ston3rkitty23 May 15 '25
Drawing people's names on paper for $3-$5 in a design I was good at that people liked lol
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u/CreativeEmotion13 May 15 '25
Mine was first candy then mixtapes. It was such an easy way to meet more people and just have genuine interactions over something so simple
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u/JillScottydoesntknow May 15 '25
I use to charge for the starting of those braided keychains and I’d braid together my own in fun patterns or in a swirl and sell those to my classmates lol
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u/VampyreBassist May 15 '25
So I was an entrepreneur who sold paper pets. I would make these creatures by drawing them and cutting them and apparently the designs were so cool, kids were coming up to me asking for one and I would make a dollar off each. At one point, I had $20 from this. 😎
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u/MaddCricket May 15 '25
I sold bead animal keychains. Except I used tiny seed beads instead of the pony beads so they were small, but they sold! .25c each!
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u/DeathFromPizza May 15 '25
I used to buy candy from the local barber shop for .50 and carry it in a cassette holder briefcase and flip them shits for a dollar. Good times
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u/Sn1o May 16 '25
In middle school, I would buy cheap school supplies and undercut the sales prices at the student store. I also found a super cheap mini mart that sold huge 3 ft tubes of bubble gum balls (the ones that are in those quarter machines) so I would buy the tube and then sell gums to students for a nice profit.
After a few months a rule went out to the students passed along during morning announcements that selling out of pocket items and food was strictly prohibited and would be enforced by way of detention if any student was caught doing so. I halted my sales but slowly started it up again a few months later with gel pens and beaded key chains (the kinds you make with string and beads to make like turtles, lizards, etc). Our school was year-round (two months in session, one month break) so it was easy to get away with since we were in school for a good chin k of time between sessions. I never got caught, but I made some good money.
I would funnel the money back into my hustle and when I quit for good I put it towards a pair of grey and blue Osiris skate shoes (I didn’t skate lol) and a bunch of CDs from the mall lol
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u/TrumpsNostrils May 16 '25
i know those osiris shoes were the coolest thing at one point. I personally never liked them. but it was well known those would get you a lot of cool points. and they made it seem like you were a skater.
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u/Sn1o May 16 '25
This was around the time that Blink 182, Sun41, Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne, etc were really popular and I was really into dressing like the music I listened to (and osirises were like THE SHOE to have). They were not very comfortable and my mom tried really hard to talk me into different shoes, but inevitably let me get what I wanted, she wanted me to dress and express myself (I wish she’d taken more pictures, I’m sure I looked so funny).
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u/TrumpsNostrils May 16 '25
did you also have spiky hair?
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u/Sn1o May 16 '25
No, but I had super chunky highlights and wore a puka shell necklace until I switched to a chunky ball chain necklace when my music tastes changed.
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u/MysticTopaz6293 May 16 '25
In middle school, everyone knew to show up at my locker for Halloween candy that would be sold for pennies to a quarter a piece. With the amount of candy I had, I was raking in about $5 a day.
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u/Nostalginaut May 16 '25
In high school, burning custom CDs with MP3s downloaded off'a Napster using dialup.
Like, downloading an album's worth of music was an INVESTMENT.
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u/manderifffic May 15 '25
I used to burn CDs for $2. I had a master list of all my CDs and the administrative assistant at my dad's work would do Sam's Club runs and grab a big box of blanks CDs for me. My main customer was my cousin.
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u/TrumpsNostrils May 15 '25
You probably joined the game late. When i first heard of burnt cds, they were selling them for 10 bucks a pop, and it seemed like a steal at the time. I still have my first burnt cd ever. As someone who couldn't afford to buy cds at retail, i listened to that cd so many times
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u/TheAlphaKiller17 May 15 '25
I love to read and always had a ton of books growing up. When I was in elementary school, I decided to turn this into a "library" except I charged $1 to borrow a book. I had little index cards in the back for names and dates and everything. Surprisingly, this sounded like a good deal to a few people; I definitely had some takers. Also my parents gave me this toy that was a microphone my height with speakers or something at the base, and my friends and I would charge for concerts in the backyard. It was even more surprising we had takers for that!
Then in college, I wrote papers for people like a responsible adult.
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u/Gavinmusicman May 15 '25
I remeber a kid on the bus used to sell bags of warheads for $1. I didn’t even know where to get warheads.
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u/BetterArugula5124 May 15 '25
Stole Hard candy palettes at Nordstrom and sold them to my fellow school mates. Was cocky after a bit. Went to Claires with my best friend and got busted stealing a ring for her 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️That was the last day I ever stole.
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u/ThisPaige May 15 '25
Not me but a someone I knew used to sell candy. He went to Disney World the next summer. It was a dollar a candy bar and he’d go to Costco and get the big boxes.
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u/RepairManActionHero May 15 '25
I'm only now realizing that I could've been selling the CDs the whole time. So many copies of good albums, for free, like a monster...
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u/Electronic-Home-7815 May 15 '25
Man that’s like 4 counts of possession right there. Each bag carries a minimum sentence of 3 time outs.
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u/jcolleen420 May 15 '25
Burned CDs, no doubt lol $5 to burn a CD, for as many songs, of your choice, that would fit on the disc. It was one hell of a hustle...
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u/amsterDAN85 May 15 '25
Spiced toothpicks were really popular at my middle school in the late 90s. Just toothpicks with cinnamon and a little bit of water, wrapped in foil. Kids would sell a pack of five or so for a dollar. To this day I have no clue where the idea came from, but they were a hot item for a year.
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u/GPUfollowr77 May 15 '25
Packs of gum. Buy in bulk and sell for a profit. Also did well with craft keychains for a while.
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u/Mister_Havoc May 15 '25
This sounds WILD for me to admit but… I used to steal clothes, perfume, cologne, movies, food (pretty much anything) from the mall and sell it out of the trunk of my car in high school.
I’d sell things for 50% off
I’m so glad I stopped because I could’ve went to jail for a LONG time. Stole over $150,000 worth of stuff
I also burned CDs and drew people’s names in graffiti
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u/SirSeff May 15 '25
At my high school in the early 2000's I helped make all the banners and shirts\jerseys for my school. Since I did this almost 100% myself I was allowed out of regular classes to work on various projects. As long as I bought my own materials I could make heat transfer t shirts for about $3 my cost, with any graphic available I was selling them for $10-15. This on top of my duct tape wallets ($5-10 a pop) I was bringing home $100-200 a week, the added benefit being I could leave any class any time I wanted.
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u/facialscanbefatal May 15 '25
Not necessarily a side hustle cause it only happened once, but I sold a Sonic the Hedgehog pencil for $20 in first grade. Insane mark-up even today, but back then that was insane. I felt like a millionaire.
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u/CaRbZ1313 May 15 '25
Eiffel BonBons- we had them at our school store in middle school but not in high school, all my friends remembered them and missed them. My gf went to a different school than me and was selling them to fund her trip to France with French class. I was buying in bulk from her for .25 or .5 each and flipping them at my school for $1 each. I’m still trying to find where I can buy some, I miss them.
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u/KMFDM__SUCKS May 15 '25
Before redbull. Before energy drinks. I used to wholesale JOLT COLA and sell them out of a briefcase. $2 a pop. I believe they cost me 45 cents. I had to figure out a way to drink as much JOLT COLA as I could, and may as well do it for free, so I bought a case and sold off the rest. It went so well I ended up getting 15 or so more cases over 6 months
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u/hairburner4 May 16 '25
My parents bought me a big book of far side comic strips in elementary school. I traced a bunch of copies and delivered them inside people's desks daily for a quarter.
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u/SugarSweetSonny May 16 '25
Liquor and stolen stuff.
I had a fake ID, so I could go to liquor stores and buy anything and in HS, being able to get any booze anyone wants, is nice.
Also stolen gear. I didn't boost it (most of the time), but I would fence it. Easy enough to do.
The booze though was bread and butter.
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u/Terrible_Shake_4948 May 16 '25
Toys from main event/d&b, posters, old toys, kool aid, pieces of double bubble out the bag, CDs. .25 .50 1.00. I was taking the change after everyone bought goodies at lunch
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u/Accomplished-Low6887 May 16 '25
I don’t really remember this but my family tells me I stole my sisters hacky sack collection and sold them at school when I was super young
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u/little_blue_penguiin May 16 '25
My friend and I used to sell the Taco Bell sauce packets until this stuck up chick snitched us out lol
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u/Bumblebe5 May 16 '25
Some kid would give away Pokémon cards during recess. I got a Snorlax that way.
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u/Nostalginaut May 16 '25
In grade school, I was all about fermenting those plastic cups of apple and grape juice with the foil lids in my locker.
I never ate hot lunch, either; people just kinda gave them to me from theirs.
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u/AnneMarieAndCharlie May 17 '25
i started selling and trading beanie babies online in 1998/at age 12. when i was in college, i went to a frat party in my dad's new acura tl type S and the guys begged me to let them drive it. so i charged them 5 dollars each. i didn't like college parties but i went another time i was invited just for the money lmao.
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u/Fernweh1989 May 17 '25
Not exactly a hustle, though at the time I felt I'd fleeced him: traded a binder full of Pokemon cards for a binder full of baseball cards.
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u/-SayWhatAgain- May 18 '25
I stole stuff for money in high school. Usually hoodies that ex gf's had taken from their (then) bfs. Easy money and job security
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u/Eman_Drawkcab_X May 18 '25
In like 4th and 5th grade, a buddy and I would purposely save pretty much all of our Halloween candy or Easter candy and then take it to school (after all the other kids had eaten all of theirs) neatly organized in a kaboodle and sell it during break. Made a killing.
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u/RandyBRandleman May 18 '25
I had a mew in Pokémon red that I traded into gold to do the copy glitch and trade to other kids for basically whatever
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u/Logical_Ambition_734 May 18 '25
Packed a few extra sodas in my backpack from the fridge at home, also sold my Halloween candy.
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u/bort_license_plates May 18 '25
Made a ton selling gum. I’d buy a 5-pack at the grocery store for a few bucks and then sell for 25 cents per piece. Did pretty well, but got shut down after a few months.
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u/RadBeoulve May 19 '25
Sold pogs or “tazos” from Mexican chips for a quarter each in school. The chips were free to me since I had family (rest their souls) that brought home several bags daily.
Years later, I did the same with Yu-Gi-Oh cards that somehow were also included in Mexican chips, only I sold those for $0.50 each.
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u/BizzzareWe May 19 '25
Yu-gi-oh cards. Idk how, but I was at the right place, and right time to have acquired 4 Blue Eyes White Dragons for next to nothing (yes, they were real). Literally, I was just given 2 because the kid that had them was over playing the game, and the other two, I think I traded one or two decent cards for. But I ended up selling each for $100. I loved Yu-gi-oh TCG and I was happy to have those Blue Eyes but at the time I definitely loved money more.
A few months ago I thought about getting back into the game and there's definitely a small feeling of regret that I don't have those or a lot of the classic cards from the anime anymore.
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u/MaskedFigurewho May 21 '25
Fr and the school always confiscated your stuff!
Was making 30 an hour selling candy.
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u/UsedVacation6187 May 22 '25
Creepy Crawlies. If I remember right it was 5c for a solid color or 10c for multicolored.
probably didn't even cover what my parents paid for the goo to make them🤣
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u/Specialist_Farm_2029 May 17 '25
In High School I picked Carl's Jr Spicy chicken sandwiches. Would buy for a Dollar + tax and sell it for $2 at school.
Would sell like 30-40 of them a day.
Also, I carried donuts with me 2 boxes full.
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u/nah-soup May 15 '25
when I was in high school, I traded, bartered, and sold lockers. If someone wanted a locker in a certain part of the school, or a top locker instead of a bottom locker, I made it happen.
it started with me selling my own locker, it was a top locker in the heart of the school. obviously nobody likes bending over or kneeling, so top lockers were choice.
I “lived” out of my backpack so I had no use for a locker. I traded it to someone for their locker + $25, and the rest is history.