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Side Hustles: Making Extra Cash in Today's Economy
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Side hustles have become essential in today's economy, especially for younger generations struggling to afford basic needs while saving for larger goals like travel or homeownership.
• Mystery shopping for brands who need stores audited for product placement
• Social casino platforms offering free sweepstake coins that can be converted to real money
• Thrift store flipping using Google Lens to identify valuable items selling below market value
• Furniture restoration turning $10 Facebook Marketplace finds into $50+ resale items
• Rideshare and food delivery services as flexible income sources
• Content creation platforms for those comfortable sharing specialized content
• Reselling retail products through Amazon at markup prices
Don't fall for expensive online courses promising to teach you side hustles. Everything you need to know can be found for free on YouTube and other resources.
Introducing Side Hustles
Speaker 1This is an episode I'm actually kind of excited about, because I don't know a whole lot about this stuff and I'm sure a lot of people my age would be real interested in knowing this and how to make more money. Everybody's talking about how to make more money, so I'm very excited about this. Before we get into that, make sure if you haven't already, like, subscribe and follow us. We have a brand new episode every Tuesday morning at 6 am. It drops Central Standard Time on YouTube, so it's free. So just subscribe to there if you would please. And then also it's on all other podcast platforms most every one of them Spotify, apple, iheart all the big ones and a bunch of other little ones, but most of those.
Speaker 1So if you would please do that for us, ask us questions If you have ideas for topics. I get that a lot on my personal TikTok or Facebook. People say you should do a podcast, you should do an episode about this. It's kind of funny. So if you have episode ideas, we'll be happy to discuss those and do that. But we appreciate you being on this journey with us and today's episode.
Speaker 2What are you wearing?
Speaker 1I am supporting the home team here. This is my Wildcats. Go Wildcats.
Speaker 2Who are the Wildcats? I mean, I know who they are, of course, yeah well that is the Willis High School Wildcats.
Speaker 1That's my grandson's baseball team.
Speaker 2There you go.
Speaker 1And he is a rock star baseball player. He is there you go, and he's already got moved up to the JV team, so we're very excited about that. And then we get the little one, vera, who's also playing baseball.
Speaker 2Yeah, and also, who are the 45s?
Speaker 1The 45s are what the Astros used to be. Before they were the Astros, they were the 45s. Oh.
Speaker 2A little history there. Why 45s?
Speaker 1I don't know. The owner drank a lot of Colt 45. I have no idea.
Speaker 2What's a Colt 45? That's a malt liquor Jesus.
Speaker 1Not a very good one, but anyway. So, yeah, I'm supporting the team, okay, my kids' final year this year in baseball, which we're going to be going a lot of games.
Speaker 2Yeah, we're really proud of that. We're really proud of you kids, we're really proud.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2Nana. So Nana is proud of you kids.
Speaker 1Hottest Nana that comes to the school. I can promise you that let's do.
First Jobs vs Modern Side Hustles
Speaker 2I'm proud of those kids. They're really, really good kids. So today's episode is going to be about side hustles, right, and it's something that I've always. I mean again, we own our international beauty business, beauty brand and we I don't know, I still like to follow that Warren Buffett motto like never put all your eggs into one basket, because I don't know, you never know, and also my ADD, I get bored and I need to find something else. I mean again, our main business is our main business, right, but I always, I'm trying always to find like what's how to make. I don't know even if it's a 10 extra 10, it just feels good like oh look, you can make 10 doing this or that, you know, like yeah, I think that uh, especially a lot of people my age um don't understand, um how you would even do this.
Speaker 1It's much more of a younger, like millennial, gen Z generational thing, because we cannot afford living in today's world, that's right Because you make an extra money to live.
Speaker 2Freaking eggs. Have you seen the?
Speaker 1price of the eggs. Yeah, everybody's talking about eggs, everybody's freaking out about eggs. You know how you stop that, how you stop the prices of things soaring. It's called supply and demand Economics 101. You stop buying something, the less people that buy it.
Speaker 2People need eggs. Stop buying them. It's America's number one breakfast.
Speaker 1Stop it. Eat granola, eat fruit. Stop buying eggs for a while and watch the prices go back down. I don't know, but again like the economy.
Speaker 2like again, like we talked about this the other day, and I think, when you were younger and when you were, what was your first job, at what age?
Speaker 1I think it was probably 13, 12 or 13.
Speaker 2Child labor here.
Speaker 1No, I was a paper boy. I threw the newspaper and my dad helped me with that. But, uh, I had a bicycle. I went bicycle and we used to throw the, the old school paper newspaper that some old people still read but what?
Speaker 2what did you use that money for?
Speaker 1oh gosh drugs. No, I'm not just playboy? No, yeah, probably playboy. That was my illegal subscription that I had under my dad's name because I got the I used to get home before he did from school. I'd get home from school before he got home from work and they sent him the thing saying hey, would you like to subscribe to Playboy?
Speaker 2Hell, yes, yes, I think I will.
Speaker 1I filled it out and then the mail always came before he did so. I had that stacked up. He had no clue that I had all these Playboy magazines.
Speaker 2What a little shithead.
Speaker 1That's before the internet, when you know?
Speaker 2porn was free. Well, not in Texas anymore. You cannot watch.
Speaker 1Yeah, texas, they don't let you do it, but they swear their big brother is protecting everybody from that, anyway, so we're getting off topic here. That was not my side hustle, but my first job was that. And then I think I sat groceries in a grocery store Again. At that time they would hire you when you're like 14 years old to sat groceries on a Saturday morning and stuff like that.
Speaker 2Right, but if you guys like you were doing that, it was not as a side hustle, it was just number one to have a job, the only job outside of school To have, like it was just number one to have a job outside of school to have like spending money.
Speaker 2Yeah, Spending money Right, but today's economy and today's world, like I said that before, it's so hard for us to young people to afford to buy a house, afford to have like other things other than normal living expenses. Right, you have to have your rent, you have to have like your car payment, your insurance payment, groceries and like for play, money usually you need to have if you want to travel. How do you? Even people are like save up for traveling, but if you really want to do all this, you need to have extra income that normal nine to five jobs usually don't give you. And if you can supplement that like, that's why our generations and younger always try to find that like the side hustle economy. Because you need that, you need to be able to afford better things.
Speaker 1There are a lot of you know. I said earlier that most older people don't understand how to do the side hustles. That's not always the case. Maybe technologically it's tougher on those things that we'll get into. But the number one thing I think that older people do as side hustles is drive for Uber. How many of our Uber and Lyft drivers are older people we've had conversations with and they're like remember, like in different cities, wherever we would land say, oh, somebody would be older, much older, like you know, 50, 60 years old. Are they to be? Like? Uh, they would say we would start talking to them and they'd say, oh, yeah, I'm doing this on the side because we're trying to do this and they're just, you know, they use that money to save up to do something, but they're doing, doing that's their side hustle is driving for Uber or Lyft or, you know, delivering or people that have let they were let go on their jobs, and this is like the most immediate thing that you can do to actually generate a little bit more money.
Speaker 1Quickly, quickly.
Rideshare and Delivery Gigs
Speaker 2Like Uber and drive. There's nothing driving Uber or Lyft. There's nothing wrong with it, like I would. I mean, thankfully the US is not one of those countries that is so unsafe like, unfortunately, my home country of Mexico, where Uber drivers are as scared to drive passengers just as passengers are afraid of the Uber drivers because of the kidnappings and robberies and everything else that is so prevalent in there, but thankfully, here in the US that doesn't happen and I think that's a great side hustle to drive for them. Also, uber Eats and I hear a lot of people do that too, like the Uber Eats and Glovo and all these apps that are out there. Again, if you're doing this as your main job, I think it's not that much money Like, because I mean it's not really like made, unless it's your only job.
Speaker 1Like you said, you have fire and it's your only opportunity to make money, then yeah.
Speaker 2But like nobody is saying, oh, my dream job is to be an Uber driver, like no, I mean, it's fun, you meet cool people Like we've met cool drivers.
Speaker 1Yeah, really nice people.
Speaker 2Like that time we met this, like remember we were in, I think, miami. We ate a bonefish last night.
Speaker 1Or Orlando. We were in Orlando.
Speaker 2He used to. He was this guy from Brazil and he just got his green card here.
Speaker 1It just makes me laugh because I remember this story.
Speaker 2Sorry, my husband is the most random dude Parenthesis on the topic. So it's him, me and his daughter, tiffany and Natalie.
Speaker 1Adult daughter. Adult daughter Tiffany and Natalie, that girl that worked for us.
Speaker 2So we were there for a trade show and the guy's telling us his trouble story right Like he came from Brazil and he just got his green card and it's been complicated and everything. This is like about eight years ago.
Speaker 1He's bearing his, he's bearing his soul.
Speaker 2Yeah, and like this very big accent Right and suddenly this ding dong goes oh wait, look. And we all looked, we ate a bonefish. Last night and the guy was just like what the fuck is wrong with this dude like I'm pouring my soul and heart and he just stopped me to tell me, which is a restaurant, by the way.
Speaker 1It's like it's kind of a seafood restaurant, yeah, but anyway.
Speaker 2So unless you're like that right, like it's really the only job you can do, uh, like having a that as as a supplement income, I think it's good because you can set up your own hours and everything right.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think it's great, but you have so many other more tech savvy side hustles and things you tell me about and I'm like what? It takes me a while to even figure out what you're talking about. I'm like I don't say how do you make money? I didn't understand how it even works.
Speaker 2I mean there's some side hustles that are like some of the side hustles that I've found that are good. I mean, being a mystery shopper is one. There's companies out there that they pay you to go audit stores and everything and anybody can do it. You just need to apply for it and they have to make sure that you have a social security and you are able to work. But you can absolutely go and apply.
Speaker 2There's apps actually that you can do as a mystery shopper and you go audit shelves at a store, for example. Right, and this is actually something companies need, because me, being a brand owner, I know sometimes that stores say they have a product when they don't have it, or they have it in a shelf that is not supposed to go in there, because stores sometimes charge you for product placement in priority, kind of like shelves, let's say, like an aisle level or an end cap, end cap, end cap is when you're at a grocery store or anything like or any kind of store, the thing that's the shelves that are right on the end between the aisles.
Speaker 1That's called an end cap. And if you don't know anything about that, you generally have to pay extra for that slot in the store. Or they'll do it as a promotional thing, where they'll give you the end cap for so long of a period of time and they sell those for extra income for the stores. That's how they do that, but they need people to go check.
Speaker 2Right, make sure that what you're paying for, like what you're paying for as a company, as an end cap, like a Walmart, right? Like, for example, you need to make sure that in all Walmarts your end cap is available. So a lot of companies pay like mystery shopping companies, let's say to go for that, and that's a great side hustle. Another side hustle I think is good If you're a gambler, don't do it Like. If you're like a hardcore gambler and you don't have control of yourself, don't do it. But online casinos this is really cool. So there's all this. They're called social casinos online and what you do is they basically, they tell you you play for free, and, yes, you play for free, because every day you log in, they give you it's called gold coins usually, which is virtual coins that are just for fun. But they also have a separate coin that is usually called sweepstake coin, and these sweepstake coins are real money that you can withdraw into your account. I mean, you have to verify all your details and everything. But the fun part about this is, like a lot of these social casinos, because they're free to play. That's how they're.
Mystery Shopping and Casino Hacks
Speaker 2They're in everywhere except like four states, I think they're not allowed in, like in montana or nevada or utah I don't know some states, but most of these states they're free. They have to give you free sweepstake coins that you actually can gamble with, and it's slots, solitaire, how you call it, blackjack, roulette and everything else. Again, you can put your own money into it, but that's what I don't. I say, if you're a hardcore toxic gambler, don't do it. But if not, you can write in letters to them which, again, all you have to do is like the paper, like the, the your cost of it is like the stamp, the envelope and the little index card. But what you can do is like you write in a letter and it has to be specific. What they tell you to write Like oh, I request this, that that.
Speaker 1So you have to use the exact verbiage.
Speaker 2They give you the exact verbiage and the exact way to write the envelope, and then you mail it in and then boom, you get $5. Sweepstake coins for each letter you mail. So if you mail 100, you have 500. Now the catch is, you have to gamble them in order to withdraw them. But if you're good at blackjack or if you're like, I mean, you're gambling with non-real money, but you can actually like withdraw it once you gamble it. So that's another thing.
Speaker 1Right. So the takeaway from that this hustle is one don't do it. If you have a gambling problem, obviously don't get involved in this. Don't get sucked into putting your own money into it, because then you're going to compound your problems you already have. So don't get sucked into that. You have to follow this mode of taking the time to write the letters, mailing letters, in getting your things using those coins. But if you're really good at playing blackjack, I'm horrible. I would never do this getting your things using those coins. But if you're really good at playing blackjack, I'm horrible. I would never do this. If I just like, if we're in Vegas and stuff, hey, you want to go lose a quick hundred dollars, come with me to the blackjack table. I'm always going to lose.
Speaker 2I know yeah, in Vegas no.
Speaker 1The only place I play really good cards and that's because it's the poker, the Texas Hold'em poker is in Red Dead Redemption 2. I'm really really good at card playing.
Speaker 2Yes, but you're betting like 20 cents and it's not real money, so it really doesn't count, but I'm winning. You're winning $2 to buy outfits on Red Dead.
Speaker 1Yeah, anyway, so but.
Speaker 2I've made money out of it. The other day I mailed in like seven letters. They gave me my $35 and I turned those into two grand.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's funny, We've actually been at dinner and while we're sitting there at one of our restaurants, she's like this is my lucky place. Because she's like, oh, I just want another $400. I just want another $300 on these hands, and so she just keeps going. Oh, I made like $2,000 at that dinner.
Speaker 2And then I quit and then I just let it go, because if you keep going then you're going to lose it.
Speaker 1Yeah, you have to figure out the algorithms. Yeah, you have to figure out.
Speaker 2At the point where you start winning, then you're going to start losing, because the house never loses right, Like the house will always win. So there's a time to retire from that. But that's a great side hustle. If you can write like with legible letters, you can do that.
Speaker 1Tell me about one that I think is more. I think it's especially older people can do this. Anybody can do this, once they figure out how to technically do it. Because I'm fascinated by this as a thing, because I remember when we first started talking about this, you tell me your ideas all the time and I'm like what, what, what and this like blew my mind. So there's a side hustle that you can go buy things at Goodwill Right Using Google and a camera feature.
Speaker 2Explain that so the other side hustle that I really like is reselling items on eBay. There's a lot of thrift shops that sell items that are good items. Like sometimes people donate the most random things and those things are actually like valuable, like you will, you would not believe. But digital cameras, you know, like those digital cameras from like what was it Canon? No, it was Sony. I think like really early 2000 cameras. They go for like two hundred dollars on eBay. Like, think, like really early 2000 cameras, they go for like $200 on eBay. Like people like nostalgia a lot and sometimes people donate those things because like, oh, I have my phone, I don't need this, and then you buy it for like $10. And then make sure it works, or sometimes for parts. But you have a Google camera. So if you go to a thrift shop and you see something that you think is interesting, like electronics specifically, for example, like the cameras or golf clubs and things, use your Google camera.
Speaker 1Hold on when you say Google camera, so that's not a good explanation. So if I have an Apple, I open up the Google app.
Speaker 2Yeah, the Google app.
Speaker 1Go open up Google app on any phone you have.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1Right, and then you do what.
Speaker 2On the search bar there is like a little camera that you click on it and then you take a picture with that of the item and then Google will show you, like similar items, what's that item, like similar brands or that specific item, and it gives you more information about it. And if it's being sold on eBay or on other websites, that reselling websites it will show you the value of that item. Like what is it going for? Like, let's say, sometimes on Christmas time, sometimes on Christmas time there's this old school kind of like Santa Claus's and reindeers and everything that people just donate them and they look like they're horrible, honestly, but they sell like for $300, $400 each piece and people buy them for $2, $3.
Speaker 1So I could go. So it takes a little effort. You have to get up and go do some stuff, but it's not like you have to go invest a bunch of money because you really need. It's the research, yes, so you take your phone Everybody has a phone, cell phone. You go into a thrift store or a Goodwill that kind of thing and you start looking around. You can also search to see what is like the hottest thing that people are trying to buy and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1Right, I know you've mentioned that before, but you go in you find some item and it may be marked at like $10, $5, $10. And you check it and all of a sudden you picture it and say, oh my God, these are selling for $200. Right, well then, obviously take that item and put it in your cart.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1That's where you're going to make the investment. Right Is then you buy those items that you can sell for 10 times the amount on eBay Exactly, or sometimes like there was.
Thrift Flipping with Google Lens
Speaker 2this time that I was, I was testing this side hustle and I went to a Goodwill and I understand Goodwill and all these stores are for low income families but this time I found these two sets of fondue Cuisinart fondue sets that they were being sold at $7, brand new and I was like, oh, that's cool, and I actually bought them because I thought we were going to do fondue at home and then I realized it's very complicated so I was like no, no, no, I don't want to do this.
Speaker 1We don't even eat fondue in restaurants. Why would we do it at home?
Speaker 2No, hey, they were $7. And then I was like fine, I'll sell them. And then I ended up selling them for like $50, when the retail price was $100. So I made, like I don't know, minus fees and everything, at least $30. I made out of that. Again, do your research. And that's a great side hustle you can do. Of course, I'm not telling you like it's all the time, it's a win-win. But if you go to different stores and you do your research, I mean, if you don't have anything else to do, you might as well utilize your time and trying to do this side hustle right.
Speaker 2And that's another one. What's another one? I've seen this. I have not put it into Well, into well, no, I've actually seen it because you did it and I was so pissed at you. So people list, people list items on amazon than you buy at walmart, but because I don't know how you bought a thing of bacon up oh well, bacon up, yeah, so for my cooking I was like who paying $40 for a bacon up that you can buy at Walmart for seven?
Speaker 2My husband, my husband did. He didn't go to the Walmart app because he doesn't use that. He uses Amazon for everything. So he bought a $42 thing of bacon up. I was like, why is it so expensive? And you're like, oh, because I cannot find it anywhere. They don't sell it locally. I was like no bullshit. And it came actually on a Walmart box and you're like, oh, it came in a Walmart box.
Speaker 1I was like we've been ripped off, I mean Right, so again. So what somebody did for their side hustle, their side hustle is to go get products like that. They do an Amazon ad, I'm guessing like that that I would see, and instead of buying it directly from Walmart for $7, they'll do it through Amazon. They're basically upcharging for you to get the product from there because I wasn't smart enough to go. Hey, I'm going to go check walmartcom. I don't do that, I just go to Amazon. I usually just go. You buy so many things on Amazon that the delivery driver could have an apartment or a bedroom in our house. I mean, that's how.
Speaker 2I do it there.
Speaker 1But I buy stuff only when I want it. But when I want it, I want it now. That's the way I shop. When I want something, I want it now, or I want it as fast as possible. So I'm going to buy that. Boom, one click Done.
Speaker 2You know you could have gone that same day to the grocery store and get it.
Speaker 1Well, I didn't know. I don't go to Walmart to go grocery shopping, so it's like you know. I don't shop there, I shop at HEB or we shop at Kroger. Sometimes they actually said Kroger had it. I couldn't find it in Kroger, so it was like Use the apps.
Furniture Flipping and OnlyFans
Speaker 2Use the apps people. Apps are there to help you. They even tell you, like Walmart, kroger or any other store ATV. They tell you which aisle the item is at and how many they have in stock. So you can do that, dave. Yeah, well, that's another side hustle and another one that I think is also like a good one. Like sometimes people literally like garage sales. Sometimes people get rid of stuff like the same as the Goodwill state sales and people get rid of furniture.
Speaker 2Flipping furniture is one of the most profitable side hustles out there. You have to have A little bit of patience and a little bit of a good eye for it. But you can buy easy. Start with an end table, right Nightstand table. Sometimes people get rid of them on Facebook Marketplace or at garage sales for like $5, $10. Buy that. Buy a good primer which Shellac Beam Primer is the best out there. A sander I think you have to invest about $100 worth of materials right Like a good sander, which is 20 bucks. A brush, a good brush and a paint roller and repainting a piece of furniture will give you an absolutely makeover. Like absolute amazing makeover that you can resell. That If you pay 10, you can resell that for 50 and pay $10,. You can resell that for $50. And you still have materials left.
Speaker 1Well, you also have to have like a desire to try to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2That's true, you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1I mean you have to think that's a hobby. Oh, I want to fix for like in a million years I'm not going to do that. I'm not. I don't. You know me. I'm not a fix it guy. I don't like to fix things. I don't fix a car, I don't fix anything. I call a guy, that's what I do. I call a guy and I would much rather do other things. I'm not interested in that. I don't like doing repair. I don't like doing maintenance. I don't like building stuff with my hand. That doesn't do anything for me at all. That's just not me.
Speaker 1It's not my thing to Goodwill and start taking pictures of stuff or, more importantly, the one we can't leave out when we're talking about side hustles. I'm going for the low-hanging fruit. How do I sell my feet pictures, don't? I need to have an.
Speaker 2OnlyFans account or something. Well, that's another side hustle, but that's not for everybody, babe, Although, believe it or not, there's a whole market for older people. Some guys are really into older people. Some guys and women they're like like some guys are for older women and some women are for older.
Speaker 1So you say, is some guys, is the OnlyFans all guys, or mostly guys, or what is it? I don't know.
Speaker 2Babe, I don't have OnlyFans, I don't know, but I know what I've seen like sometimes some articles about it, like older couples or like couples per se. You don't have to show your face, you just get into the sexy times together and then people like to buy that type of content, or believe it or not. This is crazy. I don't know if this is just a how you call it like a lucky person, but some people sell their farts and their burps.
Speaker 1That's great, but hey, why are there so many crazy people out there? Everybody has their own weird kinks, it's just yeah, well, it works.
Speaker 2There's always a market like there's always somebody, something you have that somebody else supply and demand exactly what I just told you. Just like the eggs you want to buy eggs, sell your farts.
Speaker 1There you have that somebody else wants Supply and demand.
Speaker 2Supply and demand Exactly what I just told you. Just like the eggs, you want to buy eggs, sell your farts. There you go.
Speaker 1That is awful To me. I found OnlyFans by accident because I was searching for ceiling fans, and so I went to OnlyFans.
Speaker 2You're so stupid.
Speaker 1It's not what I thought.
Speaker 2It's not what you thought, you just know what I thought.
Speaker 1You just know what you thought. I got a bag of farts, that's all I got out of it.
Speaker 2That's gross. Well, but believe it or not, people pay up to $50 to $100 for a jar of farts.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2I know, hey, you got to do what you got to do. I guess who cares?
Speaker 1That's a side hustle.
Speaker 2Maybe you have a different side hustle, or what other people's side hustles are they know about Now what I'm going to tell you and please do not fall into this trap Everybody today nowadays is an online guru and they're going to sell you this course for $100, and then they're going to upsell you this and that. That's their side hustle. Selling you online courses. Everything you need to know about side hustles and if you want to learn how to do something, you can find free YouTube training with it. I will never, ever, ever tell you hey, you want to side hustle? Well, if you click this link, in about 40 minutes, I'm going to have a webinar about it and after the webinar, I'm going to sell it to you for $400. But the price is $3,000. Don't fall for that scam, because that's just people trying to prey on you.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's how they make their money.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's how they make their money, but they're trying to prey on your need and your necessity that you want to do that, so don't do that Again. If you want to find a side, hustle YouTube free Free.
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Speaker 2Only mine, right babe?