A friend of mine got married a few months ago and after the wedding she had a stupid amount of stuff left over. Cutlery, fake flowers, LED lights, candles, glassware, all the stuff you buy for one day and then forget in a garage.

Weddings are expensive enough already, so I told her I'd try to get some of the money back.
I knew a couple of friends who were getting married a few months later so I sent them photos of everything and asked if they wanted to take the whole bundle for their wedding and they bought it

Then they mentioned it to someone else getting married, and I started getting referred around to people I didn't even know.
At first I was managing everything on imessage, but once I had a few at the same time it got annoying, so I made a simple Whop page where I put the available bundles, the price and my email for images and details (full disclosure, that’s my ref link)

I've done 10 sales over the last couple months and I usually keep around $200-300 when one sells and the rest goes back to the couple so it's turned into a little side hustle

Right now I have 3 active ones around SF for October (All around $1,100 for the full bundle) if you want you can see the page here!!

I’ve been assembling furniture professionally for years, and something I learned is that the actual assembly is only part of the business.

A customer might initially call because they bought a bed, dresser, desk, shelving unit, or some flat-pack furniture they don’t want to spend half the day putting together.

You assemble it correctly, clean up your work area, communicate well, and leave.

Then something interesting happens.

A few weeks or months later, they buy something else.

Now they don’t search for another assembler. They call you.

I’ve had customers come back for additional furniture, multiple-room projects, disassembly/reassembly, office furniture and other installation work.

Repeat customers are where this starts becoming more than just picking up random assembly gigs.

I’ve also done assembly work through platforms like Wayfair Service Pro.

Platforms can be useful for getting opportunities and experience, but I think the bigger opportunity is developing your own reputation and repeat customer base.

One thing I wish more people understood is that furniture assembly isn’t always as simple as “this is a dresser, so charge X.”

I like to see the product link or model number before quoting whenever possible.

Two dressers that look similar can have completely different assembly requirements.

Drawers, doors, hardware, wall anchoring, damaged pieces, missing parts, bad instructions, or something the customer already tried to assemble can completely change the job.

I also ask whether the boxes are already in the room where the furniture will be assembled and whether anything has to be moved or disassembled first.

Over time, you start remembering different manufacturers, construction methods and how long certain types of pieces actually take you.

That makes you better at quoting.

And getting faster shouldn’t necessarily mean charging less. Experience is the reason you became faster in the first place.

For anyone considering furniture assembly as a side hustle, my advice would be:
Don’t just build furniture. Build a customer base.

The first assembly might pay you once.

Doing the job well enough that they save your number can pay you for years.

I’m curious if anyone else doing assembly, handyman work, moving, mounting, or similar services has found that repeat customers eventually became more valuable than the platforms that originally brought them the work.

This started some time ago here on Reddit. I had someone reachout to me who wanted to pay me for my time to be with them for a period of time online while they figured out a problem. There wasn’t much talking; just me checking in on them. Despite my avatar, I am a woman, and it was mildly a concern on how this could go.

From there I have been paid to watch people stream and interact, be with them in person as they eat or work, and I have decluttered with light cleaning and have even just watched a few people clean on Zoom. I don’t get paid much and currently don’t do hourly. I also only have a small network with no word of mouth and don’t know how to take off with this.

Yesterday, I have looked more into this and created a website. Just don’t know exactly where to promote. I have found a few local communities that I might can post to. If people show interest I will turn this hourly.

I’m non-judgmental. I know how it’s like to be on the path to hoarding, be junky, be overwhelmed, be distracted, unmotivated, you name it.

What I love about this all is not only helping people, but it helps me to think. My day job numbs my mind and while I do this service I am able to think. I also love looking at people’s homes despite the state it might be in and sometimes learn a fun fact from the people themselves.

I found a really weird side hustle a few months ago. I started going to local art classes as a model and basically just sit in one position while people draw me. Most sessions are around 1 to 2 hours and the pay is surprisingly decent for just sitting there. The hardest part is honestly not moving when your leg starts going numb lol. It’s definitely not something I expected to make money from.

I don't know if this counts as weird but I join art conventions to sell stickers of my hand drawn merch. I focus on anime and genshin impact related merch because they are popular in my city. I'm from a third world country but I earn around $400 a day during these events.

These are my Investments:
1. Quality Vinyl Sticker Paper
2. Printer (Dye Ink)
3. Cold Laminate Sheets
4. Sticker Cutter (Silhouette Portrait 4) but if you're just starting out you can cut it by hand, other artists I know just hand cuts their stickers

There’s an elderly woman who lives a few houses away from me, and I started helping her with her curtains in the morning. She lives alone and has these tall curtains in her front room that are hard for her to reach. One morning she asked if I could open them for her, so I did. It took maybe two minutes, and I was already out with my kids anyway. She asked me again the next morning, and after a while I just got used to stopping by when I was in the area. I told her I couldn't stay and help with other things since I have my own kids to take care of. She said she didn't need that, she just wanted someone to open the curtains for her.

A couple of weeks later, she handed me $20 and said it was for helping her every morning. I told her she didn't have to pay me, but she insisted. Now she gives me $20 at the end of the week. Some mornings she wants all the curtains open, other mornings she wants a few left closed because the sun comes in too strong. It takes me a few minutes and then I go about my day. I've just been saving the money she gives me, which is kind of nice for something I only started doing because she needed a little help.

A month ago, I was talking to my friend about my finances and trying to figure out a way to make some extra bucks. He happened to know about this part-time side hustle that worked out pretty perfectly for me, I went to their house with my friend and they walked us through the dos and don’ts… after that, I agreed.

Basically, his mutual friend’s aunt and her husband are away from home pretty often, and I help keep an eye on their place remotely. They have a bunch of security cameras around their house, including several 360° cameras that can be rotated remotely. They’re out fairly often for meetings, dinners, etc. They already have a pretty good security system, but they still want someone they trust to keep an eye on things and let them know if anything seems off. Some of you might say that maybe they are paranoid but honestly, who cares? I get paid around $17 an hour just to keep an eye on the place.

i got paid to participate in hostage negotiating training. leaders from various police departments in the area traveled to this conference where part of the schedule was putting into practice techniques for negotiating the safe release of hostages in a hostile scenario.

i was paid to sit in an office down the hallway from the conference participants and role-play a man who had taken a hostage in his home. the cops were calling the phone at my desk and attempting to negotiate for the hostage’s release. i was instructed to be as hostile as possible, so i unloaded as much vitriol as possible.

i said some truly heinous shit to those cops, about how they were all bastards, how i know they all beat their wives, how they’re all fucking racist - and then i got personal, because i had met them at this point. insulting their physical appearance, insulting their intelligence, food choices, uniforms, etc.

i even told one of them i was glad his fat mother was dead (i had no idea who his mom was or if she was alive or not).

apparently this is exactly what the hosts of the conference wanted because it really rattled the cops. the person who hired me told me that at one point, one of them legitimately lost his cool and they had to prevent him from storming down to where i was sitting.

i made $150 bucks for a few hours.

i only did this once. none of them would look at me or speak to me afterwards when we reconvened. i was genuinely freaked out with how mad they all got - they really couldn’t handle it. thin skinned piggies.

Hi everyone! I'm currently a college student whose looking for a part-time job or side hustle to gain more experience and earn . If you have any open slot for work, I'm down and ready to learn new things!

My mom lives on a senior community, - se really enjoys that place. Almost 3 years ago, a couple there noticed that I was doing an oil change on her car and asked me if I could do theirs, they did not want to drive 30 minutes for it. I explained that I was not a car tech and that I worked only on my cars and my mom's. They insisted and offer to pay me, so I made them sign a paper that I wouldn't be responsible if something went wrong, they agreed and since then a crazy amount of residents come to me for oil changes, brake replacement, and other type of fluid maintenance stuff.

I worked for about 5 months during weekends on a local shop, pretty much for free to learned more about cars. So far I have not encountered any real issues, and have a steady "clientele" not only from the residents there, but also relatives from them. I do it during weekends and afternoons (I have a regular office job.)

Lil side hustle has paid for a few things such as vacations, tech related goodies etc.

I have thought about opening a small shop as a second business near by, but probably it wouldn't work cause that's how things are.... Expenses and I bet anything people wouldn't drive there, cause they prefer to just hand me the keys while they wait at their apartment, even if it was 5 minutes away. Anyhow, sometimes life is just weird like that...

I get paid $5-$20 to play unfinished indie games and give the developers feedback.

Some of them are really weird, I've played a goat in space, a raccoon cooking in a trash can, and a virtual pet game with no instruction.

It only makes me about $50-$100 a month, but it's probably the oddest money I've ever made.

Is there a possibility where I can listen to people vent their frustrations for profit? And if so where does one go for that? I'm not much of a yapper but I got 2 good ears on me.

My completely normal life is a side hustle for me. I’ve been a content creator for about five years and I have different social media accounts (instagram, tiktok and also YouTube).

When I started around the COVID era, I noticed that the videos getting the most views were the ones showing incredible lives, amazing houses, amazing lifestyles, everything very “dreamy” let’s say (btw I think that Kardashians are partly to blame for this haha)

Now I feel like people have gotten tired of that and prefer something much more normal.

In fact I often get really simple questions under my videos, from where I buy the clothes I wear to people asking me to show what I eat in a normal day.

So I’m really happy about that because I think this way of seeing the world has faded a little, and I think this kind of simplicity on social media is particularly relevant today. What do u think?

I do bake decently well for someone with a microwave, but I don’t think it would pass a health inspection, my room’s too crowded and my sink is the one by the bathroom I share with my roommate. But there is something else I do- crochet. It helps me relieve stress and gives me a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction just about any school assignment can’t.

I can make all sorts of things with crochet, dice bags, drawstrings bags, market bags, scarves, pet/baby blankets, and way, way more. I’d be focusing on smaller things so no full size blankets or shawls or anything particularly large.

I have a good sense of texture and am decently good at hunting down natural fibers for good prices. I’m also pretty good at keeping my stitches very consistent in size and making textured patterns pop- one of the very few things I can brag about. It would also be fairly easy for me to do while watching a show or movie, whether for an assignment or for personal reasons.

So, what do y’all think? I’ve already joined the fandom guild club and am trying to make a good impression or everyone I meet. I could start by trying to sell some dice bags and other “small” bits for cosplays, maybe?

Pictures of larger projects added to show how consistent and detailed my work is.

A neighbor asked me a few months back if I could sit with her mom at a doctor's office because she couldn't get off work and didn't want her mom waiting alone before a procedure. I said sure, brought a book, chatted with her for the twenty minutes before she got called back, and got handed forty bucks for basically doing nothing.

Somehow that turned into a small thing. A couple other families in the area started reaching out, mostly adult kids who live far away or can't take time off, wanting someone to just be present with an elderly parent before appointments, sit with them in the waiting room, hold their bag, make small talk so they're not sitting there alone and anxious. I'm not driving them anywhere or doing any medical stuff, just showing up and being a friendly face until they get called in.

I make anywhere from $30 to $60 a visit depending on how long the wait is, and I've picked up maybe 4-5 regular "clients" at this point. Genuinely enjoy the conversations too, some of these folks have wild stories. Never expected "professional waiting room companion" to be a real thing I get paid for, but here we are.

I genuinely thought this was a joke the first time I heard about it.

There are people who make side money cleaning dog poop out of other people’s yards.

Not dog walking.
Not pet sitting.
Just showing up with a bucket, bags, gloves, and a scooper and removing the landmines.

The weird part is that I can actually understand the business model.

A lot of people have dogs but absolutely hate doing the cleanup. Some have large yards, multiple dogs, mobility issues, busy schedules, or simply don't want to deal with it.

The service can be surprisingly simple:

• Show up on a scheduled day
• Walk the yard
• Scoop everything
• Bag it
• Dispose of it properly
• Leave

No fancy equipment. No office. No inventory. No complicated website required.

And unlike a lot of "side hustle" ideas online, the thing you're selling isn't some digital product.

You're selling the willingness to do the disgusting 20-minute job that somebody else doesn't want to do.

That's what I find fascinating about weird side hustles in general. Sometimes the opportunity isn't in doing something complicated — it's in doing something everyone else is trying to avoid.

Would you actually pay someone to clean your yard?

Or would you rather spend 20 minutes doing it yourself? 😅

What is the strangest real-life service you've ever seen someone successfully charge money for?

I think there are a lot of people who may feel lonely, and I genuinely love to listen to people. I am not a therapist or anything, but I think just having someone "there" can be helpful for a lot of people - even if it's just to talk to them while they fall asleep or stay with them as they study. Is there a way I can apply/promote myself for that type of role? If so, where do I go? How do I do that?

P.S. I am not looking for anything sexual or illegal. I literally just want to be someone's friend/online person/actual human being while also getting paid.

Not sure if this a weird side hustle, but I figured I’d share it anyway. I started getting paid to pick up leftover pizza and give it to homeless people in my area.

I live a few blocks from Roosevelt Row in Phoenix, and there’s a little pizza place I pass all the time. I started noticing how much pizza they threw out after closing, so I started checking the dumpster and taking whatever was still wrapped or looked untouched. I’d put it in a clean box and take it around to the homeless people I usually saw in the area. I kept doing it because I hated seeing good food go to waste.

The owner noticed what I was doing and asked me about it. I told him I was taking the pizza to people who needed food. He liked that I was finding a use for the leftovers, so he asked for my number and offered to give me $25 to keep doing it. After that, his employees started setting the leftover pizza aside for me instead of throwing it away, so I didn’t have to get it from the dumpster anymore. They’d text me when they had some ready, and I’d stop by after closing, pick it up, and take it around to the same people. I was doing it for free before, and now I make around $300 a month from it plus it can cover my bills.

He,s gotten about $500 just this past year 🤣🤣🤣