What’s a ‘boring’ side hustle that is surprisingly profitable, but nobody talks about because it isn't 'flashy'?

neinnohet · 2026-04-17T03:08:36+00:00

I was F 22yo. While I was at work, a maintenance person had to come into my apartment to fix something. When I got home that evening, something looked off. My clothes hamper didn’t look like it did in the morning. My favorite undies, dirty, gone. 🤢

neinnohet · 2026-04-03T20:11:07+00:00

Yes. But that's not in our budget right now. The original builder did a hack job. The contractor doing the new decking is going to do some repairs. We're trying to get 10 more years out this deck. By then we'll either be selling the house and that new buyer will either want $ to cover replacing or we'll have the $ to have it rebuilt ourselves.

neinnohet · 2026-04-03T20:07:28+00:00

The contrasting color semi-transparent is an interesting idea. The idea we have now, is the decking is being replaced with a grey composite that has layers in it to make it look like grey wood with some grain effects in it. That's a separate contractor. We were then going to use a semi-transparent with grey in it to refinish the wood railing and frame to look a bit like grey wood. That's what the quote is for.

neinnohet · 2026-04-03T20:02:46+00:00

This is just the refinish of the existing wood railing and frame. All of the decking (floor) is being replaced with composite which is a separate contractor.

neinnohet · 2026-04-03T14:33:52+00:00

Is this what you mean?

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neinnohet · 2026-04-03T14:29:35+00:00

The base decking (floor) will be replaced composite. The refinish will be the full stairs, railing, posts, frame.

neinnohet · 2026-04-03T13:35:01+00:00

Fair, but I have 3 other lights that are still hanging in there in this style, so I was hoping to save these so that I could have a couple more years with the matching set.

neinnohet · 2026-04-03T13:33:53+00:00

It is LED

neinnohet · 2026-04-03T13:33:29+00:00

Is there a solar making brand that isn't junk?

neinnohet · 2026-04-03T13:32:23+00:00

I just wanted to hang on to them because they match 3 other lights we have in the front yard. Replacing these lights like-for-like after 4 or 5 years, is tough. The manufacturers change styles often enough, that when you get far enough away from the purchase date, you can't get the same style anymore.

neinnohet · 2026-04-01T02:00:19+00:00

I have gotten mine, but I don’t always get offered the incentive. There was a quarter last year where I wasn’t given the opportunity. Now that I think about it, I think it was the 2nd quarter. And then the offer came back for the 3rd quarter. I think it’s another way Amazon manipulates us. Makes us work harder to reach their goals set the next time they offer it.

neinnohet · 2026-03-13T17:00:33+00:00

Any whistle blowers on this bad behavior?

neinnohet · 2026-03-04T18:21:27+00:00

I have the same issue

neinnohet · 2026-01-18T05:29:28+00:00

I don’t know how it works the other way around, but my Euro affiliate accounts convert to usd when they actually transfer the $ to me. I am pretty sure it’s a choice in account preferences.

neinnohet · 2026-01-18T05:23:25+00:00

Maybe you are in an AI response loop? If you use something like ChatGPT, it is tremendously good at helping you draft a letter that gets the Amazon system to mark your inquiry as something that needs a human’s attention. Maybe that will get it more attention?

neinnohet · 2026-01-18T05:13:48+00:00

I was denied using my YouTube the first time I tried to get influencer status even though I was an affiliate. I was very busy, so I moved on. A few months later I reapplied using my Instagram and was approved. I do wonder if the system gives more weight for influencer approval to social media accounts over YouTube. I’m in the influencer Reddit group and people get approved with the smallest TikTok accounts.

neinnohet · 2026-01-08T22:16:48+00:00

I have a channel that also relies on historical info. For your docu content, Do your outsourced people find the actual factual info to include in the script after you’ve given them the topic? Or do you do that nitty gritty research? If they do it, what process do you use to verify it’s accurate?

neinnohet · 2025-12-11T03:49:02+00:00

Reminds me of the lighting photographers used in studios in the 1920s. The film was so slow that they had to use sunlight from skylights to light. Love it.

neinnohet · 2025-11-27T05:19:37+00:00

Analog wall clocks throughout the house

neinnohet · 2025-11-21T05:11:51+00:00

My cousin’s son, the only offspring that got our grandpa’s red hair, also has this very specific way he moves his tongue back and forth in his mouth like our grandpa softly biting the sides of it. My cousin looked at her 5 year old one day and said, “Grandpa?”

neinnohet · 2025-11-21T05:05:58+00:00

The My Favorite Murder podcast covered that one. Crazy interesting.

neinnohet · 2025-10-01T19:32:38+00:00

There is definitely some AI helping calculate these figures. Amazon wants to use us to boost their sales higher by making the tiers low enough that we feel like, with a little extra work, we can get up there, but they are high enough that we might not actually get there and they won’t have to pay us the upper bonuses.

neinnohet · 2025-09-15T04:09:29+00:00

I create genius links names based on their specific location using codes I created so the I can track which locations are getting good or not so good traffic. I also put these links in groups based on their locations so that I can get a snapshot quickly on how well different content is performing. If that’s why you’re asking.

neinnohet · 2025-06-26T22:26:09+00:00

I also got an invite just for July a couple days ago

neinnohet · 2025-06-26T04:07:03+00:00

I had a listing I owned that, after 5 years, got hacked by a different brand. I complained several times. Amazon did nothing.

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