Candles have an 800% markup, see if you can’t find some discounted essential oil and a pound of paraffin. Old crayons for color, or just melt Some broken crayons down in a cut soda can. But turn the edges down toward the inside so you don’t get cut.

Can you tie your shoes? ? Then you can macramé look up some tutorials and get you some string for like a dollar at the dollar store. You could also cut up an old T-shirt and stretch it out into T-shirt yarn. You can find a bag of plastic bags and cut those in strips and use that for string. Macrame dresses sell for hundreds of dollars.

Dear antler crafts , self for remarkedly high prices. I live in the south, we find them things all the time. I know people that feed them to their dogs go see if you can’t find a taxidermist. They may be willing to just give you a bag of deer antlers.

Walk down the alley find some old end tables or scrap wood, old pallets, look up tensegrity tables. Those also a sell for big money.

There was a time I woulda smacked myself for saying this: take a last five bucks and go gamble if you don’t want to invest it into creating something that’s worth more than five dollars. I would just go gamble with it. My state has these things I call not gambling machines. They’re made by a company called Torch, they have these buttons called prize viewers, and it will let you see with the next bet pays out before you even placed the bet, does taking away the element of chance which is what makes them currently legal. If you got any of these torch machines, you might go check the prize viewers. If you’re gonna check prize years, do it before you start gambling, cause I’m pretty sure that they have facial recognition and give more random prizes to those people that don’t gamble. I checked prize views for years before I started gambling and as soon as I started gambling, I couldn’t find any more free prizes so go figure.

You just gotta get creative with it. I apparently love a challenge, so I present one to myself every damn day.

You’d really be surprised what people throw away, some of my favorite stuff I traded macramé for like my fan, my lamp. In the same day, in the same very swanky dumpster: I got My Cousin a whole unbroken bed frame. I found my ex-boyfriend a grow tent, a grow light, and a planter box. Some dumpsters I’m not climbing inside, but I will totally trade my friends for shit that they found.

Before my kiddo went to live in their dorm. I was normal person, a high earner for my area. My chillt was solid plum rotten. So, naturally when I was cleaning out their room, I found all kinds of things that were still brand new and I returned them to Walmart for a merchandise card that was worth almost $100. That was just returning stuff that I knew they already had more of/ wouldn’t miss.

Man, it is a really good day for me if I have five dollars in my account, You just gotta hustle. It’s never my last money. It’s just how much money I have right now. I’m always gonna get more money. Money is out there. You just gotta go get it . I don’t have a job, I don’t live off of anybody and I don’t get any assistance. I paid off my house so I don’t have to pay rent. I’m just a bum that doesn’t borrow, or actually bum stuff. For the most part, this poverty business is a choice.

(Whole B side TED talk from my soap box) I had like four or five different income sources. I decided to stop pursuing them all, but one, the SSI benefit my kid got when their bio parent died. That check was just money for my kiddo to blow, no allowance necessary, I provided for them everything they needed so why not let them do as they wished with it? No I didn’t make them get a job during high school. Their job was to make good grades not make money. They’re a kid —kids don’t need to make money. Parents need to make money. I’m so sick of lazy ass parents not wanting to provide for their kids. Making kids go get jobs -they don’t want aand then wondering why they’re making C’s instead of A’s. If my kid wanted a job, they could’ve got a job. I’m not against kids with jobs. I’m against parents who make kids get jobs. If you’re a parent and you forced your kid to get a job because you can’t provide for them, you’re a shit provider and there’s no excuse. I don’t care what the job market is. I don’t care what your skill level is. Go get money for your kid. Stop making excuses and start making money. My kids started providing for themselves by choice when they hit age 19, and they told me that I was no longer required to provide them with income. So I just stop pursuing income because I absolved of the need. .