Someone Asked People The Weirdest Ways They’ve Ever Made Money, And These 40 Answers Are Wild

When I was working in switzerland in a hotel I accompanied an old russian lady to her room, where she noticed she forgot her bag in her car. Went down to her Maybach and up again for this plain bag and she handed me 1000fr as a tip. Turns out her deceased husband was in the oil business and her son took over and she arrived a couple of days earlier to enjoy the scenery before she has to meet her daughter in law which she didn‘t like. During her stay of 7 days she tipped me more than my regular salary.

Collecting moss in the Kerry mountains. Lad would pick us up at 6 am in a van and drop us in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes he'd comeback early sometimes not. No phone signal. You pick moss until he came back. 60p a bag, cash in hand.

My mom wouldn’t allow me to get a job after high school for the longest. So I sold clean urine to people who needed to pass their d**g tests.

When I was a kid I made fliers and went door to door buying aluminum cans and soda bottles for 2 cents so I could turn them in for the 5 cent refund. I made a lot of candy money off the laziness of people who didn't want to take the cans or bottles to the store themselves.

My church would hold plays and musicals in the basement. In the lobby there was a gallery of local artists.


One night my family and I were seeing a play during "kids week." Basically all the art was made by children.


I was talking to my aunt during intermission when we noticed some middle aged woman and an elderly woman unload a bunch of snacks onto a podium that had a colored cereal box on it. They gave no f***s. They just scooted the box over and started eating.


My aunt was like, "$5 if you say something to them." Sure enough, I walk over and say "excuse me, this is a space for the artists not your personal snack tray." They appeared embarrassed and walk away.


Grandpa later gave me $20 more when he heard this.

Ran social media and had a camera. That turned into helping run a medi spa. Then through that business owner I got a gig taking pictures for a escort business and that turned into me taking pictures of independent escorts and running their social media. I started taking their appointments and what not. Took me awhile to realize that I was managing them so I backed out after a couple weeks.

Bought 6 donuts, I had 3 separate kids pay me $5 for a $1.89 donut. Made some money there.

This is just a short list of some of the things I have done

1. Shoveled horse s**t
2. Shoveled pig s**t
3. Helped to build a corn silo
4. Inventoried sunglasses in d**g stores
5. Unloaded semitrucks
6. Was part of a weight loss study program ($300 a month for 12 months)
7. Delivered comunity magazines to local busnesses ($50 a month)
8. Changed light bulbs at a local credit union ($10 a light bulb)
9. Was a secret shopper at McDonalds (Got paid to order and eat different foods).

Walked past a garage sale, saw a weird looking camera for $20.

Turned out to be an extremely rare field microscope that had some parts not documented online. Someone locally was all too happy to buy it for $2,000, if it had worked I was going to sell it for $4,000 but I was too worried about breaking it further attempting to repair it.

I still buy, repair, and resell to this day but nothing beats the profit margins on that Nikon model H field microscope.

Sold my World of Warcraft account in 2006....twice.

My car got in a crash and i got 15k out and repaired it myself for just 500.

Another one. Had just moved to Seattle and looking for work. Signed on with a temp agency and was assigned to be a tester at ATL. I was working nights, so I’d clean up and go to ATL. They were calibrating ultrasound heads and software, so I’d lay on my side and get scanned for hours.
Room was kept dark for better screen visibility, and warm due to the equipment. Plus audio of my heartbeat. I slept through it after working nights.
Did this for weeks, paid to sleep.

Years ago I got a survey in the mail asking me to fill it out with all the radio stations I listen to, what times, where, etc.


It came with a 1 dollar bill and an promise to send more once I return it in the envelope provided.


I filled it out and sent it back and eventually got about 10 cash in an envelope .

I used to work giving environmental snowshoe tours at a high end ski resort. Often, the only people on the tour were women who's partners had left them to ski or were divorcee. On a lot of occasions, after the tour the women would ask if I would be interested in showing them around the resort or the town after work or on my days off. Made some great money and ate at a bunch of restaurants I could not otherwise have afforded. It was strange that some people are so lonely for company that they would pay for it.

While working at a casino I went to a machine for a quick repair. The woman sniffed me like she was trying to do a line of c**e off my shoulder and then gave me 50 dollars.

Sold my dirty panties and used shoes.

We went to Nova Scotia for basketball in high school. All my teammates were native, and they all got $1000-$5000 extra spending money from their bands. So every single person on the team would pay me $50 to bring their bags from the bus to the hotel rooms. There was 13 other kids, so each hotel we stayed at paid me approx $650. I came home with $2000 more then I left with. *I had $165 spending money for the whole week including meals, came home with $1900ish.

I held the door open for someone and they handed me a fiver. Told them it wasn’t a job so they didn’t need to tip me, they wished me a merry Christmas and let me keep it.

Way before Uber and Lyft around late 90's I sometimes was the driver for a tenant living above our house.

Gave me his truck keys, ordered me to drive around his businesses and made sure he was fine because the kicker is that he asked me to do this because he was hammered and didn't want to get caught for DUI.

Most of his business were butcher shops, tortillas shops, and "carnitas" restaurants that were run by his sons and daughters.

Quite boring since like a regular driver, I spent most of the time driving and waiting to move to the next store, but at the end of the evening, I ended with around 50 USD of pocket money each time, that was A LOT for a high-school student.

My friend paid me to teach her/ set her up with camera rig and lighting and basic editing stuff for her to take feet pics to sell online where she made a F**K ton of money doing just that. Gave me few bucks a few times with helping her out with a couple shoots too.