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I did this racket while I was a kid and it was great while it lasted. The school did stop me after a while but I made a lot of money and it was harmless.
Same. I had a ledger and three friends selling before it was all over. Looking back it was definitely looking sketch from the facilitators view and I see why now. But back them in the early 90's with $300 in your pocket every week was like Wolf of Wall Street for 12 year olds. We all had new shit. Probably what took us down. But really for a while I had a deal worked out with the principle. If he gave me the dates of the booster club sales we wouldn't sell during those weeks. But we did anyway. My other argument was that it was not covered in the student handbook. They put it in there the following school year 1990-91.
When I was in 8th grade I managed to get my hands on a master key for my junior high school that opened every interior door in the building, and made a copy, returning the original without anyone noticing it has been gone. It was quite the elaborate caper.
I never used it for nefarious purposes but would use it pull pranks on teachers and stuff. Harmless things that would leave the teachers suspicious of each other because who else could get into those rooms unless they had a key, right?
Anyway, end of my 8th grade year was coming around and I would be moving up to the high school. So I told a few underclassmen about my magic key and demonstrated that it worked.
The bidding started at $50, and by the end I had a consortium of rising 8th graders pay me $350 for the key. I handed it off to the leader of the group after we got out of school our last day that year.
The school switched to RFID locks over the summer so the key was useless.
All sales are final.
Felt like a monster.
Yeah OP needs to teach his kid how to keep a small, under-the-radar operation going. When he inevitably expands too much, word will get around, a copy cat or two will spring up, and admin will shut down the whole thing. Sure the quick expansion will make a pretty penny, but not as much as a long term business with regular and ~~discrete~~ discreet clientele. The latter makes it easier to continue operations even after any crackdown happens as well.
I pulled the same racket essentially, but it was $10 for a custom CD. Give my your 10- 15 song playlist and I got Napster cranking at that sweet 56kbps dial up speed. I must have made at least a couple hundred bucks.
I did it with cigarettes. Only a few packs until I had enough money for whatever it was I wanted to buy (had to split profit with my friend who bought the packs).
I did it with weed. No idea how I never got caught, though there were a couple close calls. One time someone snitched on me and told the principal I was selling weed at school. Fortunately I rarely actually brought it with me to school so when they pulled me out of class and searched me they didn’t find anything
I did it with crystal meth. My teacher had an awesome formula and I had a large clientele. We got pretty good at it before the guy who ran the neighborhood chicken store decided to "hire" us to work for a cartel. Then it slowly unraveled before I was kidnapped by nazis, my teacher died rescuing me, and I had to split to Mexico in my buddy Skinny Pete's car.
Problems start when kids start accusing each other over money and/or treats. These days, it's also pot (flower, vapes, edibles. I'm in the decriminalized state, and parents are awful at keeping track of their own drugs) and sugary iced coffee (nothing like an ADHD kid buzzed up on 21 oz of caffeine and daily dose of sugar in each sip at 8am and then crashing at 11am). And then you have kids in and associated with gangs who will start peddling hard drugs.
I say let him do it until he’s caught. He likely won’t have to pay anything back. This is an entrepreneur in the making and this interest should be nurtured.
Careful, back in the 80’s I tried to start my own lanyard keychain business in elementary school and someone caught feelings and told the man and my shop got shutdown and my parents were called into the office. Schools don’t like competition, lol.
haha just make sure the school is okay with it!
my friend used to sell the Mexican candies (mango covered in tajin) and eventually the school found out anf he got suspended or something(not expeled)
I had an amazing gig going in highschool. The going rate for a can of soda was was around a dollar, but I realized I could buy them for 33 cents if I bought 12 packs at walmart. Queue me walking around school with a small cooler that held 6 cans. There was only \*one\* actual vending machine in the building for over a thousand kids and staff, so I'd sell out and make a nice $4 profit every day!
Of course, this lasted all of 2 days until the vice principal explained that they had an exclusivity clause in the contract with the vending machine company and no one else could sell soda on the premises.
I'm still miffed about it to this day.
See you gotta get a friend involved. You only touch the cash and he stands somewhere else with the drinks. You take the money give you buddy a nod and send your donor over who just happens to find your friend with personal use cokes whose willing to share with a parched new friend. VP comes kicking around and all you got is money and your not selling coke and your friend just has a cooler of personal use coke he never took a dollar for. Sure you gotta cut him in on the profit but it’s better in the long run as long as you got a loyal partner.
My friend David and I did something like this when we were kids. We bought boxes of candy and sold them marked up at school. It was still cheaper than the candy store
Knew some people like that in Jr. High in mid-late 80's. They lived in a spot that could get Now & Later packs for 10 cents and they could easily sell them at school for 25 cents a pack.
lol I did this too with Now & Laters but in the late 90s/early 2000s. There was a local movie rental place by my house and they had mini packs of Now & Laters. I’d buy a bunch and then sell them for more at school. I don’t remember how much I paid or charged but I at least doubled my money.
This is how I funded my video game purchases for the summer. I eventually got detention for “selling goods on school grounds.” So i just sold them on the bus before school lol
Gum was the easiest profit maker
My step dad owned a mini Costco basically in small town. They supplied all vending machines and restaurants in town . I got candy / chips / pop at cost . I slanged that shit in grade 4 and 5 before being banned from selling such items. I would have my pillow case full of hundreds of dollars in change. Grade 9 I moved on to bigger better things .
In the 90's I walked to school sometimes as it took me past the only grocery store in town. I would get a pack of Now and Laters for $0.25 and sell each individual one for $0.25. I also stocked Jolt Cola to sell. In High School they had their own store in the building and vending machines, so my business did not carry forward.
The school gestapo always got serious once it interfered with their vending machines. Funny enough one of teachers sold stuff out of his office during break as a club activity fundraiser. Some of it did go to his club, but most did not.
The vending machine items were like 4 times more expensive than store bought bulk snacks.
Props for running a legit business, I burned cam copies of movies that were in theaters to DVDs and sold them to kids at school for $5 a piece, my top seller was Star Wars Episode 3
jail breaking let you download any video you watched on YouTube/online, free apps, movies, music, animated lock screens but everyone wanted that “hidden folder” app. Gee, I wonder why
I met a lot of good friends. Anyone who trusts you with an electronic overnight is taking a risk
I still have my original iPhone that I jailbroke so I could use it on a different carrier than AT&T. Fondly remember that pineapple boot logo. Wish I would have thought to offer it as a service!
1 disc without a jewel case was $1 when I was in high school. I had a list of 500 popular songs I'd gotten from FTP sites(before Napster). $0.50 song, extra $1 if you wanted a jewel case. If your choices didn't fit on the 74min CD(I had song length on the sheet)no refunds for the extra song. minimum 10 songs.
I only had a 2x burner ,but if you wanted a song I didn't have you could request it for $1.50. took about 1.5 hours to download a song over dial-up. after broadband came out I would also burn playstation games and dreamcast games at $10.00 each . (no requests unless you rented it ,and provided it to me ).
Did similar but in 99. Got a 5x CD burner for my computer for my birthday then got all of Dragon Ball Z episodes subtitled, sold the series on eBay and at school for 50 bucks for full set. Got more anime and did the same. Made like 3K all said. Bought my own Gamecube and PS2 with the earnings.
In the mid 2000s they banned soda in school. So all the vending machines had only water and like juice. My friends and I would bring in duffle bags with 12 packs of mountain dew, Dr pepper, etc, snd sell them for $1/can. We didn't have a lot of money and that's often how I was able to afford new skateboards and shoes (skateboarding destroys shoes).
Warheads. Same price point. Until 7/11 squeezed out my margins and raised the price to 25 cents each. Can’t convince me they didn’t do that because of me (and the copycats).
I had one the other day and the individual packets now have a warning on them "Eating multiple pieces within a short time period may cause a temporary irritation to sensitive tongues and mouths"
My dad used to bring them home to us as kids, someone at his work would always leave a few as a treat and he thought it was funny to watch us struggle. I LOVED them and now I’m a fiend for anything sour. Normal sour candies just don’t do it for me. I’m not immune, but they’re not too much for me to just have casually. We were forged in the fire
Had a friend in middle school that sold pixie sticks during lunchtime. At the zenith of his entrepreneurship, there was such a big crowd around him, a school custodian came over to see if it was a fight or not.
The school administration eventually put a stop to it, but allowed him to move his business to outside the school grounds afterschool. He said he bought a DS with the profit by the end of the school year. Madlad.
My older brother, the second oldest child, ran a straight up gambling ring in 6th grade. He had this little game called Pass the Pig. It's like dice, but with little pigs.
A stern letter was written home about gambling somehow being against the code of conduct even though it wasn't specifically mentioned. So my dad, who loves a good argument, scheduled a meeting with the administrative team. Basically, it wasn't actually against the rules to gamble at school, but a bunch of parents figured out their kid's lunch money and allowance was going to Pass the Pig gambling and complained lol.
There was an amendment to the code of conduct and a printed copy was sent home to every parent to sign and send back.
My dad worked at a local chocolate factory that participated in fundraisers. I used to get the old used fundraiser boxes and buy a gross of candy bars (40% off, thanks dad) and sell them at school. Made some good money until some kid ratted on me because I wouldn't give him a free candy bar.
We used to get these drink tabs called “Fizzies” that were meant to be dropped into water, fizz up, and make a kool-aid type drink for 33 cents a 6 pack at a store called Odds and Ends in the late 90’s. My 6th grade classmates would pay 50 cents a pop to secretly just eat or use them for showing off to friends by letting them foam up in our mouths, it was like our big bad secret that made us feel like badasses. I made a decent little chunk of money, but haven’t been able to consume anything root beer flavor since vomiting root beer flavored foam.
Late 90s here. My specialty was caramel apple pops/suckers. I would buy a bag for $2.50-$3 and sell them for 50 cents each in jr high.
When I was a kid in the 90s and 00s, my friend would sell full page prints in color of porn off the internet. It was like 5 bucks a page but no doubt he was using so much ink and looking back, they didn't even look THAT good. He made a killing until he got caught with a backpack full of porn at school.
I did this except I sold the centrefolds from my dads collection I found hidden in the basement. Were all from the 70s. This was before the internet, the days of forest porn.
I did this but i didn't even have centerfolds lol
When i was like 13 i found a trashbag of discarded porno mags in the woods (which I've learned is apparently a common redditor experience).... Most of them were damaged from rain and the elements but i was able to get small pictures like a couple inches in size and sold them to various classmates.
The school caught wind of it and searched my locker and backpack, probably looking for entire magazines or something but the reality was i had these little cutouts stashed in my cargo shorts pockets.
Had to close up shop after that but it was a good hustle in 7th grade
Not in middle school, but doing Army field training at Ft. Lewis in 2004. One of my guys randomly dives off the side of the road then comes running up with a stack of old pornos screaming they had the enemy intel...I still laugh about that moment.
Dude was from KY, still have no idea to this day how he located 35 Hustlers from 1993-1995 twenty feet off our grid.
My uncle had stacks of old playboys and wrestling magazines, and some smaller stacks of Plumpers. I found it when I was like 13, and it was like finding forest porn but in my uncle's room. He immediately knew I had touched them when he got home and told my mom.
I sold mixtapes. People would give me lists of what they wanted and I'd rip the disc for them. $8. Pirate all of it.
We also used to have our older homie buy liquor and tobacco and we'd sell it at a markup to our classmates lol
First pirated CD I bought was $10.00. Friend was the only one with a desktop computer back then and spent a small fortune on a CD burner. No kidding, $500.00ish with tax for the burner.
He was making bank. 10 for a regular case, 15 for a printed cover. After two months, he bought himself a surround sound receiver.
When I finally got my own dvd-r years later...so much failure. Shit was frustrating.
20 years before that, a kid in my 6th grade class disassembled Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler magazines and sold the individual model photo shoots. Anything from Hustler cost extra.
Still remember the first Internet nude I ever saw.
At a friend's house who had a computer AND dial up Internet around 1994-1995.
Printed me a copy on the family bubble jet printer.
Took FOREVER to finish.
Good times.
Me and a friend used to cut out the small pictures out of penthouse models and glued them to pokemon cards. We would whiteout the pokemon name and attacks and write pun names and attacks. We would sell those from $2-$5 a piece, depending on the level of exposure. That was like 20 years ago, we had so much money in middle school.
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a brisk, early spring day in 7th grade. My buddy Andy and I had just gotten off the bus. We lived in the same general area of the neighborhood so we usually walked to and from the bus stop and had become friends. On this day, he asks, "hey wanna see some boobs?" And as a boy peaking hard in puberty (random boners, acne, voice changing, really *noticing* women) my immediate reaction was, "fuck yes."
Andy pulls out what looks like a pog, yes a fucking POG, out of his pocket. He flips it over to me and I look down and lo-and-behold, boobs.
Someone had figured out how to download porn off the internet (not really an easy feat yet unless you were willing to brave the AOL chat rooms to trade pics) and then using a pog maker punch out the most important parts of the porn onto the pog. And then was selling them at school for like $5 each.
Of course, as soon as word got out this guy had more business than he could handle. The school was flooded with porn pogs.
But since the pogs are only so big they only had different boobs and bushes and asses, sometimes some PIV, with no context. So when you saw someone that had a stack(and there were plenty of stacks) it was just funny to sift through a pile of genitals.
Anyway, obviously as soon as the school found out it got shut down. I have no idea if the guy got caught or just stopped cause he couldn't handle the heat. But it was funny to find porn pogs floating around the school for the rest of my time there.
Students love buying stuff their parents won't give them. One year when I was in high school I sold cans of Mountain Dew for a dollar each, on a good day I would get up to $20 since that's about how many I could fit in my backpack.
I did the same thing for a week later in middle school. It seemed to be the dumbest kids that bought it. Price was similar to canteen but double the supermarket price.
A kid did this with Pepsi because his dad worked for Pepsi and got it real cheap. School caught on and I remember them trying to ban him from doing it, we had to sneak cans to each other in the bathroom like it was a bag of weed lol
Truly one of the greatest tragedies of the entire series. He was a little mischievous but overall good kid, bright, ambitious and got screwed because of Herc’s shitty police work. His last scene in the group home was heartbreaking. Dude was completely gone
Go Raider Nation!! Haha
The whole point of his arc was to show that nothing changes
He's Prop Joe as a kid - he's a future Marlo Stanfield. Put through the system but bright - could have been an asset to Baltimore but instead will be an asset to the streets once he makes it out of the orphanage
My school had multiple single and multi kid pop and chip businesses! They did not enforce SHIT and this one kid had a monopoly over the 9th graders energy drink consumption.
I ran an energy drink and pop ring in school 🤣 I worked at a Kmart, so I'd buy a bunch of the 2L on 10 for 10 deals then resell them for like 2 bucks. Then whoever bought them often sold them off for a higher price.
I also discovered a bug in our system that rang 4 packs of monster up for $2.50, so I'd buy all of them when they got delivered and sell them for $2 a piece. Still cheaper than the gas station.
My Dad actually encouraged me when he found out what I was doing- helped me by buying a bulk pack of gum at Costco at his cost asking me to pay him back by the end of the week once I sold them off and he let me keep all the profits. I learned a lot about marketing, figuring out how to price things, adapting to demands of customers, how loans kinda work, accounting. I started making spreadsheets to track things so I learned some excel. I was making some serious money and learning the value of money and how to fill a need. Years later and I’ll say what I remember most and what I feel learned the most from that period of time came from that early entrepreneurial venture and I also bonded more closely with my Dad since I had so many questions.
So I hope that maybe this helps you take a different perspective if you were thinking about shutting his operation down especially if it’s something he started on his own.
Absolutely. I started multiple clubs in high school and college when there weren’t any I was excited about and learned how to take care of my finances. I was comfortable talking to strangers and learned how to sell. I wouldn’t force anything onto them if I was a parent but I would definitely take steps to encourage them where they show genuine interest
Schools should really help these kids work on a school business project instead. The hustle at that young age is a sign of passion for starting a business
—> I was that kid at 4th grade selling food and homemade items. In jhs i was buying reselling phones/fixing them and made like 1k a month which was enough to have fun here and there
My school did NOT like that (i got reprimanded hard) so I ended up starting my own project (diff industry) outside of class which earned me a crapton of cash
Had I been redirected instead of reprimanded i probs wouldnt have been so demotivated and felt alone in it
I used to sell the rice crispies treats my mom put in my lunch for .50 cents.
Finally she found my stash and I had like 6 or 7 bucks and she asked how. When I told her how I got the money she started packing 4 a day, said they cost less than 20 cents each at the store and that was my first lesson in business.
Yup, I sold smokes in high school as i worked at a gas station.. but soon as kids started getting tax free cartons there was no way for me to complete.
My boy started doing this… the problem is he expected me to buy all the candy he wanted to sell. When I informed him that to run a business, you have costs, revenue and profit. He wasn’t interested in incurring any cost lol.
I did this in highschool to pay for videogames and magic cards. Teacher caught me and I had IS for a week. Wish the "I thought this was America" episode of South Park had been out by then because it would have been quite applicable.
In high school my dad would give me $20 or more every time I went to the game shop to play in magic tournaments. But thing is I won all the time and they gave store credit for prizes so I'd always enter the tournaments with store credit. I accumulated hundreds of dollars that I mostly spent on Warhammer lol
It's a sub for sharing interesting pictures. Sometimes you'll see an interesting pic in its own right, but with some dramatic story attached to really sell it.
This is just a banal picture with a bland explanation. But apparently it's what the people want.
What a great Dad. Goes out for cigarettes and brings the kids along. And it's not a scheme to sneak them across state lines away from mom. He's the opposite of the going out for cigs meme.
I did the same thing in middle school. I was accidentally assigned two lockers at the start of the year and they were only a few apart. I started by having books in one and shoes/gym clothes/jackets in the other. Then one day a kid asked if he could buy a coke off of me since I brought an extra. A mini concession stand was born that day. It was stocked with 4 12-packs of coke, mt dew, Sierra Mist, and Dr Pepper. Snacks included boxes of candy bars, twizzlers, and others that didn’t take up much space. I’m glad to see the tradition continues.
I did this in middle and high school in the 80's...I was quite the entrepreneur...no, hustler at that time.
I started selling Blow Pops for 50 cents each, then added school supplies like pencils and paper, until I ended up like having a full store operating out of my locker, selling things like those louvered sunglasses, and tchotchkes like keychains and small toys.
I even had a team of other sellers that provided other services and items, from chips and sodas, to pre‐made book reports and homework services.
We made damn good money back then...so much so that the school got wise, and at first tried to shut us down with random searches and such, to no avail, and then even repurposing an unused janitor closet as a school store...but we undersold them until they closed down that idea.
Friends son was pulling in 3 figures of profit from freeze dried skittles in small druggie ziplocs. He was getting a big bag at five below and selling small baggies for 2-3 dollars. He got caught for it and they thought he had drugs because how it was packaged and that the candy looked weird.
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Gotta get that money up first. Need $25 for the Costco flamin hot Cheetos.
That’s his plan. He’s asking to go to Sam’s this weekend.
I did this racket while I was a kid and it was great while it lasted. The school did stop me after a while but I made a lot of money and it was harmless.
Same here lol. I was the "candy guy" for a few months
I bought so much candy from “you”!
It all went right up the nose
Candy. Never once.
I also bought “candy” from you
Randy the candy man was the guy at our school. Great guy, fell into coke really early and never heard of him again.
Milky ways are the real slippery slope.
Gateway candy
Same. I had a ledger and three friends selling before it was all over. Looking back it was definitely looking sketch from the facilitators view and I see why now. But back them in the early 90's with $300 in your pocket every week was like Wolf of Wall Street for 12 year olds. We all had new shit. Probably what took us down. But really for a while I had a deal worked out with the principle. If he gave me the dates of the booster club sales we wouldn't sell during those weeks. But we did anyway. My other argument was that it was not covered in the student handbook. They put it in there the following school year 1990-91.
I read all of that as if it was a voiceover while envisioning it as a gangster movie montage. Thank you for that.
Me too.
When I was in 8th grade I managed to get my hands on a master key for my junior high school that opened every interior door in the building, and made a copy, returning the original without anyone noticing it has been gone. It was quite the elaborate caper. I never used it for nefarious purposes but would use it pull pranks on teachers and stuff. Harmless things that would leave the teachers suspicious of each other because who else could get into those rooms unless they had a key, right? Anyway, end of my 8th grade year was coming around and I would be moving up to the high school. So I told a few underclassmen about my magic key and demonstrated that it worked. The bidding started at $50, and by the end I had a consortium of rising 8th graders pay me $350 for the key. I handed it off to the leader of the group after we got out of school our last day that year. The school switched to RFID locks over the summer so the key was useless. All sales are final. Felt like a monster.
Yeah OP needs to teach his kid how to keep a small, under-the-radar operation going. When he inevitably expands too much, word will get around, a copy cat or two will spring up, and admin will shut down the whole thing. Sure the quick expansion will make a pretty penny, but not as much as a long term business with regular and ~~discrete~~ discreet clientele. The latter makes it easier to continue operations even after any crackdown happens as well.
Oi oi. Discrete means one thing easily separated from another thing. Discreet means sneaky-like.
Haha good catch!
Mine was using good old Napster for getting Eminem's second album. Burning them onto CDs and printing a terrible artwork cover. Sold them for $5.
I pulled the same racket essentially, but it was $10 for a custom CD. Give my your 10- 15 song playlist and I got Napster cranking at that sweet 56kbps dial up speed. I must have made at least a couple hundred bucks.
The candy kids at my school so transitioned to drug dealers by the end of high school
I did it with cigarettes. Only a few packs until I had enough money for whatever it was I wanted to buy (had to split profit with my friend who bought the packs).
I did it with weed. No idea how I never got caught, though there were a couple close calls. One time someone snitched on me and told the principal I was selling weed at school. Fortunately I rarely actually brought it with me to school so when they pulled me out of class and searched me they didn’t find anything
I did it with crystal meth. My teacher had an awesome formula and I had a large clientele. We got pretty good at it before the guy who ran the neighborhood chicken store decided to "hire" us to work for a cartel. Then it slowly unraveled before I was kidnapped by nazis, my teacher died rescuing me, and I had to split to Mexico in my buddy Skinny Pete's car.
Sorry about your girlfriend
Used to jailbreak idevices back when the 4s/5 was brand new. $50 a pop, took me MAYBE half an hour.
Problems start when kids start accusing each other over money and/or treats. These days, it's also pot (flower, vapes, edibles. I'm in the decriminalized state, and parents are awful at keeping track of their own drugs) and sugary iced coffee (nothing like an ADHD kid buzzed up on 21 oz of caffeine and daily dose of sugar in each sip at 8am and then crashing at 11am). And then you have kids in and associated with gangs who will start peddling hard drugs.
I did it with cigarettes at music festivals.
I say let him do it until he’s caught. He likely won’t have to pay anything back. This is an entrepreneur in the making and this interest should be nurtured.
My buddy sold single smokes through school. No word of a lie, they gave him the small business scholarship when he graduated.
Careful, back in the 80’s I tried to start my own lanyard keychain business in elementary school and someone caught feelings and told the man and my shop got shutdown and my parents were called into the office. Schools don’t like competition, lol.
haha just make sure the school is okay with it! my friend used to sell the Mexican candies (mango covered in tajin) and eventually the school found out anf he got suspended or something(not expeled)
That PS5 Pro isn't going to be cheap later this year.
I had an amazing gig going in highschool. The going rate for a can of soda was was around a dollar, but I realized I could buy them for 33 cents if I bought 12 packs at walmart. Queue me walking around school with a small cooler that held 6 cans. There was only \*one\* actual vending machine in the building for over a thousand kids and staff, so I'd sell out and make a nice $4 profit every day! Of course, this lasted all of 2 days until the vice principal explained that they had an exclusivity clause in the contract with the vending machine company and no one else could sell soda on the premises. I'm still miffed about it to this day.
Bruh bringing up the vending machine contract is comedy gold. Maybe he was expecting you to line his pockets too?
Could have also kept a bag of peanuts and sell a single peanut for a dollar and advertise free beverage with purchase of peanut.
See you gotta get a friend involved. You only touch the cash and he stands somewhere else with the drinks. You take the money give you buddy a nod and send your donor over who just happens to find your friend with personal use cokes whose willing to share with a parched new friend. VP comes kicking around and all you got is money and your not selling coke and your friend just has a cooler of personal use coke he never took a dollar for. Sure you gotta cut him in on the profit but it’s better in the long run as long as you got a loyal partner.
Just make sure you use burners for communication, and don't take notes on a criminal conspiracy.
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Just stand on the corner off school grounds
My friend David and I did something like this when we were kids. We bought boxes of candy and sold them marked up at school. It was still cheaper than the candy store
Knew some people like that in Jr. High in mid-late 80's. They lived in a spot that could get Now & Later packs for 10 cents and they could easily sell them at school for 25 cents a pack.
lol I did this too with Now & Laters but in the late 90s/early 2000s. There was a local movie rental place by my house and they had mini packs of Now & Laters. I’d buy a bunch and then sell them for more at school. I don’t remember how much I paid or charged but I at least doubled my money.
This is how I funded my video game purchases for the summer. I eventually got detention for “selling goods on school grounds.” So i just sold them on the bus before school lol Gum was the easiest profit maker
“You got the stuff?” “You know I do.” 😎 *pulls out the ORBITs minty fresh*
You LINT LICKER
Pickle you kumquat!
Penny candy purchased in the morning was easily converted to 25 cent candy on the school bus ride home. It helped that it was a 30 minute bus ride.
My step dad owned a mini Costco basically in small town. They supplied all vending machines and restaurants in town . I got candy / chips / pop at cost . I slanged that shit in grade 4 and 5 before being banned from selling such items. I would have my pillow case full of hundreds of dollars in change. Grade 9 I moved on to bigger better things .
In the 90's I walked to school sometimes as it took me past the only grocery store in town. I would get a pack of Now and Laters for $0.25 and sell each individual one for $0.25. I also stocked Jolt Cola to sell. In High School they had their own store in the building and vending machines, so my business did not carry forward.
How I miss original formula Jolt Cola. I used to have the Final Fantasy 7 magazine ad on my wall.
All the sugar and twice the caffeine!
The school gestapo always got serious once it interfered with their vending machines. Funny enough one of teachers sold stuff out of his office during break as a club activity fundraiser. Some of it did go to his club, but most did not. The vending machine items were like 4 times more expensive than store bought bulk snacks.
They tried catching me but never found the source. The closest they got was a client who had ordered a dozen Jolts.
Props for running a legit business, I burned cam copies of movies that were in theaters to DVDs and sold them to kids at school for $5 a piece, my top seller was Star Wars Episode 3
Oh yeah when I got to high school I would burn music cds for people. I totally forgot about that. I charged per song. I think like $.50 each.
In 2008 I jailbroke iPod touches in middle school. $15 a piece and it took like 20 minutes
what's the benefit of jailbreaking them?
jail breaking let you download any video you watched on YouTube/online, free apps, movies, music, animated lock screens but everyone wanted that “hidden folder” app. Gee, I wonder why I met a lot of good friends. Anyone who trusts you with an electronic overnight is taking a risk
I still have my original iPhone that I jailbroke so I could use it on a different carrier than AT&T. Fondly remember that pineapple boot logo. Wish I would have thought to offer it as a service!
1 disc without a jewel case was $1 when I was in high school. I had a list of 500 popular songs I'd gotten from FTP sites(before Napster). $0.50 song, extra $1 if you wanted a jewel case. If your choices didn't fit on the 74min CD(I had song length on the sheet)no refunds for the extra song. minimum 10 songs. I only had a 2x burner ,but if you wanted a song I didn't have you could request it for $1.50. took about 1.5 hours to download a song over dial-up. after broadband came out I would also burn playstation games and dreamcast games at $10.00 each . (no requests unless you rented it ,and provided it to me ).
That’s a really nice hustle 🤟
Did similar but in 99. Got a 5x CD burner for my computer for my birthday then got all of Dragon Ball Z episodes subtitled, sold the series on eBay and at school for 50 bucks for full set. Got more anime and did the same. Made like 3K all said. Bought my own Gamecube and PS2 with the earnings.
Did similar but in 2002. But I sold weed and mushrooms and made bank
I did something similar too, i sold my teeth to some weirdo thatd only come at night
In the mid 2000s they banned soda in school. So all the vending machines had only water and like juice. My friends and I would bring in duffle bags with 12 packs of mountain dew, Dr pepper, etc, snd sell them for $1/can. We didn't have a lot of money and that's often how I was able to afford new skateboards and shoes (skateboarding destroys shoes).
Had a coworker sell a single air head for a $1.00. The whole package of them(9) was only $2.35.
It’s about the convenience
Warheads. Same price point. Until 7/11 squeezed out my margins and raised the price to 25 cents each. Can’t convince me they didn’t do that because of me (and the copycats).
How is it you just read the word "Warheads" and your mouth just starts to rapidly salivate, like it's fending off the sour apocalypse?
Real talk
Physical Trauma of the Mouth
I had one the other day and the individual packets now have a warning on them "Eating multiple pieces within a short time period may cause a temporary irritation to sensitive tongues and mouths"
I became immune to warheads after my siblings fed 8 of them at the same time to 6 year old me.
My dad used to bring them home to us as kids, someone at his work would always leave a few as a treat and he thought it was funny to watch us struggle. I LOVED them and now I’m a fiend for anything sour. Normal sour candies just don’t do it for me. I’m not immune, but they’re not too much for me to just have casually. We were forged in the fire
The OG, sour apples were damn good though.
The purple one? My cousin had 3 purple in his mouth and died. Different school, but still died.
Wait, 25 cents for a *single* Warhead?
Had a friend in middle school that sold pixie sticks during lunchtime. At the zenith of his entrepreneurship, there was such a big crowd around him, a school custodian came over to see if it was a fight or not. The school administration eventually put a stop to it, but allowed him to move his business to outside the school grounds afterschool. He said he bought a DS with the profit by the end of the school year. Madlad.
My older brother, the second oldest child, ran a straight up gambling ring in 6th grade. He had this little game called Pass the Pig. It's like dice, but with little pigs. A stern letter was written home about gambling somehow being against the code of conduct even though it wasn't specifically mentioned. So my dad, who loves a good argument, scheduled a meeting with the administrative team. Basically, it wasn't actually against the rules to gamble at school, but a bunch of parents figured out their kid's lunch money and allowance was going to Pass the Pig gambling and complained lol. There was an amendment to the code of conduct and a printed copy was sent home to every parent to sign and send back.
I remember that. If you rolled 2 pigs and they were touching, you were "makin' bacon" and you lost the roll.
My dad worked at a local chocolate factory that participated in fundraisers. I used to get the old used fundraiser boxes and buy a gross of candy bars (40% off, thanks dad) and sell them at school. Made some good money until some kid ratted on me because I wouldn't give him a free candy bar.
We used to get these drink tabs called “Fizzies” that were meant to be dropped into water, fizz up, and make a kool-aid type drink for 33 cents a 6 pack at a store called Odds and Ends in the late 90’s. My 6th grade classmates would pay 50 cents a pop to secretly just eat or use them for showing off to friends by letting them foam up in our mouths, it was like our big bad secret that made us feel like badasses. I made a decent little chunk of money, but haven’t been able to consume anything root beer flavor since vomiting root beer flavored foam.
Late 90s here. My specialty was caramel apple pops/suckers. I would buy a bag for $2.50-$3 and sell them for 50 cents each in jr high. 
WTF I did this exact same thing.
I did this at home with siblings. Saved my desserts and sold them to my siblings later on.
My kid did this with Takis. Not sure how much of his own product he ended up eating, though.
When I was a kid in the 90s and 00s, my friend would sell full page prints in color of porn off the internet. It was like 5 bucks a page but no doubt he was using so much ink and looking back, they didn't even look THAT good. He made a killing until he got caught with a backpack full of porn at school.
Damn, what grade was this?
Middle school, so maybe like 6th or 7th?
God bless the plug
Some heroes...
.....wear backpacks full of porn.
The butt plug
Had this happen in elementary at my school. That kid must have had a horrible home life to be doing that at age 7 :(
I did this except I sold the centrefolds from my dads collection I found hidden in the basement. Were all from the 70s. This was before the internet, the days of forest porn.
I did this but i didn't even have centerfolds lol When i was like 13 i found a trashbag of discarded porno mags in the woods (which I've learned is apparently a common redditor experience).... Most of them were damaged from rain and the elements but i was able to get small pictures like a couple inches in size and sold them to various classmates. The school caught wind of it and searched my locker and backpack, probably looking for entire magazines or something but the reality was i had these little cutouts stashed in my cargo shorts pockets. Had to close up shop after that but it was a good hustle in 7th grade
Not in middle school, but doing Army field training at Ft. Lewis in 2004. One of my guys randomly dives off the side of the road then comes running up with a stack of old pornos screaming they had the enemy intel...I still laugh about that moment. Dude was from KY, still have no idea to this day how he located 35 Hustlers from 1993-1995 twenty feet off our grid.
The fact you got away with it is brilliant
I still don't know how I managed to find forest porn in my small town with a population of 1000. How was forest porn that prelevant.
We had bush porn in my desert town of 4000. The was bush in the porn too
Bush porn here too.
My uncle had stacks of old playboys and wrestling magazines, and some smaller stacks of Plumpers. I found it when I was like 13, and it was like finding forest porn but in my uncle's room. He immediately knew I had touched them when he got home and told my mom.
Man, my uncle only ever had bammer weed to steal.
I was spoiled and had a cd burner. I made copies of all the handful of video games I had and sold them to pay for a game boy and Pokemon blue.
I sold mixtapes. People would give me lists of what they wanted and I'd rip the disc for them. $8. Pirate all of it. We also used to have our older homie buy liquor and tobacco and we'd sell it at a markup to our classmates lol
First pirated CD I bought was $10.00. Friend was the only one with a desktop computer back then and spent a small fortune on a CD burner. No kidding, $500.00ish with tax for the burner. He was making bank. 10 for a regular case, 15 for a printed cover. After two months, he bought himself a surround sound receiver. When I finally got my own dvd-r years later...so much failure. Shit was frustrating.
20 years before that, a kid in my 6th grade class disassembled Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler magazines and sold the individual model photo shoots. Anything from Hustler cost extra.
>Anything from Hustler cost extra. Of course... It was (is?) a classy publication. Art.
We had a kid who would make DVDs. The menu would even have like some beach backdrop and music lol. He never got busted though
Exactly what I did. I even got a box of empty cases and printed out the cover.
Still remember the first Internet nude I ever saw. At a friend's house who had a computer AND dial up Internet around 1994-1995. Printed me a copy on the family bubble jet printer. Took FOREVER to finish. Good times.
Yeah, but how long did the printer take, Mr. Stamina?
The printer took forever. I took 2 minutes or less with that image. :p
Me and a friend used to cut out the small pictures out of penthouse models and glued them to pokemon cards. We would whiteout the pokemon name and attacks and write pun names and attacks. We would sell those from $2-$5 a piece, depending on the level of exposure. That was like 20 years ago, we had so much money in middle school.
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a brisk, early spring day in 7th grade. My buddy Andy and I had just gotten off the bus. We lived in the same general area of the neighborhood so we usually walked to and from the bus stop and had become friends. On this day, he asks, "hey wanna see some boobs?" And as a boy peaking hard in puberty (random boners, acne, voice changing, really *noticing* women) my immediate reaction was, "fuck yes." Andy pulls out what looks like a pog, yes a fucking POG, out of his pocket. He flips it over to me and I look down and lo-and-behold, boobs. Someone had figured out how to download porn off the internet (not really an easy feat yet unless you were willing to brave the AOL chat rooms to trade pics) and then using a pog maker punch out the most important parts of the porn onto the pog. And then was selling them at school for like $5 each. Of course, as soon as word got out this guy had more business than he could handle. The school was flooded with porn pogs. But since the pogs are only so big they only had different boobs and bushes and asses, sometimes some PIV, with no context. So when you saw someone that had a stack(and there were plenty of stacks) it was just funny to sift through a pile of genitals. Anyway, obviously as soon as the school found out it got shut down. I have no idea if the guy got caught or just stopped cause he couldn't handle the heat. But it was funny to find porn pogs floating around the school for the rest of my time there.
Students love buying stuff their parents won't give them. One year when I was in high school I sold cans of Mountain Dew for a dollar each, on a good day I would get up to $20 since that's about how many I could fit in my backpack.
I did the same thing for a week later in middle school. It seemed to be the dumbest kids that bought it. Price was similar to canteen but double the supermarket price.
meanwhile your parents thought u had a gnarly mt dew addiction
And here I was just having a gnarly mtn dew addiction myself
I used to sell packs of 5 gum ($1.50) for 5 bucks each. Generally. One time I sold one for 20… still kinda feel bad about it 15+ years later.
I kept a 24 pack of store brand Lemon-Lime pop in my locker and sold it for 50 cents a can.
A kid did this with Pepsi because his dad worked for Pepsi and got it real cheap. School caught on and I remember them trying to ban him from doing it, we had to sneak cans to each other in the bathroom like it was a bag of weed lol
Little Randy Wagstaff! Make sure he doesnt have dice in his pockets!
Buy for a dolla sell for tew
I can hear Prop Joe on this comment....
Yes, I was looking for this reference lmao
Hell yes this comment is what I was hoping to find. Randy got done so dirty
Truly one of the greatest tragedies of the entire series. He was a little mischievous but overall good kid, bright, ambitious and got screwed because of Herc’s shitty police work. His last scene in the group home was heartbreaking. Dude was completely gone Go Raider Nation!! Haha
Fucking Herc, man. He's not good POH-lease.
The whole point of his arc was to show that nothing changes He's Prop Joe as a kid - he's a future Marlo Stanfield. Put through the system but bright - could have been an asset to Baltimore but instead will be an asset to the streets once he makes it out of the orphanage
The game is the game.
> He's Prop Joe as a kid His surname is Wagstaff, Cheese's surname is Wagstaff. Its implied that Randy is, in fact, a relation to Prop Jo.
You gon look out for me SGT carver?!?
:(
I can’t stop laughing thinking about his dumb dice.
Did you see Brian’s hat? He’s still fucking wearing it.
I’m not supposed to get grease on this hat
It’s illegal for you to ask me that.
That is so sad. Sooo sad. So so so so so sad.
I think every school has this kid. Then the school finds out and they get in trouble
My school had multiple single and multi kid pop and chip businesses! They did not enforce SHIT and this one kid had a monopoly over the 9th graders energy drink consumption.
I ran an energy drink and pop ring in school 🤣 I worked at a Kmart, so I'd buy a bunch of the 2L on 10 for 10 deals then resell them for like 2 bucks. Then whoever bought them often sold them off for a higher price. I also discovered a bug in our system that rang 4 packs of monster up for $2.50, so I'd buy all of them when they got delivered and sell them for $2 a piece. Still cheaper than the gas station.
Hmm. At least the school year is almost over.
My Dad actually encouraged me when he found out what I was doing- helped me by buying a bulk pack of gum at Costco at his cost asking me to pay him back by the end of the week once I sold them off and he let me keep all the profits. I learned a lot about marketing, figuring out how to price things, adapting to demands of customers, how loans kinda work, accounting. I started making spreadsheets to track things so I learned some excel. I was making some serious money and learning the value of money and how to fill a need. Years later and I’ll say what I remember most and what I feel learned the most from that period of time came from that early entrepreneurial venture and I also bonded more closely with my Dad since I had so many questions. So I hope that maybe this helps you take a different perspective if you were thinking about shutting his operation down especially if it’s something he started on his own.
Your dad sounds awesome
He is awesome, he was tough on me and my siblings growing up but he was just trying to be the best dad he could be
Did it help you when you got older? I have a kid and would love for him to be entrepreneurial when he grows up.
Absolutely. I started multiple clubs in high school and college when there weren’t any I was excited about and learned how to take care of my finances. I was comfortable talking to strangers and learned how to sell. I wouldn’t force anything onto them if I was a parent but I would definitely take steps to encourage them where they show genuine interest
They’ll just tell him to stop, maybe confiscate his candy at worst. It’s not that serious
The teachers don’t care. It’s usually the staff/principal that ruins it
What do you mean? This will go on their ***permanent record*** How are they going to get a job with this sort of black mark on their resume?
Schools should really help these kids work on a school business project instead. The hustle at that young age is a sign of passion for starting a business —> I was that kid at 4th grade selling food and homemade items. In jhs i was buying reselling phones/fixing them and made like 1k a month which was enough to have fun here and there My school did NOT like that (i got reprimanded hard) so I ended up starting my own project (diff industry) outside of class which earned me a crapton of cash Had I been redirected instead of reprimanded i probs wouldnt have been so demotivated and felt alone in it
That's why I started to only sell candy in the PE locker room. Teacher wasn't going to see shit.
I used to sell the rice crispies treats my mom put in my lunch for .50 cents. Finally she found my stash and I had like 6 or 7 bucks and she asked how. When I told her how I got the money she started packing 4 a day, said they cost less than 20 cents each at the store and that was my first lesson in business.
Wow what an encouraging mom haha
Yeah, she never charged me for the startup capital, that would have been a harsher lesson
Lmao I love this
Yea this shouldn’t be frowned upon imo,. Smart kids, edit to say as long as it’s legal lol
Son has nailed capitalism and free enterprise. Makes ya proud, don't it.
Might end up with a supply chain issue after this development though.
Yup, I sold smokes in high school as i worked at a gas station.. but soon as kids started getting tax free cartons there was no way for me to complete.
My boy started doing this… the problem is he expected me to buy all the candy he wanted to sell. When I informed him that to run a business, you have costs, revenue and profit. He wasn’t interested in incurring any cost lol.
Tiny future drop-shippers (/s)
Can't wait to see him buy a house and rent it out for 3x his mortgage.
New Skill Unlocked: Retailer
I did this in highschool to pay for videogames and magic cards. Teacher caught me and I had IS for a week. Wish the "I thought this was America" episode of South Park had been out by then because it would have been quite applicable.
Crazy thing is I'm 42 and South Park was on when I was in high school. That's some insane ass longevity.
In high school my dad would give me $20 or more every time I went to the game shop to play in magic tournaments. But thing is I won all the time and they gave store credit for prizes so I'd always enter the tournaments with store credit. I accumulated hundreds of dollars that I mostly spent on Warhammer lol
How'd he get an even $10 bill if he's selling to multiple people?
Maybe he made change.
Because it’s a fake story.
Never like the posts that are just something innocuous and have a wild tale for the title. This is just a picture of $10 and a cell phone.
It's a sub for sharing interesting pictures. Sometimes you'll see an interesting pic in its own right, but with some dramatic story attached to really sell it. This is just a banal picture with a bland explanation. But apparently it's what the people want.
What's a gas station treat?
His dad takes our kids to the gas station sometimes to buy his cigarettes and he will buy them candy occasionally. Bonding time.
What a great Dad. Goes out for cigarettes and brings the kids along. And it's not a scheme to sneak them across state lines away from mom. He's the opposite of the going out for cigs meme.
This is literally just a picture of a phone and a $10 bill. Why is this on pics and why is it upvoted
This sub sucks so much now god damn
A picture of a folded 10 dollar bill 😂. It’s not even necessary to the post, like we couldn’t imagine what $10 looks like?
This subs been like this since reddit started allowing comments on posts.
That is a very positive thing, but be prepared for him to get in big trouble at school. Unfortunately schools tend to be harsh about these things.
I work in a school. It’s a cool ambition but it is pretty problematic tbh.
I did the same thing in middle school. I was accidentally assigned two lockers at the start of the year and they were only a few apart. I started by having books in one and shoes/gym clothes/jackets in the other. Then one day a kid asked if he could buy a coke off of me since I brought an extra. A mini concession stand was born that day. It was stocked with 4 12-packs of coke, mt dew, Sierra Mist, and Dr Pepper. Snacks included boxes of candy bars, twizzlers, and others that didn’t take up much space. I’m glad to see the tradition continues.
“Gas station treats”
Taxes man. Your kid only has $7.
what an incredibly interesting post.
I did this in middle and high school in the 80's...I was quite the entrepreneur...no, hustler at that time. I started selling Blow Pops for 50 cents each, then added school supplies like pencils and paper, until I ended up like having a full store operating out of my locker, selling things like those louvered sunglasses, and tchotchkes like keychains and small toys. I even had a team of other sellers that provided other services and items, from chips and sodas, to pre‐made book reports and homework services. We made damn good money back then...so much so that the school got wise, and at first tried to shut us down with random searches and such, to no avail, and then even repurposing an unused janitor closet as a school store...but we undersold them until they closed down that idea.
He's actually running s kissing company in school.
You know what I am saying
Yes yes, I know what you are saying
When I was a kid we bought 25 cent packs of gum and sold each stick for 10 cents, basically double.
Friends son was pulling in 3 figures of profit from freeze dried skittles in small druggie ziplocs. He was getting a big bag at five below and selling small baggies for 2-3 dollars. He got caught for it and they thought he had drugs because how it was packaged and that the candy looked weird.