The Side Hustle Show 587: 10 Creative Side Hustles that Make Real Money - Part 6
Nov 23, 2023
This podcast highlights 10 creative side hustles that make real money, including barbeque cleaning, selling plant clippings, comfrey plants, gourmet mushrooms, engraved pet memorials, renting trendy items, champagne walls, and selling stock voting rights.
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Door‑to‑Door Grill Cleaning Pays Teens
- Sixteen-year-old Jacob Shydell earned $12k in year one and $16k in year two running a door-to-door barbecue cleaning service.
- He persevered through many rejections and expanded into pressure washing and car detailing after customer requests.
Selling Plant Cuttings Became Passive Income
- Brian Alexovich built a comfrey-root cutting business selling on Etsy, Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist and made a couple hundred dollars per week.
- He limited harvesting to Sundays and shipping Mondays to cap time invested and then licensed others to fulfill orders when he went full‑time RVing.
Basement Mushroom Farming Scales Quickly
- Doug Bronson grew mushrooms in his basement and scaled to gross about $2,000 a week wholesale with around $500–$1,000 production cost.
- He invested heavily in equipment (~$30k) but says a basic startup could be closer to $5k.