Back in middle school, I sold fighting game movelists. Mortal Kombat II and 3 were all the rage, followed by Tekken 1.

Back in high school, a friend of mine sold homemade lollipops that were basically Jolly Ranchers at 4x the size. A buck each. He made an absolute *killing* off em. Some days he straight up sold out for the day. He and I were cool so on days I didn't have money on me, he'd let me pay him back next time. I _always_ made sure to pay him back, even if it was with loose change, in order to honor the deal. Eventually the principal 'shut down' his business (party pooper, there was hardly anything else edible at school to begin with), but that didn't discourage him from still selling a little longer. Hope you're doing well these days, Emmett. You're a real one.

At my Highschool during the end of HG/SS Black and White and I believe black and white 2, I was one of the only people who had and was willing to use a DS Action Replay for other people, So I ended up selling people entire teams of pokemon for like lunch money and favors and shit. I was a One Man Team Rocket/Giovanni lmfao. This ran for atleast 3 years.

@josepherhardt164

5 ай бұрын

I didn't get half of what you said yet still upvoted you. :)

@RobGradyVO

5 ай бұрын

@@josepherhardt164Much appreciated lmfaoo

Public elementary school (about 8 years old): I started the "rock digging club" which was a bunch of us digging in one area of the playground that had some neat rocks. Eventually the teachers figured out that we were digging holes in the playground and told us to stop. I never managed to dig out that one rock shaped like a keyhole. Private elementary school (about 10 years old): Pencil grips. Just little tubes of translucent, maybe glittery silicone. There was a "school store" where we could turn in fake money earned from doing chores around the classroom or something and they almost never had pencil grips because for some reason they were really cheap at store price. Somehow I don't think it ever went too far but I remember thinking pencil grips were really valuable. Also at the private school: Gum. My first year at the school we could keep packs of gum in our cubbies and get some to chew throughout the day. I think it stopped when lower elementary and upper elementary merged into one class though (it was a small school). Upper elementary was 3rd-6th grade (8yo-12yo), lower was kindergarten-2nd grade(5-8yo), so I guess the gum either was a choking hazard or wasn't thrown in the trash and caused some sort of problem.

TL:DR-I sold some sand/dirt from Baja Peninsula, Mexico labeled ‘Baja 1000 Earth”. During winter break of 1991, my dad rented a car and we drove all the way down the Baja peninsula until we reached Cabo San Lucas where we fished for a couple of days and then flew back to the states. This was way before the TSA so I was able to bring back some sand/dirt. Since we HAD stopped at a couple of racing points, I figure I could called it ‘Baja 1000 Earth’ and I sold half handfuls of it for .50 cents. I lived in a podunk town full of racing enthusiasts and their kids so I sold out of the roughly 2 pounds right away. I was able to combine that money with some savings I had and bought an SNES.

A guy told me that his pastor used to sell consetions for ball games out of his school locker. And he did so good that the school told him to stop because no one was buying from the consetion stand anymore. He made a few thousand dollars off of it. This was in the late 60s. Imagine how much that's all worth in today's money.

OMG! I heard someone mention they sold cinnamon toothpicks that they made at home! I did that too in middle school! Then some goodie two-shoes ratted me out and I got called to the principals office in the middle of class and that was that. It was harmless, so I wasn't sure why anyone cared. I asked the principal why it was wrong when there was no rule written anywhere that this wasn't allowed. After a good 45 - 60 second period of silence he finally stammered that it was "distracting to class". Really? Because nobody even knew it was happening for nearly a month. So, if it was so distracting, why did it go unnoticed for so long? He couldn't answer that either. Just confiscated my supply and sent me back to class--unpunished. Probably because he felt stupid. Never did find out who told on me, but everyone was pissed about it.

Not in school but during 3 day survival trip in school we were staying on a farm in a middle of nowhere. We didn't know beforehand that there wouldn't be any shops. We had 3 (small) meals per day and no snacks. We would trade candy, fizzy drinks or others. Anything that people brought from home and haven't already ate. Also there was almost no phone reception. I had a magazine about computer games with me, it was circling around the group all 3 days.

In 4th grade, we tried to sell bags of seed pods to the little kids for $0.10 each

Not exactly the same thing. I was/am the creepy trench coat kid. An honor student accidentally brought a gun with an open box of ammo to school. He went white as a ghost. I held on to it for him the whole day. Yup. The unhinged, creepy trench coat kid was armed all day at school. After, I got home, got a snack and took off to his house across town. I knocked on his door. His old man greeted me. I handed him a brown paper bag and told him "Tell your boy to be more careful when he's packing his bag. He's gunna be someone. This woulda ruined him. Nobody woulda been surprised if it was me." He said people were wrong about me and thanked me.

What are ya' buyin'

In HS,my friend would buy a 6 pack of cinnamon buns from the Cinnabon at our local mall and sell them individually at school for like $3 each lmao

the thumbnail reminds me of Hustler Kid from Disney's Recess

@silverhawk8699

5 ай бұрын

Ah Recess, good times. Hustler Kid has everything you need, for a price of course😎 loved that he had a heart and would refuse selling things that could get other kids in deep trouble

I remember the soul contract thing happaning at my school as well. Only from what i remember only one guy was doing it. Except he didn't give money, instead he would do the soul contract thing for asking anything from him. Gum? Soul contract. Notes? Soul contract. I remember a teacher talking to him but i can't remember what the conversation was. Idk if he just stopped or if people just stopped talking to him because of it.

BOTTLECAPS FOR LITTLE TIMMY!

0:33 OMG, I never considered that a money-making opportunity. I'd occasionally forge my mom's signature on inconsequential stuff, but day-amm! Not seen: Chocolate Necco wafers (before you could get them in a roll). You'd save those up and sell a roll of chocos for a premium price ($2, can't remember?).

8:34 Bottlecaps, stage 4 of the madness; war, war never changes.

One of my old English teachers in high school told my class about a former student who got high sniffing glue.

I wish I were half as clever as these kids...

Idk why this is confusing to me but why would someone need another person to forge an apology letter to their parent? Am I just being dumb???? hahaha

I don't know of any from my schools lol