30 Times People Made Money So Easily, They Just Had To Share The Stories Online

This is the most wholesome s**t I’ve ever read

The Godfather, family edition

Good luck on your journey, good things come to good people

Damn that's wholesome!!! :O

I served as a paid Well Woman patient since 2001 where I would get paid for helping med students give pelvic and breast exams.

Grandmothers are the best

Love you, grandma. 😘

This Oma approves!

Aww :)

Lovely but omg that was hard to understand

G R A M M A R

Random capitalization and lack of adequate punctuation means I’m not reading it.

TLDR: Babysat for a rich family and the parents came home intoxicated and tried to pay OP $1,000+ for 8 hours, but OP tried to say no. Parents insisted so OP contacted them the next day to tell them, thinking that they would realize their “mistake”. Parents told OP to just go ahead and babysit the next weekend to make up the difference. OP babysat for 20 minutes before parents came back and told OP they were all good for the session. OP goes out to car to find $5,000 more, with a thank you note from the parents for not taking advantage of them while they were drunk.

Naturally occurring honesty and kindness really shocks and surprises people these days. Sad because that should be the norm, not the anomaly.

I worked for Nokia, when we were acquired by Microsoft. There was a guy there who hated is manager, but had only been there two weeks, and put in his two week notice. The director told him to "give it a week", so the guy took back his resignation to wait a week. At the end of the next week, he got laid off, with a three month severance package. Actually the entire building got laid off, and our severance packages were pegged to how many years we had been there, but the minimum was 3 months. So the dude had to put up with 3 weeks of a bad boss, but wound up with a paycheck for 3 months of pay, and he was going to quit anyways. The directory was a decent guy. I ended up working for him again a few years later.

That's wild

That's a pretty high bonus :)

They set the rules; you just reaped the benefits. More power to you.

'Have you tried to turn it off and on again?' "Can't find the off button"

Now I know why they ask „have you tried turning it on?“

In the future when he is told to turn it off and turn it back on he will know how to do it.

That's very unusual though (and probably happened a long time ago); nowadays companies do something called "buyout" where actors in TV commercials get a fixed fee at the time of filming to cover usage rights in perpetuity, rather than residuals.

The sun will always shine, the birds will always sing! As long as there is Coke, there’s always the real thing! Coca Cola classic is always the one! Whenever there is fun there’s always Coca Cola!

I need this job. I offer my body for the sake of science!

Lucky you. I did a sleep study (for sleep apnea) and it COST about $1200. Insurance paid for it but still..

If this was a regular job, I'd be a CEO by now.

Wow!!!

We used to be able to do that too at Nokia. We could take any parts we wanted, but we couldn't take the cases. I started building computers that I donated to a service for low income families. I'd buy a used case for like $20. Take the parts from scrapped machines, and build them into the cases. The only tricky part was the motherboards, because our boards were designed to fit into custom cases, so I would have to jerry-rig the boards a bit. But it felt good to do something good with stuff that we were just going to throw away. I did also build myself a file-server with a 5 TB RAID array. 12 years ago, 5 TB was huge. I would copy the DVDs I got from Netflix (remember when they did that?) onto the my server to watch them whenever I wanted.

Wow!!!

I used to go to local colleges at the end of each semester and collect the books that the professors and students left in the lounge bookshelves. The teacher editions with answers got a premium on ebay.

When I was in high school and university, Amazon (when they were still just books) ran a site called half(dot)com where you could buy and sell used books (including textbooks) - to list you just had to type in the ISBN # of the book, and its condition, and it'd fill in all the details/pictures. I bought all my textbooks for both HS and uni, used, even if they were older than current "editions" (new editions were generally just printed to fix typos and MAYBE add a new page or two, if that, mostly just to make $$$) there for huge discounts and almost always (maybe always?) relisted them for the same or more than I paid when finished with them!

At my sons college, at the end of the year they give their books to the next year’s cohort to reuse.

Score. And also I like to see things reused instead of landfill.

My friends got $13,000 for allowing an international coffee company to film TV commercials in their kitchen for 2 days.

How unibombers get the trucks they use. "We R a film crew!" yeah, that's the ticket.

What if those were a bunch of criminals who wanted a truck for smthng else...? I hope you at least signed some kind of contract

We’re there traces of a white powder in the back ?

These are no bookmarks. My MIL does this to hide cash in her house from burglars. In photo albums and behind framed photos as well. I'm sure we won't be able to find it all, when the day comes that we have to clear her house after she dies.

I found a genuine Louis Vuitton purse for thirty dollars and sold it for eight hundred on Ebay.

I found some cash in a sideway near my home. Christmas was good that year.

I found a $20 bill in a wallet at the Salvation Army, felt the temptation, conquered it. Salvation Army proceeds go to the food bank, and they needed the $20 more than I did.

Those aren't bookmarks. Depression babies never got over their mistrust of banks and they know junkies never check books so that's where they hide their cash. When granny dies the kids never go through the stuff, they just load it all up and take it to goodwill.

My father won $100 on a scratch off and was so excited he neglected to pay attention to how fast he was driving and got a ticket that resulted in a $100 fine.