1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (88 page)

543 START A DEATH POOL.
Amy Winehouse. Your grandmother. Those guys from
Jackass.
Odds are, these people are not going to be around much longer. Why not work through your grief and make some money? Start an online death pool and allow users to place bets on the next person to kick the bucket. Keep a percentage of the profit, and get ready for the corpses to start piling up.

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544 START AN OSCAR POOL.
It's March Madness for gays. The easy part about this pool is that no one actually sees the crap that gets nominated for awards anymore since most of the movies are boring and, well, foreign. Find the list of this year's nominees at
OSCAR.com
and start a pool, being sure to keep a cut for you.

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545 BUY SCRATCH TICKETS.
If you can't beat the old lady holding up the line at 7-11, you may as well join her. Sure, your odds of winning are pretty slim, but all it takes is one jackpot to make all that scratching well worth your time.

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546 SELL FREE SAMPLES.
Devote an afternoon to cruising the mall for free samples. The jackpot is usually the cosmetic section — those women have fragrances, cosmetics, and hair products they give away in hopes that you'll fall in love with the product. Instead, sell them for cash. eBay is your best bet here, but don't get caught. The samples usually come with the instructions that they're not intended for resale. But you always were a rebel, weren't you?

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547 SELL COUPONS.
Where's the hustle in hocking cut-outs from paper inserts? Believe us, to make this worth it, you better have the kind of hustle that talks a starving dog out of his bone and the kind that gets things done fast. If clipping and posting your findings is taking you forever, don't bother. However, if you can make the rate work with the return, try it out.

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548 BECOME A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER.
Al Franken made his
Saturday Night Live
character, Stuart Smalley, famous for his tagline, “I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.” And there you have the gist of motivational speaking. If a room full of losers can be fooled into thinking they're not, just because you told them so, they deserve to get hustled.

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