Painting Address Numbers on Curbs
I've seen people do this all day, charge up to $40 per painting and do whole neighborhoods:Re-painting the address numbers on curbs of houses.
I always thought this was a cool and easy way to make some extra money, but I've never given it a try. So in some spare time this week I bought some plastic stencils (About $8) and some black/white outdoor spray paint (About $10) and decided to see how hard it could be.
I then started using tape to seal any loose areas of the stencils together, and I successfully made a semi-neat spray of the numbers. This isn't hard stuff, but it takes a little trial and error testing.
Perhaps in the next few weeks I'll give this a shot. I tried it out on some old curbage at my apartment complex, and it turned out decent....very rough....but nothing a little practice won't clean up.
This would be an awesome way to make a good $100+ a day for a couple of high school kids or Boy Scouts. I think I'd actually like to try it myself though. I haven't had any door-to-door selling experience in over 4 years, and I kind of want to do it again.
It seems everyone nowadays is talking about "Making money doing nothing" .....which is great....but making money from good old manual labor is sometimes very rewarding!
Labels: Events, Money Experiments
posted by Neville @ 1:03 AM
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38 Comments:
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I just can not believe you are a student also.
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This reminds me of a day when I went outside to talk to the guy who painted my curb address. He simply knocked on my door, gave his offer and I accepted. In all honesty, I really did it just so I could pick his brain about his business. It worked. His entire business was inside his backpack! Yup, his planner, his supplies and his receipts. Awesome!
After speaking for about an hour, I learned that this person was an Army Veteran and decided to try this out soon after he got out of the Army as a weekend deal to earn a few bucks. In his first weekend alone, he earned $300+ and these were 5 hour days. He's been doing it ever since. I remember asking him if he made a good living doing it. His response:
"People may laugh or wonder why... once you look at my deposit slips, you'll know why. Let's just say I live very comfortably, I work 3 days a week, no more than 5 hours a day."
Entrepreneurship at it's best!
Instead of having another lazy weekend watching boring old TV, I might just go down to the hardware shop, buying the goods and then selling my service around the neighbourhood.
You might want to do a little "product development" too. Some people who came knocking at my door had "special" reflective paint. That was their USP. The reflective paint was white, so they first painted the kerb with a few layers of the white paint, then the numbers with the black paint.
Thanks Neville!
Maybe you didn't want it painted? And I don't like guilt-trip sales pitches.
And who would pay $40 for that? $10 max.
Dipshit.
-Ro
www.rohailrizvi.com
They are hiring computer geeks again and paying more than $100 a day and that is not even counting the benefits.
How do you have time to run all the other supposed & very secret businesses you are working on? One good biz idea and you will be working 24/7 for a while (at least that has been my experience and everybody else's I know).
I understand your drive to be entrepreneur but so far you are "much ado about nothing". Sorry, Nev you are no longer in college, time to stop playing around and get to it.
Believe it or not I'd like to see you succeed BUT....
They are hiring computer geeks again and paying more than $100 a day and that is not even counting the benefits.
How do you have time to run all the other supposed & very secret businesses you are working on? One good biz idea and you will be working 24/7 for a while (at least that has been my experience and everybody else's I know).
I understand your drive to be entrepreneur but so far you are "much ado about nothing". Sorry, Nev you are no longer in college, time to stop playing around and get to it.
Believe it or not I'd like to see you succeed BUT....
They are hiring computer geeks again and paying more than $100 a day and that is not even counting the benefits.
How do you have time to run all the other supposed & very secret businesses you are working on? One good biz idea and you will be working 24/7 for a while (at least that has been my experience and everybody else's I know).
I understand your drive to be entrepreneur but so far you are "much ado about nothing". Sorry, Nev you are no longer in college, time to stop playing around and get to it.
Believe it or not I'd like to see you succeed BUT....
If you want an even easier way to earn money, you can earn $100 - $300 a day sitting in a car
so what would the pitch sound like when you ring the door bell?
"hello, Jay here from Priority Address Painting --- would you like to have your address painted on the curb so emergency vehicles and such can find your house better"
I wonder what the line was...
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I just came across you site on google and what a great entry.
I don't know if you ever watch MTV but they had an episode where kids were trying to move to New York but they needed the money to get there. They did the same exact thing you're thinking of doing and they made a killing.
I defintely think it's worth a try.
Take care,
Tom
http://www.gotalkmoney.com
I agree manual labor can be satisfying at times but not for long stretches or as a career. If you have other options then take them, which of course you do.
the only problem i run into is cities who think its their job to regulate what i do. the truth is no city is allowed to stop a homeowner from having their address painted, make one get a permit before they go door to door offering this service. this is your right to go deliver your information right to the homeowner, unless they have a no soliciting sign posted. your flyer that you leave offering this service is protected by the first admendment, and free speech. the first admendment was put in place so we can share our idea's with our neighbors without any restraints from any city government, or police. its really funny but people that go door to door are guilty until proven otherwise. what other people need to go register with police departments, or city hall before they go to work. the Ohio supreme court ruled in 2002 http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16431
going door to door is the life blood of any poorly financed group. don't let your city stop you from earning your legal living by putting illegal ordinances in place to stop your right to go door to door. for those of you that don't want someone knocking, simply plce a no soliciting sign up. don't call the police to try to stop someone from earning legal a living most of your neighbors want this service, and they are not there for you, they are there for the people that really want this service.
good luck out there all you curb painters. i hope this will help if your city tries to stop you.
p.s. one city put a warrant out for me for painting curbs, and i beat the case by letting them know the law. it's time for your city to police itself, and remove any illegal ordinance that they have put into place to stop you from earning your honest living.
feel free to email me with any info of a city violating your 1st admendment violations.
Ted@curbpainting.com with curb painting in subject line
He had a great idea (at least I thought so) to show movies at the baseball park and charge for concessions (not movie admission). We live in a small subdivision in Dallas and people go to the neighborhood baseball park when a game is going on even if they don't have children playing. Anyway the city told him he was required to hire 3 city police officers for security and that they couldn't donate their time to his project which would eliminate any money he would make.
This seems like a great idea for kids to make some money too. My son plays football, as I said previously in scouts, add school to the mix and he can't find a job that will work with his schedule.
Curb Painting Business
I wrote about as well, including how to sell the service.
http://pennyroll.com/2009/01/the-address-business/
Since then, i have fathered and raised a 20 yr old daughter and a 4 yr old son as well as purchased a half million dollar home and new truck.
Yes, the American Dream is obtainable if you are willing to Work Smart and sometimes Hard.
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