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I sold lollipops in Grade 4, what did you sell?

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I traded rare pokémon (shinies, legendaries, etc.) when I was like ten. Although, nobody had any money back then, so I usually just accepted IOUs.
 
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When used to be a merchant in an MMORPG and made a lot of ingame-money through it. I was basically an in-game millionaire. When I quit, I sold everything for a couple of hundred bucks. Not worth it though due to electricity bill(I used a high-end PC back then)
 
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I was herding sheep since I was 8 years old, mostly by myself accompanied by dogs. I would start at 6am, would walk sheep on the hills, creating round trip, and arriving at home by 6pm. Some of the sheep would be skinned for food, but skin and fur was used for making clothes and hats (papakha) and I was selling those hats on the road, $5 each. Sometimes I was bartering and exchanging those hats for watermelon, though in hindsight I was getting a shitty deal.
 

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I would read books and take a test the school offered. "AR reading program". You'd take a quick quiz and you'd get points. I'd login to the other kids accounts and take their tests for them and get free lunches or a monster energy drink that my parents wouldn't let me have. What a F*cking nerd. I should've just dropped out.
 
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I tried selling HexBugs to raise money for my highschool's robotics team (we could buy them for a slight discount through the company that organized the robotics league).

I ended the semester with most of my original inventory lol.
 

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I was an arms dealer.

We used to buy these things called 'witch-howls' - a pretty harmless type of firework that just flew around on the ground and made a lot annoying noise. Not sure what's the correct word for that in English.

Somehow we found out that by biting and stomping on them and then mixing them with other brands we could actually make them explode instead.

So we bought them in packages of hundreds and sold them to the local upcoming gangsters in our hood. Not my proudest business venture. My thoughts are still with all the mailboxes that lost their lives from November to January a couple of years in a row.

Maybe I should have stayed in the arms industry. Looks like they are making a ton of money these days.
 

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I also sold random drawings, homemade Pokemon cards and fake Evisu jeans imported from China. Seems like I was a much more successful entrepreneur back then than I am now.
 
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A friend and I would stop on the way to school that sold candy bars 3/$1 and then sell them at school for $1 a piece. Small time, but when you're in elementary school it's something.
 

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In the 2nd or 3rd grade I bought a bunch of glue-on nails and manicured the F out of that place. The girls were happy. My margins were great.

But then those slimy government shills (teachers) took my merchandise and banned my operation.

Since then I've never stepped my foot into the beauty industry ever again. But my dream lives on.
 

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One day in kindergarten, after noticing that all of the kids would try to climb the trees in the yard to pick green plums, I decided to collect ALL of the green plums with the help of my hands and a plastic bag.

So off I went, climbing over 20+ trees in the span of 4 hours, and ending up with an enormous bag (seriously, 6-year-old me had a very hard time carrying it) filled to the brim with unripe plums for me to endlessly feast on...

Or so I thought.

Obviously, the kids had no money in kindergarten, and nor did I. However, I decided that I should be the ONLY one to hold control over the green plum supply and allowed access only to a few other kids I liked (and those that kindly asked).

Once the teachers found out, however, I got scolded and told that I shouldn't be greedy. Then, my gigantic bag of delicious green plums was taken away from me and handed out in equal portions to all of the 40+ kids that did absolutely nothing except make stupid sandcastles and smell their fingers after sticking them into all kinds of crevices.

I was furious. And, to this day, I still believe this was the moment that made me hate socialism, lol.
 
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Well I sold the most normal thing ever. Cookies and cakes. I bought them and sold them in the schoolyard to the hungry children who didn't care if they're paying more than necessary lol.
 

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When I was growing up I always had a little passion for selling things. Whether it was selling lollipops on the school bus home or selling collectible toys to other kids in my class.

It got me thinking… who else on the forum had a passion for selling things in school and what did you sell?

Keen to hear from everyone :)
Sold peanut brittle in cub scouts, Easter candy in elementary one of my poems in high school a game guide that I created that clearly was crap but I had a good hook also in high school and was top seller in the high school newspaper advertising department. How I went from there to not meeting sale quotas for vector marketing or Direct TV and had to quit both those companies to me is still a mystery.
 

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When I was growing up I always had a little passion for selling things. Whether it was selling lollipops on the school bus home or selling collectible toys to other kids in my class.

It got me thinking… who else on the forum had a passion for selling things in school and what did you sell?

Keen to hear from everyone :)
Books (printed).
 
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I bought blank skateboard decks for $20 a pop on eBay and sell them for $40 in high school. I wish I would have stuck with the entrepreneur path instead of going to college tbh.
 

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Bought packs of gum at a gas station across the street from my middle school for $1 on average. Sold each piece for $0.25, about 10-15 pieces in a pack depending on brand.
 

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