But what if you didn’t Save the Receipt?
The scrap yard weighs your truck when it’s fully loaded and a large magnetic crane lifts the scrap from the back. Selling cold bottled water on a hot day is an easy way to make some quick cash, but be forewarned, depending on the laws where you live, it might not be a legal one. True, most U.S. cities have laws on the books that make it less than totally legal to sell bottled water without a vendor’s permit and health department license.
A single hand of blackjack, even when played by an amateur, has around a 50/50 chance of winning. The good news is that you don’t have to stand outside Starbucks scalping your gift card. Instead of having 20 bucks, you’re stuck with a useless piece of plastic, unless you can find someone who will buy it from you. This is an interesting one. Let’s say an uncle sends you a $20 Starbucks gift card for your birthday, but you can’t stand the taste of coffee or the sound of “adult alternative” music. If by some miracle you win big on the first try, fight every urge to “double your money” and walk away a winner.
To sell your hair for hundreds or even thousands of dollars, you will need a lot of it, preferably longer than 10 inches (25 centimeters). When I was fresh out of college living in my first apartment, we used to have a change jar, a big glass beer stein that one of my roommates had likely stolen from a fraternity house. For a look at what sells, check out the live hair auctions on Online Hair Affair.
The longer you gamble, the lower your chance of walking away a winner. Professional gamblers know that the best tactic for making fast money at the casino is the big, one-time bet. Slot machines have the absolute worst odds with average losses as high as 35 percent over the long run. Statisticians have shown, for example, that if you spend all day playing roulette, you will walk away with an average of 5.26 percent less money than when you started.
