When it comes to making money, get rich schemes mostly turn out to be scams that only make the person selling the idea rich. But every once in a while, someone gets lucky and strikes it rich with something unexpected. A Reddit post has people sharing those by asking, “What’s the most ridiculously absurd way you’ve seen someone get rich in no time?”
Some of them are almost unbelievable and these are the most surprising:
- “My cousin recorded the audio of a fan for 8 hours about a decade ago and now has north of a billion ‘white noise’ YouTube views.”
- “My uncle invented micro machines. Little toy cars in the early 90’s.”
- “Friend of mine started selling her socks after wearing them at her retail job. She started making $7k a month just from that alone.”
- “My brother's friend worked minimum wage jobs. Then he and his wife started buying lube in large quantities from overseas and repackaging it in much smaller quantities in their garage and reselling it on Amazon. Really just classic middleman stuff, but they made SO MUCH money that they quit their day jobs almost immediately and haven't looked back.”
- “Forgot that he mined a dozen or so Bitcoins over a decade ago on his spare notebook. Remembered three years ago that he still had that laptop in a drawer.”
- “A friend of mine once struck it rich overnight by selling ‘designer’ pet rocks online, complete with little outfits and backstories. It was a wild idea that somehow took off!”
- “Do y’all remember silly bandz? My friend’s dad came up with rainbow silly bandz and became a millionaire from that.”
- “A classmate in high school climbed and subsequently fell off an electric transmission tower and got hurt pretty bad. Even though he was an idiot, because there were no warning signs or a fence around it he received a bunch of money as a legal settlement from the electric company”
- “My uncle's company made wood shaving tools. One day Martha Stewart used one to grate cheese on her tv show. Thus the Microplane was born.”
Source: Reddit