I obtained a Mew at a tournament back in 2000. Found out how to clone it and sold the clones to school buddies for £2 a pop. Made a good chunk of change that week 😎
That kid has a big future.
Sure that happened
Lord Ketchup
Today on ‘things that never happened’
Sounds like an old school Grange Hill scheme 👍🏽
Cringe
Rookie numbers.
I used sell snacks at school and found the highest profit margin was on Tesco’s donuts. 5packs were 2 for £1 back then. 10p a unit. I sold them for 50p a pop.
Could turn £1 into £5 pounds in a matter of minutes.
After a while of doing this I was making like £20 a day
This is how I was able to afford cigarettes.
I used to make and sell flapjacks at school, at one point was clearing £50 a day before the man shut me down. I was moving weight.
He could charge a premium if it’s no.57
The last time anyone asked me for ID was when I was 14 as I was 6’4 and had some well established stubble. I had quite the little enterprise going where I would buy the drinks for parties of kids older than myself in return for a steep mark up and an invitation. My dad used to be part of this government funded thing where his students could get free condoms, I used to swipe sizeable handful from his stock and sell them at these parties for £5 each, telling anyone who complained that they were very cheap compared to the alternative. Weird thing is I didn’t actually need nor really want the money, I just did it ‘because’.
This is how I became the Sweet Baron of my primary, women money and bonbons. That life’s not for me anymore, but I’ll never forget the power that came with those sticky fingers.
Schools do not charge 20p for ketchup
20p a squirt?
Sounds like my ex wife 😉
That’s some next level entrepreneurship right there.
I cut up some turf and sold it saying it was a new brand of hash from Morocco called frut.
There was a kid in my school who used to get free meals (England) he would get 7-10 items for free and then sell them the next day at school, usually biscuits and crisps. He was literally a chancer at 11 years old, he would take a pack of pens from the library that were brand new and sell them.
He eventually got in trouble for the pencils, but would still crack on with the free meal racket until second year, when he then branched out on selling school patches for your jumper (for some reason you were only cool if you had a patch, then got your mum to iron it on)
I went to one school reunion because it was just a five year reunion. He was there and still as charismatic as ever. At 21 he was running two chocolate pages on FB and had an online store.
Now years later him and his son have a store in one of our malls where we live. It has been open for 8 years now and seems to be doing well.
What is absolutely hilarious is that he said that he got the Patches after deliberately getting detention with his tutor (who had sewing module for technology class)
Born wheeler dealer if I ever knew one 😂
I had a Saturday job at the local auction house when I was about 13/14. I could buy BMX’s with mag wheels for a quid each and sell them for a tenner at school. Once bought a tray of car stereos and got caught with them at school.. teacher thought I’d stolen them! Proudly pulled out my receipt from the auction and my science teacher bought a Ford escort radio off me! Good times. I was a proper Arthur Daley 🙂
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I obtained a Mew at a tournament back in 2000. Found out how to clone it and sold the clones to school buddies for £2 a pop. Made a good chunk of change that week 😎
That kid has a big future.
Sure that happened
Lord Ketchup
Today on ‘things that never happened’
Sounds like an old school Grange Hill scheme 👍🏽
Cringe
Rookie numbers.
I used sell snacks at school and found the highest profit margin was on Tesco’s donuts. 5packs were 2 for £1 back then. 10p a unit. I sold them for 50p a pop.
Could turn £1 into £5 pounds in a matter of minutes.
After a while of doing this I was making like £20 a day
This is how I was able to afford cigarettes.
I used to make and sell flapjacks at school, at one point was clearing £50 a day before the man shut me down. I was moving weight.
He could charge a premium if it’s no.57
The last time anyone asked me for ID was when I was 14 as I was 6’4 and had some well established stubble. I had quite the little enterprise going where I would buy the drinks for parties of kids older than myself in return for a steep mark up and an invitation. My dad used to be part of this government funded thing where his students could get free condoms, I used to swipe sizeable handful from his stock and sell them at these parties for £5 each, telling anyone who complained that they were very cheap compared to the alternative. Weird thing is I didn’t actually need nor really want the money, I just did it ‘because’.
This is how I became the Sweet Baron of my primary, women money and bonbons. That life’s not for me anymore, but I’ll never forget the power that came with those sticky fingers.
Schools do not charge 20p for ketchup
20p a squirt?
Sounds like my ex wife 😉
That’s some next level entrepreneurship right there.
I cut up some turf and sold it saying it was a new brand of hash from Morocco called frut.
There was a kid in my school who used to get free meals (England) he would get 7-10 items for free and then sell them the next day at school, usually biscuits and crisps. He was literally a chancer at 11 years old, he would take a pack of pens from the library that were brand new and sell them.
He eventually got in trouble for the pencils, but would still crack on with the free meal racket until second year, when he then branched out on selling school patches for your jumper (for some reason you were only cool if you had a patch, then got your mum to iron it on)
I went to one school reunion because it was just a five year reunion. He was there and still as charismatic as ever. At 21 he was running two chocolate pages on FB and had an online store.
Now years later him and his son have a store in one of our malls where we live. It has been open for 8 years now and seems to be doing well.
What is absolutely hilarious is that he said that he got the Patches after deliberately getting detention with his tutor (who had sewing module for technology class)
Born wheeler dealer if I ever knew one 😂
I had a Saturday job at the local auction house when I was about 13/14. I could buy BMX’s with mag wheels for a quid each and sell them for a tenner at school. Once bought a tray of car stereos and got caught with them at school.. teacher thought I’d stolen them! Proudly pulled out my receipt from the auction and my science teacher bought a Ford escort radio off me! Good times. I was a proper Arthur Daley 🙂
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