It might sound like the ultimate shit post, but we’ve found four examples of how money has literally been made from shit.
How money can be made from shit
Tag: hustling
Hustling is becoming a way of life for an increasing number of people, but no matter how creative your imagination you cannot hustle your way to a free lunch.
What’s driving the rising popularity of metal detecting?
What’s driving the rise in popularity of metal detecting, and how likely is an amateur detectorist to be doing a gold dance after just a few sweeps of the coil?
Can you get paid to do nothing?
From Bullshit Jobs to Japan’s Rental-do-nothing-man we look at jobs that promise to pay you to do nothing. Can you get wealthy without lifting a finger?
What was a Victorian Pure Finder?
What was a Victorian Pure Finder? Believe it or not, Pure Finders made a living by collecting dog poo and selling it to the tanning industry.
How Victorian sewer hunters scavenged treasure from beneath London
Hold your nose, put down your sandwich and meet an army of Sewer Hunters dredging the drains of Victorian-era London for treasure.
How a sewer hunter broke into the Bank of England vaults
In 1836, the Bank of England’s Directors received a taunting letter claiming access to its vaults. The events that followed, worthy of a Netflix documentary, involved a mysterious trunk and a trail leading through the bowels of London to an illiterate sewer hunter who might be the unsung OG of white hat hacking.
How Stefan Mandel took on the lotteries & won
Read the amazing story of Stefan Mandel, a Romanian economist who used elementary maths to win 14 lotteries worldwide.
How Michael Larson hustled Press Your Luck
Read the story of how Michael Larson, an ice cream van driver hustled his way to the biggest win in game show history.
Titanic Thompson – Hustler, gambler, killer
Titanic Thompson, the man who’d bet on anything, is one of America’s greatest hustlers. A pro-level golfer, he preferred gambling, staging bizarre proposition bets, winning and losing millions; he died penniless, leaving five dead men in his wake.