Be a balloon person

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Sometimes you just have to think "outside the box"

You have all seen street buskers. They play their hearts out in the hope that someone will give them some spare change.

Then along comes the "balloon man" who makes funny hats or animals out of those long thin balloons.
He charges two or three dollars and has a line of kids waiting to pay.
Or he is holding a big bunch of helium filled balloons. Same story.

The business takes almost no investment, very little skill and if you happen to be on welfare then who is to know?

Other "businesses" might be:

Casting horoscopes using a portable computer and printer.
Ditto numerology.
Palm reading.
Face painting.

I've dressed as a banana and waved a sign on a hot and humid Florida street corner to get people to call a number for a weight loss clinic. Humiliating... but it paid cash which paid bills. I'd dress as a banana every day if it stopped my kids from being homeless or going hungry. Hell, if I wasn't married, I'd even consider dancing again. You do what you gotta do.

If you're going to be a street performer, make sure your local municipality has not established an ordinance against them.