What Was The Weirdest Black Market In Your School?
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In my school, we would use acorns as a currency and we would mark tree stumps with the blackberries that grew as paint to make shops. People bought stuff like blackberries, amber and things found on the ground. I mainly sold things found on the ground. People stole my acorns so I started to create an underground stash.
This is actually crazy cuz i started an acorn economy at my sleepaway camp
When I was in primary, I would buy foreign coins of students for around £3-£7 as I was a coin collector, I would do this at the start of the day or at break/recess. I never got caught and still try to find chances to do so.
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@@TheRepublicOfSavadia im brazilian
@@IceBirdCajzhonestly I’m American but I don’t mind British
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0:40 drug* 1:51 drug* 4:40 drug* 16:03 drugs* 16:07 drug* (just saying it for you)
Thank you for uncensoring the unnecessary censorship!
@@CT-9904-Crosshair no problem
When I was in 5th grade, half the day was in French and half was in English. One day, the French teacher gave everyone 5 tickets, and if we heard somebody speaking English, we could yell at them “Donne-moi un billet!” (Give me a ticket!) and they would have to give up a ticket. At the end, everyone could get prizes, and although everybody got a prize in the end, the person with the most tickets got to pick first, and the people with the least tickets got the bottom of the barrel stuff. They were decent prizes too, there was a basketball and a soccer ball. There was this one girl who owed everyone at least 10-20 tickets but she could never pay them back.
In 2-4th grade, we had a "game" where you claimed a section of land and fought others. We had wars, diplomacy, elected leaders, etc. It was organized nations lol
This has inspired me to make my own metal currency called The Orati.
The Orati would come in flat coins made of either Copper or Aluminum, with the value pertaining to their weight (Which are between least 1/2 Oz and 2 Oz in weight) and metal (Copper bring worth 10x Aluminum).
These coins would have no etchings or designs on either side as their value is purely materialistic.
Me and my friend Noah make these “Bob books” and sell them for 2$. We made coupons too! Some teachers get free books, and Noah is printing more of them so we can make enough money to get vr headsets!
Went to elementary school in Lafayette IN. The local General Foods plant was developing and testing what would become "Pop Rocks". My sister acquired a giant baggie of the stuff. She cut the supply into little baggies and was selling them like drugs. The stuff sold like hotcakes. It was unheard of at the time.
Our elementary did a lot of BoxTop collection/charity events.
BoxTops are on various boxed food items. They look like a little badge, or a single lip of the top of a box. Tited: BoxTop$ for Education
J. Storm ALWAYS won. I never really knew why, and I was never butt-hurt about it.
J. Storm winning every time became increasingly obvious as we entered 3-4 grade, and once again, the yearly BoxTop collection event won with J. Storm raking in an unbelievable amount comparable to ANYONE else. (Think 10-15 to any other kid's 1)
I personally assumed it was because J. Storm's family were rich and/or had a LARGE amount of mouths to feed.
As an adult, I assume she worked at a recycling center and hiked all of the BoxTops from that job to support our school, which did experience budget cuts, coining Late-Start-Wednesdays some years
Once, i had a friend who was really into arts and crafts. In about the beginning of 2nd semester in 6th grade, they became popular for their paper claws they made for people. It was a couple bucks for a hand or a food item like an apple, or, in my other friends case, a hot dog.
In my high school, there was a black market of handheld video game consoles. Let me explain. Since cell phones did not exist yet, it was the only way to play videogames on the go. The problem is that they were pretty expensive, so not many people had them, and after a while, some people started to pay others that had a handheld console to rent them (and a charger + some games) for various ammounts of time. I still remember to this day how my friend payed one of the "vendors" 20$ to have access to a DS for a week.
I can't imagine doing that and then the kid who bought it moves the next day 🤣
@@That_one_weirdasf_dude Im pretty sure that happened a few times (they "lost" it) but yeah...
When I was in junior high, the bookstore in the school sold a lot of candy. A friend of mine found out that he could undercut their prices and make profits still so he would buy a ton of boxes in bulk at Sam's club and then resell it in school. Eventually the school found out he was doing this and put a stop to it. He even had me and two other friends of ours working for him and we would get a percentage of what we sold. It wasn't much but on a good day, I could easily make almost $5. But my friend was probably making about $30 a day in profit.
early '70's we'd soak toothpicks in a cinnamon liquid, they were the coin of the realm in elementary school
The bottle caps remind me of fallout
The kids in my grade are selling bracelets for 5 dollars. They always ask. One even had a mini notebook
One year, it was a fad to eat dogfood as your lunch snack, so kids were making sure they had a bag in their lunchbox. I tried it and that was so weird. I dont think there were any sharks, but this fad hit like a splat, effecting most anyone in my age group.
Not exactly a black market but kids would do anything caramel apple lollipops. In 8th grade a teacher gave some out as a prize and sold them for school currency for a while. I was one of the rare ones who didn’t like them so I stocked up on them and invested in the caramel apple lollipop stock market. I bought 2 for 3 school dollars and waited for the teachers to run out, then sold them 1 for 2 school dollars and at one point 1 for 3 school dollars. I made lots of school dollars to enter into raffles.
5:30 the bottlecaps could be a fallout reference
There was a thing in my middle school where you there were these tiny plastic ducks that people hid of sold it was pretty weird
I actually used to sell origami creations at recess. Had a group of about 5-6 kids helping me build and distribute them.
I don't get where people get such time in schools bruh. in my HS there's barely time for anything, and going from one class to another can easily take most of the 3-4 minutes you're given between each period.
My school sooner ol later banned any mainstream stuff like those Pokemon taso chips (or whatever they're called), beyblades, fingerboards etc. I made replicas for all of that stuff and made a lot of cash of that.
Most dumb one - part of school yard got covered with a layer of sand/very small pebbles. In them were some small quartz pieces, 2-4mm in diameter. I searched and collected them for my random DIY stuff. Soon some classmates joined and I offered some cookies or smth if they bring me good ones. Soon after it was a flock of kids in the yard pecking the field and trading those stones for everything every damn break for abt a year... :D Matchbox of fine ones in pocket was a common thing :D
Some lads selling nfts before it sucked 💀
When I was in 4th grade I sold candy for quarters. It only lasted a week or two before I discontinued it mainly because I was barely getting any sales. Then I joined a Black market that the girls hosted and I was one of the two guys. I made coupons for discounts on slime and bracelets. Then after that I started making employee cards and drawings that you could buy for money or trade with Pokémon cards. The drawings eventually went through the school as trading cards and once they got hands on a card they could print it however many times they wanted to.
Put an orange in a sock and threaten people for protection money. When they ask what they're being protected from, swing the sock'd orange menacingly.
5:20 they were preparing for the appocalypse
I started a “black market” in my class because during lunch I would make paper airplanes and they flew amazing and people had to bring paper then I would fold it and I made all sorts of jets and I didn’t care that much because I liked it anyway
16:50 once i smaller a glue and said it smelled like chips (corn chips) and the kid at my table said don’t eat it
@@oliveryap2845 yeah I smeared it everywhere and made it smaller
Unrelated but one time in 4th grade I was a part of what was essentially a snow fort gang war where us and some other kids (Most of them the grade below) would take turns raiding each others fort, making repairs and such during recess. Once we even trid matching our boot marks to a kicked spot on one of the absolute smow boulders used to make the forts. Eventually the school got sick of it and tore them down, but for one day before they successfully tore it down the snow plow broke from how densely we made the forts.
And before you ask, we made our fort by rolling up snow (Packing it in to make it extra dense), stacking them atop each other, and filled the gaps with snow that we packed in tightly so that the the balls of snow were secured.
The other side caught on quickly at which point the arms race truly kicked off.
The battles we did were done with a combination of snowballs, physical battle, and damaging enemy forts.
i sold weed out of my college dorm before it was legal
My school did the same thing for wolf bucks but it was tiger tips they were blue and only worth 1 dollars
I went to an intermediate school for 5th and 6th grade and they had something similar. Called Bobcat bucks we got them from good behavior in school and like towards the end of each quarter. On the stage in the school cafeteria (school cafeteria also served as the auditorium) those that had money could go up on stage and buy things they were selling. Mainly things like pencils and erasers but there was a few cool things as well like magic 8 ball and even a rubrics cube. Surprisingly there was no black market for these Bobcat Bucks. At least to my knowledge
At my school, there was a program where u collect tickets for being good and u can redeem it for prizes, that's not important tho. There was a contest where if u redeem the most tickets by the end of year, u get no homework and A+ on everything. Everyone went crazy. People were trying everything.Someone sold their project for 10 tickets. that is also not important. It happened at detention. I had detention for cussing at the teacher. When it was over, someone went left and went to the bathroom. I also had to go, when i was done he called me and he was at the printer room, there were the tickets. He got a sheet of tickets without getting caught. He then started to make copy of the sheet and he was selling it for real money. He earned $215. The school found out and canceled the contest and the ticket program. After that no one was happy and no one was bothered to help anyone. One kid had to be sent to the nurse office bc no one helped him when he had a broken leg and he had to move while he carryed his lunch, he fell.
That’s very similar ti a diary of a wimpy kid chapter……
@@Pumpkinandpompon Diary of a wimpy kid was famous at my school so that what got the school do it it. So if it sounds like it,it bc it is
Oh yeah my school did something with it too but anyways have a good day/night@@user-ig6qf5dq1e
3:19 i think i herd that before on dark dom
When I was in second grade I was known as the "smart kid" and I had a little business where I would charge 25 cents for a piece of paper with my signature and I sold them in a limited number and as I was in second grade nobody copied them but I would give them a pencil or an eraser for about 5 papers
Cinnamon toothpicks, handmade cinnamon toothpicks. Don't ask me why
the first story lol
The bottle cap One the teacher probably did it 😂
Story 13: someone basically predicts NFTS
i literally did the mud thing we would build stuff with it
Gum, I didn’t sell it but my friend Jim [not his real name] sold gum, you got one free but after that it was 50 pence and he made [according to him] 60 pounds and I bought like five pieces after the free one. It was just normal gum but hit different in class, he still does it. Edit 1: he put a new flavour ima buy it 🤑, flavour is strawberry lemon btw heard it’s really nice, he almost got caught because my other friend Tim [also not his name] was chewing in class and the strict ahh teacher almost caught him because he was chewing, again still does it. Edit idk:the gum is crazy good with gum combos, which are just two flavours or more of gum and you eat them at once and they fire 🔥 so you could say that the gum market is increasing in value but the pencil market is crazy crashing so people made a trade for gum and pencils, and Jim made some gum himself and it’s really good it’s half strawberry half cherry. Will update soon btw
In edit 1 the gum was made from then on, idk what I was saying
In edit 1 the gum was made from then on, idk what I was saying
When I was in seventh grade, there was a ticket system, there were four classes and each had a different color of ticket, my 3 hour was history, and the teacher started to charge tickets to get things like your binder or pencil case, she charged 5 blue tickets per thing, and kids were going into debt, soon my little 3 person group started an insurance thing, you paid us one ticket per week, it didn’t matter what color, they wound pay us to pay them if they lost something I had a few sheets of paper for keeping track of the weekly pay, soon we got over 100 tickets, because so many people were worried.
I was a kingpin of selling at my school I made 300$ within a month I was so good at some teachers even bought from me
when I was in third grade we had a competing sushi shop and a mc Donald's shop that would sell their product for Pokemon cards or money, I at one point got to become owner of the sushi shop's previous owner stepped down and I was the best worker at the sushi shop (there were about ten of us working at that shop) I made a hundred dollars worth a Pokemon cards then gave the buissness to my friend, three weeks later our shop was shut down but anyone who owned it made hundreds of dollars
When I was in primary people would buy gava candy for 15 for 5 of them
I misread it as black man and was confused as to why the thumbnail showed bananas
The school in story 17 has one person to blame, the creator of that questionnaire.
i love blackmarkets
Game name?
The thumbnail tho. 💀
Story 4💀
5:18 is it fallout at that school
Story 1 reminds me of breaking bad
crawl out to the fallout, with meeeeeeeee!!!!!
When i was in 8th grade i used to print custom fake pokemon cards i started selling them for some reason
In p 5 to p 6 there was a market for red pencils because there was a shortage and me and a buddy Made 15 pounds and a chocolate bar
what kind of glue
At my school in 3rd and 4th grade we would trade friggin ACORNS for everything, pokemon cards, pens, pencils, class currency, even real money, etc
Why the duck are acorns so precious? And it was the baby acorns too, from a giant tree out at recess and every single recess there were so many students huddled around the tree, looking for acorns. Even the "Playground Duties" played along, unknowing why the heck we treasured ACORNS of all things. Candy, snacks, PASSED DOWN JEWLERY, FAMILY HEIRLOOMS, extra lunch, soda, fidgets, toys, supplies, even pranks for the person obtaining the acorns to do on a chosen person, plots of land at recess, Friggin lawyers to "plead your case" if you get sent to the principal's office as a fake witness to get you out of Trouble for ACORNS soooooo, ACORNS FOR ANYTHING There were way to many things you were able to trade to remember. But imagine coming home without some prized possession, but ACORNS
TLDR: acorn black market where you can trade acorns for basically anything you can think of.
the prank thing, you could order a hit on someone with f**king acorns?
@@Lil_Kick yes
@@Lil_Kick ACORNS
Playboys and penthouses
5 bucks a vape hit
When prime was big we had lunch monitors and lunch monitors would go to bathroom duty and trade prime in the bathroom
@H2TS sports drink that was popular
Thumbnail 💀
you are strong child but i am beyond strength i am the end
Hey just to say you don’t have to censor the cussing
(Answer for the title) prime
First also hi
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Apparently "E" means "AND"
Third!
Fourth
How comes you censor the words poop and fart yet you show sexually suggesting thumbnails? Im not mad or anything its just funny
Bro I’ve had it with the damn clickbait thumbnails. Every single thumbnail is something inappropriate and stupid. I like your videos, but it’s so annoying
17:16 damn that girl is badass as hell bc we would also do that IF we werent in a country where majority of the schools r catholic