Was There A Black Market At Your High School? (r/AskReddit)
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Kids: *Learn basic economics by themselves*
School: *visible anger*
At least they have first hand marketing experience! If my lollipop business gets stopped by school, I will sell them directly outside of the gate. They don't control what we do off school grounds and after school hours. They should be happy that I'm smart enough to think like that
@@anastasial7687 ironic that you say this on my first day back to school since Christmas. I actually have a decent amount of money hidden away from the lolly selling.
It's against school rules, stupid. No shit the school is going to crack down on it.
@@professionalfangster1510 Yeah and cheating in online school is against the rules but I still fucking do it
In my case, our boarding school created its diverse black-market network. The school separated dorms by grades (Y7-Y8); (Y9-Y10); (Y11-Y13), and each dorm stocked and sold a selection of snacks for specific prices. Snack choices varied by demand between dorms, so some students sold exclusive snacks if it was in high demand outside their dorm. Each housemaster sold snacks at their prices.
They banned smarties cuz people snorted them like cocaine so people started selling them 1.00 for 10 of em
I did that😂
damn at my middle school we smoked smarties
@@H1GHP3R Snorting smarties was the first and one of the only times I ever had to go to the Principal's office...they called my parents too.
I snorted Smarties once
*Fun times*
XD A friend of mine tried that with a Pixie Stick and ended up with a bloody nose for around 45 min
The soda black market was pretty awesome.
When I was in college and taking a summer art course there were some high school girls who came from a high school where soda and junkfood were banned. However, they drank canned teas and sports drinks as their school still allowed those to be sold. Then when the teacher decided to throw a party on the last day of class, all the girls wanted to do was drink loads of tea and lemonade and not eat. One of the elderly students scolded them as she had an anorexic daughter herself and thought these young ladies had an eating disorder. It wasn't an eating disorder it's just they were so used to being food restricted by their high school and their parents they were afraid to eat anything at the party. And here there was a veggie tray and some vegan options that the older students brought in for the party.
A kid at my high school was selling bullets that he stole from his dad’s attic, and I bought 70% of them to add to my fathers memorial. He fought at Vietnam and Afghanistan, and he died of lung cancer in 2003. The memorial turned into a statue of him, and I was proud of my work.
Quesadilla pronunciation:
Normal people: CASE-a-dee-ya
No one:
Voice synthesizer: QWES-a-dilla
😂😂😂
Cuess-a-deas.
Case-a-dilla
make yourself a dang qwesadilla
Keh-sah-dee-ah is my attempt at the correct pronunciation, spelled phonetically.
Kway sa dill ah is only correct in an alternate universe where you put gwack uh mole on your tore tea luh. And ketsup is spicy. 😳🥺
My mother was the "black market" at her school, her first business was called suckers of suckers because at the store the were 25¢ a piece, she ended up making more than the staff at the school, so they shut the first one down, but she was more clever than them she ended up making more businesses that still got shut down or her stuff got taken away, no matter how hard they tried, she still had plans to make money.
Madladess
dang, more than the staff?
@@me1913 yep
@@DrRook-ft3df monthly?
@@me1913 I don't have the answer for that, she never told me
You guys remember those rubber bands that were shaped like animals.
Silly bands! :D
so i was drawing while listening to this and i had to stop and look at the screen when i hear the robot say $25 dollars instead of $0.25 per song
haha i also listen to reddit stories while drawing
The guy who ran our tuck shop used to have a side-business selling 'banned' items like soda and junk food. He was a straight A student who the teachers all adored so even if someone had tried to rat him out none of the teachers would believe them. One idiot did try and he actually got detention instead of the tuck shop owner and had to write out "I must not tell lies" 100 times.
I was a courier for him because as a girl I could hide the goods underneath my female hygiene products that no teacher, male or female, would touch with a 50 foot pole. It was a good gig and made me 'untouchable' by the girl bullies because none of them wanted to lose their access to the school's 'black market'. It came unstuck when he graduate so the teachers said they would take over and it all got uncovered.
Luckily, he took all the blame because he'd already graduated and didn't give a fuck anymore so I got away scot-free. I'm still friends with him to this day and he now runs his own wholesale business, his HS racket has gone down in history. I recently heard some kids who go to my old HS talking about the 'tuck shop racketeer' and it filled me with pride that the story is still being passed down through the years >:)
That's a really good idea. I sell sweets to other students but there is no rule stopping selling, and no rule that we can't have sweets. Created that loophole and I still use it.
I basically give them to my friend and she fills her lunch box with them. We are known as the sweet shop girls but we are straight A so no teacher knows.
How do you fit coke in your underwear? Lol
@@theultumateprezes6379 Under the tampons or pads.
That… doesn’t seem hygienic… I’m guessing the customers didn’t found out? Because that would be bad PR
Book marks in elementary school. If you poured glue on the top of a pencil box and let it dry it could be peeled off to make a book mark (useful because we had reading logs we had to do regardless so my brother made these bookmarks because kids will buy anything they can make their own). Anyway.. if you use markers you can color/dye the bookmark whatever color/design you want. I took over the business from him when he moved onto middle school.
Middle school came around new market new product. Its literally anything you're not "allowed" to have in middle school so naturally, cell phones, cheat sheets, gum, pop etc. Woodshop teacher didn't care what we did so we stored all of our products in his room or in our gym lockers. As recycle helpers for the science teacher we had free reign of the school during lunch and study halls so we were free to meet kids in the bathroom, behind the gym, outside class rooms, etc. to sell. Only 6th graders were recycle helpers though, so being likable kids allowed my friends and I to get passes from the librarian, gym teacher, and our football coaches to again essentially come and go as we pleased during freetime.
Onto high school, gum was allowed once you reached this point, but incoming freshmen still couldn't or didn't bring gum with them much, could make about $10 from a single pack just selling to them, also we had gym uniforms (redshirt and black shorts) I bought a few pairs and rented them out to kids who didn't bring theirs or didn't bother buying them, washed them for a grade in home Ec. Once able to drive, the next product was dip, every guy dipped (small town Ohio what do you expect?) anyway... most guys were scared to try to buy it underage but, if you walked into the gas station with a lipper already in, they didn't card you, I would buy a log (5 cans per log) on my way to school every morning and sell out before homeroom was over (1 log is about $15, store sells single cans for $3 and change, I sold my cans for $5 and a random handful of change, makes them feel like they're getting a deal because it wasn't a set price and anything over the $5 didn't matter much to me), eventually I sold several logs a day through graduation. Seriously I made more money in high school than I did my first 2 years of college.
I legitimately had a black market on lock for making cheated Pokemon for gen 4 games. I got free lunches and shit and actually payed a few times lmao.
When teacher banned snacks I sold pretzels for 50¢ per square
Forced to take a milk, even if you're lactose intolerant?
I doubt, especially if they look up your I.D if you had to punch in your school # in.
That or something else, I'd assume they have to check your allergie list.
But idk at the end of the day Haha
@@Star-ie8br but if they were, I guess there is no rule that they have to drink it, if that one kid was able to be the Robin Hood of milk. Although, he wasn't robbing the kids of the milk, he was more like a charity, taking thmw from people who didn't want them, and giving them to people who wanted them. If there was a rule that they had to, that would be a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Even if your allergic
I don't think my hs had an allergy list
@@Keaton0801 I think "The milk man" suits them better
Someone sold kool-aid bursts for $1 each he is still not caught.
The kool aid bandit is still on the loose still selling kool aid to children
#Ohyeahselling
I used to sell screen time on my phone,1$ a min (resses only)
I did a mass trading system for pokemon on the bus when i was in 2nd grade, ran a book writing company in 2nd grade (where i hired people to write books and we would all get some money), sold rainbow loom and other crafts from 2nd grade through 6th grade (made hundreds of dollars in like 3 monthes at one point, which was alot to me at the time).
Then starting in 6th grade i bought and sold hats to people in my school (bought at thrift stores, cleaned, and flipped them).
Now i am in 7th grade and i make a ton of money off of ebay and vintage resale. You just gotta have a eye for things.
Oh my, this reminds me of my time at mid school. Our school decided it would be a great idea to banned students from bringing their own stapler's clips. If you wanted to get refill clips, you have to go to your teacher, & getting a handful of scoldings by said teacher about not wasting stapler's clips (even though we only used it bcs we HAD to for our assignments) before being given the clips. The students eventually grew tired of the teachers' naggings, that some kids decided to do something about it.
3 to 4 kids would interchangably asked for the clips from the teacher (getting scolded) & collected them into a secret pencil cases, & would secretly trade the clips to anyone who needed, & they can pay them later at lunch break. Essentially, they got paid to take the fall (getting scolded for asking clips from the teachers), & they were known as "The Clip Boys" (it sounds better in my native language, shut up). They made bank & words got around to others students that eventually they also did it in the other classes. This went on until i graduated & it became a school legend. Eventually, the school admins got wind of it, & the principal decided to just lift the ban & students are now allowed to bring their own stapler's clips, after my class had graduated
I'm also one of the "Clip Boys" for my class & essentially, i never have to pay for my lunch for the entirety of my stay in that school. I know the whole thing sounds stupid, but it only happened because the school were trying to enforced stupid rules. It wouldn't have happen in the first place if they just let the students brought their own stapler's clips, it's not like we needed it for shoots & giggles, we needed for our assignments, & we never even have any incident involving stapler's clips throughout the school's history. This is not the only stupid rule our school had try (& still try) to enforced, but it was one of few that was eventually overruled due to students revolting against the (stupid) system, & it was glorious for us.
Pokemon cards. I made bank in 6th grade by buying them via phone order from a warehouse at wholesale and selling them at school sporting events, lunch, recess, etc. I could sell packs slightly cheaper than Walmart, so I had parents who actually brought kids to my house to buy them. I cleared so many packs for myself that I had duplicates of all the rare cards, so I started selling those individually, too. My stock became larger, and then I started doing custom orders and charging extra for those....
I learned to keep track of trends and what people seemed to want. I was on top of new sets that came out, and would predict which cards would become popular. Then I learned I could influence what cards would become popular myself by pretending they were rarer...
I learned more about business and marketing from that year's experience than I ever learned in actual school.
Also my 8th grade year people were ordering huge bags of the little king cake babies and handing them out to people. It was a weird year.
There was an obsession with these in MS. One time I went to the bathroom and the bathroom floor was covered in them.
I live in Thailand but I have a medical condition and have to visit my doctor in America every year once a year. This year I had to go in the middle of a school term. I went to my mom's friend's baby shower too. At the shower, they had little baby bottles filled with m and m's. There was also sticks of bubblegum. No one really wanted them so at the end of the shower I was allowed to take all of them home. I gave half of all of it to my friend because she was my friend. I went back to Thailand and had a very great idea. I sold the sticks of gum for 5 Thai baht and the m and m's bottles for 10 Thai baht. The reason they were popular because the 7 eleven stores didn't have any bubblegum flavored gum but only mint and blueberry flavors or something like that. Classmate A was a teacher's pet and threaten to snitch but Classmate B was her best friend and had brought some gum from me earlier. She gave it to Classmate A and so Classmate A came to me later that day and bought a stick of gum from me. Then I stopped the business because I couldn't get more and I was a good student and didn't want to get caught. That's my story
the bead wars is basically my schools "eraser wars" we would cut up erasers and throw the bits at each other. the first eraser war was a free for all but the second had people arranging in factions. i was brigadier general [REDACTED LAST NAME] of the Alpha Pickles. i handled the military stuff while the supreme leader handled our more political side. against us was Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF) they were like the bad guys. they escelated the conflict into an all out war, and also attacked people not involved. but corona put an end to my plan to destroy them.
Ours was hornets as said in the video, but we also had factions.
I was in the heatirons (dumb name)
And the other faction was the Cocksmackers.
Our faction had black and red hornets, and the other colors was purple and orange. It is still going on 2 years later
As an autistic savant I would totally name my faction “Short-bus Commandos”.
Schoolbooks were pretty expensive, so people would give me lists of what they needed, and I'd go and lift them, then sell them at half price or lower. They go them cheap, I didn't pay anything.
Pretty sure staff at the store suspected it was me, but they could never catch me/prove anything. Had to put a stop in my third year because they installed cameras and detectors.
4:40 lmao the revolution 🤣
I was a smart and a good kid back in middle school. My school had a thing of letting kids come early. During the winter there was never security outside. I took advantage of this. I sold some much soda. It wasn't banned but it was a big deal. I had a big bag and hid soda at the bottom. Sold soda $1 each, hell $25 for everything I had. I never got caught because I was the good kid. Only issue was i needed a place to hide the money from my parents
Cool, I'm planning to do something like this at my school, but with candy and soda, for more profit of course, I also plan on making prices higher and lower depending on holidays (Ex: after Halloween, lower prices, when valentines day comes up, higher prices) One thing is that I have one parent on board, and one that does not want me doing, and pointers on hiding places?
Edit: I just realized this is a year old comment, but any help is appreciated!
@@battledroid673 I would advise make sure people at your school would buy your stuff
I started a thing of selling US sodas at my junior school in Canada. We Canadians do not have access to some of the more delicious soda flavours out there but the States have everything. Whenever I would go to the States during the summer or the school year, I would save up enough money to buy packs of unique sodas, and then resell them per can at my school.
Profit 👌
The CDC selling report cards kinda spitting facts doe 👀
1:26 the geology teacher would be proud
In middle school I used to charge people to design their Myspace pages. I actually did pretty well. And word of mouth spread so I did it for kids at neighboring middle schools and kids older siblings. And then I moved on to ***** during high school and was able to buy my first car.
And the best part in that thing, is that you could do it legally. U f#cking genius
My Drama teacher was told she couldn't do a fundraiser for the drama department because it would take away from the band/sports fundraisers so she bought bulk candy at Costco and had us sell it on the DL. Word got around quickly, and other student regardless of if we ever spoken or if we got along would come up to me saying they knew/heard I was in drama and did I have any candy.
Some years ago, I found a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook at a garage sale.
All I can be is impressed
I used to sell mini cupcakes. It all started in science class where one of my classmates was hungry and offered to pay me for one of my homemade cupcakes. It didn't last long but I made a good bit of money. I was also known for selling the chocolate boxes you see those ladies selling in the subway, that the school offered to help pay for a school trip. I would sell out of a box(60 chocolates 1 dollar each) in like 1-2 days. By March I had covered the whole 415$ for the trip by selling the chocolate. Sadly on the day I handed in my last payment they canceled the trip : (. Everyone in my class new that I had been hustling since December and looked so sorry for me XD.
This narrator cracks me up everytime.” Qwaysahdillas”😂😂
I love seeing stories like this, the ingenuity of humanity seems to grow out of spite I've noticed.
In elementary school I was always given toys, mostly squinkies, in exchange for my combos and beef jerky. .
Magic the gathering cards, at one point pencils, books, homework help, etc.
I sold gum in 5th grade to get extra money for a trip to New York. My aunt and uncle got me gum for my birthday but I couldn’t chew it because I had a jaw corrector and braces. So I brought that ish to school and sold it for like 50 cents a piece.
We had an obsession in elementary school over beyblades. Every recess, you would see a circle of kids yelling "Fight fight fight!" and in the center you would find two people battling with their beyblades in a plastic stadium. The school eventually banned it, but it didn't stop us. A black market developed for the toys. All beyblades, especially the good ones, became valuable as gold, and kids would use their allowances and other random things to trade.
It escalated so much that once a teacher got angry at a kid for having it out, and the kid aimed the beyblade at her teacher with her launcher, stared her dead in the eye, and shouted, "LET IT RIP" at the top of her voice. The beyblade shot straight at the teacher's face, and gave her a scar for the rest of the year. Tears and blood were shed. The student was suspended.
Many other students began arming themselves with beyblades as well to shoot the teachers, and it became a revolution. The administration soon gave up after that and unbanned beyblades. It went back to just playing it at recess, and the attacks stopped.
Blow pop's , pixie sticks and jolly ranchers.
In elementary school I used to sell tattoos. Every month I would go to a Chinese store and buy a hole book of tattoos for about 4€. Then I would sell them for about 3€ (small) and 5 (large). The profits where huge..By the end of every year I would have made at least 1k. It all stopped when I was 12 because some girl told the headteacher. I almost got suspended but I had made same sweet money!
And for those asking the tattoos where basically stickers that would stick to your skin with a little water.
When I was in school there was that urban legend going around that people were selling tattoos laced with drugs to get kids hooked at an early age. So I imagine getting caught selling those would've gotten someone in big trouble.
@@imzadi83fanvids7 That's actually why they snitched on me to the principal. By the way....Are you from greece?
Copenhagen, 9mm, monster energy drinks, and candy bars. The stuff I need.
Wait
9 mm ?
...is this some kind of economic system that i am too european to understand ?
As a kid in school now this is difficult because I'm socially awkward and no one has cash anymore
Permission slips. Dude sold 1 for 10 bucks. He's still going.
at 4:30 about the bead war I was expecting it to end once people ran out but then it said "girl was hit in the head with a dictionary" LMFAO I just can't. Kid comes back from break. Starts bead war. Ends with girl getting hit with dictionary. This is an r/escalated quickly moment. HAHA
My teacher had a stash of snacks and drinks that she would sale in 3rd or 4th grade but one of the students messed it up
My friend would used to sell meme pins
Also ahego( I think you spell it like that) pins too
*ahegao
This happened to you too
I remember that in primary school, I made my own coin which was pencil shavings (stupid huh?) And we have others the shavings in exchange for borrowing things like pencils, pens, or glue sticks.
Eventually the whole classroom started trading this and some friends of mine started sharpening pencils untill they were 1cm long and thus inflating the market untill none wanted more shavings.
the first one was also a thing in my school
I remember 2 different black markets 1) my step brother was the candy guy at his school, he made a nice profit 2) when I was in high school my choir teacher had I back room filled with snacks and drinks including Big Texas Cinnamon Rolls, candy, sodas, and my favorite, the canned chocolate “milk” (pretty sure that black market is still active to this day)
POV: you now want to start your own black market for your class/school
At my school they only sold healthy food in the cafeteria, and we didnt like healthy. you can get moped license when you are 16, so the people with the moped license started our own business. The first break we gathered mc donalds orders, and at lunch we drowe to mc donalds, got the food and handed it out to the people that paid before lunch. All the deliveries was done right outside the school limit, so we could’nt get punished.
The local mc donalds caught up with what we were doing and gave us a phone number to give the orders so the food was ready for pickup when we came in the lunch break. The school then banned fast food in the school. So we just ate on a couple benches outside the school limits
Chicken nuggets were probably the black market in my school back then. My memories of this may be inaccurate, but I always rush to the cafeteria to ensure the chicken nuggets weren't sold out.
They were great when eaten with rice, those chicken nuggets.
15:28 this guy has a more solid origin story than batman
Still in High school (Junior year). We have a successful black market that has been running since Freshman year, and we haven’t been caught yet. We started out small selling snacks, and then we started selling entire meals like fried chicken, steaks, ribs, greens, Mac n’ cheese, etc. Meals were flying out of there like hotcakes and by the end of 1st quarter we had made $1,500. Eventually we’re gonna be having entire charts keeping track of the money that we make.
Best ways to avoid getting caught:
-trade in between classes
-trade in some private area where you are least likely to get caught
-don’t trade at lunch, because you will probably attract the attention of other students, they will crowd around you, and staff will come over to the scene, and you’ll get caught.
Not high, but elementary. First was Pokemon cards, we ended up having to trade at our after school program or at our cubby-things. No money, but my at-the-time boyfriend (5th grade) gave me 100 code cards for 10 packs of gummies. We played it like drug dealers because somehow we would get it banned every year.
The next was recorder pieces. In music, we would get a recorder in 5th grade as the main unit and we had to play songs, etc. You could pick green, pink, or blue, and each had an endpiece, a mouthpiece, and a body. No one traded mouthpieces, but we traded the rest at recess.
I sold Blo-Pops from Costco in the 90's at my hs. They had them in the snack bar but were way more expensive. Made decent money to buy cigarettes, I'm a moron.
I used to sell chips drinks and candys around school
I had all the good ones at the time were doritos, lemonheads, skittles, takis, sprite cams, coke cans, etc
I sold them for about an average of $2-3 and I always made enough to buy more the next day
I told my dad about the plan and he kickstarted it with $15 and it took off in under a week. It was great I gave out goods and got money and reputation. Unfortunately after about a month the principal and staff found out and started tracking my business (where I got my snacks, the routes I took, the Hotspots for buisness) and eventually shut me down and said if I sold anything at all I would get suspended. As an elementary kid I got scared and started selling outside of school
My friends older brother and his friends found out how to hack the school iPads and reset them. Sold them on EBay, never got punished.
I brought salt to school but I was a homie and gave it out for free.
My mom used to pack me a salt shaker or packets when she packed me hard boiled eggs for lunch. So shame the salt bans were after my time, lol.
Got a similar story like the soda machine ban at school, demand was high kid was barred from selling... so his older brother puts some coolers in the back of his pick up and drives it to school selling soda like crazy , staff moved in quick thinking it was a fight... they got B!!chy that they were outplayed , tried to involve the campus cop but could do nothing, this continued on for 3 more years and to boot they took out candy , chips etc , so they started bringing that to school as well , basically they would park near the school, kid walked to the fence put in his orders handed over the cash and got his stuff , in the Long run they made a lot of money and the school caved Eventually
My brother would always take like 3 or 4 plastic spoons from the cafeteria and would keep an entire compartment in his book bag full of them. He would randomly give them to people throughout the day when the needed one.
I remember wasps. The year before I started high school a kid got hurt after being hit with a wasp. They were still made and used, but you could be suspended up to three days for being in possession of one
Dude, I’m in college and there’s STILL a Warhead black market
Do teachers not realize that salt is good for you as long as it isn't a massive amount.
Although you have a point, teachers have zilch to do with it. Plus no small amount of students probably got five grams of salt a day before the ban
Me and two other friends ran the candy operation. It was just after Halloween and what we did was we let everyone eat their candy supplies for about a week and let everyone get sugar withdrawal then afterwards we went in and divided the candy between the three of us. Me and one of my friends were at a middle school at the time and my other friend was at a high school so we divided in conquered. we kept our candy in duffle bags that we had to bring anyways for gym class so it was the perfect cover. Over the next week and a half we easily each made 50 plus dollars in candy sales. we actually went to the dollar store to get more candy to fill the demand because so many people wanted candy. We got caught once but we still went forward with it until we ran out. We eventually made at least $100 each over our time of operations. One of my best memories from my childhood.
A friend of mine was the reason salt was banned.
They decided to snort the salt as if it was crack. An hour or so later in class. Two passed out, four had nosebleeds, and she got the shakes because of how much salt they snorted. Needles to say, no more salt at school
We had to start our own business enterprise and were given a school currency to represent money. The cool kids counterfeited it and rolled dice for it.
The great noodle society of ‘15. I was in the Gifted program and our not so stellar teacher assigned us to make noodle bridges out of noodles and hot glue. Giving a bunch of 5th graders hot glue guns, amazing idea right? Well this project went on for months, noodles became currency, lasagne and giant noodles were worth their weight in gold. Kids become therapist for other kids unhappy with their group. You paid for your therapy in noodles and hot glue gun sticks. Groups created trade routes, people who could get noodles easily because their parents let them were gods. I was very powerful because my mom would buy me all the noddles, glue guns, and glue sticks I asked for. Alliances were formed.We became a society based around noodles, the bridges were never finished, but it’s one of my best memories.
Our school stopped selling sodas and started selling vitamin water, propel and minute maid lemonade, leading to some people bringing coolers with sodas, a small group of hispanic people sold Hot Cheetos (by themselves or with lemon juice), one of the math teachers sells candy, soda and chips for under $1 and I used to sell rainbow loom rubber bands in a similar situation in 3:38. Everyone, except for the math teacher, made at least a 50% profit from everything they've sold. Honestly I wish I could go back to trading again
Not exactly a black market but more of a underground gambling thing. We played the card game speed since it was the easiest to learn and we bet who would win. It would be like 8 1v1 an players would bet a starting item in the first round and whoever one got to keep the losers item. As they got higher and higher they won more and more until the victor would keep all 16 items. These kinds of bets only happened once a month and spanned 2 days between before class, in lunch, and after school. People bet everything, from snacks like goldfish(a really popular trading snack), toys, games, school supplies, loom loom bands,stickers, action figures, food from nearby restaurants, icecream(people had to bring it the next day or else they couldn’t bet anymore), even money and homework answers. It lasted through 2nd-6th grade. There was this one girl who held a crown title for the entire year of 4th grade, she was a legend. Everyone was in on it. It was super fun and I’ve gotten so many Pokémon cards and pretzels from gambling.
In my middle school we would roll up sticky notes and dip them into melted candle wax cause this one teacher had a candle melter scent thing in her room and when it hardened we would have these scented sticky note candles we would just take out and sniff. Since she only had about 2-3 classes of kids (we had a block period system) only certain people could get them so people would make them for other people and trade them for food at lunch. We also used to do that thing where we would peel off the sticky notes and stick them back into a stack going in opposite directions to make a sticky note slinky to play with during class. This also became a type of currency. Needless to say we got our sticky notes taken away, but it was fine cause all of the confiscated sticky notes were in a bucket in the back of that same teacher's room and we would just steal them-
how do i build those "hornets"
I was the guy who bought many packs of 120 sticks of gum for $7 each and sold them for 25 cents or 5 for $1. This was November 2018 and I managed to make more than $90 in one week. The most I made in one day was $90. I got caught twice but I continued selling on the low throughout the rest of the school year in 2019. If I were to sell something again at my school, I would most likely sell the World’s Finest Chocolates Bars which everyone uses for their fundraisers at my school.
Two seniors at my former high school resold donuts they bought from Krispy Kreme as part of a black market scheme one year to be in competition with the student store. I willingly ate all the chocolate ones.
I'm in a college where selling goods/services out of your dorm is a big no-no for obvious reasons, even if the good or service is harmless. My service was clothing repair since not many people these days know how to sew. Only made $2 though for fixing a hole in the knee of a class mate's jeans. Thinking about trying my business again though since I'm strapped for cash and don't really have much to do to keep busy.
People still use Hornets and now they rap them in tin foil and use double rubber bands
I sold soda, gum, chocolate bars, and energy drinks. Sold them from my bag and locker, sold some teachers to not get turned in at a reduced price.
1:09 bruh she must be like "I'm getting some of the cut" 😂
Not high school but still funny. Back in like kindergarten, we all used to take things from home and trade them with each other. It was small stuff like paper clips, pencils, maybe some candy. Some teachers knew about it but since it was pretty harmless no one really cared. Until the one fateful day when my friend (let's call him Drew) brought in his dad's wallet. Credit card, cash, drivers licence, all there. And I traded a pack of skittles for it. For a brief period of time, I had the most money I'd ever had. And I didn't even know it. I just saw it and was like "wow, cool leather thing" and traded. I didn't even see what was inside until much later. When my mom came to pick me up, the first thing that came out of my dumb little mouth was this:
"Mom look what Drew gave me!" And I promptly showed her my massive haul: a leather thing. My mom was horrified of course. She gave it back to Drew's dad. Safe to say the whole trading thing was stopped after that.
The salt packet is what I did in middle school. Then I moved on to bigger things. The band teacher also taught the shop class that I took. And Dunfee (teacher) would buy almost x3 times as many fundraising kits he needed, so the band kids could seel more than one box. One day while we were heading out to the stage, I ran in the backroom and grabbed 4 boxes as that what I could fit. He never noticed and I made the easiest $200 ever. But that only lasted my freshman year. For the rest of High School, I did tardy slips. They worked differently than normal ones. It was that impression paper that copies instantly, and you'd write your info on that, give the top one to the person who caught you, and the bottom went to your actual teacher. The teachers never used these and just tossed them. So we'd have stacks of these that we got (in whatever manner) And if someone needed something, you'd have to find what were called 'Ringers' Some would want money, others would want gossip, and folks like me wanted favors. Another person almost caused this to fall down when he basically started a gang war.
It wasn't even a black market per se, but when I was in primary school we used to buy and sell cool stationery. Not even notebooks or anything like that, just cool rubbers, fun pencil cases, fancy pens and pencils. Stuff like that. And we used real money as well. Then my mum found out and I had to bow out of the stationery gig.
My brother and I went to a private Christian school. On his last year of school, he and the boys of the class would buy multiple boxes of various cans of soda. They even brought a mini fridge to keep the sodas cold. They’d sell the soda for a dollar fifty maybe. It got the boys a lot of money from sleep deprived, soda addicted children. It was a substitute for the now banned monsters and Red Bull’s that the fifth graders would bring. Eventually my brother’s business had to stop because parents were concerned about the amount of sugar and soda being drank as well as their children paying a lot of money per day on it. My school was a big combination of classes, from preschool to high school. The high schoolers were on about ten students, and only 3 seniors. Fifth and up were often pushed together for some classes, or for when the teacher got tired of the students. It was normally one teacher per class, which was pretty much all high schooler in one class while the each other grade had a teacher per grade. It was awful.
I created a black market of sorts in fifth grade
For some reason we were designing our own towns and I decided I wanted 3D trees (two sticky notes cut into tree shapes with interlocking slits, not rocket science) soon enough everyone was asking for trees, I even got a few custom orders for things like little sticky note bicycles, I think I made like 50 of those trees, it was awesome (note: they were free but it was kind of a market so I put it here)
I started a cupcake business, it would also sell candy, cookies, and what other fun stuff I could get my hands on. I would sell before and after school and if I needed to do deliveries during school I had to of the fastest people I knew run the food there.
I didn't take part in it, but witnessed it. Kids in my middle school) sold chips & candy in the locker rooms/everywhere. Teachers were aware of it, but didn't really care much to my knowledge 😅 (this was like 5/6 years ago).
People would sell USB drives with stuff on it that the school wouldn't allow.
HMMMMMMM
OMG these story's are hilarious. I lost it at 4:40 the dictionary to the head.
This dude 3D printed little flexi dinosaurs and he sold normal ones for $1 and thermal ones for $1.50. I bought one for myself and my brother and I still have mine, he’s blue and his name is kwig. I put google eyes on him and made him a scarf lol
My black market was this…
CANDY. Candy. GUM. *CANDY!* and I was the kingpin of the black market.
I sold written copies of the school rules cause my class teacher used to punish us by demanding we wrote the school rules down a couple of times. So one day, I wrote with left and right hand so not every copy would look the same like 20 papers full of school rules. If somebody didn't want to pay me what he or she promised, I ripped it in pieces in front of them. The best was when somebody wanted to buy 4 of my copies and didn't want to pay me the 2€ he promised me. Ripped the sheets apart and threw them in different garbage bins.
My middle school was right next to a grocery store I’d sprint the store buy a roll of fruit mentos get on the bus and sell them for a quarter a piece the roll was two dollars I did this regularly once a week for a year
In elementary school, we couldn’t share food at all. And all junk food was banned, once I had a airhead bar and got confiscated. So, me being the smug kid I am, I always went to McDonalds and got a large fry, I would leave my leftovers in a ziplock bag. Heat them up beefier school to where they were STEAMING and sold EM for 5¢ a pop in front of the bathrooms (out of sight)
My thing was POPPING. Soon tho got caught
my teachers daughter is a girl scout and he had a cookie black market its amazing
I mean i used to sell loom bands to people and im 98% sure that the school thought i was selling drugs
When I was a kid in school, pizza day was all of the rage. I took it upon myself to sell the pizza. The school would let you buy how ever many extra prices of pizza with $1. I would basically buy all the pizza and sell it for $1.50 in the cafeteria. Once my school found out, They made extra pizza $1.50. I took that as a challange. I bumped the price up to $2. I would always just say, "inflammation bro." If someone asked. They eventually just stopped letting me get extra pizza.
Our school doesn’t need a black market because the teachers sell us all the junk we need. We have soda machines(diet, but still soda) vending machines that were supposed to be healthy(filled with chips, beef jerky, gummies, and Oreos now) a French teacher sells boxes of candy, chips, and soda. A English / history teacher sells airheads, sour patch kids, candy bars, and sodas. They sell pizza every Wednesday. The cafeteria sells chips, soda, ice cream, candy, little debbies, etc. We have the hookup
bruv how
Bus tickets. I went to a 'special' school which had about 30 students over three programs. Although, all three programs had the same teachers and taught the same subjects and the classes were all mixed.
We had students from all over the city, so the school gave out bus tickets so everyone could actually go. Whatever you needed, you could get it with bus tickets: cigarettes, weed, coffee or sandwiches from Tim Hortons or McDonalds. Both of which were less that five minutes from the school...
Livestrong bracelets and gum. The only time in life when trident made you a badass. The candy necklace thing was popular when I was in kindergarden
TH-cam: on drugs
Me: uhhhhhhhhhhhhh?
Banning salt? As someone who pisses like a fire hose on the regular, I woulda collapsed from salt deficiency
I used to sell downloaded music for school currency and made damn good “money” doing it, then I started moving to music videos and movies sometimes. I even ran sales and for my families birthdays and Christmas I used to buy gifts for them from the store the school had.