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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3040 - First $1,000: Flipping Phones and Tablets for Fun and Profit

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s First $1,000 segment, see how a simple promise of secure data wiping and refurbishment helped a tech-savvy neighbor earn thousands of dollars by flipping outdated electronics.

Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.7

Llipping phones and tablets for fun and profit.

0:14.8

Hey friends, welcome to side hustle school.

0:17.1

My name's Chris Gillibow, your host.

0:18.7

Today's episode is part of a feature we call your first $1,000. How does somebody get an idea, take action on that idea and make $1,000? And they often go on to make much more than a thousand dollars. But we want to know how they got started. What is the plan to make that happen? And where does the idea come from in the first place?

0:42.3

So today we're going to see how a simple promise of secure data wiping and refurbishment helps a tech-sabby neighbor earn thousands of dollars, not just $1,000, but we're going to start

0:47.6

with that, earn thousands of dollars eventually by flipping outdated electronics. First $1,000

0:53.0

going to feature Trevor today. Let's hand the microphone

0:56.2

to him. I'll come back at the end with a few words of wrap up.

1:02.1

Hey, Julia Louis Dreyfus here. If you listen to me on my Wise and the Me podcast, you probably

1:07.1

already know that I'm an investor and an evangelist for the Mill Food Recycler.

1:12.1

There are a lot of reasons to love Mill, but for me, it's all about the impact.

1:16.6

Keeping food out of the garbage is one of the most powerful things we can do to help the

1:20.2

planet every single day. We're talking banana peels, carrot tops, old takeout. When that stuff

1:26.2

heads to the landfill, it becomes a huge driver of climate change. If you already compost, great. But of course, there's the smell, the flies, the running to the curb every day with a little leaking compost bag made of cornstarch. That's where mill comes in. It makes keeping food out of the trash as easy as dropping it in. It can handle

1:45.6

nearly anything from a turkey carcass to like 20 avocado pits. It works automatically while you

1:51.5

sleep. You can keep filling it for weeks and it never, ever smells. Mill makes dry, nutrient-rich

1:58.3

grounds that you can use in your garden, add to your compost, feed to

2:01.7

your chickens, or milk can get them back to a small farm for you. But you kind of have to live with

2:06.8

Mill to really get it. And that's why they offer a risk-free trial. Go to mill.com slash

2:12.9

wiser for an exclusive offer.

2:22.8

Music for an exclusive offer. I'm Trevor, recording this update from the east side of Cincinnati.

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