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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3208 - First $1,000: Vintage Sewing Machine Rehab Workshops

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s First $1,000 segment, meet the maker who buys twenty-dollar thrift-store sewing machines, teaches students to revive them, and lets each participant leave with a fully functioning vintage Singer. 

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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Oh, hey friends. What's up? Welcome back to Side Ussel School. Chris Gillibah, your host here. Today we are threading the needle. Literally, actually. Well, not completely literally in the literal sense of the word. But we are talking about, we have a story today from a lifelong tinkerer who adores the heavy all-metal

1:13.5

singer sewing machines. You might still find these sewing machines. In fact, she does,

1:18.3

gathering dust in secondhand shops. And she knows a couple secrets that most people don't. First

1:23.4

of all, these machines are nearly indestructible. Second, pretty much takes about a 30-minute tune-up to get them working just like it's 1957 again.

1:33.2

So one Saturday at a thrift store, she spots a stack of forgotten singers priced at 20 bucks each.

1:39.2

And she starts thinking, I wonder what I can do with this.

1:42.0

Can I buy them and resell them?

1:43.6

Can I fix them up? Can I, in fact, teach a workshop on fixing them up? Well, that's what you're going to hear about today. Welcome to Sighthouseful School. My name's Chris Gillibow. Today's episode is part of a feature we call your first $1,000. And as you might guess, or as you might know already, it's all about how somebody makes their first

2:00.9

thousand dollars with a new business idea. So this one's kind of fun. We are in fact going to look at

2:06.0

these vintage sewing machines and the vintage sewing machine rehab workshops that Abby sets up. So I'm

2:13.2

going to pass the mic to Abby. Abby tell us the story. And I'll come back at the end with a few words of

2:18.5

wrap up. Whenever you go to buy something online, most likely there's something you do. There's an

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