10 creative side hustles that make real money. Oh, what's up? What's up? Nick Olober here,

welcome to the side hustle show because your 9 to 5 may make you a living, but your 5 to 9 makes you

alive. It's that time of year again. It's time for our Thanksgiving tradition of showcasing

some of the most interesting and creative side hustles that have come across my desk this year,

starting with

number one, mobile gift wrapping. Is this something you could do in your area? Michelle Hensley

is a long-time side hustle show listener, and she's grown her business, nifty package.co, to a

$300,000 a year business. I truly started Nifty Package out of a necessity. I was a pastor's wife, homeschooling children, and running a nonprofit. I was in a business. I truly started nifty package out of a necessity. I was a pastor's wife,

homeschooling children and running a nonprofit. I was in a position to give things away,

not to have to make an income. What do you do with a pastor's wife after her husband passes

away when she's 50 years old? Now I was on a journey to create an income for myself at age 51.

After I got home from an interview,

one of my son said, Mom, you had a gift basket business. Why don't you start that again? So ultimately, I made an art out of gift giving in order to bring joy to both the recipient and the giver.

My gift basket and mobile gift wrapping services is nifty package.co. In 2018, while praying, I was looking out my window,

and I noticed and realized my van was sitting there empty. I thought, gosh, I already make gifts.

I wonder if anybody wraps gifts. And does anyone go around and even do that? Is there such a thing as a

mobile wrapping? Can I put all my gift wrapping paper in my van and drive around and surf people?

I put up a webpage that day and I got a call from a current client within a week asking if I'd come

out and wrap all those gifts. I was so excited. I piled everything into the van to take care of that

job, brushing my hands when I was done. And then I realized I forgot to label every gift. So I had to go back

and rewrap every gift. I learned a huge lesson, which blossomed into a business. In March of

2019, I got a call from Two-Face Cosmetics asking if I could do a large-scale gift design and

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