They will talk about repressing has it applies to the world of reselling, side, hustling and so on when Long board surfboards we're not a star on the nineteenth seventies, thousands of we're selling it just ten dollars. Apiece miss aspiring, surfboard shaper you. It was a wave. He had to catch a ride on Restore he reminds me a little of the headlight and taillight re sign, hustle, very popular story. From a couple months ago, that was episode, number eight hundred and twenty five digging for profits. One man's trash is another man's hustle, in that story. The guy found a way to acquire something for free, specifically headlights, entail light. Is Otto? The shop was throwing away and then region and for a lot of money, sometimes hundreds of dollars apiece today, story which spans for decades the surfers slash re purpose are now works as a middle school science teacher. But he continues to build between thirty and fifty surfboard. Two year prices

go up to nine hundred dogs. Is there something you might be able to acquire and re purpose? Welcome. Dishonest school up money was critical about surfboard shaper boards. New wave is coming up right after this quick shot out to our sponsor. As a kid Luke Alvarez loved serving was his favorite a pastime passion, never quite felt complete sea had a dream of shaping his own boards. Shaping is essentially quitting your own surfboard from stock plywood applying your own design and adding settle curves and groups, but it was a hobby that require money, because boards weren't cheap those boards did, however, break and where down so in Lucan, his friends would find worn down boards that had been discarded, they'd snatch them up.

Come back to his New Jersey Hop, he would send down the rough edges and by new funds in fiberglass money saved up from paper delivery rots over the years, Luke shake dozens of boards using tool. From his grandfathers garage giving them away or adding into a collection and then came his big break and they only nineteen seventies surfing underwent a massive shift. Ten foot long boards went on a style. A shorter six put bore its crest, a new wave and popularity. The shift brought thousands of new surfers into the sport and left the house and more with old longboats. They no longer one. It look realize it was his chance to get into the business without crazy start up costs, because they only nineteen seventies, fully functional long boards sold, pretend dollars or less he didn't have to search for trash boards anymore. It seemed almost too good to be true, is based. Product was clearance level prices knowing needed were thin boxes, Finns, resin and fiberglass. So he got to work. He shaped

sold his first few boards that year for hundred to three dollars to people in its network, they became an annual side us every summer, he'd go find unwanted, longboats shave them down, reshape them. To me more current designs and then resell them for a nice profit after selling ten boards. In one summer, nineteen seventy seven looked decided. He wanted to turn. Part time hustle into a more serious venture. However, there wasn't such thing as a shaping school, nobody taught the scorn east coast at all. So when his day, job and the consumer packaging, History took him to San Diego for a year eagerly found another part time jobs working at a surfboard factory. That's where he learned about better tools, different materials and the latest industry trends, all we're getting paid. According to him. Seeking out this professional training

What's the thing that made him capable of selling boards for more than two hundred dollars each because the quality of his work became much higher a full decade later, he was shaping and selling at least thirty boards a year price between two hundred and five hundred dollars, a piece off from work. Ass, there weren't any more tender airports lying around, but look reached out to wholesale surfboard manufacturers, California, in Mexico, to get the best prices he could fight. So while the Martians WAR is great, they had been now somewhere around twenty five to thirty percent the higher prices he sold his finished product for made it worth it. In his mind, he had done it. You'd accomplishes dream of becoming a skilled. Shaper was making real money on the side, so we just catch it up for years and years it was extra money with no pressure, no desire to scale or build it into a huge business

extra money from something he enjoyed at some point, though, he got the edge to do something new he began. Spending his summer is not only shaping boards, but teaching kids how to surf and shape their own. He loved passing on his expertise to younger generations, which is also what drove him to become a seventh great science teacher a few years earlier. This lead to him getting some press and local media like the Philadelphia inquirer about what its. To be a teacher and a support shaper. He was even invited to interview on the weather channel demand group for his boards. Some now price hi is nine. Other dogs, which is still less than the normal price of about fifteen hundred dollars for a new board. Look is still making between thirty and fifty boards each year with a twenty eight percent,

market on average is a notable side income, but while the money is great, I'm over watering part for him decades in the make it to seeing his students fall in love with a sport and crap of shaping boards. Just like he first did. Forty years ago What are some ideas for reprocessing or up cycling? Let's say another term that tat we ve seen a couple different times what it can be a lot of things it can be, like I mentioned at the top of the episode that guy who is reselling, headlights, entail lights, he has built into a very substantial business. I believe earning six figures are something close to it. I am not mistaken. We also have another

Pursued nine thirty one Brooklyn publicist designs, travel, themed, jewelry line, which is all about up cycled or creatively made jewelry, whose also, as I said, doing very well, and then we ve got other stories of p I'll. Have it just doing something for fun, I'm working with something they enjoy, but like every side of soul, school story, they are getting paid for it. So, in addition to this one I was looking back to the archives number two hundred eighty seven. A couple turns unwanted furniture into a thousand dollars per month. You're interested in doing that moment check it out and eight fifty three retiree earns extra income with up cycle journals and she's only about ten thousand dollars a year. So it's a kind of thing that can just be honest side right like aside also or it's a kind of thing that can grow it's a kind of thing that can become ultimately a full time career. If that is your goal, so many different ways to do these things in that

is the beauty and it is there something that you could replace and resell or up cycle. Think about that, and let me know sometimes don't be a stranger you can always say hi inside us all school dot com. You can always say hi and social media Instagram, one and eight three countries critical about on Twitter or Facebook inspiration is gave an inspiration with action is so much better. Shakspeare today are at sight of soul, school dot com, Flash nine eight zero. Thank you so much for missing my friends I'll be back again to Morrow. Much more is coming up. This is your host critical reporting for our citizens. From the onward projects.