With Kings Day, we not only celebrate our king's birthday, it is also an ode to recycling. It's the perfect day to sit on a rug and earn a penny from items you no longer use. A tidy house and a good wallet, what more could you want? We asked the greenlist community what they think are the most fun, original and lucrative activities to organise on a rug in addition to selling your household goods. Make money with King's Day! We take you through the best and most original ideas for the free market!
Making money with King's Day
As an avid second-hand shopper and bargain hunter, Kings Day is one of my favourite days of the year. I get up before dawn to look for the best treasures, but I usually combine the two. Because it is also the perfect day to get rid of your own stuff and make a nice penny. Start cleaning up and sorting at home! Besides, it's also great fun to unfold your rug with your neighbours and take turns wandering around the market.
But then again, if you put so much effort into picking out stuff at home and displaying it in all the earliest (sometimes with a little hangover), you obviously want to get the most out of your sale. A nice and well-appointed flea market rug certainly helps (we previously shared these tips), but even better if you do something on the side. This will earn you extra income and bring even more potential buyers to your rug.
Getting started making money on King's Day.
Fifteen fun ways to make money on King's Day
With help from the Instagram followers of @thegreenlist.nl we compiled a list of original activities you can organise on King's Day or any other free market. Be surprised, because here come the tips!
- A mobile coffee and tea stand: Walking around with a basket on the front of your bike with thermos jugs of coffee and tea. Chances are you can find the bike basket and thermos bottles at the thrift shop or borrow them from neighbours. The eco-friendly coffee cups you'll have to purchase. Oh, and just to be safe, bring a rubbish bag for your customers to put their used cups in.
- Statue: many children of followers made a nice penny by standing at a free market dressed as statues.
- Fishing or selling compliments for twenty or fifty cents per compliment.
- A difficult marble track or mini-golf make where people may have a go for a small fee. A hole-in-one means a nice price.
- Making a grab bag of small toys: for twenty or fifty cents, children can grab and they always have a prize. Guaranteed success: make a lucky draw with Pokemon cards.
- Drawing flags on the face for fifty cents. Also fun: a nail polish station, adhesive tattoo shop.
- Mobile photo studio: create a funny setting, get some dress-up clothes ready and take fun funny photobooth photos for a few cents. You can do this with a borrowed or second-hand polaroid camera, but it can be done just as easily with your phone. Then you email the photo afterwards! Or: you take the photo with the photographed person's camera!
- Grow cuttings to sell them. Tip: store the cuttings in half toilet rolls that you fold closed at one end. View the instruction here.
- Making music: not original, but lucrative.
- Who dares to compete against you/your child? Organise a little competition butter, cheese and eggs, four in a row or with another (short) board game you have at home (Doctor Bibber?).
- Making popcorn live in a pan on a camping stove and sell that. You can probably borrow the camping stove from a relative or neighbour. The pointed bags you have to fix it yourself.
- Three children (or parents) together can make a living slot machine start: they simultaneously hold up a plate with a picture on it. With two or three of the same pictures, you win a prize.
- Guess how many... marbles/candy in this jar? For twenty or fifty cents, people may make a guess. You write down the e-mail address along with the guess. At the end of the day, the person who was closest gets a share of the prize pot or a round.
- Live Google: for fifty cents, we answer all your life questions. Extra fun to have a child do this, of course.
- Tarot cards lay.
More great ideas to make money on King's Day?
Hopefully this list offers inspiration to get more out of your King's Day dress. Do you have a fun tip of your own to add to the list? Then be sure to let us know! At the bottom of this page you will find contact and follow buttons to get in touch with thegreenlist.nl. We'd love to hear from you!
More tips useful for King's Day
- Also see: flea market shopping tips!
- Also see: 5 tidying-up tips for a more sustainable life.
- Also see: How to choose make-up more durable and better.
Photo credits: thegreenlist.nl.
