Earning money with hobbies

[Smithy]

Do you earn money from the hobbies you have?

 

[Mary Stetler]

the neighbor down the road has a great country market he started by gardening and growing his own food. Like Don Alaska. I thought of doing that but have my hands full just stocking my own freezer and pantry. My youngest on the farm is a taxidermist and bone carver who makes wonderful art pieces. Does crafting vicariously county?

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I don’t earn money from a hobby anymore, but I did for quite a few years. I was a hobby-breeder of small designer dogs, and it was something that I totally loved doing !
I have always loved animals and enjoyed it when one of the dogs or cats had puppies and kittens, and the idea of raising toy-sized dogs was a logical hobby for me.

The puppies sold for $300-$500 each, and I loved taking care of the baby pups, and finding good homes where they would be loved. I still have people who got a puppy from me years ago that are facebook friends and send pictures.
Chipper, my Yorkie-Poo , was the father to my puppies, and also my heart dog, and was like a little furry kid in my life. When I lived in Idaho, he went everywhere with me, and cuddled on my shoulders when we drove somewhere in the Toyota pickup.
He loved toys, and every week we went to the thrift store to find new toys for Chipper and the girls and for any puppies we had.

I had a website and posted puppy pictures so people could see what the parents and the puppies were like, and usually had all of the puppies sold before they were even weaning age, and the new owners would come and visit with their puppies until they were old enough to take home, so the puppies were always partially house-trained and well socialized before they went to their new homes.

This was Chipper, and my little Toy Pomeranian, Sheba, posing for their pictures. The other is a basket full of Shorkie puppies looking adorable and ready to be adopted.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I don’t earn money from a hobby anymore, but I did for quite a few years. I was a hobby-breeder of small designer dogs, and it was something that I totally loved doing !
I have always loved animals and enjoyed it when one of the dogs or cats had puppies and kittens, and the idea of raising toy-sized dogs was a logical hobby for me.

The puppies sold for $300-$500 each, and I loved taking care of the baby pups, and finding good homes where they would be loved. I still have people who got a puppy from me years ago that are facebook friends and send pictures.
Chipper, my Yorkie-Poo , was the father to my puppies, and also my heart dog, and was like a little furry kid in my life. When I lived in Idaho, he went everywhere with me, and cuddled on my shoulders when we drove somewhere in the Toyota pickup.
He loved toys, and every week we went to the thrift store to find new toys for Chipper and the girls and for any puppies we had.

I had a website and posted puppy pictures so people could see what the parents and the puppies were like, and usually had all of the puppies sold before they were even weaning age, and the new owners would come and visit with their puppies until they were old enough to take home, so the puppies were always partially house-trained and well socialized before they went to their new homes.

This was Chipper, and my little Toy Pomeranian, Sheba, posing for their pictures. The other is a basket full of Shorkie puppies looking adorable and ready to be adopted.

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I raised shelties like you. You were a great photographer!

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Thank you, @Mary Stetler ! I actually loved posing my little dogs for their pictures as much as raising them. Chipper was a complete ham, and just loved having his picture taken, and always looked adorable. I have literally bunches of little dogs pictures saved in my photo stream.

 

[Cpvr]

Do you earn money from the hobbies you have?

I'm not quite there yet, but i'm about to get approved for Facebook's content monetization program, so i'll be earning money from my hobby soon. I create animal dancing videos and post them on Facebook.

I've been building the page for the past 6-10 months now. It should be a pretty good money maker for me in the near future, but I'm not too concern about the money as it's something that I enjoy and have fun with.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

My hobby was playing music, and I turned it into a small business that employed 10 people for 20 years. My Dad always told the difference between a job and a career is how you feel about doing it. And I loved performing and traveling. But doing the set up and tearing down of the gear, not so much...

 

[Cpvr]

My hobby was playing music, and I turned it into a small business that employed 10 people for 20 years. My Dad always told the difference between a job and a career is how you feel about doing it. And I loved performing and traveling. But doing the set up and tearing down of the gear, not so much...

That's awesome. What music did you play? I used to make music and made a few songs back in 2017, but I ended up stopping. It was something that I wanted to try since I was a kid and went for it,.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

First it was blues on the front porch with my Dad. It took me awhile to get "the blues", playing all sort of stuff my Dad referred to as garbage, and he said he preferred "Good Hippie Music". Then when I was 15 he took me to an Allman Brothers Band concert in New York. On the way there he explained blues to me, and how nearly all of the music we liked was based on blues. At the Allman Brothers Band concert, they played this:

I "got it" then, and became a blues rocker... I love that "Good Hippie Music"!