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Resident realizes that their small balcony can be profitable by turning it into a small garden where they plant vegetables and make $300 a month: 'Small-scale niche produce can sell really well locally if you build a community around it'

María Cetra

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Woman chastises friend for getting nails done at newly opened salon, protesting when there's no friends and family discount: 'It's $12 cheaper than my normal salon'

Ally Perry

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Person found a grocery list on the floor of a market and decided to frame it and sell it as quirky decor: ‘Has anyone else ended up making money from something so oddly specific?’

María Cetra

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‘One by one they are going away’: 20+ Businesses That Are Declining Because They Fail to Interest Younger Generations

Bar Mor Hazut

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Co-owner Claire locks her two business partners out of their shop, hides finances, and pockets clients, pushing partners Diana and Sarah to refuse to keep paying rent: ‘We’ve told her attorney: We aren't paying’

Etai Eshet

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‘Right now they owe me over $1000’: Worker leaves corporate for a small family-owned business and faces chaotic pay, no accountability, and quickly misses the structure she thought she didn’t need

Etai Eshet

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Self-proclaimed ‘micro-influencer’ with only 5k followers tries to finagle free stay at small bed and breakfast, gets a reality check by the owner: ‘Oh, that’s okay. I have 215,000 followers…'

Elna McHilderson

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Customer gets 80% off $10,900 small business order by flattering its "customer service": 'I'm going to be losing thousands... I've written to the customer'

Remy Millisky

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Resin Pyramids of the 2020s are Facing a Reckoning using a Small-Business Song: 'It costs that much cause I don't have superpowers'

Remy Millisky

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28-year-old small business owner gets back at landlord who kicked her out of her rental space: 'She took EVERYTHING'

Remy Millisky

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Small business owner locks the adjacent daycare out of his parking lot after the manager of the daycare has his car towed for parking in theirs, causing chaos the next day when parents try to drop off their kids: 'I tell you the mayhem was well worth it'

Brad Dickson

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'Dr. Newintown called and begged him to stop': Family man's landline inundated with misdials from a local business, so he books 100s of fake appointments to force the company to change numbers

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Influencer' with 14k followers begs for a 90% discount at a local small business: 'You’ll regret this. I’ll just tell my followers how out of touch you are, and they won’t shop here.'

Christiana Maimone

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Small company owner belittled for the last time, fires project manager on the spot for acting like he owns the place: 'I'm sorry, but who is paying his salary?'

Elna McHilderson

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Husband refuses to financially support wife's family after they ridiculed his business idea, believes they don't deserve a ‘dime’ of his major profit: ‘They were very unsupportive’

Lana DeGaetano

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Friendly bookstore employee stands up for beloved manager after entitled customer tries to bring her down for liking K-pop music: 'My boss thought it was the best thing I've done'

Elna McHilderson

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