Side hustle for a stay at home mom?

[melssvdv]

Inflation has taken a toll here in Ireland. My husband works at the harbour and occasionally takes on extra hours, but we’re still operating on a fairly tight budget. I’m a stay-at-home mum to our young child, and my mother-in-law sometimes helps out with childcare.

I do have some spare time and have been thinking about ways to earn a little extra income, either through an online side hustle or by making use of our empty storefront. We’re located in the centre of Killarney, which sees heavy tourist foot traffic, so ideas like a small tea shop or a Belgian waffle business are appealing.

[Anonymous]

Start a TikTok for other young moms about how hectic it is for you under these conditions.

It's the same for everyone, so they'll relate, especially single moms doing everything on their own. They'll follow you, then you can sell or do affiliate programs for products or information that make life as a mom easier.

Then, on the weekends, go to garage sales and buy stuff for $10 and sell it for $20 on eBay. You'll make a few hundred dollars a week.

Once you get 1,000 followers, connect with an influencer who has a million followers, and do a collaboration with them, hopefully with a major sponsor or brand name involved. Give them 99% of the money if you have to (it won't be that bad, maybe 75/25); what you want are the views and follows on your TikTok you get from being associated with the influencer and their brands. After that collab, you get 100% of everything. If you can't find an influencer, get in touch with Gary Vee. He'll put you with someone good.

A year from now you should have a few extra thousand per month coming in, maybe $10,000, maybe $20,000. It just grows and grows.

There are tons of videos about how to do this starting from scratch, and putting in only an hour or two per day.

If this doesn't exactly work for you, use it as a launching point for similar ideas and see where it goes. Talk to everyone and ask for help. You're 22, you can be a millionaire by the time you're 30 and never have to worry about any of this stuff ever again.

[melssvdv]

It is not hectic. Being a woman is not as difficult as being a man. We are weaker than men.

[Opinion Owner]

No, stop, please. Your gratitude is overwhelming.

[egan3141]

If you are around tourists, anything that seems "local" or "ireland-y" would work great. Food is better for lots of sales, but items are better for profit margin per item (This is a guess. I slightly educated one, but still a guess). Food is something people can finish off right then and there or before heading back home. Items have to be taken home. If you are able to set up some kind of deal with a delivery service, food might win out though, as if the tourist loves the food you have, and it's a food that can be shipped (say cookies), then you can sell something that can be given to friends that also doesn't have to be carried home by the tourist.

As for what kind of items, could be quilts, clothes, wood carvings, trinkets, anything really. A gift shop basically. The biggest think for getting tourists is make it seem like it is something special to Ireland.

[Anonymous]

I’m also house wife but sometimes I get bored because have nothing to do when my husband isn’t home. I have a small business as nails tech and eyelash extensions for keeping my self busy, home studio or home service. So I only accept customers when I'm in the mood for it 😁
But since you live in the tourist area, open a coffee shop and tea and sell some cookies and cakes sounds good.

[jamesgoldman]

Food businesses are tough with huge amounts of regulation to start with

Honestly you might do better renting out the storefront

[shortster]

Since you get a lot of tourists why not make Irish nicknacks and sell them?