What would be the best way to invest a mere $10 for a length of a year?

[Jeeebus]

1. travel to local spice store - purchase $10 in oregano

2. oregano in ziploc bag

3. wait around outside local high school

4. profit?

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Safeway
"Probably won't even turn it into $100 ..."

Understatement of the year?

Wut, you don't make 1000% on your investments? Noob.

 

[silverpig]

I'd say if you wanted to win you have to make sure you try to do something risky. Chances are at least one of your friends will do something like buy a scratch ticket and win $25.

I'd say you should spend a bit of time learning a good blackjack strategy. Then go to a casino and play either until you lose or you've made $40 or so. Then open an online trading account that lets you make a few transactions for free, and blow it on a smattering of penny stocks.

 

[mordantmonkey]

using it for illegal drug trade will pretty much guarantee victory. as long as you don't get arrested that is...

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: Safeway
"Probably won't even turn it into $100 ..."

Understatement of the year?

Wut, you don't make 1000% on your investments? Noob.

Only in ridiculously high-risk investments. The biggest single day gain I've had was on a penny stock I was playing for fun, but I only had $250 invested.

 

[jonks]

Insure pinky toe. Cut off pinky toe.

 

[rezinn]

Take your $10 and stick it under your bed. I bet after a year you have more money than anyone else.

 

[Leros]

Give me $1000. Buy something for $10. I'll buy it from you for $1000. You win.

 

[rasczak]

exchange for equivalent in euros or pounds. then when the year is up convert back. these currencies aren't going to be going down anytime soon against the dollar, in fact more likely to gain instead therby increasing your investment.

 

[Cuda1447]

Penny stocks?

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447
Penny stocks?

The most plausible, at least from a legality point of view. More likely that the $10 will remain $10, or become 1/100000th of a cent.

 

[OUCaptain]

1. buy a dime bag

2. plant the seeds in pots in a spare room with some high pressure sodium lights

3. grow for 3-4 months (females only)

4. sell crop minus small cut for personal use

5. repeat another 2 times

fixed

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain
1. buy a dime bag

2. plant the seeds in pots in a spare room with some high pressure sodium lights

3. sell crop

4. repeat another 2 times

Grow operation! You forgot one step:

0. Dig a cave under your house.

 

[Miramonti]

Go for broke: Lotto.

 

[brtspears2]

Goto costco, buy box of candy or sodas, sell them from your desk at 50% markup. Repeat.

Or invest in a few black markers, buy some thrift store clothes, a few old cardboard boxes to make signs and goto the top of your favorite freeway offramp.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Ok, so this is a dumb question and thats probably why no one asked it yet, but how do they know the $10 at the end of the year are the same? Is it a special signed bill or something? Also, how do you prove that any profit you made came in fact from the starting $10 dollars? I dont get it

 

[Safeway]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Goto costco, buy box of candy or sodas, sell them from your desk at 50% markup. Repeat.

Or invest in a few black markers, buy some thrift store clothes, a few old cardboard boxes to make signs and goto the top of your favorite freeway offramp.

Yea, CostCo candy packs are 30 cent per item. Sell them at 50 cents per item for a killer profit margin. Also far cheaper than the 80 cents most gas stations charge. Some even charge $1.00!

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
Ok, so this is a dumb question and thats probably why no one asked it yet, but how do they know the $10 at the end of the year are the same? Is it a special signed bill or something? Also, how do you prove that any profit you made came in fact from the starting $10 dollars? I dont get it

Honesty, they are friends...

 

[FoBoT]

you could just become a beggar
put the $10 in your cup as a starter, so people think other peoples already gave you some $
then just beg, i read an article about people making $30k/year begging

 

[Bryophyte]

Buy ten bucks worth of stuff at garage sale or Goodwill, sell on ebay, buy more with profits, lather, rinse, repeat as necessary.

 

[QueBert]

craps, not vegas style just find some dudes in the street. If you start shooting singles and have luck on your side you can get to where you're shooting 5's, 10's or even 20's in a short time. I have turned $10 into $100+ on many occasions.

 

[summit]

Originally posted by: QueBert
craps, not vegas style just find some dudes in the street. If you start shooting singles and have luck on your side you can get to where you're shooting 5's, 10's or even 20's in a short time. I have turned $10 into $100+ on many occasions.

and 1000 dollar medical bills thats high risk... how about take 10 dollars print ads for babysitting and dog walking

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

CD (Certificate of Deposit)

 

[puffff]

Buy a book. Read it. At the end of the year, tell your friends you invested in your education and say that the knowledge you gained was priceless. They will be so impressed that they will recognize you as the winner of the bet.