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Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:44 am to FLTech
I’d higher someone else to paint them and pay him $75 a mailbox.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 6:51 am to FLTech
This is believable. Once a year we get flyers to paint house numbers in the curb. They have a few patterns you can choose from.
Every year no less than 15-20 houses get it done or redone. I don’t know the exact cost but it’s over $125.
Every year no less than 15-20 houses get it done or redone. I don’t know the exact cost but it’s over $125.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 7:04 am to TheDeathValley
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Every year no less than 15-20 houses get it done or redone. I don’t know the exact cost but it’s over $125.
Y’all need some Mexicans around there. It’s like 40 bucks in Texas.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 7:09 am to FLTech
I'd say he has a pretty niche gig
Posted on 9/3/25 at 7:16 am to FLTech
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A Guy I Know Paints Mailboxes for a Living
I think I saw him on house hunters. His wife smells candles for a living.
Downtown penthouse. Budget 1.75 million.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 7:19 am to FLTech
It seems ridiculous to pay $100 for a $5 spray can of Krylon and an hour of time, but then time is money.
I've known bricklayers who encase mailboxes in brick. It used to be for $300. No telling what it would be now.
I've known bricklayers who encase mailboxes in brick. It used to be for $300. No telling what it would be now.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 7:37 am to FLTech
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It's called a SIDE HUSTLE. He is not becoming filthy rich off it. He's just making a few extra bucks on the side but it has turned into somewhat a full time job for him.
You guys want to dissect this dude's side hustle like he is a fricking CEO of a fortune 500 company
no we are being realistic....you come on here saying...I know a guy who paints mailboxes for a living....doing 10-15 a day at $100 a pop.....do you understand how unrealistic that is?
literally saying in the OP that a guy painting mailboxes is bringing down 250k a year. people call bullshite on that because it is
then the story changes to its a side hustle and he doesnt work 5 days a week.
realistically he is maybe doing on average 5 per week. so he is making an extra 26k a year as a side hustle.....thats awesome. especially if he doesnt have a great job to begin with or its for retirement, kids school etc. but lets not act like the guy is banking 250k cash like you were.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 7:39 am to tigerbutt
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Your math is horrible. Buccees surely wouldn’t hire your dumbass.
ETA: If he only averaged 5 a day M-F for 52 weeks that’s $130,000 you moron.
how fricking naive do you have to be to think a guy is running around knocking out 1300 mailboxes per year? i mean be realistic.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:20 am to lsu777
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how fricking naive do you have to be to think a guy is running around knocking out 1300 mailboxes per year? i mean be realistic.
He's obviously nationwide. Haven't you heard of the traveling mailbox painting industry? Its very lucrative.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:25 am to Turnblad85
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Cleaning/sanding/scraping plus the actually painting could take easily 2 hrs a pop
Soda blaster and air compressor would cut that time
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:25 am to FLTech
When I upgraded to a nicer mailbox, the place that sold them referred me to a retired guy who framed and poured a small concrete slab and bolted the new post/box into it. It was a piece of cake for him, and I was happy to pay him a couple hundred bucks. (I hear that many charge much more.)
That looked like a pretty good one-man side gig, and it didn't require much in the way of tools/equipment.
My neighbor liked my new mailbox, but he is a do it yourselfer. Watching him screw with it made me even happier to spend the money for the old guy to install mine.
That looked like a pretty good one-man side gig, and it didn't require much in the way of tools/equipment.
My neighbor liked my new mailbox, but he is a do it yourselfer. Watching him screw with it made me even happier to spend the money for the old guy to install mine.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:30 am to FLTech
Paint the post myself and replace the box for $25. Those people are stupid.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:41 am to FLTech
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A Guy I Know Paints Mailboxes for a Living
Is this one of those “I heard you paint houses” type things?
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:47 am to FLTech
I’ll file this away in the bullshite tiktok YouTube laundry mat/ car wash/pressure washing job video category.
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Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:48 am to FLTech
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A Guy I Know Paints Mailboxes for a Living
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It's called a SIDE HUSTLE.
So which is it?
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:53 am to FLTech
Why pay someone $100 to paint a mailbox when you can replace the entire thing for $50? This sounds made up.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 10:11 am to FLTech
A guy I know paints houses
IYKYK
IYKYK
Posted on 9/3/25 at 11:15 am to FLTech
Years ago a young couple in their 20s were going door to door in my neighborhood. They offered to paint your house number on the curb. $20 for just the house number. $30 if you wanted a fleur de lis.
I declined.
But, half the houses in my neighborhood have the numbers on the curb.
They must have made a pretty penny that week.
I declined.
But, half the houses in my neighborhood have the numbers on the curb.
They must have made a pretty penny that week.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 11:18 am to deltaland
Does he clean up after?
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