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5 Get Rich Quick Schemes for People Who Think Get Rich Quick Schemes Work

Inflation-busters for the creative

Nichola Scurry
The Pub
Published in
3 min readMar 21, 2023

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I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but things are getting expensive around here. The only things that haven’t gone up are our salaries, leaving many of us needing to haul in some extra cash, pronto.

That’s where I come in with my handy-dandy untried and untested tips that’ll make one guy rich and he’ll get rich by selling you a course.

So why not use those spare five seconds you have in your week to invest in your future by doing something you heard about from someone on the internet?

Without further ado, here are five brilliant ideas that may or may not get you rich quick.

1 Win the lottery

I’ve recently started investing a euro a week in the Spanish lottery. Even I, impoverished by inflation, can afford one euro here and there in the hope of winning a juicy jackpot. In Spanish, it’s known as el gordo — the fat one.

So far I’ve won two euros!!!

But I’m not going to stop there. With my hand-selected six lucky numbers (and one extra special lucky number), my eyes have turned into dollar signs as I…

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Nichola Scurry
The Pub

Australian human living in Barcelona, writing mostly about popular culture with a twist of quirky. If you like my writing, I like coffee. ko-fi.com/nicscurry