Living in San Francisco has some definite advantages. Fantastic scenery, a community of Bohemian ideals, semi-reliable transportation and kickass Chinese food pretty much any time day or night. Unfortunately we also have to deal with being the fourth most expensive city in America, according to a 2005 study (though seriously who are they kidding, there is no way LA is more expensive.) But nevertheless, we are a city of creative movers and shakers, and an increase in rent only means we get to come up with some zany new ways to supplement our income. So c’mon, what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to make a few extra bucks?

Tank
I was a pimp. For further reference I don’t recommend it to nobody, especially young women. If some man’s talking about how he’s going to give you big money and yada yada yada get away from that, it’s not the way to go...I’m a changed pimp.”

Sarah Levine
“My roommate and I were so desperate for money. So we had a keg part and promised everybody at the party that if we got $100 in the jar her and I would strip and run around the house. We went in the middle of the yard and stripped our clothes off. I ran halfway around the house and ran into a cop and ran back the other way and put my clothes back on and answered the door to the police officers fully clothed.”

Eric Garrett
“ I got paid $30 just to walk a broad back to her hotel room in Vegas, just to walk her back. I would’ve done it for free, but if you're going to give me $30 also, why the hell not?”

Douglas King
“A guy once paid me $40 to show him how to use an ATM, that’s pretty cool.”

Katherine Hill
“I’m a teacher and I know of a student who ate his own feces for $20, but he only got $10 out of the whole deal. He’s 14, I heard it through the rumor mill at school but it is true. Isn’t that like the worst thing you’ve ever heard in your life?”

Chris Allen 23
“I hooked up with a chick on a bet one time. I only made $20 and I was a little bit disappointed after it all because like, I sold myself for so little. But you know what, $20 to hook up with a chick…I come out on top.”

Erika Oblak & Melissa Buitiago
“I didn’t make any money but on my friend’s 21st birthday, her car got towed and we showed our boobs to get the car back.”

Aaron Munar
“I sold my porn collection to a magazine shop for $12.”

Erica McVride
“I used to take random stuff from my grandma’s house when I was a kid, like buttons and shoelaces. [I] put them in Dixie cups and people would buy them from me. I think people felt sorry for me.”