This came out in today Sunday Times where Singapore teenager makes up to $7,000 a month selling slime on their Instagram with around 33,300 followers, some have lesser followers but that does not stop them from making a decent $$$.

The Enterprising Students

Ang Jia Xin – Secondary 4 students at Whitley Secondary School earns an average of $5000 a month by making and selling slime.

Hannah Tan 16, a fourth year music student at School of the Arts (Sota) started selling slime in June 2017 and now earns $3000 to $4000 a month.

Adele Lim 18, a third year law and management student at Temasek Polytechnic took about 500 tubs of slime price at $7.50 each in over 30 flavours to sell at a slime bazaar earns a profits of $2000 from the bazaar alone. She mentioned that she spent two hours a day for two weeks making the slime.

The Hard Work

Jia Xin spends 15 to 18 hours each week mixing over 30 litres of glue with add-ons to create eight to ten slime favours. She invested $1600 on a heavy duty commercial mixer to do most of the mixing as the quantity is too much to handle manually.

The Sunday Times

https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/teenagers-earn-four-figure-sums-a-month-selling-slime

Opportunities

Slime originated in the US and caught on in Singapore four years ago.

Opportunities are always there if you care to observe when you are in other countries and you can always bring the ideas to Singapore. That is how money are made.

Making Slime in a Blender

If you are interested, here is a slime making video using blender. These are enterprising kids.