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Chinese woman from Chengdu making moolah out of lazy bones

Former salesperson making a fast buck by sorting out clothes in lethargic people’s wardrobes

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Sorting out messy wardrobes for lazy people on the mainland is fetching a tidy monthly income of up to 10,000 yuan (HK$11,970) for this woman from Chengdu.
Mandy Zuoin Shanghai

Sorting out messy wardrobes for lazy people on the mainland could fetch a tidy monthly income of up to 10,000 yuan (HK$11,970). A young woman from Chengdu has come up with the innovative idea after did the chore for one of her friends for a lark, China News Service reported. The task encouraged her to try her hand at similar assignments on a commercial basis. Earlier, she used to work as a salesperson at a garment shop.

Usually, she charges on the basis of the width of a wardrobe – 100 yuan is the base price for one metre.

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Her most common assignment is to sort out a three-metre wardrobe, which takes her about three hours and fetches about 400 yuan. The sorting is done on the lines of styles, colours, materials and seasons.

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