Top 10 Lucrative Business Ideas for Tet 2022 on New Year's Eve

Vietnamese people believe that 'at the beginning of the year, buy salt, at the end of the year, buy lime' to signify the importance of buying a bag of salt at the beginning of the year. In the life of Vietnamese people, salt plays a crucial role; it is a salty substance that can ward off evil spirits and bring good luck to the family during Tet. Moreover, buying salt symbolizes the wish for richness and strong family bonds, ensuring warmth and love among family members.

Based on this belief, if you engage in selling salt on New Year's Eve, it will be in high demand. Normally, a kilogram of salt costs only about 5,000 VND. Sellers divide it into small red cloth bags with a bow, approximately 20 small bags per kilogram, and sell them for 10,000 - 20,000 VND each, and people don't complain at all.

Just be diligent during New Year's Eve, focus on crowded places, tourist attractions such as temples, places with fireworks displays, carry a basket of salt to sell, and the profit you'll earn will be surprisingly substantial. Experienced salt sellers during Tet reveal that 'doing business all year is not as profitable as selling salt for a few days during Tet.'

Valet service during Tet is truly considered a cash cow, but it requires you to have a convenient location for this business. On New Year's Eve, people gather in the streets, squares, and temples for strolls, spring outings, watching fireworks, praying for luck, and this is the time for parking lots to make a fortune. Normally, parking a motorbike costs only about 3,000 VND, but on New Year's Eve, the price can skyrocket, and the owners still have to pay.

If you have a favorable location, taking on this service will surely earn you a lot of money to spend during Tet. Of course, while doing this job, you should not overcharge, and you must be extremely careful because thieves are rampant during this time.

Matches or lighters are believed to bring warmth and luck in the early days of the year. Fire symbolizes prosperity, good fortune, and keeping the kitchen and home warm with fire ensures abundance throughout the year. Due to this belief, at the beginning of the year, Vietnamese people avoid asking for fire and instead give and receive it as a symbol of family luck. There is also a belief in buying fire for good luck.

Capitalizing on this traditional belief, Vietnamese people often buy matches or lighters at the beginning of the year, providing an opportunity for young individuals to make money. You just need to make a basket of lighters and matches and stroll around crowded places on New Year's Eve to sell them for about 10,000 VND per item, and you'll earn a significant amount from this venture.

On New Year's Eve, families gather in the streets to enjoy the festivities. Parents often take their children to admire fireworks, go spring outings, welcome the new year, and kids are easily attracted to colorful bunches of balloons. If on this New Year's Eve you sell cute animal-shaped balloons, especially those featuring the ox for the Year of the Ox, you can make a significant profit.

Just carry a bunch of colorful balloons, stroll along crowded streets, and confidently approach parents. They won't refuse the joy you bring to their children, and you'll sell a lot, bringing in substantial profits.

In the past, it was a Vietnamese tradition to pick lucky bamboo branches at the beginning of the year, hoping for a lucky and prosperous year. However, the harmful practice of picking or even uprooting entire bamboo plants, damaging the natural beauty of ornamental plants, received strong condemnation. As a result, people no longer engage in picking, and during New Year's Eve, they often buy small lucky bamboo branches as a symbolic gesture of starting the year with good luck.

On New Year's Eve, along the streets, vendors commonly sell various lucky bamboo branches such as bamboo, pine, banyan, fig, and other leafy branches. These branches are in high demand, and a small one typically costs around 10,000 - 20,000 VND. Purple sugarcane is also a popular lucky bamboo branch, with a pair selling for around 80,000 VND. Vendors have earned a significant amount from this business.

On New Year's Eve, people flock to the streets to welcome the new year, and this is also the time when artists offer a spiritual painting service to earn money. Spiritual paintings are a form of art in which the artist conveys the 'spirit' of the person being painted, capturing emotions and essence in the artwork.

To recreate an image requires the artist's perseverance, precision, and intense concentration. The completed painting not only resembles the photographed image but also conveys the essence of the individual. The most crucial element is the subject's eyes, referred to by the artist as the focal point, creating a unique feature in spiritual paintings that no other type of art can achieve.

A beautifully crafted spiritual painting attracts everyone's attention, and in just 10 - 20 minutes, the artist can complete it. A painting typically sells for around 150,000 VND, and on New Year's Eve, artists can create over 10 paintings, earning a substantial amount. While artists commonly create spiritual paintings, it is during holidays and New Year's Eve that they garner the most attention. Many artists are not professionals but enthusiasts who self-study and experiment to create artworks and generate additional income.

Vietnamese people believe that at the beginning of the year, buying paper and requesting calligraphy is a cultural activity that expresses the importance of characters, knowledge, and the desire for academic success and family prosperity. If you have a talent for calligraphy, you can set up a station with rice paper, a brush, ink, etc., along the streets, at the Temple of Literature, or at temples to offer calligraphy. Write according to the customers' requests.

You can write in Vietnamese or classical Chinese characters. Students often request characters related to talent, fame, and academic success. Traders often seek characters related to prosperity, fortune, and trust. Those requesting characters for their families often seek blessings and sincerity. Requesting and giving calligraphy is a cultural beauty at the beginning of the year, so the prices are reasonable. The ones providing calligraphy consider it a cultural contribution rather than a commercial transaction, enhancing the significance of this tradition.

Due to the extended Tet holiday lasting around 7 - 9 days, many people wish to make the most of this time to enjoy a relaxed and closer time with their families after a busy year of study and work. However, they are often concerned about leaving their homes for an extended period or worrying about their pets (such as dogs, cats, etc.). In such situations, the idea of a service that provides house and pet sitting hourly and daily becomes extremely popular.

Every Lunar New Year, many urban families return to their hometowns to celebrate with their grandparents and parents. Therefore, the demand for hiring someone to take care of their pets is essential. Recognizing this trend, you can plan the best business strategy for yourself. Typically, around the days leading up to Tet, pet owners will search online for pet sitting services. This service becomes even busier from the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month onwards. Last year, many people made significant profits by adopting and caring for pets during the Tet holiday.

Handmade clean food business is the hottest selling item for Tet 2021. The busy and hectic lifestyle today has led many people to choose ready-made food products. Additionally, concerns about food safety arise when packaged items lack clear origin information, or they use excessive additives, preservatives, or incorrect ingredients not stated on the packaging. Homemade items, also known as homemade food, have become a consumer trend in recent years.

You can sell handmade banh chung, homemade Tet jams priced between 160,000 VND - 200,000 VND depending on flavor and color. Compared to pre-packaged items, these are much more affordable and ensure safety. Another option is self-packaged gio xao, with an average selling price of around 150,000 VND per kilogram.

Unlike the large peach blossom trees with a value of millions that are slow to sell, mini peach blossom branches are very popular with customers. Despite being affordable, these mini branches still ensure quality and aesthetic appeal. Mini peach blossom branches, though small, are beautiful and vibrant, with plenty of flowers and buds. Due to their charm, many housewives now prefer to buy these small branches to place on ancestral altars or land worship altars instead of other flowers. Others use them as decorations for Tet in workspaces, kitchens, or living rooms.

With prices ranging from only 100,000-120,000 VND per branch, suitable for the budget of most people, this is an ideal item to do business with and brings in substantial profits.