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  • Oct25 '10

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Selling Trash - Living the Dream!

I really enjoyed reading that guy's article about the book scanning salesman.

At first I thought I was reading a story about a real life Ninth Gate type book hunter, but then realized I was reading the story of a super small scale house flipper, like the person who goes to garage sales looking for fine china and those velvet canvass paintings.

I actually used to do something similiar a few years ago when I needed money and actually did well enough that it was tough to stop... but it just got ... iritating...

So my Dad rented this house on a main drag and almost every weekend two summers ago he would have garage sales on his long drive way until some one complained he was almost "running a business" and he was forced to shut it down.

Anyways... at one point I was looking for a new couch to replace my old one... and after doing some digging I saw a free couch available for pickup of this local free site. So I grabbed it and just through my other crappier couch out into my dads yard sale and got $20 for it...

Then I was like... meep... I could just grab the free furniture that people were getting rid of and throw it on dads lawn and sell...

I did htis for awhile and made a couple of extra hundred bucks a week... but it sucked... actually not picking up the stuff... I wouldeven grab meep off side of road, like end tables and meep...

THe worst part was just

A) Feeling like I was picking up peoples junk and selling it to others... But...hmm... saving landfills?
B) I hated having to clean up the stuff that didn't sell and pack dads garage back full of meep and then take it all out the next weekend...

I also actualy picked up free stuff of the site, kept the picture and then sold it on the same site... kinda funny....

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MOTHER FUKING COMIC SANS!

  • Phlebas

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We've been using swap sites to trade unwanted and cheap books to build what is shaping up to be a decent library. We haven't tried to turn anything around for cash yet (And don't know that we will. It'll probably be something for the little one), but so far we've spent a few + hundred dollars in freight and on yard sale, Goodwill, Salvation Army and $1-$5 book table books that don't have much monetary or personal value and augmented our existing collection with a little over $2K worth of leather-bounds and collections. I guess where this is going is that there are a lot of things you can get cheap or free out there that you can trade for like items that hold value. Books are good because they're small and easy to take care of and many people don't know what their actual value is aside from whether or not they want to read them, meaning that you can trade a book on Crochet (hobby books work real good) that you got at Garden Ridge for $1 for an Everyman's Library volume that's worth anywhere from $20 to $40 mint. And, it beats lugging around couches (although I've had reconditioning antiques running through my head for a while now. I just need a lot more time and experience in the craft).

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