Garage Sales

So, yeah.

Decided to look around and gain some more information about how this blogging stuff works. Decided that having a clear direction and a profile could help traffic stay, which means more bookmarks, yada yada, more money from internet for me.

Since I now have an Idea what I'm going to be writing about in this blog, how about I do that!

In 2005 I went all year without getting "a real job" one of my favorite ways of making money during that time was just to go to yard sales and by things I knew I could resell for more than I was buying it for. I can't remember exactly what I was making from it, my best guess would be $30 per day minus a few dollars for gas.

Mostly I was selling books and CD's back to stores. It isn't rare for someone to sell a shoebox or more of used CD's for $5, often stores that sell used CD's will buy them from you for $1 or slightly more per individual CD. Although I started out by doing a the same with books you have to avoid buying so many types of books that it just wasn't worth after a while to be buying books for anything more than my personal pleasure.

Several other items I remember making good money off of was exercise equipment, furniture and aquariums. I was able to buy a bowflex for $25 which I sold to a friend for $100 who then tells me he sold it for $300. I bought a 100 gallon aquarium knowing another friend would love it for $20, they gave me $50 for it.

Remember, all around you people for some reason or another are selling things for much less than they are worth. All you have to do is be there when they want to get rid of it and take it somewhere where people will pay more for it.