Ahh… I couldn’t sleep last night. So here I am. The graduation stuff has begun. So many fun evening activities, and I was so wired after getting home last night.
I’m really thinking of moving out of my depressing, dark house after my kids graduate. I need to see where they end up. But if I get a divorce, I can get a small condo somewhere, and then spend time visiting and staying with my family out of state. Hopefully, I can be working for myself remotely or getting a job remotely so I can be anywhere.
To get over the thought of my kids not being home everyday, it’s helping me to think of the positives. I can get a divorce. I can move. There will be less for me to do. I can really focus on myself and working.
I keep coming back to: What should I be doing now to be in a better spot financially later so I can do what I want to? Damn, Google, for screwing everything up for me and thousands of other websites.
Right now, me escaping things I have to do means a trip to my local Goodwill. I love roaming around, looking at all the things and finding interesting items.
Mostly, I love looking at clothes but their housewares are fun too. I don’t need more clutter or knickknacks but it’s fun to look at. I also like looking at wall hangings. For years, I’d thrift my kids clothes and also find toys for them.
I Love Going to Goodwill
There are a ton of resellers at my Goodwill which has made it a lot less fun to go there in recent months. I used to see people filling up their carts — so much so that they’d need two carts — and I never knew what they were doing. Now I know.
So it’s fine because I’m sure the store is happy to clear out merchandise to make room for new stuff but it’s not fine because it makes it less fun for the rest of us.
Also, sometimes those people can be rude. I’ve had several experiences of people picking through my cart and trying to take stuff. It’s really a bummer because usually everyone is really nice but you get those few that are trying to race you to the new racks or pawing through the cart to see what you found that they missed.
Still, even that is all pretty fun. So I like going and try to spend as little as possible. I have much of my wardrobe from there. I mean, how can I turn down a dress that’s $1 – $5? There no store I can go and outfit myself as inexpensively.
And the rare times I find a brand I like, it’s that much better! So I think I’m going to go there today.
Buying Stuff to Resell
While I want to, I know I shouldn’t start buying stuff to resell because I:
- Don’t know that I’m going to sell on ebay or Poshmark
- Am not really sure what sells well though I do know the better brands to buy
- Don’t know how much to pay for things to make a decent profit
- Have nowhere to store extra stuff
- Am not sure I’m going to commit to it because I don’t know if it’s worth my time to do
- Don’t want to abandon my websites that I’ve worked hard to build and still feel like there is potential to keep them (even at $25-ish a day, that’s something!) or to grow them
Because then, even if I made $100 a week or whatever, that would be considered great.
Now, I feel like to justify it, I have to make more than the $25-ish dollars a day my websites are making. I also feel like I should be able to get the websites and potential podcast together up to $100 a day. Can I make that reselling online?
I wish I was someone who never worked and instead became an online reseller. I used to love going to consignment shops and lots of different thrift store everywhere I’ve lived.