7 Free Recycled Items Sold In the Last 48 Hours For $594 - DIY Money To Keep Me Retired From The Corporate World.
Revenue from Fri & Sat = $594 ($370 cash/$224 online).
This netted $521 in pure profit after shipping and fees for an average of $260.50 per day.
This isn't a bad clip to maintain when you're an army of one trying to fight pollution outside of the corporate world. To be honest, I can easily sustain this rate and more when I focus. I'm pretty proud of what I can accomplish without a drop of help from anyone else. Slowly, but surely, I hope to inspire others to take control of their income and freedom. It's not an easy first step, but if you trust yourself to put in the work, good things happen.
As always, all inventory here was FREE, and I found more free stuff to replace some of this. I also found a nice modern tall two-light lamp for my bedroom with working light bulbs.
The kicker is that I also have my thrifting revenue, so this post is just about one stream of income.
Now it's your turn!
Everyone can do this to some degree, even if it's for $20. The goal is to keep these items alive and our of landfills or recycling centers where they may not be fully processed.
I'll keep sharing my recycling experience and tricks in hopes that people will start replying/posting with their own examples. That will make me very happy.
The Sales:
I found this Miele vacuum set in a bag on the curb a few weeks ago with a half broken prong on the plug. I spent $4 at the hardware store across the street from me and repaired it to fully working order in 7 minutes.
I sold it tonight to a Yoga & Wellness studio for $200 cash. They also let me use a foam roller on my back that had a knot in it to help before I play baseball tomorrow morning.
I bought the two crystals below for $6 to thank them for their business. One is a rose quartz and the other is tourmaline. Good karma, yo.
I found this Miele vacuum set on the curb and nothing was wrong with it. Go figure. I sold it on Friday for $170 cash via Facebook Marketplace. They came right to my doorstep 2 hours after messaging me for it. Easy.
I found this UPPAbaby stroller frame and literally just had to tighten 4 screws to fix the loose brake mechanism. I sold it online for "parts/repair" anyway to be safe for $93.50 a few miles away.
Yes, I sold this large empty Hermes box online for $65. I could've sold it for $15 more, but I wanted to move it.
I found this little Keurig frother part in a clear bag and sold it online for $22. Keurig replacement parts sell well.
A vacuum brushroll, belt and casing from a power nozzle that was dead sold online for $24.
Find reasons to save and sell stuff, not excuses why not.
Two small vacuum attachments sold online for $20.
Fancy? No... Free money? Yes... Is it all about the money? No...
Some of these things are decent in size or weight. All of these things are being repurposed or reused now. All packaging was recycled except tape. No waste... I'm proud to say that it's all because of me.
Yes, these were predominantly vacuum parts, but I take what the land gives me. Why not? There's obviously plenty of money in them, so look up your vacuums at home and see what its parts are going for.
Keep your eyes peeled and you never know what you can find.
When you come across something, try to "see what you can sell if for" instead of "seeing it as junk." That's my talent, and it's not rocket science.
Other recent posts:
- $233 revenue from recycled sales in 24 hours - 9/11
- $302 revenue from recycled sales in 24 hours - 9/10
- $1,500 revenue from 18 recycled items
- $6,000 of recycled goods found in 24 hours - 9/3
Thanks,
@steemmatt
Time to go to bed and get up in 7 hours to play 14+ innings of baseball at 9 AM. I'll be hitting as a DH in one game and pitching in the second.
I'm at $6,000 in sales in the last 30 days. That's ok, but a bit of normal summer slowness.
Anyone can do this on the side in a small scale. So if you can make an extra $20 per day, that's $7,300 extra per year. Then find a way to save $10 per day, so you also spend $3,650 less.
Boom! Now you have nearly $10,000 more per year!
$6K sales is very solid for your own enterprise, especially if you keep the costs down. Is there any curb recycling or recycling opportunity around there to skim a few hundred more a week?
I agree. Anyone can do this on a small scale. It's almost too easy, but people don't want to do the small legwork, or can't wrap their arms around the process to try.
Most of my stuff comes from auctions or the Goodwill pay by the pound outlet. Now that summer is over, garage sales are picking up (too dang hot in southern AZ in the summer) so I can hit them up if I can get outta bed early enough. :D
My wife is often scanning the local curb alert facebook page for worthwhile items. Once per year, there is bulk trash day where people put out the good stuff, but every scavenger is also out looking as well.
How did the game turn out now that you got all your kinks rolled out? lol.
My back locked up overnight, but it wasn't a brutal as the night before. I decided to try to play and they had me batting cleanup in the first game, and pitching 3 innings in the second game. I had no choice but to focus 90% of my warmup time and time between at bats/innings on stretching, breathing deeply to stretch my diaphragm where the pain was, and live on a foam roller. It wasn't pleasant, but I got most of my range of motion and endured the pain to do pretty well under the circumstances. I allowed 2 earned runs over 3 innings with 3 strikeouts. I did well enough at the plate and hustled around the bases when I had no choice. It'll take a few days for the soreness/inflammation to go back down, so I should be ok for next weekend. Thanks for asking.
My small win this week have been some large white drums that were used by a honey company, and then passed to a local buffalo milk dairy.
I picked them up from Freecycle for their third use as water collectors around my greenhouse.
But my efforts pale in comparison with your recycling victories 😃
The only thing to compare is the thought behind it and you're right on the money. Every little bit helps! Great example.
Continuing to LOVE that keeping things out of landfill creates a very sustainable income AND saves $$ for your customers.
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