$3,570 in recycled goods sold in the LAST 24 HOURS (315 pounds salvaged) - All found for free on the curbs near my apt.
The sales:
- $3,200 cash,
- $80 cash,
- $140 online,
- $150 online.
No inventory costs. All found FREE within 10 minutes from my apartment on foot at night. All sold in the last 24 hours.
^Read that again.
The figures above equate to 92% cash, already dropped in the ATM.
Shipping costs were $10.54, sent with recycled packaging I grabbed outside.
How's that for efficient??
I also had a $100 cash sale for a complete Dyson vacuum that I botched by accidentally ruining part of it on my way out the door to meet her last night. Thankfully, she had a good sense of humor. I had to discard half of it, but can sell one part for $40 almost immediately, and will keep the others to complete future units.
This month, I'm on par with my monthly income level of the comfy corporate bank job I quit 4.5 years ago.
The difference is that I only "work" for myself about 2-3 hours a day, 3 or 4 days a week, and I consider it nothing but fun.
That's not a humble brag. It's proof and encouragement that where there's a will, there's a way. Good things happen when you break out of the mold and trust yourself.
If you feel stuck, don't want to be dependent on others for income, or just want some extra cash flow, you need to swim upstream a little until you carve out your own way. You have to come up with a plan, grow the idea on the side, and then take the leap of faith when you're confident that your system works.
When you quit working for someone else, there's no better feeling. Not everything is sunshine and rainbows, but it's a joy every day to build your own success and earn everything with your own hands. Every ounce of effort is an investment in YOU, not someone else. Likewise, YOU get all of the rewards.
For me, working in harmony with freedom and recycling pays. It's the perfect win-win with virtually no risk. I encourage you to get creative and try it out. Ask any questions below as to how you can get started to the extent possible in your region. If it's not for you, SOMETHING is... you just have to align your passions so working with them never feels like effort.
...Oh, and after the solid sales day, I still went outside from 3:30-5:00 AM and found perfectly working medical equipment, two Bose speakers with stands, a nice compact collapsible padded wooden chair in perfect shape to keep, and a working Furman power conditioner.
The weight of each item for environmental impact:
- 238 pounds
- 11 pounds
- 1 pound (shipped)
- 65 pounds
That's a total of 315 pounds I muscled up to salvage and resell to prevent unnecessary waste. Actions speak louder than words or selfies.
The first sale is confidential, but it's a new relationship I should be able to make a lot more money from.
Skis for $80 cash found and sold within 5 days:
TV Motherboard found, tested, removed, and sold for $140 online within 5 days.
Printer sold online for parts/repair with local pickup for $150. Took about 2 months to sell.
I was thrilled with a $900 cash recycled Crestron audio system sale earlier this month, but my extra focus and hustle after disconnecting from crypto is getting me back to normal to be more aggressive about hunting and selling. My reward was the largest sale above that sold within only a week of listing it. These products are real, expensive, and in demand.
These items are NOT trash or recycling. What I'm doing is simply capitalizing off of lazy, ignorant and/or spoiled brats who are being exceedingly wasteful. Find YOUR opportunities. They're out there.
Other recent posts:
- 8 recent salvaged recycling sales.
- 9 recent salvaged recycling sales.
- 17 recent salvaged recycling sales for $1,902.
- Saving tons of pounds from waste -- solid examples of my real goal.
- 20 recent salvaged recycling sales.
- 11 recent salvaged recycling sales.
Please let me know if you save anything as a result of getting ideas from these posts.
Passion, effort and discipline = results.
Thanks for your interest and support,
@steemmatt
You keep on hitting new highs. This is great stuff.
Will it get it much harder over the winter with the weather changing?
Thanks. It's really a function of focus and being aggressive about selling what I find. Sometimes I get in "hunt" mode a bit too much and procrastinate on listing what I find.
As for the weather, nothing stops me. I actually like it because the competition is thinner. I handle the cold well. Snow covering stuff is a problem, but it's very rare since the stuff only sits outside for half a day before pickup. Where there's a will, there's a way.
The only real threat is rain or moisture ruining stuff, but most of it is in sealed bags, or I just skip those nights in lieu of listing.
You mention competition, are you seeing more people out doing the same as you now?
Not much, but there are occasional people I see with vans that drive around to scout for various things. Some people grab mattresses, some scrap metal, some furniture they'll reupholster. There's nobody in my neighborhood like me though on foot marching the entire circuit. There are some people who come from outside the area to scour during daylight, but they're mostly collecting cans and bottles, or going through trash bags. I don't do that.
Either way, I can find a needle in a haystack. Even if people regularly scout around before me, I find tons of things they overlooked, didn't recognize, or were too lazy to find... or there's just that much to go around.
I have the same question as @pennsif - how will winter etc affect things (do we need to send steem? LOL). Part of me wants this to suddenly become no longer viable because people stopping wasting and buying what they don't need-want and because they learn to repair. I've decided you are a contemporary Tinker. :)
Awesome congrats on the income achievement, and the landfill saves.
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The winter doesn't slow me down. I'm good in the cold. There's a lot less competition and quieter streets... very peaceful.
You're right. The reflex is to hope this waste stops, and then I'll be stranded... but we're light years away from that level of change.
Contemporary Tinker is an amazing nickname. I may adopt that. Very clever.
Seriously man, your posts never fail to astound me! All that gear just picked up off the street. Nice effort from an income perspective and a little extra stuff that won't go into landfill.
I like this and am pleased to see the word passion in there...It's an under-utilised emotion and personality trait.
Happy curbside-picking.
Crap, I was considering taking the night off outside to post listings since I have to travel tomorrow for Thanksgiving here... but your comment is making me feel like I need to man up for a trek.
I have thousands of examples spanning years. These are just some of the nicer current ones as I come across them. Sometimes I feel like I'm in an alternate dimension when I just walk up to all of these expensive things just sitting out in the open for taking. It never gets old. Aside from recycling, the buyers are also not buying new ones from the corporations who make cheap products these days to keep the hamster wheel going. That's another key driver for me as small as my little contribution may be for now.
Thanks for being a fan.
I'm a huge fan and really like your attitude. I bet it blows your mind sometimes huh? "Oh, there's a pile of something cool on the sidewalk that I can turn into money..." Boom! Sort of like gold digging but without the hard work. It's cool.
So, cowboy up and hit dem streets! 🤣
Happy Thanksgiving too!
So glad you're still doing this. :)
Woa man, what'd you sell for $3,200?!
A gift from God sitting on the curb 4 blocks down the street from my apt at 5AM.