Signposted For a Dollar = eBay Cash!!!
Filed under: Business Related, Lateral Income Ideas, Make Money Online
Every weekend paper invites a retired friend of mine to embrace the brisk 0700am air, driving in response to a backlit programmed Tom Tom to the open gates and lawns of neighbouring families with their history of domestic material possessions sprawled and signposted for a dollar or two.
My friend loves the conversations and genuine connect that people provide, stories behind items that surface when asking to buy the once treasured possession, but mostly the extreme value available door after door. People’s preference to downsize with little effort allows compromise and leeway that benefits the punter with loose change in hand and the foresight to identify a return on investment. Some items need a clean and others are still in their original box, my friend makes between $150 to $250 profit each week for a morning of browsing, buying, preparing and presenting on eBay to the world with postage done in an afternoon.
Her items of interests include books, boxes of magazines, toys, potential antiques (she found a heavy mantelpiece clock bought for $20 and sold for $280) and general branded items (like a U2 poster or a Ferrari Mug).
I know there are bigger money opportunities to be made from eBay but sharing this lateral approach to supplementary income for a retiree is relevant for anyone who’s interest in creating a lateral income is more so based in the pace of life, the journey rather than the destination and the conversations along the way.
Life on Mars
Always the dreamer, I think and visualise potential paths in life daily, out a habit. Anticipating outcomes and ways of creating an income that increases my free time and/ or money. There’s an underlying point my partner articulated a few months ago that hadn’t seemed to resonate previously with her- To achieve non normal outcomes, it requires non normal actions. It seems the obvious statement but I’ve met so many people in life who are simply not prepared to embrace that reality and act without intent to graft a new direction onto the body of their work/ life commitments.
If the recipe of your life is without change, if you’re not prepared to step outside the box, to live life on Mars, to be out of your comfort zone- you’re without a lateral lifestyle as it’s out of reach of what is normally required. I believe we need to think differently, embrace what’s foreign, deliberately leave the paths that nurture our comforts and egos to become the student who is open to learning what most aren’t prepared to see, hear or understand.
Someone once said to me, “If you pop your head up and see a crowd of people gathered, head in the other direction.” Embracing the lateral income lifestyle is to me, very much the other direction. How exciting!
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