Cool and clear.\u00a0 Windy?\u00a0 Yesterday was.\u00a0 Very windy and all day long too.\u00a0\u00a0 I wore shorts, but also a sweatshirt.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 50F when I went to sleep, and not all that much warmer during the day.<\/p>\n
I ran my errands, starting with helping my wife pick up the GS cookies.\u00a0 Did a pretty good job of filling a honda minivan, and then the half of the foyer.\u00a0\u00a0 The volunteers at the warehouse rocked.<\/p>\n
Then I got some stuff together and took a pickup load to auction.\u00a0 My check for the last one was about ~$840 after commissions.\u00a0 I don’t know what my net was but we are getting back into the area I used to be in- a decent part time income from part time work.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If I can get up to doing $500 a week I’ll be happy.\u00a0 And yes, my wife has a great job, for which we are all thankful.\u00a0 Everything I make is “extra” if there is such a thing.\u00a0 I am the ‘stay at home’ after all.<\/p>\n
Everyone should be establishing some extra lines of income.\u00a0 Everyone should be exploring alternative sourcing. \u00a0 I’ve mentioned I think things are going to get a lot worse, right?\u00a0 I seem to recall saying something at some point…..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 anyway.\u00a0\u00a0 People are still buying stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 That could and probably will change.\u00a0 Pokemon cards are not going to fill empty bellies, so there is a ‘sell by’ date on Pokemon.\u00a0 Ditto for most of the stuff on ebay or etsy.\u00a0 However, local trading groups and FB, and all the other forms of local selling are going to facilitate barter and money saving reuse\/repurpose\/resell for the foreseeable future, and may shift from unloading stuff to selling desperately needed basics.<\/p>\n
Explore your options now.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything has a learning curve.\u00a0\u00a0 Whether you’re a buyer or a seller, or a mix of both, the ‘secondary market’, which is where I’ve been living for years, will play an increasing role in your everyday life.\u00a0 You want to be careful of course.\u00a0 One man’s money saving yard-sale-ing\u00a0 could become .gov’s black-marketeering in short order.\u00a0\u00a0 The prepper-sphere is always talking about barter for after SHTF.\u00a0\u00a0 Consider that the fan isn’t so shiny, and has a suspicious odor already….\u00a0 and start working on some of those skills.\u00a0\u00a0 In Gulag-19, I’m the ‘scrounger’.\u00a0 Who are you?<\/p>\n
Skills, people, stuff.\u00a0 Stack ’em high.<\/p>\n
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Cool and clear.\u00a0 Windy?\u00a0 Yesterday was.\u00a0 Very windy and all day long too.\u00a0\u00a0 I wore shorts, but also a sweatshirt.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 50F when I went to sleep, and not all that much warmer during the day.<\/p>\n
I ran my errands, starting with helping my wife pick up the GS cookies.\u00a0 Did a pretty good job of filling a honda minivan, and then the half of the foyer.\u00a0\u00a0 The volunteers at the warehouse rocked.<\/p>\n
Then I got some stuff together and took a pickup load to auction.\u00a0<\/p>\n