I agree with Travis. There are upcycling opportunities here! Pad the top and turn it into a bar stool..

Ok, so it's not a weird find, but I'm asking about weird places. We all find money, sometimes it's in really strange places. The unit I bought yesterday, found a $20 in a bible along with some scratch offs.. Strange place for that stuff to me.. Where's the weirdest place you found some dough?

I'm surprised nobody mentioned moving company auctions or PODs auctions.. Those typically have nicer stuff, at a higher cost of course..

I smiling like poo pooing a comment? Because I don't think smiling is a bad thing..

I opened the doors officially on Monday. Between then and today I've made about $300, $200 of that came from a bedroom set. $250/wk is what I need to break even. It's a great starting point, especially considering I have 1.5 months free and 2 months of half rent after that.

It's helping that kids are going back to school now and I'm so close to 3 major universities!

I think the ones that struggle depend solely on sales from the traffic that comes to the store organically. I post heavily on craigslist, anything that I get from a unit that I would throw out, I put up for free to get people to come to the store. Everybody who walks in is a potential sales person for your store. So, even if they just take the free away, I could end up with some word of mouth.

My website has been up for a couple of weeks and is gaining ground on google, I've gotten maybe 4-5 calls this week from my website.

As long as I continue to push craigslist, amazon and ebay, I'll be able to make rent and a bit of money no sweat.

it's been years since I've had a garage sale, but the last one I had was very successful. We didn't price anything. Instead, we put "Make an offer" signs around our tables and other stuff as well as put that phrase on our garage sale advertising and signs. Sometimes people offered to pay over what we wanted for the piece, sometimes they didn't. It opens the door for negotiation.

Exactly right. There's no law stating that a company has to pay for the health care they choose to offer. They call it benefits because the employee BENEFITS from the company paying into the plan. Under Obamacare, it's the same. The company can choose to pay for part of the plan, or not. Only this time, if a small business who employs less than 25 people offers the plan, they can get a tax break.

The thinking, I assume, is that the small business is going to pay into the plan for the employee at least partially. The tax break will help to offset that cost. If the small business does not choose to pay into the plan for the employee, they could pocket that tax break.