I’ve sold plenty of items, 91, since my last update in February. I’ve made $859.15 of profit since that update, which is about $285 a month on average, and averaging $8.94 per item in profit. This is over $3000 a year at this current pace. I passed through $4000 in profit since starting and need less than $500 to pass into $5000. The big moment for me was when I had made a hundred times my initial starting amount. Anyone can take a small amount of money and turn it into a decent amount with some patience and a little bit of thinking when flipping items. I definitely could have did this faster if I wanted, but I’ve enjoyed how it has went.
I am thinking about getting to a plateau and stopping with around 500 items overall online. At that level I could make around $5000 a year. This seems like a good spot for me to be at and just let it run to see how I feel about what has happened. If I get to this spot I’ll just reinvest the profit each month into dividend paying stocks like I’ve been doing with some of the profit along the way. I’ve got 342 items in my inventory currently, and it will take me a while to build up to 500. I’m not setting a date when I want to be to this level. I’ve been focused on clothing overall, but continue to pick up random items which are very profitable.
For example, I sold a Canon camera and made $120.83, and sold a Reidel bag and made $67.65 on it. I’ve got a couple of cameras in my stock right now which allowed me to reinvest more dollars into one item than I can on clothes in general. As well, I sold one of antique plates I purchased two years ago and made $51.24 in profit.
I held on to the Coca Cola puzzles too long based on the amount I thought I could make on them. Unfortunately, I mismeasured them and the shipping cost me four times as much as I had planned. On the bright side the other older items I have left are selling and the antique plate made a large profit.
Stocks Bought and Dividends
The only new shares I have bought has been ten more shares of Chicago Atlantic Real Estate on 5/1/25.
I received dividends on all my holdings since my last update and they were reinvested back into more shares.
Current number of shares are:
Verizon 16.624, Altria 1.079, British American Tobacco 9.545, Future Fuel 62.205, Chicago Atlantic Real Estate 17.552.
My current annual dividend amount is $128.91, or 3.5 times the amount I started with. Right on!
A stretch goal for me is to get to making as much in a month in dividends as I start this off with. I have invested $1512.00 of the profit from selling items to get to the $128.91 a year. This is a yield of 8.52% on purchase price. I would need around $5200 invested at my current yield to get $36.38 a month in dividend income.
Current Inventory
| Item | Cost | Date Purchased | Sold | Profit |
| *2 Coca Cola Puzzles | $6.91 | 9/13/22 | 3/31/25 | -$10.02 |
| *Floral Plate | $2.71 | 9/26/22 | ||
| *Board Game | $3.78 | 1/4/23 | 3/30/25 | $1.39 |
| *Antique? vase | $8.11 | 2/21/23 | ||
| *Antique Plates | $7.56 | 3/19/23 | 3/8/25 | $51.24 |
| *Granite Cutting Blades (4) | $32.43 | 4/4/23 | ||
| *Crystal bowl | $5.94 | 4/10/23 | ||
| *Coffee Cup- Floral | $2.70 | 6/20/23 | ||
| *Skateboard | $8.11 | 7/26/23 | ||
| *Peter Reed Reina Blue King Duvet | $42.22 | 1/3/24 | ||
| *Peter Reed Reina Blue King Duvet | $42.22 | 1/10/24 | ||
| *RNs DVD | $1.08 | 3/1/24 | ||
| *Utawareumono DVD | $1.08 | 3/6/24 | ||
| *1 garage sale tshirts | $1.00 | 3/30/24 | ||
| *April 2024 – 5 items | $27.66 | |||
| *May 2024- 3 items | $253.82 | |||
| *June 2024 – 4 items | $8.42 | |||
| *August 2024- 17 items | $99.40 | |||
| *September 2024- 47 items | $223.09 | |||
| *October 2024- 36 items | $155.47 | |||
| *November 2024- 19 items | $74.83 | |||
| *December 2024- 2 items | $6.47 | |||
| *January 2025- 11 items | $86.85 | |||
| *February 2025- 19 items | $158.70 | |||
| *March 2025- 72 items | $203.77 | |||
| *April 2025- 77 items | $687.62 | |||
| *May 2025- 17 items | $83.72 | |||
| June two items sold – clothes | $9.43 | $9.93 | ||
| August – 8 items – items sold- Clothing | $44.32 | $53.39 | ||
| September -14 items sold- Clothing | $78.56 | $71.50 | ||
| October – 12 items sold- Sheets, Clothing | $120.22 | $63.77 | ||
| November – 7 items- clothing | $20.35 | $37.05 | ||
| December- NONE | ||||
| January 2025- 6 Shirts | $26.21 | $28.77 | ||
| February 2025- 7 Clothing | $29.61 | $63.81 | ||
| March 2025- 24 items, 1 camera, clothing, 2 cups | $283.76 | $383.16 | ||
| April 2025- 12 items, 1 camera, clothing | $261.20 | $193.85 | ||
| May 2025- 1 item Reidel bag | $8.11 | $67.65 | ||
| Other costs during period- Monthly selling, mailers | 132.24 | |||
| Stocks | ||||
| Verizon, Altria, British American, Future Fuel | $1512.00 | Various | $171.07 | |
| Underinvested | $557.63 | |||
| Total inventory amount | $4533.97 |